As we mentioned on Monday, Relapse director of retail sales and marketing and New York City metal fixture Pat Egan passed away earlier this week in a hospital after suffering complications from pneumonia. He touched the lives of many that he met, including countless bands he worked with. But as a lifelong metalhead, Egan loved [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Before the phrase “metal comedian” actually meant anything, Brian Posehn was one. Signing to Relapse instead of a traditional comedy label, doing routines on how yelling “Slayer” during anything makes it metal, and speaking from the perspective of the 40-something, pot-smoking semi-dorky metalhead that he is, he’s gained a large metal following. The occasional songs [...]
Monday, June 18, 2012
Metal Insider’s sister site, The Laugh Button, is all about the comedy. They recently attended the Just For Laughs Chicago festival, where they ran into Brian Posehn, who was there to peform The Nerd Show with fellow comedians Pete Holmes, Brent Weinbach, Dan Telfer, Hari Kondabolu, and Mike Lawrence. The Laugh Button’s Chris Elles caught up with him the following day to talk nerd jokes [...]
Monday, January 30, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier today, our buds at Metal Sucks discovered something fantastic. The same designer responsible for this amazing shirt has just released another two shirts in a similar vein. This time, they meld Louis C.K. with The Dead Kennedys and Sam [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
It’s been announced that the Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde will be the inaugural honoree of Guitar World Magazine’s first ‘Rock & Roll Roast’ next month. In other words, Wylde is in for a night of getting torn a new asshole by his friends, metal peers, and comedians. And he probably thought blood clots [...]
Monday, November 7, 2011
Danzig has made a lot of fans happy by performing his “Legacy” set, which includes career spanning sets of Danzig, Samhain and Misfits material with original members. In fact, fans in Chicago were treated to a surprise guest. Fans waiting to see Danzig at the Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas, though, didn’t have [...]
Monday, August 8, 2011
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. It’s a fact: Slayer is simply awesome! Thanks to classic albums like Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven, and Seasons Of The Abyss, Slayer have remained one of the most influential metal bands for the past three decades. Slayer [...]
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
What gave it away that Don Jamieson was a metal head? Was it the fact that his debut stand-up album Live And Hilarious was released by Metal Blade Records? Was it that you’ve seen him perform with his acoustic death metal group Gunfire N Sodomy? Well, if you’re like most people, then you probably knew [...]
Friday, October 29, 2010
It seems like nowadays, there are plenty of comedians tied in with music. In particular, Brian Posehn, Big Jay Oakerson, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine are pretty closely associated with the metal scene. That wasn’t the case 20 years ago, until Sam Kinison brought a metal sensibility to his comedy. In addition to his wired [...]
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Not surprisingly, Ozzy Osbourne scores the highest rock related debut this week. Though the Price of Darkness’s new album is arguably his best in a long time, Scream sold just a little less than [...]
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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