We’re big fans of WSOU/South Orange here. First of all, they’re all metal all the time. Secondly, they’re in our listening area, and have served as a launching pad for countless metal bands since they switched to the format in the late ’80s, and more than a handful of its DJs and programmers have gone [...]
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
We love our bros over at Metal Sucks. But sometimes they do something that makes us hate them. Take right now, for example. They brought it to our attention that Avril Lavigne has recorded a cover of a song by her fiance’s band. No, not Sum 41, that was a whole marriage ago. No, she’s [...]
Monday, August 20, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. The assassination of Dimebag Darrell still haunts the metal community (even over seven years after deranged fan Nathan Gale opened fire at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus Ohio during a Damageplan show). And his passing hits even harder [...]
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Well, another season of hockey is in the books, with the L.A. Kings hoisting the Stanley Cup for the first time. And while the sport is nearly as popular as reruns of Spongebob Squarepants, some people want to know the important questions, like what music the two teams that battled it out for Lord Stanley [...]
Thursday, May 31, 2012
There’s nothing more American than football (well, American football anyway). And you’d think that its quarterbacks would enjoy some good old fashioned mass-appeal butt rock. Not so with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. This is a little old, but apparently, last month Rodgers and his fellow tight end Tom Crabtree were going back and [...]
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Back in December of 2009, Roadrunner Records had signed Baptized In Blood. Signing the Canadian thrash group was a hopeful sign to many that Roadrunner would continue to work with “heavier”/ non-mainstream acts (a fear caused by the success of Nickelback). However, in an interview that the London (Ontario) Free Press published last week, guitarist [...]
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Seven years ago today, deranged fan Nathan Gale opened fire at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus Ohio during a Damageplan show. killing “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and three others. It’s a day that still haunts the metal community, and saw one of the most influential metal guitarists of our time taken away from us. Time has [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unfortunately, we missed out on all of the action on the charts last week because of Thanksgiving break. However, we return just in time to see the holiday shopping season kicking into gear. One [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Nickelback Responds To Detroit from Nickelback As you may know, fans of the Detroit Lions aren’t exactly pleased that Nickelback are playing the halftime show during the Lions’ Thanksgiving game against the Green Bay Packers. In fact, just under 55,000 fans have signed an online petition to get Nickelback kicked off the halftime show (to [...]
Monday, October 10, 2011
Usually when we’re writing about album sales, it’s about how shitty they are as people continue to buy albums less and less. However, with less than three months left in 2011, things are looking up for this year. In fact, they’re on track to increase from the previous year, the first time that’s happened since [...]
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.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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