In case you missed it, we’re streaming the debut album by Civil War (featuring ex members of Sabaton) called The Killer Angels in its entirety. Give it a listen if you haven’t yet before the end of the week, then purchase the album on iTunes. Tweet
Monday, June 10, 2013
After parting ways with Sabaton last year, guitarists Oskar Montelius and Rikard Sundén, drummer Daniel Mulback, and keyboardist Daniel Mÿhr decided to join forces in their own group Civil War. After recruiting singer Nils Patrik Johansson and bassist Stefan “Pizza” Eriksson, the Swedish metal group released its self-titled EP to great acclaim. And tomorrow (June [...]
Monday, April 8, 2013
This September, Iron Maiden will once again headline the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil. Before that, though, the group will warm up by performing seven special shows in the U.S. Hitting markets like Raleigh, NC and Kansas City, the trek will feature a very special guest opening up for Maiden: Megadeth. However, Maiden has [...]
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 [...]
Monday, August 6, 2012
Yet another edition of the Wacken Open Air festival concluded this past weekend. While most of the attendees experienced a great weekend of metal, tragedy did struck as one attendee passed away at the German festival. The emergency medical service on hand gave the following statement via the festival’s website regarding the death: “At this [...]
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Summer has just begun and we have a number of exciting festivals to pack our tents for, just like the Orion Music + More Festival this past weekend in Atlantic City, NJ or the upcoming CBGB festival in New York City. Alas, the sun will set on the summer of 2012 sooner or later, and us [...]
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While last week saw a crap load of new metal and hard rock releases, this week brings us only two. The top honor comes from arguably Iowa’s second biggest metal import For Today. And [...]
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Chew on this: While Slash has kept himself extremely busy after leaving Guns N’ Roses in 1996, it took him until 2010 to release his first solo album. That’s almost as much time as it took for Axl and friends to record Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. The man legally known as Saul [...]
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
In the highly competitive music industry, even metal bands have to fight for increasing recognition with each new release. It’s very difficult for bands to see increases in sales numbers from one album to the next, as any reader of Metal by Numbers is aware. It’s gotten to the point where a band’s new album [...]
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
This week is going to be jam-packed with high-selling metal albums, I can already tell. The list of high-profile new records appearing today just seems to keep going on and on and on! It’s certainly exciting, but it also raises the question – is it possible to have too many big releases in one day? [...]
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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