Iron Maiden has announced the highly anticipated North American dates of their critically acclaimed Run For Your Lives World Tour, and it’s a great lineup! Iron Maiden will be performing at stadiums and major amphitheaters across the United States and Canada alongside Megadeth and Anthrax, depending on which dates you attend. On the trek, Iron […]
Slaughter To Prevail‘s Jack Simmons has addressed the swirling controversy surrounding his bandmate Alex Terrible‘s use of Nazi-associated imagery, claiming the deathcore outfit has no far-right leanings – just a history of “bad decisions”. In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, Simmons – who co-founded the Russian-American band with vocalist Alex Terrible in 2014 – […]
On October 15, 2023, Manowar announced they’d be re-recording their 1984 album Sign Of The Hammer for release sometime in 2024. It’s almost November 2025 now and if you haven’t noticed, Manowar has not released Sign Of The Hammer: Whatever Year Edition. So what the hell is going on? According to Manowar bassist Joey DeMaio […]
Sacred Reich announced they’d parted ways with longtime drummer Dave McClain yesterday, October 20. McClain drummed for Sacred Reich between 1991 and 1996, and then again between 2018 and 2025. Filling in for McClain live is drummer Eduardo Baldo. Now McClain has issued his own statement, essentially saying it was time for him. to go: […]
Dream Theater is back with more box sets, because why not? They’ve got a shit ton of material out there and plenty of people who wanna own it – myself included. First up is the massive 14-CD box set The Studio Albums 1992–2016, which unites 12 of the band’s core studio works for the first […]
Electric Callboy is set to have a pretty busy 2026 touring around the world! Electric Callboy has just announced a handful of North American tour dates for April and May 2026 with openers Polaris and Scene Queen, as well as a handful of additional dates in both Japan and Australia. Get your tickets here. w/ […]
Drummers seem to be playing musical chairs this year as several major bands have gone through line-up change after line-up change, even so far as Foo Fighters and Nine Inch Nails swapping drummers altogether, with not even Trivium being immune to the little ‘change-the-drummer’ virus that seems go be going around the scene. Trivium‘s long-time […]
Currently-paused project Code Orange‘s multi-instrumentalists Jami Morgan and Eric Balderose have just announced their forthcoming EP, What Did You Do?, under the artist name NOWHERE2RUN. The new release is looking like it’ll be a project centred around production rather than your typical instrumental venture. Due out on Halloween – October 31st, two Fridays from now – and […]
2025 has felt pretty relentless – in all ways and a product of that is a relentless onslaught of music to weed through with the spare hours we have outside of work, and we’ve found some doozies with Spite, The Acacia Strain, and more. It’s to safe to say there’s 30 or more releases in any […]
Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers has sadly died at 48 years old. Limp Bizkit has posted the following statement addressing Rivers‘ death. We here at Metal Injection extend our sympathies to Rivers‘ friends and family, as well as the Limp Bizkit fans around the world – what a horrible moment. “???? In Loving Memory of […]
