Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. What do you get when one of the master bands of metalcore gets their original vocalist back? Well, first you get to tour a bunch, but then you get a top 10 album. Yes, [...]
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
The greatest display of how metal bands differ from the rest of the musical world occurs when a former member is welcomed back into the fold with open arms and no questions asked. In so many other genres, band members that leave are ostracized and are barely ever mentioned by the other band members, for [...]
Thursday, March 21, 2013
I recently had the chance to catch As I Lay Dying on their co-headliner tour with The Devil Wears Prada, with support from For Today and The Chariot on March 12th in Nashville, TN. The lineup should tell you that this is a Christian metal tour, however, it was less preachy than I had thought, [...]
Thursday, February 28, 2013
As most bands are doing these days, As I Lay Dying have released a lyric video. “No Lungs To Breathe” is taken from last year’s Awakened, and is out just as the band’s tour with The Devil Wears Prada is underway. Other bands on the tour include For Today, The Color Morale and The Chariot. Check [...]
Saturday, January 12, 2013
For Today has received a lot of flack for Mike Reynolds’ tweets declaring that “homosexuality is a sin.” So it’s not too surprising that just a few days after posting the tweets, the guitarist has quit the Christian metalcore group. The band issued the following statement revealing why Reynolds has quit and who they’ve gotten to [...]
Friday, January 11, 2013
Recently, For Today guitarist Mike Reynolds found himself at the source of controversy with tweets declaring that “homosexuality is a sin.” And it didn’t take long for the Christian metalcore group to release a statement subtly trying to put out the fire Reynolds caused. Shortly after Reynolds first tweeted his thoughts regarding homosexuality, For Today posted the [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Live Blog Last year, Christian metalcore band For Today put out a really solid album, Immortal, their first for Razor & Tie. And unlike some Christian bands, the Sioux City band really backs up their beliefs. In fact, their guitarist Mike Reynolds backs them up so much that he made some ignorant remarks that might cost [...]
Friday, September 7, 2012
This year’s California Metalfest was already shaping up to be a killer festival. Along with headliners Killswitch Engage, the festival’s sixth edition is boasting a lineup featuring As I Lay Dying, Asking Alexandria, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Black Veil Brides, Shadows Fall, Unearth, Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, The Faceless, Chiodos (reunited with singer Craig [...]
Thursday, August 2, 2012
This year’s Vans Warped Tour is currently taking place throughout the States. And while many of the bands on the bill aren’t exactly heavy, there are definitely some acts that are to our liking. That’s why we were excited to have Nathan Katsiaficas share with us a few pictures he snapped at the Warped Tour’s [...]
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
As one of the biggest bands in metalcore right now, Knoxville, TN-based Whitechapel keeps doing things to defy genre pigeonholing. Their fourth album Whitechapel is arguably their heaviest, most death metal-sounding release yet, and with a high-profile stint on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival just around the corner, they’ll be playing to the same crowds [...]
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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