We don’t know much (just ask our commenters), but we do know that it’s pretty rare for a band to sell double what their last album did in this day and age of declining sales. The Georgia band did just about that with their fifth album, One Wing. That’s impressive, and might have something to do [...]
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s a slow week for new debuts – in fact, an active rock radio band and a remix album from the second best Halloween director ever are the only two new loud things that [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Nuclear Blast is having one hell of a year. The German label set a record in April when Meshuggah’s Koloss sold over 18,000 copies. Now they’ve broken it just four months later with Testament’s 10th album. Dark Roots of the Earth sold over 8,000 copies more than 2009′s The Formation of Damnation. The Bay Area thrash [...]
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While it’s a week jam packed with new releases, all eyes arguably are on Baroness. With all the buzz that has surrounded the group over the past few years, many wondered whether their adventurous [...]
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
These days, success in the music industry is both a positive and a negative. It’s positive because so few bands are able to find success, but it’s negative because even fewer bands are able to keep it, and the fight to hold onto the recognition you’ve earned can be extremely difficult. Bearing that in mind, [...]
Friday, July 13, 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 [...]
Monday, May 14, 2012
Since March, the All Stars Tour slowly started to reveal the lineup to this year’s edition. And this past weekend, dates for the Summer tour were officially announced. As it turns out, headliners Suicide Silence will not appear on the August tour’s first three dates. In addition, it was confirmed that Dance Gavin Dance will [...]
Friday, April 27, 2012
With the official announcement of the Trespass America Festival this past week, this Summer has gotten even more crowded with touring festivals. It’s a Summer that will find Mayhem Fest, Summer Slaughter, All Stars Tour and others duking it out for the consumers’ money. But which Summer touring festival is giving the most bang for [...]
Monday, March 26, 2012
An official announcement regarding the lineup to this year’s All Stars Tour was supposed to be made earlier this month. Instead, the tour has been revealing confirmed bands sporadically. And as of this morning, we have a better idea of which “all stars” will be touring together this Summer. This past weekend, Attila and Winds [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
The New England Metal & Hardcore Festival has announced the lineup for its 14th year. And after dropping an obvious hint last week, it’s been confirmed that Killswitch Engage will be one of the three day festival’s headliners. The festival also confirmed that The Black Dahlia Murder will be headlining one of the nights as [...]
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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