Tag Archives: Abnormality

Abnormality break up on good terms

Posted by on November 9, 2020

  Massachusetts’ brutal death metal outfit Abnormality have sadly announced they are no longer. After fifteen years together and three full-length efforts, including 2019’s Sociopathic Constructs,  the band has decided it’s time to close this chapter of their lives.   The group issued the following statement via Facebook:  “IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT It is with a heavy […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/29: Rammstein triumph in Amerika

Posted by on May 29, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   It should come as no surprise that Rammstein’s first album in ten years topped the list this week. It’s #4 in pure album sales and #1 on the Billboard 200, which makes this […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/22: Sammy Hagar comes full circle

Posted by on May 22, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   I never really had a strong opinion about Van Halen and their various line-up rotations over the years. I know the bigger fans debate all the time about David Lee Roth vs. Sammy […]

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My first metal shirt – Abnormality bassist Josh Staples

Posted by on July 13, 2016

My First Metal Shirt is a regularly-occurring feature on Metal Insider where we talk to people involved in metal about the first-ever metal T-shirt they owned, their memories about it,  and hopefully, a picture of them in it. This week’s installment comes from Josh Staples, the bassist of Massachusetts death metal band Abnormality. My first Death Metal shirt […]

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AC/DC with Axl Rose US dates announced; would you go?

Posted by on June 2, 2016

  When we break down 2016 in hard rock and metal in about six months or so, the comeback of Guns N’ Roses will certainly rank among it’s biggest stories. But it’s only part of the story. In what first seemed like the most far-fetched rumor ever, singer Axl Rose announced that he’d be filling […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/18: Two debuts for a bare bones week

Posted by on May 18, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Compared to last week, the debuts are looking pretty sparse. In fact, the Wikipedia page for the year 2016 in metal only had Vektor listed for its release week. Hell, our own Chris Colgan only […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/11: A super lighting long title of sexy random words about the bloody charts and Rob Zombie

Posted by on May 11, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Rob Zombie is one of those artists you’d think has a lot of albums, so it’s weird that he’s only released six albums as a solo artist since 1998 (though you could include the […]

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New & Noteworthy, April 29th – Allure

Posted by on April 29, 2016

The tempo shift in the release calendar begins today, with the release of an album that ranks among the most highly-anticipated for all of 2016. That label is not said with any degree of hyperbole either – music sites (including us) have been talking about this album for months, and everyone agrees that it’s a […]

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Soulfly tour dates with Suffocation, Battlecross, Abnormality, Lody Kong leak

Posted by on March 2, 2016

Soulfly toured across North America on the last quarter of 2015 in support of their latest album Archangel and then took their chops to the old continent inthe  company of King Parrot, as we mentioned last month when we showed their rendition of Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades”. But this is 2016 already, which means we can get […]

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