With the year in music just about over, Metal Insider‘s staff and contributors are taking a look back and naming their top ten albums of 2012. This next list comes courtesy of Metal Insider contributor Chip McCabe. We’re also including a Spotify playlists with a song from each album, if available. We’ll also be sprinkling [...]
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Razor & Tie have been on a signing tear lately. The Sword and Shadows Fall were notable pickups, and P.O.D. seems to have paid off as well. Now the label can add Hatebreed to that list. It was announced earlier today that the band have signed to R&T for North America, and Nuclear Blast in [...]
Monday, September 17, 2012
So Enslaved have a new album coming out next month (in America) called Riittiir. Why would they call their album that, other than the fact that it’s spelled the same backwards? We may never know. However, Metal Hammer is previewing a track from the album, which will be the Norwegian band’s twelfth. Terrorizer described “Veilburner” as “Progressive [...]
Friday, August 10, 2012
We’ve seen quite a bit of Enslaved since Axioma Ethica Odini came out, as they’ve been touring in support of it with such luminaries as Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir, Triptykon and Alcest. In fact, the Norwegian prog-black masters have been on the road so much that it’s easy to forget that two years have passed since [...]
Monday, July 30, 2012
Remember how we introduced the new Testament track Native Blood to you about two weeks ago? The music video they were shooting for the the song has been released today, with only one more day left until the release of their new album Dark Roots Of Earth via Nuclear Blast. We previously assumed that the [...]
Friday, June 22, 2012
Children of Bodom have been on Spinefarm since the beginning of their career, but Nuclear Blast take a close second, having released their first three albums on the label outside of Finland. Now the band have decided to go with Nuclear Blast full time. ”We had a good, long, productive run with Spinefarm [...]
Monday, April 30, 2012
If you’re an All Shall Perish fan that torrented the band’s 2011 album, This is Where it Ends, you may have found yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit – one the band, their management, and presumably their label’s president knew nothing about. On April 20, a lawsuit was filed in a Miami courthouse [...]
Thursday, August 11, 2011
While the photo to the right might sum up what some think of major labels, the fire at the warehouse for independent label distributor PIAS and Sony during the London riots was nothing less than devastating. However, there’s a bit of good news related to the arson and looting that occurred in Enfield, North London [...]
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
As the UK riots enter their fourth day, the music industry has suddenly found itself a target. A North London warehouse holding large amounts of record stock for multiple independent labels in the UK, as well as Sony, burned to the ground yesterday. The state of independent record labels has been precarious enough here and [...]
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Why is March so awesome? No, it’s not because of March Madness, nor because we can get sloppy drunk on St. Patty’s Day even if we’re not Irish. You see, the next four weeks will be awesome because (drum role please)…MARCH IS METAL MONTH! For the third year in a row, EMI and the associated [...]
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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