Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. The nominees for the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced earlier this week. And keeping with tradition, the nominations are so-so. While [...]
Monday, January 21, 2013
The Death To All Tour, featuring former members of Death and special guests paying tribute to the late Chuck Schuldiner, was definitely a highlight of this past summer. However, there were a lot of … issues that occurred during the tour’s run. So many, in fact, that it seemed unlikely that the tour would return in any fashion. Well [...]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
It’s the moment we’ve been waiting for since Testament revealed the cover artwork and confirmed the release date for their new album Dark Roots Of Earth. Last night, the Bay Area thrash legends premiered a new track from the record called “True American Hate.” The song premiered on Blabbermouth, but can be heard in the [...]
Monday, June 11, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. There’s a lot at stake for a band that’s been out of the public eye for years or simply experienced their fair share of bad luck. In some cases, those said bands have already been written off by many as hopeless [...]
Friday, June 8, 2012
While we knew that it’s been in the works, there’s finally some more news on the long-awaited third album from Dethklok. Drummer Gene Hoglan tweeted that the drums are done for the album. With Brendon Small already having the album, or at least parts of it, ready, we’d assume they’re in the home stretch. Hoglan [...]
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Looks like two dates weren’t the only thing in jeopardy for the Death To All Tour. Apparently, drummer Sean Reinert (who appeared on Death’s Human and now plays in Cynic) suffered a ruptured achilles tendon while training for the tour a few days ago. The injury was reportedly serious enough that it required surgery. However, [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
How many times can a band reinvent their lineup before they lose their appeal? Fear Factory has certainly tested those limits in the past decade, so much so that singer Burton C. Bell is the only founding member of the band to have remained in the lineup for the band’s entire career. Somehow, against impossible [...]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
It’s pretty much like the late ’90s are coming home to roost. Today, we not only get another song from Fear Factory’s forthcoming album, The Industrialist (which is out this coming Tuesday), but also the first new music in eight years from sludgy supergroup of sorts Old Man Gloom. We’ll start with them first. Since 2004′s [...]
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Looks like Anthrax, Testament and Death Angel can’t get enough of each other. The three thrash titans first toured together in the Fall of 2011, and then again this past January/February. Now it looks like they’ll be touring North America together for a third time this Fall. An official announcement has not been made just [...]
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Testament have been working on their follow up to 2008’s The Formation Of Damnation for over a year now. In fact, singer Chuck Billy told us last Fall that they were eyeing a April/May release for the new album, Dark Roots Of Earth. Obviously, that never came to be, but now it looks as though the [...]
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.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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