Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Now that the election is over, we can now be bombarded by Christmas stuff instead of political stuff. And on the East Coast, that bombardment apparently includes snow. In addition to the fact that [...]
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
This release week will be somewhat atypical for me, both because the list is coming out on a Wednesday and because I will NOT be giving mandatory imperatives of getting out to the store to buy albums. Why are things this way, you ask? It is because of this: yesterday, while most of you were [...]
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
We brought you the total bummer of a news story on Monday that Animals as Leaders had their house broken into and their gear stolen while they were on tour and getting arrested. Guitarist Javier Reyes even had his Chevy Blazer stolen. While that’s still up there with the shittiest news we’ve heard this week, [...]
Monday, March 26, 2012
In addition to dates with Meshuggah in the UK, Animals As Leaders have a North American tour with Thrice coming up in May. However, the instrumental prog metal group will be embarking on those tours without drummer Navene Koperweis. Koperweis, who joined the group in 2010 and appeared on their latest album Weightless, announced this [...]
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Back in November, Thrice announced plans to go on an indefinite hiatus. While the post-hardcore band is not calling it quits for good, they are making it clear that it’ll be awhile till they return. However, Thrice will be embarking on one last tour before bidding farewell. Though more opening acts are expected to be [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
This may come as a surprise to most fans, especially considering that Thrice just released a new album, Major/Minor, two months ago. But in an official statement posted by frontman Dustin Kensrue on the band’s website, it was announced that Thrice would be going on a hiatus. While Kensrue assured that the band was not [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week, there are fourteen metal/hard rock releases making their debuts on the charts. Six of those releases made it into the top 200. And while two records in particular have been considered the [...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While the top metal/hard rock debut actually comes from post-hardcore band Thrice, it would be unfair to not put the spotlight on Opeth. The Swedish prog metal band’s tenth studio album Heritage not only [...]
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
It’s not often that a list as short as today’s evokes a great deal of insight from me. But today, I’m reminded of three vital facts about metal and metal fans when I look at today’s release schedule. First of all, for all the crap that metal fans can sometimes get about being open-minded and [...]
Friday, February 11, 2011
In an update posting on Thrice’s official website, guitarist Teppei Teranishi revealed that the band’s storage space had been broken into. In an effort to ask fans for help, Teranishi said the following: “We found our storage space dead empty, robbed and quite literally swept clean several weeks ago (no seriously, they took a broom and [...]
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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