Is this Metal Insider or a police blotter?! Turns out Tim Lambesis isn’t the only metal musician currently being held in prison. Allen West, who logged time in Six Feet Under, Massacre and Lowbrow, but is best known for spending almost 20 years in Obituary, is currently being held for operating a meth lab. This actually [...]
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Did Ghost really get paid $750,000 to sign with Universal? Probably not, but the unsubstantiated rumor has flown around the internet since before they were even officially signed. But regardless of what they got [...]
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Last week on Headbanger’s Brawl, we all discussed how Volbeat, Stone Sour, and Device were likely to have big first week sales, though we debated as to who would come out on top. And [...]
Monday, April 15, 2013
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. It’s been revealed that Battlecross recruited ex-Black Dahlia Murder drummer Shannon Lucas to record drums on their forthcoming new album. This comes after the group also announced that Kevin Talley (Six Feet Under and formerly of many other great bands) [...]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. What do you get when one of the master bands of metalcore gets their original vocalist back? Well, first you get to tour a bunch, but then you get a top 10 album. Yes, [...]
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Ah, April. Where spring gets going, where you can’t trust the internet for a day, and where people find a day to pretend to be stoners while real stoners treat it like any other [...]
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. BUUUUUUAAAHHHHHAHAHAHAHA! *ahem* Sorry, got carried away. Also, if you don’t know what the hell that was, you might want to get a taste of our top album for this week with this lyric video. [...]
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Last week, part of the lineup to the 2013 edition of the Scion Rock Fest was revealed. Today, though, the full lineup was revealed, and holy crap does it look awesome. Testament has been confirmed as the additional co-headliner (along with the Melvins), while bands like Corrosion Of Conformity, Whitechapel, Royal Thunder, Touche Amore and [...]
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
At the beginning of March, Scion A/V revealed that the fifth annual Scion Rock Fest would take place on June 1 in Memphis, TN. And yesterday, the first batch of bands were confirmed for the festival, and it’s already shaping up to be a killer billing. One of the co-headliners has been confirmed to be [...]
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
The title says it all this week – with the quality of new releases that we have coming out today, there is nothing that can stop the heaviness from infiltrating the charts. This is a week to really make a difference for the new albums you care about, so get out there and pick up [...]
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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