Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor’s contrasting statements regarding Slipknot’s future have been well documented. However, if M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan’s comments on the Revolver Golden Gods’ black carpet is to be taken at face value, then 2014 could mark a proper return for Slipknot. While on the black carpet, Clown and Chris Fehn took part [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
For those of you outside of the New York area, you probably haven’t thought about Hurricane Sandy in a few weeks. However, nearly a month after rain first started to fall, New York and New Jersey are still devastated. There are many people who lost everything, and things still are far from normal around these parts. [...]
Friday, September 7, 2012
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Slipknot bassist Paul Gray was one of the eight patients named in physician Daniel Baldi involuntary manslaughter charges. The doctor is being accused of prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to patients who later died of overdoses, including Gray. And yesterday, Slipknot made an official comment on the [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2012
According to the Des Moines Register, physician Daniel Baldi has recently been charged with eight counts of involuntary manslaughter for allegedly prescribing large amounts of narcotic painkillers to patients who later died of overdoses. Now what exactly does that have to do with metal? Well as it turns out, one of the eight patients identified [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
For a network that’s conventionally thought of as the network for old people, CBS has been aggressively courting the metal demographic, at least as far as its reality show contestants go. Last year, metal fans and the NYC metal community watched Big Brother 13 as Adam “Heavy Metal Teddy Bear” Poch made it all the way [...]
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The Metal Insider crew couldn’t make it out to this past weekend’s inaugural Knotfest because we’re on the East Coast. That didn’t stop contributor and KSYM/San Antonio metal director Chelsea Ann Owen from making the 15 hour plus journey to Pacific Junction IA to see the first night of the Fest. Here’s her report: I made [...]
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
In the fall of 2010, Slipknot released (sic)nesses on DVD in honor of the late Paul Gray. In addition to including a recording of their headlining performance at the 2009 Download Festival, the two disc DVD also include Clown’s Audible Visions of (sic)nesses documentary and loads of bonus material. Yesterday (July 31), though, (sic)nesses became [...]
Thursday, March 1, 2012
By now you’re probably (sic) of hearing about Joey Jordison and Corey Taylor’s contrasting statements regarding Slipknot’s future. And even though Taylor recently stated that there will be another Slipknot albums, it would appear that there’s still a disagreement over an exact time frame. In a recent interview with News.com.au, Jordison was asked about Taylor’s [...]
Friday, February 17, 2012
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. This week, the nominations for the 4th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced. And as usual, the announcement has garnered a mix response. [...]
Monday, November 21, 2011
As Slipknot fans know, singer Corey Taylor has been the least optimistic about a new album, saying in many interviews that he still wasn’t ready to record without the late bassist Paul Gray. However, Taylor has started to slightly change his tune about a new Slipknot record in recent interviews. And while performing in Dallas, [...]
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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