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After already once postponing their tour together from its original timeframe in 2020, Deftones and Gojira have again pushed back the run, which had been rescheduled for August and September of this year, this time to April and May 2022. Poppy will no longer be the opening act. Deftones, in a statement posted to social

As anticipated, Marilyn Manson (né Brian Warner) has turned himself into authorities to face two misdemeanor assault charges, TMZ reports. The charges stem not from the deluge of recent allegations that the shock rocker abused multiple women, but from an August 2019 show at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH, during which Manson allegedly spit on a

Dave Mustaine has raised his price on Cameo AGAIN. As of this writing, his fee on the platform — which lets fans purchase personalized video messages from celebrities — is up to $350 a pop. That’s a $50 increase from just a few days ago, and the fourth increase overall in the six days since

This spring, Pig Destroyer made the world a far better place — again! — by surprise releasing Pornographers of Sound: Live in NYC, a live album (duh) captured during two nights at Brooklyn’s beloved Saint Vitus Bar in October of 2019. Now the world’s finest grindcore band are making the world a even further, betterer

Stance, who in this blogger’s opinion make just about the most comfortable socks on the market right now, have just announced two new Guns N’ Roses-themed designs. One pair has been dubbed ‘Appetite’ because it features the cover art from Appetite for Destruction; the other pair are called ‘So Fine’ because… uh… they say ‘So

Imperial Triumphant have announced a fall headline tour. Support will come from Pyrrhon. This will be, if I’m not mistaken, the New York avant-garde metallers’ first tour since the release of their most recent album, Alphaville, which came out on July 31 of last year. They were supposed to be part of the MetalSucks-sponsored Devastation

During my recent guest sesh on The Metal Injection Livecast, it came to my attention that Mean Man: The Story of Christ Holmes is now available for viewing on Amazon Prime (at least here in the U.S.). Since watching the car wreck that is the former W.A.S.P. guitarist’s life is one of my great joys,

Dave Mustaine, believer in the free market, has raised the price of a personalized video on Cameo three times in a matter of days since joining the service, ultimately doubling his fee. Mustaine first announced he was on Cameo, the service that lets you pay celebrities to record personalized messages, last week. Starting at $150

In a 20th anniversary retrospective in which Metal Hammer looks back on Slipknot’s sophomore album, Iowa, both percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan and vocalist Corey Taylor say that the band members were not on great terms during the making of that record. Metal Hammer teased the controversy as part of a preview of what’s in

Every month we take a look at Spotify’s ‘monthly listeners’ counts for several hundred metal bands and compare them side by side to gauge their relative popularity at any given moment. For more on why we’re doing this column and the methodology behind it, read this. The numbers for July are in, and the pace of

Born of Osiris released their sixth full-length album, Angel or Alien, this past Friday (July 2) and with that arrived a music video for the track “Poster Child.” You can watch the video (and stream the full album) below as well as order the album here. Born of Osiris have a run of Texas tour dates

Yet again, Ted Nugent has fired back against those who call him racist. Nugent has frequently been accused of bigotry for no better reason than the fact that he is a bigot. Evidence of Nugent’s racism includes, but is not limited to: i) Giving an interview where he says Blacks aren’t hard workers and uses the n-word

Guitarist Parker Lundgren has announced his departure from Queensrÿche after a dozen years with the band. Explains Lundgren in a statement: “For several years, I have been deeply immersed in collecting and selling guitars, as well as rare and fascinating musical instruments. This passion led to the opening of my guitar store Diablo Guitars in 2019. Since

Mayhem have released “Everlasting Dying Flame,” a new single from their forthcoming EP, Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando.  You can check out the song via the below visualizer. “Everlasting Dying Flame” is the second single from Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando to be released, following “Voces Ab Alta” last month. Mayhem’s Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando is out

If you’ve ever seen Sabaton live then you know well that all of their shows are essentially “the show to end all shows.” The world’s foremost historical metal buffs give it their ALL every single night with bombastic production and a full-hearted performance. If you haven’t seen Sabaton live yet… what the hell is stopping

Seemingly inspired by the highly scientific, irrefutable study published in June which analyzed Metallica’s entire body of work and produced a chart of James Hetfield’s most commonly uttered lyrics, some Reddit whippersnapper (who else would you expect?) has done the same for Iron Maiden’s 16 studio albums. And the results are also not quite what

For most of the metal world, our introduction to Carcosa came in the form of the hilarious video guitarist (and YouTuber) Andrew Baena and his bandmate, Angelmaker guitarist Johnny Ciardullo, published last month consisting of compliments delivered in a metal scream (sample: “You’re a true giiiift! To the people in your liiiiiife!” Tell me more,

Body Count have released a second entry from their recent contest to create a music video for “The Hate is Real.”  Whereas the original winner of the contest, 25-year-old Brooklynite Seby Martinez, made a sock puppet video that (as you can likely guess, given the phrase “made a sock puppet video”) leaned into the silly, this

It would appear (however unsurprisingly) that Ozzy Osbourne Funko Pop!s are pop!ular — ’cause they keep makin’ ’em. There’s already last year’s Ordinary Man figurine, as well as a discontinued one from 2011 that now sells for a ridiculous amount of money on the Internet; now Kerrang! reports that Funko will release a Diary of