That sound you hear is the echo of corks popping off the champagne bottles at Dave Mustaine’s house; for the first time ever (?), a Megadeth record outsold a Metallica record in its debut week. It’s not a proper Metallica album, and what it is is a steaming pile of turds, but it’s still gotta feel like something of a victory for Mustaine. And that it comes in the form of the #1 Hard Music album in the U.S. has gotta feel absolutely great, too.

Elsewhere, Steel Panther had a great debut week while Krisiun, Sick of it All and Vallenfyre also made the Top 100 on the Current Hard Music charts.

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Not a bad week of releases immediately following Devil’s Night and some holiday called Halloween. This week is heavy on the awesome black metal, with Taake and Throne of Katharsis releasing sweet records today, as well as new shit from Megadeth, Steel Panther, Sick of It All, Dreaming Dead, Krisiun and more. Check it all out after the jump.

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Every day I go to my local corner store, and every day the Satanic Hispanics who sell flowers there are rocking DM gear, and I am often rocking similar gear, and so every day they give me a little nod, and I give them a little nod, and of course we’re social awkward betas who don’t even speak the same first language so we never actually communicate beyond that. But, based on their choice of shirts and hoodies, it’s clear that Krisiun is one of their favorite bands, and I should try to work up the nerve to ask them if they wanna write about Krisiun for us, ’cause a) the opinion of a Flower Dude is as good as any, and b) I am no Krisiun expert despite the fact that the band has been a staple in death metal for more than fifteen years now.

While I see if I can make that happen, you should know that someone who does know a heckuva lot more about this Brazilian trio than I do assures me that their new album, The Great Execution, is their best yet. And I know Vince enjoyed “The Will to Potency,” the new song from that album that they released last month. And I’m certainly digging “Rise and Confront,” the latest Execution track to be unveiled, which is now streaming on the band’s Facebook page. You don’t even have to “like” Krisiun to listen to it, so you should at least listen to it.

The Great Execution comes out November 1 on Century Media. I will see about having the Flower Dudes do a review for us.

-AR

One of the many beauties of the Internet (besides pr0n, of course) is its ability connect musicians to fans the world over without pesky things like gigantic oceans getting in the way like they used to. This is not to say that we only ever used to listen to bands in our home countries, but it sure is a lot easier to discover new music from a far away land than it used to be. Let’s check out brand new music from Livarkahil (France), Krisiun (Brazil) and Archaios (Dominican Republic) after the jump.

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NOTE: Devin Shidaker is no longer in Rose Funeral, even though for some reason he’s still listed as a member on the band’s MySpace page. Our apologies for including his name when we initially ran this story.

UPDATE: A source very close to the band tells us that this entire story is true. So that sucks. Original story follows…

Alright. So we’ve been getting e-mails about this since Thursday, and Vince and I struggled with whether or not to run anything about it because, well, the internet can be a terrible place full of nonsense, and we have no way to verify whether or not this event ever actually occurred. But now we’ve gotten so many e-mails about it, it seems like we have to say something.

Still, two disclaimers before we move forward:

1. This should be treated as an unsubstantiated rumor until further notice. Like I said, we’re currently unable to verify if there’s any truth to this story or not.
2. We’re not making any judgments, positive or negative, about Rose Funeral’s music. Whether or not we or anybody else thinks they’re a good band or not is the very definition of “beside the point” in this instance. The point is whether or not one or more members of the band did something really heinous.

And with that being said, here’s the story, as described to us via various e-mails from people who claim to have been present when this all went down…

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This ain’t exactly new news anymore, but I’ve been away for over a week so cut me some slack ok? NYC death metal OGs Immolation have a new song called “The Purge” posted on their MySpace page and it absolutely rips assholes, scrotums and vaginas. Sonically it sounds much better than anything they’ve done in the past and the playing is cleaner too — I haven’t heard their whole new record Majesty and Decay yet, but if the rest of it is this good then consider my psyched.

Majesty and Decay comes to the U.S. March 9th (and March 5th everywhere else), so we’ve only got to wait a little under 2 months to hear the rest of the Immolation pummeling. Immolation are currently bruising bodies all across the U.S. on the MetalSucks-sponsored Those Whom the Gods Detest Tour alongside Nile, Krisiun and Dreaming Dead (click for dates).

-VN

* I had to look up the meaning of “immolate” on Dictionary.com before writing this headline. True story.

Because Vince is in LA and I had a familial obligation, we totally missed the NY stop of this killer tour… But the now Abigail Williams-free, and the rest of the lineup is killer – Nile, Immolation, Krisiun and Dreaming Dead? That sounds like an awesome night of death metal to me.

Here’s some fan-filmed footage from the aforementioned NYC date, which I spotted on Blabbermouth. Get a complete list of remaining tour dates after the jump!

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… and the lineup is that much stronger for it, if you ask us, because they were kind of the odd band out on this tour anyway. Seems that drummer Ken Meyers has been injured, but no other details have been released.

The MetalSucks-sponsored U.S. trek also features Krisiun and Dreaming Dead, the latter of whom Axl recently realized are the cats pajamas and then some. The tour kicks off TODAY in Baltimore, so make sure you check the list of dates after the jump to see when it rolls through your town.

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This winter is shaping up to a great incredible one for U.S. metal tours.The European Summer festivals ain’t got nothin’ on us… ok, well yeah they do, but this winter’s U.S. metal tour slate is still most excellent.

There’s the much ballyhooed Between the Buried and Me / Cynic / The Devin Townsend Project / Scale the Summit North American Orgasm Tour, about which Axl shared his man-juice excitement yesterday. On January 15th death metal Egyptologists Nile kick off their mammoth Those Whom the Gods Detest Tour with Immolation, Krisiun, Abigail Williams and Dreaming Dead. Only five days later Arch Enemy embark on the MetalSucks-sponsored Tyrants of Evil Tour with Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within. The Pagan/Folk metal tour du jour this Winter is headlined by Korpiklaani with Tyr, Swashbuckle and White Wizzard in tow (the latter of whom are certainly not pagan or folk). And tomorrow The Metal As Art Tour featuring Hypno5e, Revocation and The Binary Code kicks off in Brooklyn and traverses the country for 31 days. Yowza!

Full lists of dates and venues for all four tours are posted after the jump. There’ve been a few venue changes so make sure you double-check… then feel free to bitch about how none of these tours are coming to your city and proceed to blame us.

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Nile, the reigning kings of extreme, technical, historically-themed brutality — and Immolation, New York based disharmonic-blackened-death-metal legends — are about to embark on the “Those Whom The Gods Detest” Tour in the new year! Joining them on the Decibel and MetalSucks-sponsored trek will be Brazilian death metal kings Krisiun, Abigail Williams, and Dreaming Dead.  The 32-date tour commences on January 15th, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Full list of dates after the jump.

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So many of you have e-mailed us this week to instruct us to post news about the fact that Opeth and Enslaved are touring together that I’m fairly certain posting news about the fact that Opeth and Enslaved are touring together is a complete waste of time; I mean, clearly, everyone and their mother is already aware of this tour.

I’m not saying this isn’t an awesome package – clearly, it is – I’m just saying, you’ve all sent us the news and the tour dates, so what can we tell you that you don’t already know? How about this: we will be at the show at the Starland Ballroom in NJ, and we will be high. Actually, you probably knew that already, too.

I’m putting tour dates after the jump, although I don’t for the life of me know why.

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Deadline extended to December 12th!

Attn: Aspiring video directors who think today’s metal music videos suck;
This is your chance to prove your skills.

We give you the audio for Krisiun’s song “Slaying Steel” and you make the video. Not only will the grand prize winner receive “The Ultimate Krisiun Touring Case” filled with an autographed discography, drumsticks, pics, autographed drumheads, t-shirts and all sorts of other crazy shit — but the winning entry will be shown to the band and will have a shot at becoming the OFFICIAL video for “Slaying Steel”!!! Two runners-up will receive a signed copy of Krisiun’s new album Southern Storm.

Read the rules and download the track below, then submit your video at the Krisiun Video Contest page at MetalInjection.

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At long last, we are pleased to announce the winner of our Amon Amarth Viking Video Contest in which we asked you to make a one minute-long video interpretation of a scene or tale from Viking lore. The contest’s winner is Christian Madsen with his incredible animated short “The Wild Hunt,” below:

Read all about the story and inspiration behind Christian’s video here.

Congrats to Christian! He’ll be receiving the the ultimate Amon Amarth prize package featuring the band’s entire Metal Blade discography and recent DVD set (including their new record Twilight of the Thunder God, out now!)

Watch all of the entries for the contest (some better than others, to say the least) at the Amon Amarth Viking Video Contest page on Metal Injection. Special props to Looka’s “The Dragons’ Flight Across the Waves” as well.

Aspiring video directors, don’t forget to enter our latest video contest, in which your video could become the official music video for Krisiun’s “Slaying Steel.”

Attn: Aspiring video directors who think today’s metal music videos suck;
This is your chance to prove your skills.

We give you the audio for Krisiun’s song “Slaying Steel” and you make the video. Not only will the grand prize winner receive “The Ultimate Krisiun Touring Case” filled with an autographed discography, drumsticks, pics, autographed drumheads, t-shirts and all sorts of other crazy shit — but the winning entry will be shown to the band and will have a shot at becoming the OFFICIAL video for “Slaying Steel”!!! Two runners-up will receive a signed copy of Krisiun’s new album Southern Storm.

Read the rules below, and submit your video at the Krisiun Video Contest page at MetalInjection.

Make sure to read the official contest rules after the jump.

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