First the bad news: Kvelertak’s drummer, Kjetil Gjermundrod is unable to continue drumming with the band on their first headlining tour in support of Meir. The good news, on the other hand, is that they’re not cancelling the tour, and have lined up a high-profile drummer to fill-in: Jay Weinberg. You know, son of Bruce Springsteen [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
Last month in Austin, Cuban metal band Escape played their first ever show in America. Much like the Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda in Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Escape was a metal band imprisoned by their country. Having grown up with metal influences despite hardships (access to instruments, practice space, social acceptance etc.), the members of Escape [...]
Friday, March 8, 2013
With the interactive portion of the 27th annual SXSW festival kicking off today, downtown Austin is transforming into a shitshow of epic proportions. Literally thousands of bands, hundreds of vendors, countless other companies, and a four-story tall Doritos vending machine are transforming the usually semi-sedate streets of Austin into nine days of marketing, branding and music [...]
Friday, March 1, 2013
Want to learn how to play Black Tusk’s “Crossroads and Thunder,” “Ender of All” and “Fixed in the Ice?” The band’s guitarist Andrew Fidler is teaching them online here. Tweet
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Roadrunner Records is giving away a pair of tickets to each show of Kvelertak’s upcoming tour with Cancer Bats and Black Tusk. Enter for the chance to win online. Tweet
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
When we spoke to singer Erlend Hjelvik and guitarist Vidar Landa, they revealed that a North American tour was in the works for Kvelertak. And yesterday, the Norwegian metal group announced plans to tour with Cancer Bats and Black Tusk. The April/May trek marks Kvelertak’s first tour Stateside in support of their new album Meir, [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Red Fang are streaming a brand new song, “Crows In Swine,” over at Vice. It’s pretty great. There’s no word on whether there’s anything new coming beyond this single, but if you like it as much as we do, you can head over to iTunes and pick it up there. In other news, they have announced [...]
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Taking the grindcore world by storm is Phoenix’s female-fronted Landmine Marathon. Heavily influenced by genre pioneers Napalm Death, they’ve toured with the likes of Warbringer, Nasum, and Prothestic Record labelmates Skeletonwitch. Personally selected by James Hetfield to play the inaugural Orion Music + More, the band is certainly headed in the right direction. Frontwoman Grace [...]
Monday, June 25, 2012
This past weekend, Metallica presented the inaugural Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, NJ. Metal Insider’s Bram Teitelman, Zach Shaw and Kodi McKinney were there, as was MI contributor Alex Rudisill. We’ll be bringing you plenty of interviews from the show, but today is the first of two recaps, covering the first day’s festivities. [...]
Monday, May 21, 2012
If we were to have handicapped the final two slots of who would wind up playing Metallica’s Orion Music & More festival when it was first announced, we would’ve definitely had Baroness and Volbeat in the top ten. Baroness are now being managed by Metallica’s management company Q Prime, and with Yellow and Green coming out [...]
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.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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