While the new TesseracT album, Altered State, won’t be out until May 28, you can hear a song from the album, “Of Matter – Proxy,” streaming on Spotify now. The album, the first with new vocalist Ashe O’Hara, is split into four movements: “Of Matter,” “Of Mind,” “Of Reality” and “Of Energy.” Looks like between this [...]
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Is there any genre where the vocalist matters less than djent? That’s not to take away from the singers – they’re all really good, melodic and powerful vocalists, but given that many of the semi-genre’s fans are more excited about guitar tones and rhythms than singers, it’s not that big of a surprise that there [...]
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Last week, rumors started to circulate the web that Tesseract had parted ways with singer Elliot Coleman. And yesterday, it was confirmed that Coleman indeed has left less than a year after joining the UK prog metal group. TesseracT confirmed Coleman’s departure via the following statement: “Sadly, our good buddy Elliot has decided to leave [...]
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 [...]
Friday, March 30, 2012
Last night, the UK progressive metal group had some bad news for fans hoping to see them at Bamboozle this May. TesseracT announced that they will not be playing the New Jersey festival this May as previously reported. TesseracT gave the following explanation via Facebook: “Due to a change of plans, we will no longer [...]
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
This past weekend, TesseracT announced details regarding their new acoustic EP called Perspective. Similar to their acoustic set for Metal Injection last Summer, the British progressive metal group’s EP will feature reworked songs from their album One as well as a cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Dream Brother.” The release will also mark the band’s first with [...]
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
When The Bamboozle announced that Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters, and Blink 182 were headlining this year, it made it clear that the festival was continuing the tradition of having bizarre lineups. This was later reaffirmed when Skrillex, Incubus and Mac Miller were later confirmed as headliners as well. And last night at midnight, Bamboozle held [...]
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Between The Buried And Me’s Saints & Sinners Tour with Animals As Leaders and TesseracT came to an end earlier this week. And it would appear that the two openers took a page from Job For A Cowboy on how to celebrate a tour’s conclusion. During drummer Blake Richardson’s drum solo this past Sunday night [...]
Friday, December 9, 2011
It’s that time of year again. As 2011 is less than a month away from ending, everyone is compiling and sharing their “end of the year” lists. And what a year it has been for metal. While it had its fair share of major surprises, 2011 also saw a lot of great music released. So [...]
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.
Unsigned & Streamed alum Pheroze has released a video for the song “Today I Belong To The Dead.” The song appears on Pheroze’s recently released EP, Ennui.
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