Tag Archives: O.S.I.

Metal By Numbers: It’s No Mystery Why The Charts Are On Fire

Posted by on April 11, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s list of new metal/hard rock releases on the charts is slightly shorter. However, the top debut is a big one, with High On Fire’s seventh album just one spot away from cracking […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/4: Meshuggah, Overkill Defy Slumps In Huge Week For Debuts

Posted by on April 4, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Ok, so technically Shinedown, The Used and The Mars Volta have the top hard rock debuts (while someone named Madonna topping the charts). However, out of the 20 metal/hard rock debuts this week, 11 […]

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New & Noteworthy, March 27th – Transfixion

Posted by on March 27, 2012

Behold what is likely to be one of the biggest, most talked-about weeks on the metal release calendar for all of 2012! Technically, most of these albums were actually released yesterday, March 26, but that’s not the point. Today’s list reads like a who’s who of the metal world, featuring artists from virtually every single […]

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Guitarist Jim Matheos Discusses OSI, Provides Update On Fates Warning’s New Album

Posted by on March 1, 2012

OSI is essentially a dream come true for prog rock fans, bringing together Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos and Chroma Key/ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore. For the past ten years, the two have been collaborating on progressive and experimental music, often sending recordings and ideas back and forth to each other from a distance. And […]

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New & Noteworthy, September 28th – Back to the Front

Posted by on September 28, 2010

Two weeks ago, we got to see a hard rock band top the charts on the week of their debut, marking the third time this year that has happened. Raise that count to four now, as Linkin Park has joined the 2010 #1 debut club with A Thousand Suns, the band’s fourth album and by […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/27: A Five Year Relapse – CkY Not?

Posted by on May 27, 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, […]

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