After a pair of albums on Ferret Music, The Devil Wears Prada have signed with Roadrunner Records. Their fifth full-length album will be released this fall on the label, and will be executive-produced by Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewisz. ”We’ve put so much time into the new songs already, and we’re really happy where things are sitting,” [...]
Monday, January 7, 2013
It’s been about a year since rumors started swirling about Jesse Leach returning to Killswitch Engage, and about 11 months since the vocalist officially announced he was rejoining the band. And now the first album featuring Leach since 2002′s Alive or Just Breathing has been given a title and a release date. Disarm the Descent will be [...]
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Want to help out a good friend of Killswitch Engage and get a one-of-a-kind signed instrument from the band as well? Yesterday, Killswitch Engage posted the following on their Facebook page: Hi everyone…A good friend of the band has recently had to battle pancreatic cancer. We would like to donate some of our personal instruments [...]
Monday, April 23, 2012
This past weekend, I attended the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival at the Palladium Theatre in Worcester, MA. While the 3 days brought us some amazing performances and moments (which we’ll recap in this week’s Top 5), the most highly anticipated and buzzed about set from the weekend came from one headliner: Killswitch Engage. [...]
Monday, April 16, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Recently, both As I Lay Dying and Slayer revealed which producers they’ll be working in the studio soon. At first, these announcements reminded us how crucial of a role the producer can play during the recording sessions of a new album. [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Back in December, bassist Mike D’Antonio said that Killswitch Engage had been working on demos and were eyeing a Summer 2012 release for their new album. However, many assumed that the departure of singer Howard Jones delayed those plans. But now with Jesse Leach back in the band, it looks like Killswitch Engage is back [...]
Monday, January 30, 2012
This past Summer, Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz revealed that he was working on a project with Cannibal Corpse’s Corpsegrinder and The Black Dahlia Murder’s Shannon Lucas. Since then, though, we haven’t heard much about the supergroup from hell. We simply figured that Dutkiewicz has been busy with Killswitch Engage (considering that they need a [...]
Friday, January 13, 2012
It’s been about four months since Shadows Fall announced that they had signed a new recording deal with Razor & Tie, and that they were working on a new album with Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz producing. Now, before they heads over to Australia for the Soundwave Festival and a few off dates, the band [...]
Monday, January 9, 2012
The first big shakeup of 2012 came from Howard Jones, who after ten years and three albums announced he was quitting Killswitch Engage, and it didn’t take long for many to speculate who could be the band’s new frontman. A few new potential candidates (namely Tommy Vext) have surfaced, while some like All That Remains [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Back in August, guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz revealed that Killswitch Engage were getting into writing mode for a new album. At the time, an exact time table was unclear. But now according to bassist Mike D’Antonio, the band has already completed eight demos and hopes to have an album out by the Summer of 2012. Though [...]
Did you love hearing Anvil’s new song “Mankind Machine”? Then stream the Canadian thrashers’ new album Hope In Hell in its entirety before it’s released on May 28 over at Loudwire.
Kylesa’s new album, Ultraviolet, is streaming online at Pitchfork. Check out the album, as well as some pretty awesome visuals, here. The album will come out on May 28 on Season of Mist.
Unsigned & Streamed vets Anciients, who’s Season of Mist debut Heart of Oak is out now, have landed the opening slot on the Lamb of God tour. They’ll be playing from May 16 – June 10. Check out the dates here.
Sinestra Studios (who very often provides Metal Insider with some killer live photos) is hosting its very first art galleria and metal show on Saturday, May 25, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets for the event are onsale now.
Louna has premiered a new music video for the song “Business” with Crave Online. The extravagant and politically themed music video comes in support of the Russian hard rock group’s new album, Behind The Mask, available now via Red Decade Records and MEG/RED.
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