MetalInjection.net Releases Exclusive In-Studio DVD Clip from JOHN 5’s Upcoming CD/DVD ‘God Told Me To’ – In Stores on May 8th, 2012

JOHN 5 and MetalInjection.net are pleased to unveil an exclusive new in-studio clip cut from JOHN 5’s upcoming CD/DVD, God Told Me To. The clip shows John in the studio playing a new track, ‘Welcome to Violence’, and showcases his unique ability and skill with his instrument that is proven time and time again throughout the new album. God Told Me To will be released through Rocket Science Ventures and Sony/RED on May 8^th, 2012—just days before he heads out to perform with Rob Zombie on their upcoming co-headliner with Megadeth (see below for tour dates).

HOT OFF THE PRESSES: A brand new interview with JOHN 5 and CraveOnline.com just surfaced on the web! Check out the exclusive interview here.

God Told Me To was recorded and produced by JOHN 5, Chris Baseford (Rob Zombie, Tommy Lee) and Bob Marlette (Sebastian Bach, Black Sabbath) in 2011. The cover art for the album is illustrated by none other than Rob Zombie, who is also tapping JOHN 5 to score the entirety of his upcoming film, ‘The Lords of Salem’. JOHN 5’s resume has seen him work with some of the most renowned musicians in the industry (Rob Halford, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie to name a few), and has cemented his name into the annals of rock history.

The CD portion of the release features ten painstakingly handcrafted pieces transcending multiple styles—an equal combination of acoustic and electronically influenced tracks—each designed to gradually reveal JOHN 5’s innovative interpretation of his instrument. The orchestration of God Told Me To showcases JOHN 5’s ability to master the subtlety of dynamics, thus emphasizing the overall production value of this body of work. God Told Me To stands tall as a stunning, audible cultural experience.

The DVD portion of the release is hosted by retro-style horror-host Mike Odd and takes a look inside the world of JOHN 5 during his terrifying trip into the realm of God Told Me To. The DVD features footage of JOHN 5 in the studio while working on the new album, exclusive videos taken on tour, a peek inside the photo shoot for his 2011 remix album Remixploitation, and more.

See below for information on the ROB ZOMBIE/MEGADETH co-headliner, and stay tuned for more updates on the tour coming in the next few weeks.

JOHN 5 Performing with ROB ZOMBIE on Co-Headliner with MEGADETH:

5/11 Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center

5/12 Scranton, PA @ Toyota Pavilion

5/16 Pittsburgh, PA@ Stage AE

5/18 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Deltaplex

5/20 Columbus, OH @ Columbus Crew Stadium (Rock On The Range)

5/22 La Crosse, WI @ La Crosse Center

5/24 Sioux City, IA @ Tyson Center

5/25 Wichita, KS @ Hartman Arena

5/26 Pryor, OK @ Fever Music Festival Grounds (Rocklahoma)

JOHN 5’s brand new, redesigned website features a huge merchandise store, news updates, tour information, and more. For more on JOHN 5, his upcoming tour with Rob Zombie, and God Told Me To, please visit www.john-5.com and these additional websites:

MUNICIPAL WASTE: NEW SONG PREMIERES ON STEREOKILLER.com

“You’re Cut Off,” MUNICIPAL WASTE’s whimsical 1:14-second account of every angry man’s argument for getting served just one more alcoholic beverage is being exclusively debuted worldwide on StereoKiller.com.

In other words, this is a song about Virginia’s crossover kings doing their thing on any given night at any given hour in any given part of the world. Oh yes.

MUNICIPAL WASTE’s new album, The Fatal Feast, will be released in North America on April 10^th and in Europe on April 13^th. Fans can pre-order the album here. Only 500 copies of the super limited edition bundle pack with a pop-up gatefold of the vinyl version are available worldwide!

Dates for the Gwar, MUNICIPAL WASTE, Ghoul and Legacy of Disorder “Return Of The World Maggot” tour (currently ravaging through the U.S.) are:

3/22/12 Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY TICKETS

3/23/12 The Omni - Toledo, OH TICKETS

3/24/12 Buster's Billiards & Backroom - Lexington, KY TICKETS

3/25/12 Mojoes - Joliet, IL TICKETS

3/26/12 Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI TICKETS

3/27/12 People's Court - Des Moines, IA TICKETS

3/28/12 Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK TICKETS

3/30/12 Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE TICKETS

3/31/12 Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO TICKETS

4/01/12 Mesa Theater & Club - Grand Junction, CO TICKETS

4/02/12 Orpheum Theatre - Flagstaff, AZ TICKETS

4/03/12 House of Blues - San Diego, CA TICKETS

4/04/12 Majestic Ventura Theatre - Ventura, CA TICKETS

4/05/12 Senator Theatre - Chico, CA TICKETS

4/06/12 The Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA TICKETS

4/07/12 Knitting Factory - Reno, NV TICKETS

4/09/12 Hard Rock Cafe - Las Vegas, NV TICKETS

4/10/12 The Great Salt Air - Magna, UT TICKETS

4/11/12 Aggie Theatre - Ft. Collins, CO TICKETS

ACCEPT: OPEN CALL FOR FAN PHOTOS!

In support of their new album Stalingrad - due out in North America on April 10th - German heavy metal legends ACCEPT have launched new activity that will have fans traveling with the band around the world on their upcoming international ACCEPT Stalingrad Tour of 2012!

Send in a photo of yourself (with your ACCEPT collection, at an ACCEPT show, wearing an ACCEPT shirt, etc.) to become a part of the worldwide fan collage poster, which will be printed as a huge banner and displayed at every concert hall during the upcoming world tour.

This piece of ACCEPT history will be available for purchase at the merchandise table during ACCEPT shows. In the near future, it will be available for order online.

Photo specs are:

- Must be a digital file

- Must be at least 300 dpi

- Minimum size is 1 MB

- Maximum size is 5 MB

Send your photo for inclusion in the ACCEPT fan collage to acceptpicture@brainzone.de by March 27th! 

With your submission, you confirm that you are the person in the photo and not a third party, you understand that it will not be returned, and you agree that it can and will be reproduced without any limitations in all appropriate media outlets in conjunction with ACCEPT promotional materials.  

Teaming up once again with producer Andy Sneap (Exodus, Arch Enemy, Megadeth), Stalingrad displays what has made ACCEPT famous: exceptional songwriting, soaring guitar solos, a propelling dual-guitar attack, a no-holds-barred rhythm section and chanted background vocals. Listen to the title track here to confirm it for yourself.

Stalingrad‘s track listing is:

01 – Hung, Drawn And Quartered

02 – Stalingrad

03 – Hellfire

04 – Flash To Bang Time

05 – Shadow Soldiers

06 – Revolution

07 – Against The World

08 – Twist Of Fate

09 – The Quick And The Dead

10 – Never Forget (BONUS TRACK)

11 – The Galley

ACCEPT will be touring throughout Europe this April with NWOBHM label mates Hell. View the tour trailer here.

Blood Of The Nations was nominated throughout the world as “Hard Rock and Metal Album of the Year” for 2010. The week following its release, it debuted as the #25 Rock Album on iTunes and at #187 on The Billboard 200 chart, #170 on the Top Current Albums chart, and on the #41 Independent Albums chart. In Canada, the album debuted at #53 on the Nielsen Soundscan Top Hard Albums chart. In Europe, Blood Of The Nations entered the German album charts at #4 - the highest German chart entry in the band’s career – and debuted at #12 on the Billboard European chart with the following additional worldwide chart entries: #7 in Sweden; #7 in Hungary; #9 in Finland; #19 in Austria; and #27 in the Czech Republic.

View the “Teutonic Terror” video - directed by Dave Blass and produced by Doug Jef­fery for Grid 41 - here.

View the “Pandemic” video at this location.

View the winners of ACCEPT’s fan-created video contest on the official ACCEPT website.

EPICA DEBUT AT #104 ON THE BILLBOARD TOP 200

After hearing the news that the band’s latest studio album, Requiem For The Indifferent, has debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 4,868 units sold, EPICA founding member and guitarist Mark Jansen has issued the following statement from The Netherlands:

“We thank all our U.S. fans for their loyalty! We cannot wait to come over again for a new tour… and we’re working on it, so it will happen!”

The band has achieved the highest first week sales of their career in the U.S. by more than doubling the numbers sold of 2009’s Design Your Universe.

EPICA will be headlining Day 1 of the ProgPower XIII festival in Atlanta, Georgia on Friday, September 14^th.

KATAKLYSM to Headline Benefit Concert in Halifax

Montreal based extreme metallers KATAKLYSM will headline a benefit concert for heart attack and stroke victims on Thursday July, 5^th 2012. The event will take place at the Halifax Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. The official name of the event is the "Spread the Metal Festival" and all ticket sales are going towards the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Hosted by Spread The Metal Records, the concert will feature 18 bands performing over 2 days. For more info please visit any of the following sites:

Label Website: www.spreadthemetal.com
Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/#!/spreadthemetalrecords
Facebook event:http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/190001607777740/
Twitter: @STM_Records

KATAKLYSM will release a multidisc DVD on June 19th entitled "The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined", which features a documentary and bonus CD materials. The set will depict the ups and downs of the band's long, turbulent career, as well as footage of KATAKLYSM's performance at last year's Summer Breeze festival, which took place August 18-20, 2011 in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. The cover art for the release was created by artist Colin Marks (ORIGIN, EXODUS, NEVERMORE) and can be viewed above.

Check out the second teaser for the upcoming release here.

KATAKLYSM recently recorded the single "The Iron Will" in Montreal, Canada with guitarist/producer Jean-François Dagenais. It will be mixed Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, BEHEMOTH, MNEMIC) in Denmark and will be made available with a video clip on iTunes one month before the release of "The Iron Will: 20 Years Determined".

Watch the video clip for the song "At the Edge of the World" here. The footage was taken from the bands hometown show at Club Soda in Montreal, which was part of their recent “Spread the Venom” headlining world tour. “At the Edge of the World” comes from the bands latest acclaimed album Heaven's Venom. The video clip was filmed by director Tommy Jones (DEATH ANGEL, SOILWORK), who is also helming the bands upcoming Documentary/DVD "THE IRON WILL: 20 YEARS DETERMINED".

KATAKLYSM’s new album Heaven’s Venom was released on August 24^th 2010 in North America and sold around 2,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 7 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart and #196 on the Billboard Top Current Albums chart, making it the bands highest charting album and their biggest first week sales to date. Heatseekers lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Heaven’s Venom was recorded by KATAKLYSM guitarist J-F Dagenais (MALEVOLENT CREATION, MISERY INDEX) and was mixed by Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, MNEMIC, DARK TRANQUILLITY).

KATAKLYSM shot a video clip for the song "Push The Venom" with director Ivan Colic (TYPE O NEGATIVE, UNLEASHED, DEATHSTARS, EX DEO) in Belgrade, Serbia. The clip can be viewed here.

VICE INTERVIEWS MUNICIPAL WASTE's TONY FORESTA

In a recent interview with Vice.com, MUNICIPAL WASTE vocalist Tony Foresta (2^nd from right) spoke candidly about his supportive Republican father, the presence of boogie boards at MUNICIPAL WASTE shows, what happens to people who piss in circle pits, and what stinks the most (literally!) about touring with GWAR.

Read the entire feature here.

MUNICIPAL WASTE are currently on tour with Gwar, Ghoul and Legacy of Disorder in support of their new album The Fatal Feast, which will be released in North America on April 10^th. Fans can pre-order the album here. Look for the super limited edition bundle pack for the vinyl version featuring a pop-up gatefold; only 500 copies are available worldwide!

“Return Of The World Maggot” tour dates are: 

3/21/12 Higher Ground - S. Burlington, VT TICKETS

3/22/12 Westcott Theater - Syracuse, NY TICKETS

3/23/12 The Omni - Toledo, OH TICKETS

3/24/12 Buster's Billiards & Backroom - Lexington, KY TICKETS

3/25/12 Mojoes - Joliet, IL TICKETS

3/26/12 Majestic Theatre - Madison, WI TICKETS

3/27/12 People's Court - Des Moines, IA TICKETS

3/28/12 Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK TICKETS

3/30/12 Bourbon Theatre - Lincoln, NE TICKETS

3/31/12 Fox Theatre - Boulder, CO TICKETS

4/01/12 Mesa Theater & Club - Grand Junction, CO TICKETS

4/02/12 Orpheum Theatre - Flagstaff, AZ TICKETS

4/03/12 House of Blues - San Diego, CA TICKETS

4/04/12 Majestic Ventura Theatre - Ventura, CA TICKETS

4/05/12 Senator Theatre - Chico, CA TICKETS

4/06/12 The Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA TICKETS

4/07/12 Knitting Factory - Reno, NV TICKETS

4/09/12 Hard Rock Cafe - Las Vegas, NV TICKETS

4/10/12 The Great Salt Air - Magna, UT TICKETS

4/11/12 Aggie Theatre - Ft. Collins, CO TICKETS

UFOMAMMUT: Visual Edition Of First Track From Two-LP Series Unveiled

Following several visual glimpses into the creation of UFOMAMMUT's newest work, Oro: Opus Primum -- the initial release in a pair of albums in the Oro series, and the band's debut within the Neurot Recordings family -- today the band proudly unveil the first full track from the LP duo. Through Malleus Rock Art Labs UFOMAMMUT have crafted a full video/visual version of Oro which will accompany the audio the whole way through both albums, and "Empireum" opens the Opus Primum album, beginning the Oro chronicle.

Courtesy of the diehard UFOMAMMUT cult specialists at The Obelisk, behold the audio/visual supernatural doom metal bliss of "Empireum" AT THIS LOCATION.

Stay tuned for further installments, as each track from both LPs in the Oro lineage are released over the coming months. Opus Primum will see North American release on April 17th and the second installment of Oro, Opus Alter, will see release in September. The full visual adaptation of both Opus Primum and later Opus Alter will be pressed to DVD to accompany the limited vinyl versions of each chapter, which will be hand-build by Malleus Rock Art Labs and released on the band's own Supernatural Cat Records.

UFOMAMMUT have also confirmed exclusive European tour dates where they will be presenting Oro for the first time to a captive audience. Italian experimental/metal outfit Incoming Cerebral Overdrive -- also signed to UFOMAMMUT's Supernatural Cat Records -- will support them on this treck who in turn will be promoting their forthcoming new album Le Stelle: A Voyage Adrift. Dates are still being added but the confirmed routing at press time is below. Expect much more touring from the band in the months ahead.

UFOMAMMUT European Tour Dates:

4/18/2012 Etnoblog - Trieste, Italy w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/19/2012 Kapu - Linz, Austria w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/20/2012 Feierwerk - Munich, Germany w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/21/2012 Desertfest - Berlin, Germany w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/22/2012 Burgerweeshuis - Deventer, Netherlands w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/24/2012 The Garage - London, England w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/26/2012 Magasin 4 - Brussels, Belgium w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

4/28/2012 Haus der Jugend - Freiburg, Germany w/ Incoming Cerebral Overdrive

6/16/2012 Hellfest - Clisson, France

7/15/2012 Dourfestival - Dour, Belgium

7/18/2012 Fonobar - Warsaw, Poland

7/20/2012 Hells Pleasure Festival - Pössneck, Germany