Monthly Archives: March 2014

Metal By Numbers 3/27: The Charts Get Reckless

Posted by on March 27, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. So I’m going to use this as soapbox for a bit like I sometimes do. As you can see, the top debut this week is a female fronted hard rock band with said female, […]

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Today in Metal: ‘Metal Black’ by Venom turns eight years old

Posted by on March 27, 2014

Metal Insider contributor Anthony Maisano is listening to a different metal album that was released on that day every day this year. Today, it’s Venom’s Metal Black, which was released on March 26th, 2006. No, this is not the 1982 album Black Metal. This is the 2006 album Metal Black. But is it as groundbreaking as the […]

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Devil You Know unveil ‘Seven Years Alone’ video

Posted by on March 27, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/amdg0g1E3bY[/youtube] You’ve already gotten a chance to spend “Seven Years Alone” with new supergroup Devil You Know. Now the band has put out a proper video for the first single from their debut album. The video takes place in a prison, with frontman Howard Jones in an interrogation room, a prison cell (along with the […]

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Goatwhore detail new album information

Posted by on March 27, 2014

We’ve known that Goatwhore have been coming out with an album for a while now. And with the Metal Alliance tour kicking off next week, the band have unveiled some information about their sixth album. The new album, out on July 8th, will be called Constricting Rage of the Merciless. If you head out to the tour, you’ll […]

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PBS returns with more hard hitting Power Trip coverage

Posted by on March 26, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/LnI7rUdt1-Q[/youtube] You can have Future Islands – as far as PBS is concerned, their breakout band of SXSW was Austin’s Power Trip. A few weeks ago in a hysterical, albeit fake, ‘pit report,‘ Everything But the News’ Steve Goldbloom attempted to cover the band with disastrous results. Now a proper follow-up, “Behind the Metal with Power Trip,” […]

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Nine Inch Nails parody song gets video

Posted by on March 26, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/4xg-Wk2DEXs[/youtube] Way back in January, Frederick Scott wrote the perfect Nine Inch Nails parody tune, “This is a Trent Reznor Song.” And while the song itself is near perfection, he’s gone and made a video for it. It’s not like the song needed a video, but one has been made. It looks pretty much like […]

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GWAR will continue on with GWAR-B-Q, memorial scheduled

Posted by on March 26, 2014

Another statement has been released by GWAR’s manager, Jack Flanagan regarding the death of Dave Brockie. It explains that the GWAR-B-Q will continue on, and there will be a public memorial taking place prior to the festival. Here’s Flanagan’s statement: On behalf of Dave Brockie’s family, Slave Pit Inc. and GWAR, we would like to […]

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New Autopsy song is a howler

Posted by on March 26, 2014

Once you realize that the new Autopsy album, out April 29th on Peaceville, is titled Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves, it becomes pretty evident that they’re not reinventing the wheel. However, it’s still a pretty damn terrifying wheel. Just look at that album cover. It’s as gory as a Cattle Decaptiation video, but funnier – the […]

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Stream Corey Taylor’s Cover of “Rainbow In The Dark”

Posted by on March 26, 2014

The latest track made available for streaming from the upcoming all-star Dio tribute album This Is Your Life is “Rainbow In The Dark”, with Corey Taylor, Roy Mayorga (Stone Sour), Satchel (Steel Panther), Christian Martucci, and Jason Christopher. It premiered on Revolver and the result is a real solid cover. Taylor commented on the cover: “Ronnie was the […]

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These alternative metal album covers will give you a laugh

Posted by on March 26, 2014

We’ve seen people on the internet mess around with metal album covers before, and now that trend continues with this Tumblr dedicated to alternatice metal album covers. Whoever’s behind this site is as punny as we are, which is pretty damn punny. The site is still pretty new, but it already has more than a […]

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