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The biggest story in Australian politics this week has involved the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division T-shirt. On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, was filmed and photographed exiting his plane wearing a tee with the cover art from 1979’s Unknown Pleasures rather than the customary suit and tie. Five days later, Sussan Ley, leader of the conservative Liberal Party (confusing!) criticized Albanese for wearing the shirt in a speech before parliament. Describing Albanese’s sartorial choice as a “profound failure of judgment,” Ley attempted to frame Joy Division as antisemitic because the band is named after “a wing of a Nazi concentration camp where Jewish women were forced into sexual slavery.” View the full article

Helloween continues to celebrate 40 years as a band. The post HELLOWEEN & BEAST IN BLACK Announce 2026 North American Tour appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Next year will mark two decades since the release of Bat For Lashes’ debut full-length Fur And Gold. Natasha Khan is celebrating early with a 20th anniversary edition. View the full article

From their earlier days to recent shows like Poland Rock Festival in 2019. The post TESTAMENT Names Their Most Unforgettable Shows Over Their Career appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Lately, the late Warren Zevon has been getting his flowers. The cult-favorite singer-songwriter will receive the Musical Influence Award at next weekend’s Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction, and a massive tribute concert in Los Angeles last weekend saw the likes of Jackson Browne, Dwight Yoakam, and Fountains Of Wayne performing his songs. Now comes news of a fresh tribute album. View the full article

This will get stuck in your head guaranteed. The post ELECTRIC CALLBOY's New Single "Tanzneid" Is Too Much Fun appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

2026 is looking up! The post IRON REAGAN Reunites With Classic Lineup, Announces First Show Of 2026 appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Ariana Grande’s masterful 2018 album Sweetener includes a single called “R.E.M.” Mike Mills, bassist for the legendary alt-rock band R.E.M., found this amusing. His laughter became slightly more anxious and perturbed when Grande made R.E.M. the name of her cosmetics and fragrance line. And when that company released a product line in a box designed to look like a cassette tape, Mills decided it was time to respond. View the full article

Can't stop dressin' either. The post CKY Drops Music Video For New Single "Can't Stop Running" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Metal had to set its “Days Without a Nazi Festival” counter back to zero after the ignominious Metal Threat Fest brought sketchball acts like Graveland, Inquisition, Grand Belial’s Key, and Arghoslent to the Chicago suburbs earlier this month. It was an amusing circus to behold from afar, at least. View the full article

"My Lawyer said it was essentially 'slave labour' and told me not to go anywhere near it." The post Vocalist Slams DOGMA Over Allegedly Awful Contract: "The Contract I Was Sent Was One Of The Most Insulting Things I've Seen In My 15 Year Career" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Orville Peck might be preparing for his EGOT. Earlier this year he played the Emcee in Cabaret on Broadway, and he’s starring in the Kitao Sakurai-directed Street Fighter with 50 Cent, Jason Momoa, and Noah Centineo. Today, he’s pivoted back to music with the announcement of new EP Appaloosa, out in two weeks via Warner. The mysterious country crooner also shared the lead single “Drift Away.” View the full article

It's time for the final deth. The post MEGADETH Announces Farewell Latin American Tour Dates appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

It's phenomenal, of course. The post Surprise! YELLOW EYES Just Released A New Album Called Confusion Gate appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

The ads have already started airing. Every year, the Christmas industrial complex encroaches earlier into autumn, and thanks to climate change, we’re now subjected to holiday fare before some of us have even pulled our coats out of the closet. The promo blitz extends to the music industry, where new yuletide tracks and albums start materializing basically as soon as school returns to session. View the full article

It’s incredibly fitting that Florence + The Machine would release an album on one of the most powerful, spooky days of the year. For one, Welch has done it before with 2011’s Ceremonials, but her new album Everybody Screams feels more charged in transformation and transition. View the full article

Happy Halloween, boys and ghouls! In the nasty ’90s, the vampire-themed hardcore band Ink & Dagger emerged from the scary streets of Kill-adelphia and brought their brand of beastly terror all across the land until frontman Sean McCabe sudden and untimely death in 1999. (That’s not me being spooky. He really died.) Ink & Dagger reunited in 2010, slaying some shows with Thursday singer Geoff Sick-ly standing in for McCabe. A few weeks, ago they announced plans for some rotten reissues and some more shivery shows at their hometown’s Worst Unitarian Church. The first of them just happened, and it was a graveyard smash! View the full article

I listen to music without headphones most of the time as I am often in my studio where I can listen in peace. But I do enjoy music on headphones from time to time when I want a more immersive experience

For me it's Teddy Bear by Red Sovine. It's an old trucker song and breaks your heart when you listen to it. 1 Teddy Bear.mp3

We knew something was afoot, we just didn’t know we’d be getting so much of it so quickly. View the full article

Earlier this year Florence Road unveiled their debut EP Fall Back, which was billed as a mixtape. Now, the Irish band stopped by the Australian radio network Triple J to cover Phoebe Bridgers’ Stranger In The Alps tearjerker “Georgia” for the Like A Version series. View the full article

Plus releases from Wiltwither, Primitive Man, Despised Icon, Chat Pile with Hayden Pedigo, Black Cross Hotel, and a bunch of punk bands. The post The Weekly Injection: New Releases From AVATAR, TRIVIUM & More Out This Week 10/31 appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Last week Lily Allen released West End Girl, her first new album in seven years, and it’s taking the pop world by storm. The drama certainly has been helping. Now, the British singer has announced a UK tour. View the full article