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This was a busy week with a ton of new music and announcements from Metallica, Pantera, Black Sabbath drama and the Deftones. Plus, Valentines Day is just around the corner, and if you still haven't gotten your loved one a gift, here are some suggestions. Here are the top stories you might have missed this ...

Holy crap, Devildriver are an album making machine. Since forming in 2002, the band has put out a new record every other year. It looks like it's about that time again. It seems like the 'driver is ahead of schedule, since they put out Beast just last year. Either way, guitarist Jeff Kendrick tweeted recently ...

Cliff Burton is a legend, there is no doubt about that, and fifty years ago today, on February 10th, 1962 he was brought into this world. He was infamously taken away from us on September 27, 1986, when Metallica's tour bus overturned while in Sweden. Cliff will forever be remembered as one of the most ...

Remember when Chimaira guitarist Matt DeVries was all like: "Yea, I'll help Six Feet Under, I'll play the bass for them." And then he was all like, "Yea, I'm over Chimaira now, I'm going to focus on Six Feet Under." Well now, he's all like "I guess I'm over Six Feet Under now too." At ...

Come join Bolthorn and myself for the second and final part of our 2011 Rewind! There was so much good music released this past year, that we have made this into a two parter! These are what we considered in our own opinions to be our favorite albums of the past year, and there is ...

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I always enjoy metal bands attempting acoustic covers of their own songs. It can either be really cool or sort of terrible. Luckily for us, Megadeth acoustically sounds really cool. Check out this five song set the band performed last night (Feb. 9th) in Auburn Hills, MI as part of a radio giveaway for WRIF. ...

I'm not sure how this leaked, but who cares. Thanks to Brandon Geist, editor of Revolver for the heads up. THERE IS A NEW MESHUGGAH TRACK IN THE WILD! I REPEAT...A NEW MESHUGGAH TRACK! I'm going to shutup and just let you listen. It's off their album, Koloss, which comes out March 27th.

The metal world is slightly less funny now that Anal Cunt frontman Seth Putnam passed away. In the wake of his death, Vice Magazine recently caught up with AC drummer Tim Morse who recalled some humorous tales of the band on the road. Here is my favorite tale from that story: The last show AC ...

While I didn't have a chance to speak to Noa before posting this, I just know she is super excited for the new album from Norway's Borknagar. The band will be releasing Urd on March 26th, 2012 in Europe/March 27th, 2012 in North America via Century Media Records. You can stream the first single, "Roots" ...

I was super bummed when the bassist Henry Selva announced that his band The Human Abstract had broken up, but it seems that he may have spoken too soon. Guitarist Dean Herrera addressed the "break up" or lack thereof on his Formspring page saying: As far as I'm concerned we aren't broken up, that was ...

Slipknot have a busy slate for 2012. They will be spending the summer on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, and are planning some international touring as well. But the thing everybody wants is new music from the band. Frontman Corey Taylor has confirmed that there will eventually be a new album, and Clown has hinted at ...

Our buddies at MetalSucks have alerted us to the fact that you can hear 30 second samples of all the tracks from the forthcoming T.R.A.M. and Veil of Maya releases. You can sample T.R.A.M. here (there is also the full song,"Lingua Franca" here) and stream Veil of Maya samples here (full song "Vicious Circles" here). Both albums hit stores February ...

Things are heating up with this Black Sabbath drama. To quickly recap, drummer Bill Ward released a public statement saying he could not commit to the contract sent to him for the reunion and wanted a fair share. Sabbath responded by saying they are moving on without him. A huge backlash erupted by fans demanding ...

We got our hands on a snippet from a new Ozzy Osbourne interview airing tonight during the launch of Ozzy Osbourne's new channel on Sirius XM satellite radio, Ozzy's Boneyeard (channel 38). Listen as the Prince of Darkness himself commented for the first time on Tony Iommi's lymphoma diagnosis. Here is an excerpt from that ...

I went into this video clip of Macy Gray cover Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" ready to hate it. What can I say, I'm a very judgmental person. But, you know what. It ain't half bad. She does the song justice (no pun intended). What do you think? [via Metal Insider]

The first wave of Black Metal is almost always associated with the Scandinavian peninsula, but there were so many things going on in the crazy and small world that several bands tended to have similar ideas at the same time. Master's Hammer are a Czech band with plenty of great black metal sound; theirs is ...

Not content with just one tour this spring with their friends in Municipal Waste, legendary shock metal masters GWAR have announced a second leg of their Spring tour with stoner jammers Kylesa in tow, in addition to Ghoul and Legacy Of Disorder . That's quite an interesting combo. This is a short run of dates ...

Check out the amazing artwork for Municipal Waste's upcoming release, The Fatal Feast (Waste In Space), due out in North America on April 10th and in Europe on April 13th. The artwork was created by Justin Osbourn of Slasher Design (who just so happened to also design a shirt for Metal Injection). A concept album ...

Deftones bassist Chi Cheng has been bedridden in a hospital bed since late 2008 after a horrific car accident left him a coma. Cheng is thankfully finally making some serious progress in his recovery, having recent awoken from his coma and has even been able to respond to basic commands, including lifting his legs. He ...

Things are not going so well for Black Sabbath right now. Last week, Bill Ward announced he was sitting out the reunion because he doesn't feel he is getting his fair share of the profits, so much so that he'd rather not do it. In response, Sabbath has decided to move on without him. A ...