The Syndicate, Metal Insider’s parent company, is a promotion and marketing company that has championed the metal scene for almost 15 years. In our weekly Radio Spotlight, we’ll offer a look behind the scenes of metal radio from some of the stations and outlets playing metal that the Syndicate works with to spotlight the newest underground music on [...]
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Ah, 2001. It was a simpler time. People still cared about rap-metal, and San Diego’s Payable On Death released their fourth album, Satellite – on September 11th. In the wake of what else happened on that day, the album’s first single, “Alive” became somewhat of an inspirational anthem. After that album, they slowly lost relevance, yet [...]
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Anyone that thinks the djent movement was just a fad is probably eating their palm-muted words right now. Periphery’s sophomore album has a debut that many more established bands would kill for. For a [...]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. That’s it – we’ve reached the end of the internet. When these two screamo, rapist, dance/techno idiots can have 10,000 14 year-olds waste their allowance money on this terrible music, something’s wrong. The band [...]
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Five years ago, the last Rush album, Snakes & Arrows, sold 93,000 copies. That’s why it’s even more impressive that in 2012, their new album has sold over 100,000 copies, matching the #2 peak that they reached back in 1993 with Counterparts. Is rock alive? Did their cameo in I Love You Man help out? Was it their [...]
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I’m pretty sure this is the first and last time we’ll be writing about the Rock of Ages soundtrack here on Metal By Numbers. It did have a pretty solid debut, but basically, this bullshit [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Last month, rumors started to spread that Kreator and Accept would be embarking on a North American tour together. Well now the tour has been confirmed, with dates for the September/ October trek announced. Dubbed the Teutonic Terror Attack tour, support will come from Finland’s Swallow The Sun (not Kittie, as originally rumored). However, according [...]
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Liked what you heard in the 50 second sample of Kreator’s new song “Phantom Antichrist”? Then wait until you hear the song in its entirety. Kreator have just released a lyric video for the title track from their album Phantom Antichrist, which was also released as a 7” single last week. And at the very least, [...]
Friday, April 6, 2012
On June 5, Kreator will be releasing their 13th studio album Phantom Antichrist via Nuclear Blast Records. Before that, though, the legendary German thrash group will be releasing the title track and their cover of Iron Maiden’s “Number Of The Beast” as a 7”colored vinyl and a digital download. While the 7” is already sold [...]
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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