Since their first album, Age of Winters, was released in 2006, The Sword have been carrying the torch for good old-fashioned riffy rock and roll. After three albums on Kemado, the Austin quartet got new management and signed with Razor & Tie for their latest album, Apocryphon. The album debuted in the top 20, shattering sales records [...]
Monday, April 2, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Combining metal and video games is the most peanut butter/chocolate combinations ever. Both relatively appeal to younger males (and cool females, just sayin’). It’s also a way to brand a game as edgier than, say, Pokemon. While the inclusion of [...]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Darkest Hour songs “Savor the Kill,” “Beyond the Life You Know” and “Doomsayer (The Beginning of the End)” are now available on the Guitar Hero Music Library. The Darkest Hour Track Pack is available for $5.49 or as individual downloads for $1.99, which is as good a reason as any to dust off your guitar [...]
Friday, March 18, 2011
Axl Rose’s lawsuit against Activision has received a trial date of January 23, 2012. Tweet
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Video game Publisher Activision has officially pulled the plug on the Guitar Hero franchise. Activision will be closing its music game division and cease development in Guitar Hero titles to focus in online efforts. In the company’s most recent financial statement, Activision expanded upon their reasoning by saying: “Due to continued declines in the music genre, [...]
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Axl Rose is suing Activision, the maker of Guitar Hero, for $20 million. What did Activision do to gain Rose’s unwanted attention? By using Slash’s image in Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock. Rose claims Activision violated an agreement that would allow the game to use the song “Welcome To The Jungle” as long as no [...]
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Besides Lollapalooza, the reunited Soundgarden has only performed small club shows with only a few days notice given to the fans. So it seems like no surprise that the grunge pioneers played a “secret” show Monday night (September 27) at Activision’s launch event for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock at the Paramount Studios back-lot in Los Angeles, California. [...]
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Soundgarden will release a new retrospective album called Telephantasm. The compilation, which will also include a previously unreleased track and a DVD, will be available on September 28 as well as through purchasing Guitar Hero 6 that same week. Tweet
Monday, June 7, 2010
Remember when the Guitar Hero franchise was fresh and exciting? Activision does too, which is why the recently-announced Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock, is the only GH game they’re releasing this year. In prior years, they’ve flooded the market, and by the time the awful Guitar Hero: Van Halen was released last year, no one [...]
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
It seems like an eternity since the rhythm video game franchises of Guitar Hero and Rock Band first came on the scene, but the idea isn’t even five years old yet (Guitar Hero came out in November, 2005). With Green Day – Rock Band being released on June 8, this will be roughly the 2,439th [...]
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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