" Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal

 Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal

How a song about a disfigured soldier made the biggest cult band in the world even bigger – and said goodbye to thrash metal once and for all

" Bonded by blood: the birth of the Bay Area Thrash scene

 Bonded by blood: the birth of the Bay Area Thrash scene

In the early 80s, San Francisco became the epicenter of an extreme new scene. This is the story of the birth of thrash metal

"SYSTEM OF A DOWN's "Chop Suey!" Is The First Metal Music Video To Hit 1 Billion Plays on YouTube

 SYSTEM OF A DOWN's "Chop Suey!" Is The First Metal Music Video To Hit 1 Billion Plays on YouTube

Closer to 1.001 billion now.

" Heavy metal guitarist turns Kenneth Copeland sermon into a sick hard rock banger

 Heavy metal guitarist turns Kenneth Copeland sermon into a sick hard rock banger

" How Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid

 How Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

" Metal Musicians React To U.S. Election Counting

 Metal Musicians React To U.S. Election Counting

As the U.S. election is dominating the news cycle, and there isn't too much happening in the metal sphere, metal musicians have been opining on the ongoing vote counting happening in the current election. With record-setting voting, and a lot of mail-in ballots still left to count, the final tallies are still trickling in in […

" The rock world reacts to the US Presidential election

 The rock world reacts to the US Presidential election

Kiss, the Rolling Stones, Queen, Motley Crue, Lenny Kravitz, Halestorm and more strike conciliatory tone as US President-elect Joe Biden celebrates

" The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle

 The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg5Ovdu6bOE

This has to share some comedic DNA with a presidential press conference held at the Four Seasons–Four Seasons Total Landscaping, that is. Classic.

"Roundup: Rock & Metal Musicians Go To The Polls and #Vote

 Roundup: Rock & Metal Musicians Go To The Polls and #Vote

Today is Election Day

"Black Metal Fan Sentenced to 25 Years For Burning Three Black Churches in Louisiana

 Black Metal Fan Sentenced to 25 Years For Burning Three Black Churches in Louisiana

Do the black metal crime, do the time.

The post Black Metal Fan Sentenced to 25 Years For Burning Three Black Churches in Louisiana appeared first on Metal Injection.

"Why a small New Zealand town is suddenly the new rock capital of the universe

 Why a small New Zealand town is suddenly the new rock capital of the universe

The world endures lockdown and socially distanced live shows, but life has returned to normal and live shows are back in the small New Zealand town of Oamaru

" The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

 The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akHJ-WROwZc

“As long as you’ve got a pack of cigarettes,” sings Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s biggest ever rock star, “life can’t be all that shabby.” When Tsoi died in a car crash in 1990, Please Kill Me writes, “it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James Dean and Muhammad Ali all died simultaneously.” When Yuliya Abasheva, born in the year of Tsoi’s death, first heard him sing, “I was thrilled to the core of my being. I literally fell in love with his music, and I immediately realized that I didn’t want to listen to any music but Kino.”

" The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

 The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

Let old school horror-metal freaks Possessor take you by the hand and guide you through 10 of the most skin-crawling metal songs known to man or ghoul

" 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut

 11 metal bands who never made an album as good as their debut

For some, the first time is best. Here are the bands who never improved on their debut albums

"“Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA

 “Amerika ist wunderbar!”: how Rammstein conquered the USA

Only a fool would have put money on a bunch of German industrial-metal perverts becoming one of the biggest bands in America. But this is how Rammstein did it

" The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

 The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

Metal Hammer

Spirit Adrift mastermind and riff connoisseur Nate Garrett on the heaviest noises ever forged in the name of metal

"The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever

 The 50 greatest Dave Mustaine quotes ever

Metal Hammer

From the pages of Metal Hammer, here are 50 killer Dave Mustaine quotes to live your life by

"Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

 Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

Boing Boingby Gareth Branwyn

In this reprinted piece from Popular Mechanics, 2015, the late, great Eddie Van Halen talks about how he modified his early guitars and amps to help create the unique guitar sounds for which he became famous.

My playing style really grew from the fact that I couldn't afford a distortion pedal.

— Read the rest

" Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

 Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

Metal Injectionby Robert Pasbani /

To say the entire rock world is shocked with the sudden, but not unexpected loss of guitar god Eddie Van Halen is an understatement. Not only would rock and metal never be the same, but music in general without the Van Halen guitarist. The dude was insanely innovative, seriously look up all the advancements he […]

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65

Metal Hammer 

Legendary Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen has died after a long battle with cancer

RIP Eddie Van Halen, Dead at 65

Metal Injectionby Robert Pasbani /

The Van Halen guitarist died after a battle with throat cancer.

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" Metal Musicians React To The First U.S. Presidential Debate

 Metal Musicians React To The First U.S. Presidential Debate

Metal Injection

The most important analysis of the presidential debate comes from rock stars (and Ja Rule)