One of the highlights of last year’s Orion Fest was watching Sepultura‘s set. Derrick Green has gotten slagged because he’s not Max Cavalera, but they’re still a vital band with an amazing back catalogue. And now they have arguably the most famous metal drummer of the last 30 years helping out on their album. Andreas Kisser [...]
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
It’s been known that Soulfly would soon begin work on a new album Soulfly IX with producer Terry Date. However, it wasn’t exactly officially known whether Max Cavalera and co. were still on Roadrunner Records. Today, though, it’s been confirmed that Soulfly have found a new label home with Nuclear Blast Entertainment, a recently launched [...]
Monday, April 22, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Last week, Dave Mustaine revealed that David Draiman’s Device will be playing Gigantour 2013. Shortly after, the group Death Division (featuring ex- Hellyeah/Nothingface bassist Jerry Montano and Morbid Angel/ex-Divine Heresy drummer Tim Yeung, and who just so happen to be [...]
Friday, April 5, 2013
Turns out Limp Bizkit isn’t the only band producer Ross Robinson is reuniting with in the studio. According to Blabbermouth, Sepultura has tapped Robinson to co-produce their next album with Steve Evetts. Robinson last worked with Sepultura on 1996’s Roots. On the one hand, Sepultura working with Robinson again is good news since Roots proved [...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
There have been a lot of people changing their Facebook profile pictures today in a show of support for marriage equality. We’re going to take a cue from our friend Omar at WSOU, who changed his icon to something more metal that we have no problem throwing our support behind. Yes, we’re proud to say [...]
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Back in October of 2012, Eminence made their live U.S. debut aboard Metal Insider’s CMJ boat show with Prong and For Sleeping Or Jumping. And to say that we were extremely impressed by the Brazilian metal outfit’s set is an understatement. Eminence put on a face-melting performance that night, making us anxious to hear their long-awaited follow-up [...]
Friday, March 8, 2013
Thomas Mignone made a name for himself directing music videos for System Of A Down, Sepultura and more. Now, the director is working on a film based on the gritty life of Latina adult film actress Vanessa Del Rio. And scoring the film will be none other than Max Cavalara of Soulfly. However, it’s the [...]
Monday, February 25, 2013
As Metal Insider readers may recall, Eminence performed for the first time in the U.S. aboard our CMJ boat show with Prong and For Sleeping Or Jumping. Now comes word that the Brazilian metal group has reunited with Danish producer Tue Madsen (Moonspell, The Haunted, Sick Of It All) and is currently recording their follow [...]
Monday, February 25, 2013
NYC music scene vets Howie Abrams and Sacha Jenkins recently joined forces to pen The Merciless Book Of Metal Lists. To be released on April 9, this book is comprised of 208 pages, presented in the form of dozens of factual, random lists. The book also features a forward from Slayer’s Kerry King, an afterword [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Denver thrash revivalists Havok are delightfully old school. In fact, you could easily mistake them for an ’80s band undergoing a late career renaissance (like Exodus and Overkill) instead of a band with just two albums out. That’s what’s charming about their video for the title track of their Point of No Return EP. With [...]
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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