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Metal By Numbers 9/25: KoRn has nothing on the charts

Posted by on September 25, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   Woo boy, it’s been awhile since we saw such a swath of debuts, eighteen to be exact. The top debut this week, of course, is KoRn. Between their’s, Tool’s, and Slipknot’s new albums […]

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‘Spin’ gets relatively underground for their top 20 metal albums

Posted by on December 14, 2015

Rolling Stone did it, Stereogum has done it, and we’ve been doing it. As 2015 draws to a close (2 1/2 weeks left, y’all!), so everyone’s  taking a look back at the year that was and naming their top metal records of the year. Spin‘s only metal inclusion in their top 50 albums of the year was […]

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Let’s argue about Rolling Stone’s top 20 metal albums list

Posted by on December 10, 2015

Last week, Rolling Stone named their top 50 albums of the year. No big surprises, in that Keith Richards and James Taylor were up on the list. and one metal album, or arguably metal album, was. That album was Marilyn Manson’s The Pale Emperor, which also tops their just-published list on Rollingstone.com of the 20 best metal albums […]

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