Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you may or may not have heard by now, Queens Of The Stone Age have a number 1 album. There’s a bit more to the story than that too. According to Billboard, …Like [...]
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Michael Keene is the guitarist singer/all around mastermind of The Faceless. He is also a genuinely fun guy to chat with. I spoke with Keene last year and we discussed his in-the-works solo album and stand up comedy dreams. I decided to follow-up on those projects and managed to get Michael to open up about the next Faceless [...]
Monday, March 4, 2013
In April, an expanded reissue of the 1995 album Above by Mad Season (which featured members of Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam and Screaming Trees) will be released. But now it looks like previously unreleased demos might be rerecorded by a new group featuring guitarist Mike McCready, drummer Barrett Martin and Guns N’ Roses bassist [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
You’ve likely got a chance to look over the list Metal Insider contributors’ top ten albums of the year. We’ll be posting a composite list with our actual top ten shortly, but as we work on that, even some non-metal outlets are getting in on the fun. Spin Magazine have listed their top 20 Metal albums [...]
Monday, August 13, 2012
For any of you that were legitimately concerned about Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman, you can rest assured that he’s alive and well. Several weeks ago, the band reported that he hadn’t been seen in days, and that they were deeply concerned about his welfare. It didn’t help things that a message from someone claiming [...]
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Some band members get stuck in foreign prisons, others just seem to disappear: Killing Joke frontman Jaz Coleman allegedly has not been seen in days. This is following a Facebook post which was allegedly written by the vocalist himself in which he cancelled the upcoming UK tour dates with The Cult and The Mission. The [...]
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Last week, fans were surprised to hear that three years after calling it quits, frontman Al Jourgensen was bringing Ministry back to life. At the time, all we knew was that Ministry was confirmed to play the Wacken Festival next Summer. In an exclusive to Metal Hammer Magazine, though, Jourgensen revealed a lot more details [...]
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
As most of you probably know, the UK’s Metal Hammer Magazine has been hosting their own Golden Gods metal award show across the pond for a couple of years now (way before Revolver Magazine started to hold their own in the States). We didn’t compare and contrast the nominees of this year’s Revolver and Metal [...]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
We’re almost two weeks away from bringing in a new year. And as 2010 gets closer to ending, every online blog and magazine takes part in a beloved tradition: “favorite albums of the year” lists. Hell, we’ll admit that even though it’s been overdone, they’re also fun to compile and read. We’ll be posting different lists from various [...]
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Continuing a trend we saw last week, there’s not a ton of metal being sold. In fact, with only five albums notching sales of over 100,000, there’s not a ton of music being sold [...]
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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