Behemoth

Two metal bands with distinctively different styles both debuted impressively on the Billboard 200 album chart with their latest albums. Within Temptation‘s 'Hydra' lands at No. 16, while Behemoth's 'The Satanist' takes the No. 34 slot.

The Metal Alliance tour is quickly becoming one of the most essential metal experiences in North America. Last year, the tour was heavy on thrash, but in 2014, the theme is black metal. Behemoth have just been announced as the tour's headlining act with Goatwhore, 1349, Inquisition and Black Crown Initiate supporting.

Behemoth have revealed that 'The Satanist' artwork will be bloodied, and we're not talking sanguine-soaked artistic renderings, either. The artwork was painted with frontman Nergal's own blood.

First, Polish metallers Behemoth dropped off the 2013 edition of the Rock Star Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. Now the band has elected to push back the release of its upcoming tenth studio album 'The Satanist.' The record is now due out in 2014.

Polish blackened death metallers Behemoth have regretfully had to bow out of this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, which kicks off June 29. The band is bailing because drummer Inferno has fallen ill and required appendix surgery...

Behemoth are reportedly working with uber producer Ross Robinson, who is perhaps best known for his work on nu metal releases by the likes of Korn and Limp Bizkit back in the day. "The day" being the late 1990s and early '00s. He also worked with Glassjaw and At the Drive-In, so his resume is much more extensive and dynamic than his most-discussed work ...

Behemoth frontman Nergal, born Adam Darksi, is facing a maximum sentence of two years in prison for a much-ballyhooed stunt he pulled during a performance in Gdynia, Poland back in September 2007. The singer tore up a copy of the Bible, referring to the holy text as a "book of lies...

Behemoth vocalist/guitarist, Nergal, has completed his autobiography, Sacrum Profanum. The outspoken mastermind of Poland's most respected death metal export describes the stories in the book as "some funny, some sad, some evil...some related to the band, some not ...

Check out the riotous trailer for Asking Alexandria's Through Sin + Self Destruction. It's a mini-film comprised of the trilogy of vids for "To the Stage," "Reckless & Relentless" and "Dear Insanity." Porn actress Belladonna and Skid Row's Sebastian Bach appear. It...

Metal Injection correspondent Aline Miladinovich flew to Poland to catch one of Behemoth's first shows back, and she managed to grab Nergal and Orion for a post-show chat. She checks on Nergal's status, the future of the band and all the recent controversy surrounding the band...