Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. This coming Sunday, the 85th annual Oscars award show will air live on TV. Typically, movies’ biggest night of the year makes the Grammys look like Ozzfest. However, with the Oscars right around the corner, we got to thinking of [...]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Chew on this: While Slash has kept himself extremely busy after leaving Guns N’ Roses in 1996, it took him until 2010 to release his first solo album. That’s almost as much time as it took for Axl and friends to record Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. The man legally known as Saul [...]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
As you all know by now, March is Metal Month. That means that it’s time to support your favorite genre of music by picking up some music from some of its best artists. It’s also something that EMI and the labels it distributes are doing to raise awareness of all the bands on its’ labels. [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
It’s well known that alt country singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is a (not so) secret metal head, having performed an acoustic cover of Iron Maiden’s “Wasted Years,” putting out a hardcore album and apparently even getting his popstar girlfriend Mandy Moore hooked on Voivod. And he obviously knows that his love for metal is turning a few [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week sees two non-traditional metal/hard rock acts debuting in the top ten. First we see rapcore pioneers (?) Hollywood Undead ranking in at #4, while metalcore princes Asking Alexandria come in at #9. [...]
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The upheaval of the music industry continues unabated as we move into April. Each passing week of reading Metal by Numbers only serves to either depress or enrage me. My biggest reason for being upset, though, comes from the consistent non-charting sales numbers from bands that are huge abroad and have rapidly growing fan bases [...]
Friday, December 17, 2010
Looking for a holiday gift for the black metaller that has everything? Why not pick them up a nice candle shaped like a Norwegian stave church so they can burn it? With the ’90s retro craze back in full swing, Kirkebrann has released a black candle that resembles a medieval stave church, just like the [...]
Monday, October 12, 2009
The Gospel Soundcheck blog on Christian website beliefnet.com is shocked, SHOCKED, that Nashville venue Rocketown is playing host to a night of, in their words, “hardcore satanic metal” featuring The Black Dahlia Murder, Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch and Trap Them. The club was founded in 1994 by Christian singer Michael W. Smith (ask your aunt), and it sounds, [...]
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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