New Jersey and German thrash metal will collide this fall, as Overkill and Kreator have announced plans to embark on a co-headlining tour. Originally the two were slated for a two-show stint in New York this coming November. However, now Overkill and Kreator will be playing 26 shows together starting on October 30 in Baltimore. [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
We’re about ten months away from next year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise setting sail. Yet within the past week, we’ve already learned about a few big names confirmed for the metal cruise festival. On Easter, it was revealed that Dark Tranquillity, Death Angel, Overkill and Soilwork were slated to play 70,000 Tons Of Metal [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
This September, Iron Maiden will once again headline the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil. Before that, though, the group will warm up by performing seven special shows in the U.S. Hitting markets like Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, the trek will feature a very special guest opening up for Maiden: Megadeth. However, Maiden has [...]
Monday, February 18, 2013
Over the weekend, singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth was diagnosed with what’s referred to as “walking pneumonia.” The illness forced Overkill to sit out of a few shows of The Dark Roots Of Thrash Tour with Testament Flotsam & Jetsam and 4ARM, including Friday night’s stop in Huntington, NY. Now it appears that Blitz’s current condition [...]
Monday, February 18, 2013
What’s more metal than celebrating Valentine’s Day with Testament and Overkill? Well throw in Flotsam & Jetsam and 4ARM, and it’s safe to assume where most metal couples in New York were on Valentine’s Day last week. All four bands took to the Best Buy Theater’s stage last Thursday night (February 14) as part of [...]
Friday, December 7, 2012
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 Chris Colgan. We’re also including a Spotify playlists with a song from each album, if available. We’ll also be sprinkling [...]
Monday, November 26, 2012
Testament spent a good chunk of 2011 and 2012 touring with Anthrax and Death Angel. And now the group will kick off 2013 with another thrash-tastic touring featuring Overkill, Flotsam And Jetsam and 4ARM. The Dark Roots Of Thrash tour kicks off on January 30 in San Francisco, and will find the groups touring throughout [...]
Monday, July 23, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier today, Between The Buried And Me officially premiered the first single off of their new album The Parallax II: Future Sequence. One of our favorite albums from the progressive metal group, however, still is 2007’s Colors. Now [...]
Friday, June 15, 2012
Back in January when New & Noteworthy writer Chris Colgan wrote his list of the most anticipated albums of 2012, we only had an inkling of what to expect from the new release calendar this year. Of course there are gems, some surprises, and some flops, but with the first half of the year all [...]
Monday, April 23, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Killswitch Engage’s performance at this year’s New England Metal & Hardcore Festival may have been the most buzzed about set from the weekend (and rightfully so). However, that wasn’t the only highlight from the 3 day festival. Kodi and Zach were [...]
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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