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 [...]
Monday, September 24, 2012
They tried to make Matt Pike go to rehab, and he said “okay.” With them having to pull out of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest, they haven’t been able to tour in support of their excellent new album, De Vermis Mysteriis. That’s about to change, though. The band have announced a late fall headlinign run that [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Last month, we learned that Relapse Records is planning to officially release the debut album from Primate, the grindcore supergroup featuring Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher and Brutal Truth singer Kevin Sharp. Since then, we’ve seen a teaser trailer for Draw Back A Stump and heard the album’s title track via Metal Injection’s Relapse Podcast. And [...]
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Have you heard about Primate? In a nutshell, it’s a grindcore supergroup featuring Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher, Brutal Truth singer Kevin Sharp, and members of The Despised, Otophobia and others. Shortly after a limited self-release via a 1000-run CD pressing last March, Primate signed with Relapse Records. And on July 3, Primate’s debut LP Draw [...]
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Why should major label bands be the only ones who get love? Unsigned & Streamed is a new column where we stream a song from an unsigned band we at Metal Insider really dig. This week, we’re putting the spotlight on Vancouver’s Gross Misconduct. Since releasing their debut album The Process of Indoctrination in 2007, [...]
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
We’ve been looking forward to Converge’s new album the minute it was announced that they had entered guitarist Kurt Ballou’s Godcity studios in Salem, MA. Now, though, we have another reason to get excited for the band’s new record. This past weekend, the Mass hardcore metal group confirmed via Facebook that the new album will include [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week, there are fourteen metal/hard rock releases making their debuts on the charts. Six of those releases made it into the top 200. And while two records in particular have been considered the [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
September just flew by, didn’t it? This busy month of metal is almost over, but we’re going out with a bang once again, in yet another week of double-digit releases with plenty of easily-recognizable names. This week is actually a first for New & Noteworthy, as the top of our list features both a Grammy [...]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
This Saturday, for the first time in America in over 25 years, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax will take the stage as the Big Four in Indio. The metal titans have played European festivals before, but their sole American date (so far, anyway) is seeing people fly in from around the world to witness a [...]
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Our friend and die hard Yankee fan Jason Rudolph was watching his team’s game against the Orioles tonight when he noticed an errant foul ball almost taking out a metalhead. Congrats dude, you’re Internet famous. Between Obituary getting a free plug and Pig Destroyer and Brutal Truth getting a shoutout from an apathetic part-time bartender [...]
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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