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. The nominees for the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards were announced earlier this week. And keeping with tradition, the nominations are so-so. While [...]
Monday, January 21, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier today, a sneak peak of Guns N’ Roses’ 3D concert film was released online. The clip (which as you can see above is really just the new GN’R performing “Paradise City”) comes less than a week after Metallica announced [...]
Friday, January 11, 2013
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. It’s a safe bet that the lineup to this year’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest will be officially announced in the next few weeks [Update: [...]
Friday, December 14, 2012
Last week, Rammstein showed a different side of themselves with the stark piano-only version of “Mein Herzz brennt.” Consisting of little more than frontman Till Lindemann singing in a room with weird makeup on, they promised that that an uncensored version of the song, originally on 2001’2 Mutter, was on the way. It’s here, and yeah, [...]
Friday, December 7, 2012
Rammstein are known for their music, a blend of metal and industrial, and their stage show, which features lots of fire, explosions, and otherwise amazing pyrotechnics. Neither are on display for their new video, which will be included on their forthcoming 3-disc DVD, Videos 1995 – 2012. The band recorded a piano version of “Mein Herz [...]
Monday, November 12, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier this morning, we discovered that Def Leppard will be performing a residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. This comes after fellow 80’s mainstays Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses’ residencies at the same Las [...]
Monday, October 8, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Earlier today, Pig Destroyer premiered a song from their new album Book Burner (out on October 23) via Revolver. The song is titled “Baltimore Strangler.” After picking up our jaws from the ground following our first (dozen) listens, the new [...]
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Ready to get even more jealous of the UK festival? It’s been confirmed that Slipknot will be performing at next Summer’s Download Festival. They join already announced headliners Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Slipknot’s Clown had the following to saying about the band’s upcoming festival gig” “We are extremely honored to have been asked once again [...]
Monday, September 24, 2012
Hoping to travel Germany next summer to catch the Wacken Open Air festival? Well unless you already bought a ticket, then you’re out of luck. That’s because the 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air is already sold out. That’s right, all 75,000 tickets have been sold to next summer’s German metal festival. This marks the [...]
Friday, September 21, 2012
How can the Download Festival top this past summer’s lineup, which featured Metallica AND Black Sabbath? Well it looks like the UK festival have come close with its first two headliners: Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Iron Maiden confirmed that they will be headlining the next Download Festival, taking place on June 14-16 in Donington Park, [...]
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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