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 [...]
Monday, December 3, 2012
This past Friday night (November 30), Metal Blade Records celebrated its 30th anniversary with a show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, CA. Hosted by That Metal Show’s Eddie Trunk and Don Jamieson, the event featured performances by Armored Saint, Sacred Reich and Gypsy Hawk. And as an added bonus, Armored Saint performed [...]
Friday, July 20, 2012
The Syndicate, Metal Insider’s parent company, is a promotion and marketing company that has championed the metal scene for almost 15 years. In our weekly Radio Spotlight, we’ll offer a look behind the scenes of metal radio from some of the stations and outlets playing metal that the Syndicate works with to spotlight the newest underground music on [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
30 years ago, record store employee Brian Slagel put out a compilation of local bands called The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre. That compilation, the first release on Metal Blade Records, included a little band called Metallica, as well as Ratt, Black N’ Blue, and Cirith Ungol, and it went on to launch [...]
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Last Saturday night (April 14), Fates Warning opened for Queensryche in São Paulo, Brazil. However, since Bobby Jarzombek had previous commitments, the prog metal group once again used the services of Mike Portnoy. Of course, it didn’t take long for fan filmed footage of the Adrenaline Mob/ ex-Dream Theater drummer performing with Fates Warning to [...]
Thursday, March 1, 2012
OSI is essentially a dream come true for prog rock fans, bringing together Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and Chroma Key/ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. For the past ten years, the two have been collaborating on progressive and experimental music, often sending recordings and ideas back and forth to each other from a distance. And [...]
Friday, February 3, 2012
If you’ve been following Mike Portnoy since his departure from Dream Theater, then you know he’s been keeping himself pretty damn busy. In addition to playing in his own groups like Adrenaline Mob and Flying Colors (plus numerous other projects still in the works), Portnoy has done the occasional fill in gig for bands in [...]
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Redemption have made a name for themselves as one of the premiere prog metal bands to come out of the past decade. The band, featuring Fates Warning singer Ray Alder, has toured with fellow prog legends Dream Theater and are highly admired for their aggressive yet melodic sound. However, it’s been a challenging time for [...]
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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