Metal Injection

1 day ago | metalinjection.net | Isabella Ambrosio

""Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" needs no introduction – one of the best songs ever recorded, if you ask me. Maybe not the obvious choice, but it's a dream for me to do it one day and here it is. Our rendition of 'S.B.S.' (Mass Bloody Mass?)," Leif Edling of Candlemass says of the band's cover of Black Sabbath's classic track which appears on the band's newest EP released earlier this week. To some, Edling may be right.

1 day ago | metalinjection.net | Joel Barrios

In a quietly revealing conversation with Pete Pardo of Sea Of Tranquility, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson shared an experience that reads more like a rock fan's fever dream than real life: an impromptu jam session with Metallica's Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo at his house in Toronto. "The guys from Metallica were in Toronto last week. And I got together with Kirk and Rob. We went out for dinner and then we got together and jammed afterwards — actually, right here at my house.

2 days ago | metalinjection.net | Greg Kennelty

Megadeth was on a tear in 1992. The band released their iconic 1990 record Rust In Peace two years prior, and continued that hot streak with Countdown To Extinction. The latter contained some of the band's biggest hits, including "Symphony of Destruction" – a song that former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman considers to be kind of a pop song. In an interview with Brazil's Gustavo Maiato, Friedman called the song "maybe our first pop song" and I totally get what he means in that it's got hooks.

2 days ago | metalinjection.net | Greg Kennelty

Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine are currently wrapping up the North American leg of their 20th anniversary tour, where each band is playing their Ascendancy and The Poison albums. The tour was slated to hit the rest of the world throughout 2025, but something happened behind the scenes and now this leg is the last leg. Over the weekend, Trivium began billing the remaining North American dates as The Poisoned Ascendancy Farewell Tour.

2 days ago | metalinjection.net | Greg Kennelty

Cattle Decapitation is celebrating two years of their 2023 record Terrasite with a brand new, two-hour documentary called From This Flesh: A Cattle Decapitation Story. The documentary chronicles the entire studio recording process of Terrasite, which you can stream in all its lengthy glory above.