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.
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 [...]
Thursday, October 29, 2009
In a somewhat surprising move (we already knew something was up), Rob Zombie has announced his departure from Interscope/Geffen and has signed a deal with Roadrunner’s commercial-leaning Loud & Proud Imprint. His Hellbilly Deluxe 2 will see a 2010 release. What happened here? Our best guess is that Interscope realized Zombie’s best days are behind [...]
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Details continue to leak out for the Slipknot self-titled 10th anniversary re-issue, including this teaser for the companion documentary, (sic): Your Nightmares, Our Dreams. Apparently it’s a documentary about things being thrown, things catching fire and things being puked on. The album, due out September 9, will be available as a standard CD/DVD as well [...]
Monday, August 17, 2009
A new Megadeth song, “1,320″, has been posted online.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
From the “holy shit I managed to completely forget that ever happened” file: Tommy Lee’s late ’90s Crazy Town-esque shitshow Methods of Mayhem is back, and snagged a worldwide deal with Roadrunner Records’ Loud & Proud imprint.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Details have been scarce since the video above announced Slipknot’s upcoming 10th anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut (yeah, yeah Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. came first, stop showing off, you loser), but we knew something special would be in the works as the ‘Knot always takes special care with their releases. Some details for the [...]
Taddy Porter is giving fans a chance to win two tickets to see them open for Slash this Fall.
CKY has added more dates to their previously announced Fall tour.
Audio samples from Lordi’s new album Babez For Breakfast can be heard at Amazon.de.
36 Crazyfists has announced dates for a headlining tour, with Straight Line Stitch and Taking Dawn providing support.
Stone Sour is streaming their new album Audio Secrecy in its entirety at NME.com.
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