With the interactive portion of the 27th annual SXSW festival kicking off today, downtown Austin is transforming into a shitshow of epic proportions. Literally thousands of bands, hundreds of vendors, countless other companies, and a four-story tall Doritos vending machine are transforming the usually semi-sedate streets of Austin into nine days of marketing, branding and music [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We here at Metal Insider are generally peaceful people and hardly get angry at anyone over anything. Unless you don’t like tacos, in which case get the hell out (just kidding, we love you [...]
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another year, another Grammy Awards Ceremony that most metalheads probably ignored in favor of something that wasn’t hosted by LL Cool J. Inevitably, a huge surge in sales for winners and nominees occured this [...]
Monday, February 11, 2013
As we get closer to the summer, the Vans Warped Tour continue to add more bands to its 2013 lineup. And now the annual punk and pop rock touring festival has added some big name metalcore acts to its bill. Bring Me The Horizon, August Burns Red and Black Veil Brides are among the newly [...]
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. In the metal community, we usually aren’t the types that cross our fingers hoping that our favorite bands get a big debut on the charts. This is mostly because a) we don’t always expect [...]
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Trying to find a new metal album on the charts at this time of year is like trying to find a store that isn’t playing Christmas music: there’s at least one, but not whole [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Upon A Burning Body have released a video for “Sin City.” Shot while on tour with Trivium, the clip can be viewed here. Tweet
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Just several days into their co-headlining tour with Veil of Maya, The Acacia Strain have announced that due to a van accident, they’re dropping off of the tour. Thankfully nobody was seriously injured, but it’s still enough to make the band tap out of the tour, which will continue on without them. The other bands [...]
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The California Metalfest seems like it’s going to be a pretty epic event. And in addition to being an event where you’ll be able to see Killswitch Engage perform Alive or Just Breathing in it’s entirety, the fest will also serve as the kickoff to a tour featuring Veil of Maya, The Acacia Strain, Upon a [...]
Friday, September 7, 2012
This year’s California Metalfest was already shaping up to be a killer festival. Along with headliners Killswitch Engage, the festival’s sixth edition is boasting a lineup featuring As I Lay Dying, Asking Alexandria, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Black Veil Brides, Shadows Fall, Unearth, Suicide Silence, The Acacia Strain, The Faceless, Chiodos (reunited with singer Craig [...]
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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