While everyone deservedly gives Sugar Ray shit for existing, their first two albums really weren’t that terrible. Definitely more punk/metal than anything else, that changed with the last song on their second album, Floored. The reggae-lite song “Fly” was awful, but it became a hit and shaped the rest of the band’s career. Then frontman Mark [...]
Thursday, January 26, 2012
It’s been a few months since we’ve heard anything about Temple Of The Black Moon, the supergroup featuring Dani Filth (Cradle Of Filth), Rob Caggiano (Anthrax/The Damned Things), King ov Hell (ex-Gorgoroth/Ov Hell) and John Tempesta (The Cult/White Zombie). Then again, they all have been pretty busy with their own bands (especially Caggiano with Anthrax). But thanks to NRK’s (Norway’s national [...]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Next week, the movie Hesher, a black comedy starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson, will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally via Lionsgate. Not only did Metallica give the film permission to use their music (and logo design), but Levitt has publicly admitted that his character his largely inspired by the late [...]
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
What would a supergroup featuring members of Anthrax, Cradle Of Filth, and White Zombie sound like? We’ll find out soon enough in the form of Temple Of The Black Moon, a new group featuring Dani Filth (Cradle Of Filth), Rob Caggiano (Anthrax/The Damned Things), King (ex-Gorgoroth/Ov Hell) and John Tempesta (The Cult/White Zombie). So of course when we about such extreme [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations that have metal shows, as well as SiriusXM, [...]
Monday, August 31, 2009
While we reported that Metal Maniacs was relaunching as an online-only entity in September, they’ve gone online a day early. The site, taken over by the owner of digital metal distributor metalhit.com, doesn’t feature any of the original Maniacs writers, but it is a good read. There are interviews with James Malone from Arsis, Frank Watkins from [...]
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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