Metal Injection — Every month, Decibel scribe Shane Mehling reviews the four videos that appear in the mag under “Decibel’s Clips of the Month at Metal Injection.” This month, watch picks from Testament, Tankard, Ex Deo and a classic clip from Sick Of It All. Te... more info

Guardian Music — Festival theatreCharpentier's tragédie biblique was originally a kind of moral counterpart for an action-packed drama called Saul, now lost. The 1688 premiere at a Parisian Jesuit college alternated acts from the two: Saul provided the storyline, Da... more info

Metal Injection — Dave Mustaine was the talk of the town last week, after saying that Barack Obama staged the recent shootings in Aurora, Colorado amongst other places. There was a huge uproar, so big in fact, that Mustaine felt he needed to clarify himself, and went ... more info

Metal Injection — I don't think it was necessarily a surprise when Testament knocked it out of the park with 2008's The Formation of Damnation. Fans may have decried the flirtations with death metal on the band's late-90's material, as well as find... more info

Metal Injection — Bloodstock Open Air happened this past weekend in the UK and it was a doozy. The organizers did an awesome thing and set up a live stream for all to watch as the show was happening live. If you weren't by your computer this weekend and missed ou... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, London"Our life", sings Judas in Elgar's grand oratorio The Apostles, "is short and tedious". The same cannot be said of the work itself. At two hours long, and with decidedly mixed levels of artistic interest bound together with a... more info

Metal Injection — The organizers of Bloodstock Open Air UK rule. Besides putting on a killer festival with the likes of Behemoth, Machine Head, Testament, Hatebreed, Sanctuary, Dimmu Borgir, Nile and many others, they knew that not everybody could make it out. So, the... more info

Metalsucks — 20,000 is the magic number this week. The top seller on the Current Hard Music chart debuted with that number while five other recent releases surpassed or came close to hitting 20,000 units sold too. After the jump, debut numbers from Testament, Na... more info

Metal Injection — After spending a good portion of the last week listening to Testament's Dark Roots of Earth, I can already tell it will make my top 10 of the year list. It's just so fucking great… catchy, memorable, great riffs. Any time Testament is men... more info

Metalsucks — If ever America tasked me with assembling a Council Of Excellence to guide longview policy-making and societal enrichment, I’d waste no time appointing habitual winners like David Fincher, Russell Banks, Steve Martin, Magic Johnson, and Utada Hika... more info