Got a question for Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth?

From MetalInjection.net

“METAL Injection has always been about the fans. And now we are letting you decide what to ask Mikael Åkerfeldt, vocalist and guitar player of OPETH. We have opened up a forum post for it, for which you have to register to post (which is free).”

Submit your questions to this thread.

From Blabbermouth.net:

“We started to write the material at the end of 2004 and sometimes I’ve to admit the process has been painful. That is very common in KALMAH camp. If there is no inspiration you’ll just have to lay the guitar to rest — to wait for the real inspiration. I’m not here to praise the new material. That is up to you guys when the new album will hit the market. But I have to admit we really enjoy the material. I know this will be the best album we have made so far and by the time you will know why.”

Kalmah is one of my favorite melodic speed/thrash bands from Finland, so needless to say I can’t wait to hear new stuff from them.

If you like older Children of Bodom, you need to check these guys out!

P.S.: This is what I hope to start posting more of here on beMETAL, metal news that I find interesting.

• Cradle of Filth - A Bruise Upon the Silent Moon
• Emperor - The Acclamation of Bonds
• Cradle of Filth - Damned In Any Language (A Plague on Words)
• Anaal Nathrakh - Procreation of the Wretched
• Gloomy Grim - Chainsaw Blast
• Cradle of Filth - Dinner at Deviant’s Palace
• Dimmu Borgir - Reptile
• Anaal Nathrakh - I Wish I Could Vomit Blood On You… …People
• Cradle of Filth - Satyriasis
• Tvangeste - Raven
• Yyrkoon - Intro
• Blut Aus Nord - Axis
• Cradle of Filth - Venus In Fear
• Cradle of Filth - The Mordant Liquor of Tears
• Cradle of Filth - End of Daze
• Stormlord - The Torchbearer

Here it is, the “bonus” Halloween episode of all the scariest METAL I could find! Hope you enjoy it. The “real” Halloween episode will get posted on MIGR later today or tomorrow.

Yeah, I know I said TEL wouldn’t get posted on beMETAL anymore, but since I said in last week’s show that I’d post it here, I’m posting it here and on MIGR.

Download it here!

***DRUMROLL PLEASE!!!***

The Entropy League and Metal Injection have joined forces to create Metal Injection Guerilla Radio!

Along with The Entropy League, the Metal Injection crew have come up with three original METAL podcasts of their own!

• Dead Zone - “bringing you all forms of metal from Death Metal, to Grindcore, Black Metal, Metalcore, Doom and everything in between”
• Power Hour - “hosted by METAL Injection’s own Noa, will bring you the best music ranging from power metal, to viking metal, and everything in between”
• System Shutdown - “the best in technical death metal, crust, hardcore (not metalcore), black metal, thrash, punk and a plethora of sub-genres too innumerous to list”

You can read most of the details here.

If you’re worried about TEL changing, don’t be. The show is going to stay the same, each episode focusing on a different style of metal.

Each show has its own feed, but right now only TEL is listed in iTunes. Hopefully we’ll get the other 3 shows, as well as the “master” feed of all 4 shows listen in iTunes soon.

The major change will be that The Entropy League will no longer be listed on beMETAL.com. I will put a list of the most recent shows on the sidebar (where the bravewords.com news is), but to see the playlists you’ll have to head over to the MIGR site, or use an RSS reader for the feed.

Each episode of Metal Injection’s “TV” show gets about 25,000 downloads, compared to the approximately 1,000 downloads a week for TEL. Needless to say, this should result in TEL getting a LOT of exposure that it wouldn’t get otherwise.

So what do you think?

• GammaRay - My Temple
• Helloween - Pleasure Drone
• Kamelot - The Black Halo (tour dates)
• Sonata Arctica - Two Minds, One Soul
• Rhapsody - The Magic of the Wizard’s Dream (English Version)
• Grave Digger - Crucified
• Dream Theater - The Root of All Evil
• Manowar - An American Trilogy (live)

Length: 42:32
Size: 30MB

Download it here!

• Hypocrisy - Craving for Another Killing
• Cryptopsy - Carrionshine
• Detonation - Portals to Uphobia
• Into Eternity - Beginning of the End
• The Duskfall - Shoot It In
• Kevorkian - No Bargains
• Insomnium - Bereavement
• Old Man’s Child - War of Fidelity
• Still can’t talk about the “big announcement”, but I’ll try to make a post this week about it
• Send me your Halloween requests!
• Dimmu Borgir - Dødsferd

Length: 41:21
Size: 27.5MB

Download it here!

• Kreator - Enemy of God
• Death Angel - Spirit
• Explaination of bemetal.com downtime this weekend, as well as why the TEL feed was pointed to the MSRcast for a short time.
• Exodus - Raze
• Grip Inc. - Skin Trade
• Annihilator - Drive
• We now have shownotes (you’re reading them right now)!!
• Nuclear Assault - Third World Genocide
• MSRcast promo
• Destruction - Soul Collector (avaliable for download here)
• I hint at a big announcement coming in the next couple weeks!
• Send me requests/ideas for next week.
• The toll-free number is GONE, so don’t call it!
• OverKill - Old School

Length: 43:20
Size: 31MB

Get it here!

Although it wasn’t planned, welcome to the new beMETAL.com!

I’m working on getting the board back, and the Carbonado archives, but it’s going to take some time.

My first priority is TEL.

Stay tuned…

• Within Temptation - See Who I Am
• Leaves’ Eyes - Farewell Proud Men
• Ebony Ark - Thorn of Ice
• Dreamaker - Reverse Universe
• Hamka - Eyes of Twilight
• Therion - Son of the Sun
• Nightwish - Sleeping Sun (2005 version)