When not on the road playing brutal death metal, Jungle Rot bassist Jimmy Genenz and guitarist Geoff Bub work as bartenders. With that in mind, we asked the two to share with us some of their weirdest and heaviest drink concoctions in a new column called Mixing It Up With Jungle Rot. Genenz and Bub [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We here at Metal Insider are generally peaceful people and hardly get angry at anyone over anything. Unless you don’t like tacos, in which case get the hell out (just kidding, we love you [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another year, another Grammy Awards Ceremony that most metalheads probably ignored in favor of something that wasn’t hosted by LL Cool J. Inevitably, a huge surge in sales for winners and nominees occured this [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Today is a day to celebrate longevity, and I anticipate that such celebrations will be occurring quite often during this decade. As we begin the celebrations of bands that have been around for 30 years or more, it is vital for all of us to band together as a community and recognize the groups that [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
While America has the Big 4, Germany essentially has the Big 3 of Teutonic thrash. Those three bands, of course, would be Kreator, Destruction and Sodom. So hearing that Destruction’s new album Spiritual Genocide (due out in November) will feature Sodom’s Tom Angelripper is pretty exciting news. Destruction confirmed the news by posting a picture [...]
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Here we are again, at the end of another year, and a list has to be made. And what do I do? I spend so much time deliberating and being indecisive that I’m late sending it in. Apologies to my MetalInsider colleagues for my lack of expediency. That said, this year was a great year [...]
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
There truly was no better way to celebrate 11/11/11 than by seeing Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel at the Palladium Theatre in Worcester, MA. It was worth standing outside in the frigid New England weather just for the chance to see these three thrash legends on the same stage, let alone of Nigel Tufnel Day [...]
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week we see multiple new metal and hard rock debuts, four of which made it into the top 200. The top selling new release comes from Children Of Bodom. Though the Finnish metal [...]
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
It’s still fairly early in 2011, but already this year and during the second half of last year, we’ve seen a number of metal musicians taking steps to better themselves and their lives by gaining control over their addictions to drugs and alcohol, and helping their bands to become in the process. Most notable among [...]
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.
© 2013 Metal Insider
Friday, April 12, 2013
1 Comment