With the year in music just about over, Metal Insider‘s staff and contributors are taking a look back and naming their top ten albums of 2012. This next list comes courtesy of Metal Insider contributor Chris Colgan. We’re also including a Spotify playlists with a song from each album, if available. We’ll also be sprinkling [...]
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Big Brother 13′s resident metalhead and reality show addict Adam Poch is recapping The Amazing Race for Metal Insider - specifically Team Headbangers, consisting of former White Lion/Megadeth/Black Label Society bassist James LoMenzo and entertainment lawyer Mark “Abba” Abbattista. You can follow Adam on Twitter at @heavymetalteddy. Welcome to the latest edition of the Amazing Race 21 recap – [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unless your band name starts with “M” and you’re from the UK, you probably weren’t seeing the top album sales for this week. That being said, we have sales from a British-Canadian supergroup and [...]
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
It’s a nice start for As I Lay Dying’s sixth album, although it’s their first album since 2005 to not debut in the top ten. In other news, with Mumford and Sons selling 600,000 copies of their sophomore album this week to have this year’s biggest debut, you might want to think about dusting off [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
The idea of a multi-part album cycle or EP series is not new in the metal world. Bands have been engaging in such concepts for decades, even becoming well-known exactly for that reason. Hell, there are even some bands whose entire discography is portrayed as chapters within an overarching series. So is it really a [...]
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
It’s only been a little over a year since Becoming The Archetype’s last album, the pretty awesome Celestial Completion. However, with a new rhythm section in place (former In This Hour bassist Codey Watkins and former Dear Lovely drummer Chris Heaton), the band have already recorded a new album. I Am will be out on September 18, [...]
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
When hearing the term “Christian Music Festival,” most metal fans’ initial reaction is to run away. Over the past few years, though, the Cornerstone Festival has had a heavy dose of Christian metal and hardcore bands on its bill. However, that’s about to change since the Christian music and arts festival has announced that this [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Here we are again, at the end of another year, and a list has to be made. And what do I do? I spend so much time deliberating and being indecisive that I’m late sending it in. Apologies to my MetalInsider colleagues for my lack of expediency. That said, this year was a great year [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
We’re officially in the holiday season now. Stores are lined with decorations, shoppers are obsessively searching for the best deals, and everywhere you go, the holiday music abounds. Surprisingly, the holiday metal releases thus far have been few and far between. This is a far cry from the past couple of years, which saw anthology [...]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week, eight metal/hard rock bands make their debut, with three of them debuting in the top 100. However, it’s every headbangers’ favorite non-metal band that tops the charts this week. The Foo Fighters [...]
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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