On July 1st, 2003, Valient Thorr released their first album, Stranded on Earth, pressing 1,000 copies and selling them at shows. Just under 10 years later, they’ll be releasing their sixth, Our Own Masters, on June 18. The 12-track album features bizarre artwork that’s actually a 1975 painting done by drummer Jason Aylward’s father John. The band will [...]
Friday, March 8, 2013
With the interactive portion of the 27th annual SXSW festival kicking off today, downtown Austin is transforming into a shitshow of epic proportions. Literally thousands of bands, hundreds of vendors, countless other companies, and a four-story tall Doritos vending machine are transforming the usually semi-sedate streets of Austin into nine days of marketing, branding and music [...]
Monday, November 19, 2012
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
The Sword’s fourth album, Apocryphon, will be out on October 22nd. Fans will have one week to digest it before the band heads out on a tour that will take them up until almost Christmas. Gypsyhawk will be direct support for the tour, and the band will be bringing two relatively unknown Austin bands to split [...]
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Last week, I promised a very strange thing. And while I’m not going back on my word, I’m still wondering why I put it this way: We answer the question once and for all of who would win in a popularity contest between gothic, doom-influenced progressive metal, and spastic, technicality-riddled mathcore. It should be quite [...]
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Scion A/V Metal have continued to show love for metal labels via their Scion Label Showcase. Labels like Nuclear Blast, Prosthetic and Relapse are a few of the heaver imprints to throw a free showcase with the arguably most metal car company. And now you can add Metal Blade Records to that list. Metal Blade’s Scion Label [...]
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Attaching the successful Mayhem name to the growing trend of boat cruises seemed like a can’t-miss proposition. However, yesterday, it was announced that the cruise, which was to have set sail from Miami on December 7, has been canceled. Here’s the statement they sent ticketholders: Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control we have been [...]
Thursday, June 21, 2012
This year, Metal Blade Records is celebrating their 30th anniversary. We spoke to owner Brian Slagel earlier this month about the formation and rise of the label, but that’s only part of the story. With such a large and diverse roster spanning so many years, we decided to ask some current Metal Blade artists what [...]
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
30 years ago, record store employee Brian Slagel put out a compilation of local bands called The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre. That compilation, the first release on Metal Blade Records, included a little band called Metallica, as well as Ratt, Black N’ Blue, and Cirith Ungol, and it went on to launch [...]
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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