Posted by Bram Teitelman on November 30, 2010
All 20 of the finalists for the No Label Needed Contest and Series were great bands, and while Iron Thrones ultimately triumphed, the runners-up aren’t sitting still. In fact, 2011 will bring new music from at least two of the bands in the contest. San Francisco Bay Area quartet Scorched Earth Policy have released a […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on November 8, 2010
Metal Insider is sad to report Falling To Pieces’ frontwoman, Nicci DeSoto (Nicci D.), perished in a motorcycle accident over the weekend. The Bay Area band had been a finalist in the No Label Needed contest and series. Falling to Pieces had formed in 2004, and Nicci joined two years ago along with former Bleeding […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on August 27, 2010
You’ve seen them record and learn the ropes of the business in the No Label Needed Contest & Series, and now you can catch them live! Iron Thrones, the winner of Scion and Metal Insider’s No Label Needed Contest & Series, has announced dates for a November tour with Hero Destroyed. The nine date tour […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 19, 2010
When Metal Insider started the No Label Needed contest, we didn’t have a “sound” or genre of metal in mind, we just wanted the band that won to have an independent spirit whose music was good. Iron Thrones embodied everything we were looking for in a winner, and the resulting EP that they recorded has […]
Posted by marc on July 29, 2010
Regardless of genre, radio airplay is still one of the key steps of marketing a band. It creates awareness and drives sales, and hopefully finds fans. Of course, being a metal band creates interesting waters to navigate through. Iron Thrones received a radio promotion campaign as part of winning the No Label Needed contest and […]
