Last night’s Revolver Golden Gods wasn’t just about handing out awards to hard rock bands. The evening was jammed packed with one-time-only special performances and its fair share of memorable moments. While we’ll let you scratch your head over who won what award on your own, let’s recap some of the key highlights from this [...]
Friday, May 3, 2013
Tonight, the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods award show took place in Los Angeles. The night found Anthrax performing with Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown, The Dillinger Escape Plan perform a Depeche Mode cover with Deftones’ Chino Moreno, Halestorm cover Led Zeppelin with David Draiman, Five Finger Death Punch play with Rob Halford and Rob [...]
Friday, April 26, 2013
Last weekend marked the 15th installment of New England Metal & Hardcore Fest in Worcester, MA, and as expected, it was nothing short of barely-controlled mayhem. This year felt especially topical, with the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects coming to a head just hours before Friday’s kickoff. The outlet that heavy music provides [...]
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
It was a good weekend for metal fans in New York City. The Metal Alliance Tour wrapped up it’s run with Anthrax, Exodus, Municipal Waste, Shadows Fall and Holy Grail with not one, but two SOLD OUT shows at the Irving Plaza this weekend. Thus, chances are that you were either at the Saturday or [...]
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Anthrax, Stone Sour, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Halestorm have already been confirmed to perform at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods. Now there’s one more major addition to the award show’s lineup: Danzig with Doyle. Danzig will be performing a special Misfits with guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein at [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
This September, Iron Maiden will once again headline the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil. Before that, though, the group will warm up by performing seven special shows in the U.S. Hitting markets like Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, the trek will feature a very special guest opening up for Maiden: Megadeth. However, Maiden has [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Ah, April. Where spring gets going, where you can’t trust the internet for a day, and where people find a day to pretend to be stoners while real stoners treat it like any other [...]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. BUUUUUUAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHA! *ahem* Sorry, got carried away. Also, if you don’t know what the hell that was, you might want to get a taste of our top album for this week with this lyric video. [...]
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The title says it all this week – with the quality of new releases that we have coming out today, there is nothing that can stop the heaviness from infiltrating the charts. This is a week to really make a difference for the new albums you care about, so get out there and pick up [...]
Monday, March 18, 2013
The New England Metal & Hardcore Fest just keeps getting more and more stacked-out with reasons to go. As if Opeth, Hatebreed, the entire Metal Alliance Tour (including Anthrax!), The Dillinger Escape Plan and Suicidal Tendencies weren’t occasion enough to start getting train tickets to Worcester at the ready, the organizers lifted the curtain on [...]
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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