What’s more metal than celebrating Valentine’s Day with Testament and Overkill? Well throw in Flotsam & Jetsam and 4ARM, and it’s safe to assume where most metal couples in New York were on Valentine’s Day last week. All four bands took to the Best Buy Theater’s stage last Thursday night (February 14) as part of [...]
Monday, August 13, 2012
How does Chuck Billy follow up Testament’s huge chart debut for Dark Roots of Earth? The answer, apparently, is to team up with Steve ‘Zetro’ Souza of former Exodus fame again and unleash a second Dublin Death Patrol album on an unsuspecting populace. Titled Death Sentence, it’s a gritty new effort from the thrash supergroup, which once [...]
Friday, July 13, 2012
Last month, Testament gave fans their first taste of their new album Dark Roots Of Earth. Now, with almost three weeks left before the album’s release, the thrash legends are treating fans to yet another new song. While the first track showed off Testament’s “True American Hate,” this new song aptly titled “Native Blood” refers [...]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for since Testament revealed the cover artwork and confirmed the release date for their new album Dark Roots Of Earth. Last night, the Bay Area thrash legends premiered a new track from the record called “True American Hate.” The song premiered on Blabbermouth, but can be heard in the [...]
Monday, June 11, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. There’s a lot at stake for a band that’s been out of the public eye for years or simply experienced their fair share of bad luck. In some cases, those said bands have already been written off by many as hopeless [...]
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Testament have been working on their follow up to 2008’s The Formation Of Damnation for over a year now. In fact, singer Chuck Billy told us last Fall that they were eyeing a April/May release for the new album, Dark Roots Of Earth. Obviously, that never came to be, but now it looks as though the [...]
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
The Death To All Tour, a seven date trek in honor of the late Chuck Schuldiner, was already looking pretty awesome. The tour already promised appearances from former members of Death, special guest vocalists, and opening slots from Atheist and Gorguts. Now, Death To All is promising special guest appearances on select dates. Earlier today, [...]
Friday, March 9, 2012
When Fear Factory announced that Matt DeVries (ex-Chimaira/ Six Feet Under) had replaced longtime bassist Byron Stroud, it had us question whether or not Gene Hoglan was still in the group as well. While he may still appear on their new album The Industrialist (due out on June 5 via Candlelight Records), it now turns [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. When you think about it, the music industry pretty much dries up come around Thanksgiving. From there on, it’s all about pushing out greatest hits albums, box sets, and most importantly, holiday music. There are entire radio stations that switch [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Thanks to a serious injury earlier this year, drummer Paul Bostaph was forced to sit out of the recording process for Testament’s new album. And though the band tapped Gene Hoglan to record drums for The Dark Roots Of Earth, as well as to fill in on the road, frontman Chuck Billy told us in [...]
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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