DEEP PURPLE frontman Ian Gillan was interviewed for this week's "The Metal File" podcast from Montreal's CHOM-FM. You can stream the show online at this location. Ian Gillan will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest on Friday, May 22 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio program, dubbed "The Bruce Dickinson Friday ...
Punk rock pioneer and activist Wayne Kramer of MC5 fame was honored in a fundraising performance event this past Friday, May 1 at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. This special event featured very a number of guests, including Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, Etty Farrell and Perry Farrell, Jerry Cantrell, Handsome Dick Manitoba and Gilby ...
Boston, Massachusetts death metal/grindcore band THE RED CHORD has entered Jonny Fay Backyard Studios, which is owned by the group's former guitarist Jonny Fay, to begin recording its new album for a fall release. The first in a series of clips documenting the recording process has been posted on Metal Injection and can ...
Jason Bittner, drummer for New England metallers SHADOWS FALL, will hold a drum clinic in Chicago this Wednesday, May 6. The clinic is being held in conjunction with The Drum Pad, a local music store, at Durty Nellie's in Palatine, Illinois. Be there to see Jason tear it up on the kit and provide instructions ...
More video footage of TRIVIUM drummer Travis Smith has been posted on the DrumChannel.com web site (as part of the "Short Cuts With Travis" series of clips). TRIVIUM will embark on a headlining tour of Australia later this month. They will be joined by HEAVEN SHALL BURN and BLACK TIDE. TRIVIUM's latest album, ...
The crew from Metal Injection conducted an interview with IWRESTLEDABEARONCE, the band from Shreveport, Louisiana which mashes up elements of electro, grind and jazz, at this year's New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, which was held in late April in Worcester, Massachusetts. Watch the chat below. IWRESTLEDABEARONCE is putting the finishing touches on the video ...
The second annual Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF) is confirmed for Sept. 10-12, 2009. In addition to The Strip's six signature music venues hosting diverse music lineups, SSMF 2009 will also include an outdoor street festival component with the closure of Sunset Boulevard between Doheny Drive to San Vicente Boulevard on Saturday, Sept. 12, from ...
I Scream Records will release "The Wounds That Never Heal", a reissue of the STIGMATA albums "Hymns For An Unknown God" and "Do Unto Others", on June 9, 2009, the year STIGMATA is doing a few reunion shows to celebrate its 20th anniversary. The band officially stopped performing in 2001 (although they played two exclusive ...
As their much-anticipated album "To the Death" (Century Media) dropped today, all five members of the defining straight-edge hardcore band EARTH CRISIS appear in a brand-new pro-vegan print ad for peta2, the world's largest youth animal rights organization. In the ad, the guys appear next to the tagline "Veganism Is the Essence of Compassion and ...
