It’s that time of year again. As 2011 is less than a month away from ending, everyone is compiling and sharing their “end of the year” lists. And what a year it has been for metal. While it had its fair share of major surprises, 2011 also saw a lot of great music released. So [...]
Monday, August 29, 2011
Last Friday night (26), The Damned Things rolled through New York City’s Gramercy Theatre with Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Fair To Midland,HourCast, and Kills & Thrills on what would prove to be the last show of their tour together. That’s because Hurricane Irene shut the remaining dates down, forcing the bands to go for [...]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. About a month ago, Limp Bizkit were the top metal/hard rock debut of the week. Now a fellow nu-metal band that was also more relevant in early 00′s is this week’s biggest hard rock [...]
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I know what you’re thinking to yourself at this moment. With 10 metal/hard rock releases debuting this week (seven of which debuted in the top 200), why in the hell are we reporting on [...]
Monday, July 18, 2011
Fair To Midland recently filmed a special acoustic performance for the Violitionist Sessions. Video of the acoustic session can be seen online. The band’s new album, Arrows and Anchors, came out last week on eOne. Tweet
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Comeback albums are always difficult to write, no matter what situation a band is coming back from. But when that situation is the death of a band member, it is almost impossible. Metallica and Avenged Sevenfold have done it, Slipknot is attempting to do it (maybe), and countless other bands have never made it that [...]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Fair To Midland has premiered a new video for the song “Musical Chairs” over at GuitarWorld.com. Tweet
Monday, April 11, 2011
Due to a “personal emergency,” Periphery has dropped off the remainder of their tour with Fair To Midland. Tweet
Monday, November 8, 2010
Texas prog/metal hybrid Fair To Midland have signed to eOne Music. Their debut for the label is due next Spring. They had previously been signed to Serjical Strike. Tweet
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
It’s a pretty clear indicator that you’re a) busy and b) having a good time when your goal to update the blog daily with SXSW updates falls by the wayside your second day in. We did make a valiant effort to write about the annual music and tech conference, and did a pretty bang-up job [...]
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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Friday, December 9, 2011
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