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Metal By Numbers 11/8: Hollywood is an undeadman, in theory

Posted by on November 8, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We’ve got the full-blown charts this week, which means I can list percentage increases and decreases without having to bust out my cell phone’s calculator like I’m back in math class. There’s also a […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/1: Robert Plant’s got the fire

Posted by on November 1, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive the chart information necessary to complete MBN last week, so I’m a week behind over here. Hope you all had a happy and metal Halloween.   Notable Debuts:  Robert Plant, […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/8: Marilyn Manson has a heavenly debut

Posted by on October 18, 2017

Sometimes it’s awkward to write about album sales in 2017, specifically when it comes to bands and artists with longstanding careers. You have to put out qualifiers like “it’s a good debut but it’s nowhere near their best.” Take Marilyn Manson for example: he’s our to debut this week with 32,000 copies sold. Now, that’s […]

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Metal by Numbers 10/11: Primus are Primed

Posted by on October 11, 2017

Hello, Matt Brown here returning to bring you the charts once again. Well, mostly. It’s another week where we’ve only got sales numbers to display. But good lord do we have along list of debuts, fifteen to be exact. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that with less than three months to […]

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Metal by Numbers 10/4: Even Mastodon’s EPs sell

Posted by on October 4, 2017

  While we cover a solid handful of hard rock (like, y’know, Foo Fighters) along with the metal, there’s no reason for us to cover other types of rock that’s less guitar-driven. However, it should be noticed that the umbrella of “rock” has landed a solid amount of #1 albums this year. The Killers just […]

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Sons of Texas premiere “Feed the Need” lyric video

Posted by on July 19, 2017

Sons of Texas spent the last two years supporting their debut album, Baptized in the Rio Grande and somehow, during that time, they managed to schedule in studio time with producer Josh Wilbur to record new tunes. These Texas rockers’ are now two months away until their second studio album arrives. Forged By Fortitude will […]

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Alice In Chains, Slayer, Deftones among those playing Houston Open Air

Posted by on May 16, 2016

There was a time when many of us in America looked at Europe with envy for having hundreds of festivals during summer, while we got almost no tours as most good bands were booked to play there. Now that seems to be vanishing, as the land of the free has stepped up its game by hosting […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/10: Some astonishing debuts

Posted by on February 10, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. With eleven debuts, this week is the biggest week yet for metal in 2016, spearheaded by the always dependable Dream Theater. And just looking ahead in February, it doesn’t look like we’ll be slowing […]

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All That Remains hitting the road with Devour the Day, Audiotopsy, Sons of Texas

Posted by on October 20, 2015

It’s a little odd to think, but with a 17-year career and seven albums streching over 13 years, All That Remains are somewhat elder statesmen in the metalcore genre. In support of this year’s The Order of Things, the band have announced a headlining tour that will take them from next month to the end of […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/12: The charts kill some time

Posted by on August 12, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We know you hate Insane Clown Posse, so ignore that fact that we continue to add them to this list anyway by focus on the real debut this week: a supergroup featuring seemingly every […]

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