What’s cooler than a song featuring Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe and Corrosion Of Conformity’s Mike Dean and Reed Mullin? How about that same song but also with Dave Grohl? Well as it turns out, such a track is in the works now, as all four musicians will appear on a newly recorded track for [...]
Friday, April 19, 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, we’re shining a light on Philadelphia’s Surgeon. This prog rock/metal trio first gained critical acclaim with its 2008 debut Angry Guest, recorded [...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Before anyone starts to freak out about the imagine seen off to the side: no, we ARE NOT reporting about My Chemical Romance’s demise. However, the news of the break up got us to thinking about other bands whose disbandment [...]
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Dave Grohl has always been a bit reluctant to play songs from Nirvana, even though he’s essentially reunited with Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear onstage numerous times now in support of his Sound City documentary. However, it turns out that they came pretty close to pulling out a Nirvana tune for The Sound City Players’ [...]
Friday, March 15, 2013
Yesterday morning, Dave Grohl gave the keynote speech at SXSW. Although the Foo Fighters frontman went about this in a humorous, entertaining way, he went on to called the moment, “without a doubt, my musical life’s greatest honor.” One of the main statements he conveyed in his speech was that “The musician comes first.” He [...]
Saturday, February 2, 2013
When we saw the first NYC screening of Sound City, a rep from Variance Films (who was on hand to introduce the film) joked how disappointed we likely were that Dave Grohl wasn’t there. In fact, Grohl was in L.A. for both a separate screening and for a show with his “Sound City Players,” who [...]
Friday, February 1, 2013
It’s not a spoiler by now to say that Sound City, which premiered yesterday in theaters and is available on demand today, climaxes with a jam session featuring Paul McCartney, director Dave Grohl’s musical idol, and the surviving members of Nirvana. And anyone that’s seen the trailer for the film, about the rise and fall [...]
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Last month, Soundgarden revealed that they hired none other than Dave Grohl to direct a music video for the song “By Crooked Steps.” Now the video has premiered online. And as photos from the filming already indicated, the video takes inspiration from biker gang shows like Sons Of Anarchy…with one exception. Rather than riding big [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
It’s been well known that Ghost were recording a cover of ABBA’s “I’m A Marionette” as a B-side for their forthcoming album, Infestissumam. What we didn’t realize is that the cover would feature one hell of a guest: none other than Dave Grohl. According to a pre-order page of Swedish webshop Bengans.se, Ghost’s cover of [...]
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
What does a song featuring Dave Grohl, Slipknot/Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen and Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder sound like? Well, now we know the answer. BBC Radio 1 recently premiered the collaboration recorded for the soundtrack to Grohl’s Sound City documentary. And thanks to Antiquiet, a quality audio rip of [...]
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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