For the past two months, Eluveitie and Wintersun teamed up for what might have been the ultimate folk and symphonic metal co-headlining tour of 2012. With additional help from pagan metal heavyweights Varg, the tour made a stop at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City on December 20. The tour has since come to [...]
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
With the year in music just about over, Metal Insider‘s staff and contributors are taking a look back and naming their top ten albums of 2012.Today’s list comes courtesy of Metal Insider intern/contributor Matt Brown. We’re also including Spotify playlists with a song from each album. We’ll also be sprinkling in other lists from artists [...]
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
My friends, as much as I hate to admit it, we’re starting to wind down the calendar for 2012′s new releases. Every year, when we hit the first week of October, I have to mentally adjust myself to that reality. It’s been more difficult this year than it has been in the past, simply because [...]
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Talk about one hell of a week for metal and hard rock debuts. Out of the thirteen new releases that made it onto the charts, nine of them actually made it into the top [...]
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s list of new metal/hard rock releases on the charts is slightly shorter. However, the top debut is a big one, with High On Fire’s seventh album just one spot away from cracking [...]
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Ok, so technically Shinedown, The Used and The Mars Volta have the top hard rock debuts (while someone named Madonna topping the charts). However, out of the 20 metal/hard rock debuts this week, 11 [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Last week saw some major debuts in the top 200, while next week promises even a motherlode of metal debuts. This week, though, we only have one release that sold enough to appear on [...]
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Only three hard rock or metal debuts made it onto the charts this week. However, not only does Every Time I Die have the top metal debut, but they also had a very impressive [...]
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The charts are flooded this week with new metal/ hard rock releases, with four of the twelve debuts cracking the top 200. However, this week’s top debut comes from one of Sumerian Records’ biggest [...]
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
If death metal is the metal subgenre that the music industry continually tries to ignore, then grindcore is the bastard child that the industry has flat-out disowned. No subgenre is as abrasive, aggressive, or downright assaultive as grindcore, and it has been that way since its very beginning 25 years ago. The genre has changed [...]
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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