What has 20 strings, no vocals and shreds? If you said Scale the Summit, pat yourself on the back. The band’s fourth album, The Migration, is going to be out on June 11th, and a new song, “Odyssey,” is streaming now. If you’d like to have the song as an instant download, go to the band’s [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
While Holy Grail’s sophomore album, Ride the Void, won’t be released until next Tuesday (22), Metal Hammer is streaming the entire album now. While Crisis in Utopia was an extremely solid debut, it seems like the band have upped the ante on the new one. With former Bonded by Blood guitarist Alex Lee in as James LaRue’s [...]
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Not that familiar with Holy Grail? Well you’re about to be, because not only does the Pasadena-based metal group’s second album Ride The Void come out on January 22, but they’ll be on the road with Anthrax, Exodus, High On Fire and Municipal Waste soon as part of the Metal Alliance Tour. And yesterday (January [...]
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Metal Hammer is streaming “Deathlike,” the title track from Ancient VVisdom’s sophomore album. It’s due out in February on Prosthetic. Tweet
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
After recovering some of their gear, instrumental progressive masterminds Animals As Leaders have announced an upcoming stint with fellow heavy hitters Between The Buried And Me. The bands will be covering New Zealand, Australia and Japan during the tail-end of 2012. Check the dates here. Tweet
Monday, July 30, 2012
While much of America has gotten on board with Spotify since they launched in a year ago (especially since their integration with Facebook), there have been some notable holdouts from the service. While it’s mainly been established bands (Tool, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, The Beatles) or acts waiting to put their newer full length albums up [...]
Monday, June 18, 2012
Animals As Leaders’ had it rough enough while on tour. Unfortunately, though, it didn’t get any better when they finished touring. When the prog metal instrumental group arrived to their home in Los Angeles, they found that they had been robbed of instruments, equipment, personal items, and even guitarist Javier Reyes’ Chevy Blazer. The band [...]
Friday, April 20, 2012
As part of their label showcases, Scion A/V has been filming mini documentaries that offer “behind the scenes” views of metal oriented record labels. After starting off with Nuclear Blast Records, Scion A/V continues the series with an inside look of Prosthetic Records. This three part doc includes interviews with Prosthetic’s staff discussing what they [...]
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Earlier today, it was announced that The Acacia Strain has signed a new label deal with Rise Records. “These 11+ year veterans from western Massachusetts are ready to dive into the next phase and are happy to have found a home with Rise where they feel they will be well taken care of and continue [...]
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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