Last month, Avenged Sevenfold revealed an interactive old television/radio image on their website. When you played around with the dials, the radio played snippets of songs throughout the band’s career while the video showed a busy signal. With the band posting the hashtag “#itbeginsa7x” along with the website link, it seemed pretty clear that A7X [...]
Monday, April 22, 2013
With most summer tour packages in the process of being finalized, many bands are already starting to look towards the fall. And now comes word that Avenged Sevenfold might be working on a pretty interesting fall tour. Rumors have started to circulate that Avenged Sevenfold will embark on a fall North American tour with the [...]
Monday, April 15, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. It’s been revealed that Battlecross recruited ex-Black Dahlia Murder drummer Shannon Lucas to record drums on their forthcoming new album. This comes after the group also announced that Kevin Talley (Six Feet Under and formerly of many other great bands) [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Starting today, the first single from Disturbed frontman David Draiman and former Filter guitarist Geno Lenardo’s new group Device is available via iTunes. However, it didn’t take long for the song “Vilify” to leak online, with even Draiman letting the leak spread. So how is the track? Well unlike the teaser trailer, it’s easy to [...]
Thursday, February 7, 2013
San Diego-area quartet Psychothermia are on fire – literally. With the help of a stuntman, the band doused themselves in flames for a video for their debut album, Fall to the Rising Sun. Forming from the band Canobliss about a year ago, the band have been hard at work crafting the album. Available online tomorrow, the [...]
Friday, February 1, 2013
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. The nominees for the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced earlier this week. And keeping with tradition, the nominations are so-so. While [...]
Monday, January 14, 2013
As Disturbed continues their extended break, singer David Draiman makes headway with his long awaited industrial project with former Filter guitarist Geno Lenardo called Device. And while the group was shooting a music video for their first single “Vilify” last Friday, Draiman revealed more details about Device’s debut album and all of the special guest [...]
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Let’s be real: if you consider yourself a metalhead but have never listened or gotten into bands like Black Sabbath, Metallica, or Pantera, most people will say that something went seriously wrong with your upbringing and then proceed to throw albums at your face. With that in mind, Avenged Sevenfold’s new drummer, Arin Ilejay, apparently [...]
Friday, November 16, 2012
Even though it’s been two years since their last album, this was a pretty big week for Avenged Sevenfold. The video game they contributed a track to, (and appeared in), Call of Duty: Black Ops II, sold over $500 million in its first 24 hours alone. That’s a hell of a lot of exposure for [...]
Monday, November 12, 2012
You’ve already heard Trent Reznor’s theme music to the latest entry in the Call of Duty franchise, soon to be dominating every console when it comes out tomorrow. And we told you over a month ago that Avenged Sevenfold wrote a new song, “Carry On,” for the game. But Metal Sucks just confirmed that not only is “Carry [...]
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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