by Dan Kozuh | Dec 2, 2016 | Lists
It’s December, which means that everyone’s starting to look back at the year that was, even though we’re not quite through it yet. Over the next several weeks, Metal Insider will be bringing you our picks for the best albums of the year, as well as those from...
by Dan Kozuh | Nov 30, 2016 | Books
Author/metalhead Edward Banchs decided to combine his education in African Studies and his love heavy metal into a single book he called “Heavy Metal Africa: Life, Passion, and Heavy Metal in the Forgotten Continent”. Like a hardcore Dr....
by Dan Kozuh | Nov 11, 2016 | Eulogies
On the outset, Leonard Cohen’s music doesn’t seem metal in the least. He came up with the 60’s hippies in the Village with peers like Dylan, Joplin, and Van Ronk but even to them he was an outsider. While they grew their hair long and...
by Dan Kozuh | Nov 7, 2016 | Gaming, News
Cryptic Explorers is an occult themed board game on Kickstarter that was seemingly made by two guys in a basement listening to Candlemass that said, “We should totally make a game about this.” Metal pop-culture has spawned metal...
by Dan Kozuh | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Reissues
Of all outlets, People Magazine has done a fantastic write-up on the oft-ignored proto-metal band Coven who released their first album Witchcraft Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls in 1969 and were perhaps the first ‘goth’ band. Their...