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Metal By Numbers 1/4: From First To #19

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

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Welcome back to another edition of Metal By Numbers, where we crunch the numbers so you don’t have to. As per usual, the first chart of the year is like waking up hungover on New Year’s Day with a party hat on an a noisemaker stuffed in your ass. What I’m trying to say is [...]

Metal By Numbers 11/9: TH1RT3EN Is Megadeth’s Lucky Number

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. All eyes were on Lulu this week. It’s taken a critical beating nearly everywhere, but the collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica is still one of the most talked-about albums of the year. But while [...]

Metal By Numbers 11/2: ‘Nothing’ Did Well On The Charts

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Technically industrial group Skinny Puppy have the highest ranking debut out of the nine hard rock/metal related new releases this week. However, it’s Carnifex who get the spotlight this week for cracking the top [...]

Metal By Numbers 10/26: Nothing Shocking About Album Sales

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Out of the five hard rock/metal releases to debut on the charts this week, the top release comes from alt rock legends Jane’s Addiction. Though their fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist (really, it’s only [...]

Metal By Numbers 10/19: Capitalism Rules The Charts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week sees thirteen hard rock/metal related albums debuting. And while Evanescence’s third self-titled album debuts at the top of the charts, the real winner this week is Five Finger Death Punch. Not only [...]

Metal By Numbers 10/12: Album Sales Take A Fall

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. With five metal/hard rock releases hitting the charts (four of which make it into the top 200), the highest ranking debut of the week comes from Blessthefall. Just one spot away from the top [...]

Metal By Numbers 10/5: The Hunter Dominates The Charts

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

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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 [...]

Metal By Numbers 9/28: Respecting Your Heritage Can Help You Sell Records

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

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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 [...]

Metal By Numbers 9/21: A Dramatic Turn Of Album Sales

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. To say that this is a massive week for metal and hard rock albums on the charts is an understatement. Out of the thirteen new releases, six metal/hard rock albums debuted in the top [...]

New & Noteworthy, September 13th – Metal Thrashing Mad

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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This week is going to be jam-packed with high-selling metal albums, I can already tell. The list of high-profile new records appearing today just seems to keep going on and on and on! It’s certainly exciting, but it also raises the question – is it possible to have too many big releases in one day? [...]

  • 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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