It’s hard to be tr00. In this new Metal Injection feature, every week, the editors of MetalSucks.net, Axl Rosenberg and Vince Neilstein, will dissect the week’s stories and decide which stories are deemed worthy of the title “tr00″and admonish all posers who are false and upset the metal gods. Here are this week’s entries:
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MESHUGGAH
Despite Nuclear Blast's best efforts, obZen has leaked well before its scheduled release dates. Our review in short: awesomeness in audio form.HATE ETERNAL
DownloadPunk is hosting a free mp3 of the new track "Bringer of Storms" from the Erik Rutan-led group's forthcoming Fury and Flames. Monstrous, epic, br00tal and melodic all at once, the song erases any worries fans have about Rutan soldiering on with an entirely new line-up and re-establishes his place as one of the greatest minds in modern death metal.MERCENARY
Speaking of new songs: the band debuted a new song, "Embrace the Nothing," on their MySpace page this week, and it makes us feel confident in calling Architect of Lies an early contender for best power metal album of the year. This shit is aural viagra, bitch.THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
Their new clip for the awesomely catchy "Milk Lizard" reminds us why we ever liked music videos in the first place. Which is not to say that we can actually understand what the fuck it's about. Still, guitarist Ben Weinman shot the damn thing with a broken foot. That's metal.
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SEVENDUST
If this band ever had any actual cred, it went right the fucking window when they announced that they'd be collaborating with American Idol's Chris Douchebag, uh, Daughtry on their new album, Hope and Sorrow (as in, Sevendust fans who hope this album will be good are eventually going to feel sorrow). As if Bon Jovi making country music wasn't bad enough.BLESSED BY A BROKEN HEART
Just how gay is this band? So gay that even the Taste of Chaos tour didn't want 'em. They did, however, manage to score a Friday night headlining gig at that bar Mahoney keeps tricking Harris into going to in the Police Academy movies. So, y'know, that's a start.BIOHAZARD
Evan Seinfeld will pull his dick out of pornstar wife/cash cow Tera Patrick just long enough to jump on this summer's reunion bandwagon. That's right: the band that inadvertently paved the way for Limp Bizkit is back. Guess those Super Group residuals aren't paying off the way he'd hoped.AT THE GATES
Okay okay okay, so they're probably one of the most influential modern metal bands of all time; but that still doesn't excuse the forthcoming re-release of their seminal album Slaughter of the Soul, which combines "special features" from the 2002 and 2006 re-releases with a new live DVD. As Decibel editor Albert Mudrian wrote on The Deciblog, "Like the Olympics, a Slaughter of the Soul reissue only comes around once every couple of years, so you know the folks behind it will lure you in with shit almost as compelling as ice dancing."
