Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. There were literally a crap load of metal releases this past week. Yet despite this, the highest ranking metal/hard rock debut this week came from … Attack Attack!. First, let me be polite: though [...]
Monday, June 14, 2010
Wish you could have seen the Melvins and Isis’ sets at Bonnaroo this past weekend? Well you can at least hear audio of their performances at the festival online.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
You’d think over the course of 26 years, a major label and influence that looms over bands like Mastodon and Tool, the Melvins would have cracked the Billboard 200 by now. However, due to their consistent cult-like fan base and declining album sales all around, the 2,809 copies of The Bride Screamed Murder that they [...]
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Unless you’re Jack Johnson or on a TV show about glee clubs, it was a pretty weak week for music sales once again. On the plus side, Lamb of God have the biggest metal debut of the week, and that’s not counting the 20 or so super deluxe box sets they sold. And next week, [...]
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
In conjunction with their tour together, Hydra Head Records is releasing a split 12″ with Isis and the Melvins. One of the Isis songs is a new one, while the Melvins songs are completely redone versions of songs from The Bride Screamed Murder. Details here.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Audio samples of the Melvins’ new album The Bride Screamed Murder have been posted on Amazon.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Melvins has scheduled dates for this coming Summer with Isis and Totimoshi serving as support.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Way back in 1990, GWAR’s “Sexecutioner” had the immortal line “how do you hide money from a hippie? You put it under the soap.” Now they’ll have a chance to make fun of hippies in their natural habitat, Manchester TN, as they’ve been named one of the bands playing the Bonnaroo Festival. While the Coachella Festival [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 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, [...]
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Down drummer Jimmy Bower has revealed that the band will tour in certain U.S. cities with the Melvins in August/September.
Roadrunner U.K. is offering fans a free download of Black Label Society’s new song “Crazy Horse.”
John 5 has uploaded a tour poster for Rob Zombie’s upcoming Fall tour with Alice Cooper and the Murderdolls.
You might not have been able to see Heaven & Hell’s tribute performance to Ronnie James Dio at London’s High Voltage festival, but now you can listen to audio of the entire set online.
Mushroomhead has revealed the cover artwork and track listing to their new album Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children, set to be released on September 28 via Megaforce Records.
Avenged Sevenfold will be holding a live webcam chat today (July 29) at 5pm Eastern with fan via UStream.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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