While it definitely went through some growing pains last year, Roadrunner Records appears to be going through a renaissance. Not only are they signing bands like Kvelertak and The Devil Wears Prada, they’ve also resuscitated their long-dormant street team, “Road Crew.” Starting with the recent Gojira and Stone Sour tours, the Road Crew has been helping the [...]
Thursday, April 19, 2012
While details are still scant, Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival founder Kevin Lyman confirmed to Metal Insider that the Mayhem Festival cruise that Machine Head mentioned at the Golden Gods Awards is indeed happening. The floating festival will take place from December 7-10.”We are just excited to get to put this together,” he told us. “It has [...]
Monday, March 12, 2012
It’s been a while since we last heard about Max Cavalera and Greg Puciato’s Nailbomb-like project. And that’s understandable, since The Dillinger Escape Plan have been touring quite a bit and Cavalera has been working on Soulfly’s new album (which comes out tomorrow, March 13). However, it looks like their project is becoming an even [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
This past Summer, it was revealed that both vocalist Chris Clancy and keyboardist Drew Stavola parted ways with Mutiny Within. Though the NJ prog-metalcore group had made efforts to find a new singer, Mutiny Within have ultimately decided to take a break, perhaps permanently. The remaining members of Mutiny Within announced that they would be [...]
Monday, December 6, 2010
In the past several years, Eyal Levi has made his name known throughout the metal community. While best known as the guitarist of Daath, earlier this year he branched out into instrumental music, releasing an album with Daath guitarist Emil Werstler as Levi/Werstler. In addition to his fretwork, he’s also a noted producer, and more [...]
Monday, May 10, 2010
This weekend will be NARM’s (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) annual convention in Chicago. Why should you care? Well, for the first time, they’re having a “Metal Meet-up” on Sunday, May 16. This will be an interesting roundtable discussion, moderated by Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel, about the past, present and future of metal. Another reason [...]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Mutiny Within’s new album is streaming in its entirety at MetalSucks. Tweet
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Behind The Suit and Tie, a long-in-the-making documentary on the metal industry, appears to finally be on the brink of release, as a six-minute trailer has been released: The film features one-on-one interviews with many notable who’s whos of the metal scene (including many of our friends and participants in the No Label Needed series) [...]
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine claims to be in high-level meetings with Activision and Neversoft over some new kind of Guitar Hero venture. In response to a fan question on Megadeth.com, Mustaine said the idea discussed is some sort of new venture rather than a branded version of the game a la Metallica (at least I [...]
Friday, October 30, 2009
Metal Insider recently got a chance to talk to one of metal’s reigning personalities, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. Yesterday we posted part of our chat with the always outspoken Mustaine bemusedly questioning humanity after losing his wallet. Today he opens up about the “Big 4 Tour” rumors, how Endgame is going to bring back heavy [...]
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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