Category Archives: Columns

Metal Insider’s Top 10 Best black metal EPs

Posted by on March 28, 2024

  Music journalists tend to spend a lot of time discussing their favorite albums, so we decided to change things up and create a list of the best black metal EPs instead. Mayhem’s Deathcrush (1987) clearly stands as one of the most important efforts in the movement, though its style bleeds across genres. The first […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 20 best black metal drummers

Posted by on March 27, 2024

  There are countless incredible drummers in the black metal world. Thus, compiling a list of the greatest seemed to pose an especially daunting task. However, the musicians below are all so outstanding that our choices made themselves. Since this list is rather long, we’ll keep our intro brief. Please allow the following 20 drummers to dazzle […]

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New & Noteworthy: Myths of Releases – 3/22/2024

Posted by on March 25, 2024

  New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Snuff, The Veronicas, Boris & Coaltar of the Deepers […]

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New & Noteworthy: Warp Speed Invincible Project Releases – 3/1/2024 – 3/15/2024

Posted by on March 18, 2024

  New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases hitting shelves. The last couple of weeks saw new music from the likes of Waves In Autumn, Bruce Dickinson, Ministry, Kaiser Chiefs, Judas Priest, The End Machine, Ghost Work, Kill The Lights and more. This week brings […]

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Kyle’s Top 10 Moments of 70000Tons of Metal 2024

Posted by on February 27, 2024

  There are so many moments on the four-night international metal adventure on the high seas that 70000tons of Metal make being onboard the place to be in the winter! For this year’s coverage, I made it my goal to catalog my top ten moments that stuck with me after being back on land and […]

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