What’s cooler than the free Meshuggah EP that Scion AV gave out in February? Winning a free test pressing of the vinyl of it. Scion is launching an Instagram contest and giving away 20 test pressings. Find out more here. Tweet
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Unless you’ve been living under a rock since last summer, we don’t need to tell you about Baroness’ long road to recovery since their bus accident. However, it looks like that long road is about to get a little shorter with the news of Baroness Relief, a benefit auction set up by friends up the band. [...]
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Shortly after kicking off the tour, Meshuggah vocalist Jens Kidman caught a bad case of the flu. The illness sidelined the singer for a few shows, and forced Meshuggah to perform instrumentally (and one show with an imposter). Hours before they were supposed to hit the Roseland Ballroom’s stage in New York on Friday (February [...]
Friday, February 15, 2013
Temporarily the only non-instrumental band on the Meshuggah/Animals As Leaders tour, Intronaut are streaming a song from their forthcoming Habitual Levitations (Instillling Words With Tones) album.”The Welding” can be heard at Pitchfork. Tweet
Friday, February 15, 2013
With Meshuggah entering the fifth day of their US headlining tour and Jens Kidman still sidelined with the flu, it’s uncertain as to whether he’ll be performing in New York tonight. Yesterday in Philadelphia at the TLA, he still wasn’t up for the task, but he performed anyway. How was that possible? Meet “Jens Kidman.” [...]
Friday, February 15, 2013
Why should major label bands be the only ones who get love? Unsigned & Streamed is a column where we stream a song from an unsigned band we at Metal Insider really dig. This week on Unsigned & Streamed, we’re excited to share with you Dallas’ own Seeker. Formed in late 2011, the group released their debut EP The [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Meshuggah’s headlining tour just started on Monday, but it began out with vocalist Jens Kidman battling the flu. While he was able to make it through the set on Monday, Lenkman had to sit out the Atlanta show last night. Since the band is so rhythmically-oriented, Meshuggah are perhaps the only band where playing an [...]
Friday, February 8, 2013
I recently had the incredible opportunity to sit down with Joe Duplantier, the vocalist and guitarist for French progressive metal outfit Gojira. After our conversation, it became quite clear that Joe is a truly down to earth person who wants nothing more than for people to be happy. You can check out our chat, which [...]
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Last week, Scion A/V strongly hinted that they would be releasing “something special” from Meshuggah. Well last night, the most metal car manufacturer didn’t disappoint, and as expected released a free EP by Meshuggah. Granted, the EP only features two songs, one of which is a live version of “Dancers To A Discordant System” recorded [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Last year’s Koloss put Meshuggah back on the map. Not that they’d really fallen off of it, but the band’s first album in four years was both a commercial and critical success. It doesn’t look like we’ll have to wait another three years for new music from the band, at least not if Scion is involved. [...]
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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