New & Noteworthy, November 8th – Tempting Time

It is now a foregone conclusion that I would likely be a terrible A&R person at a record label, because I am very bad at predicting trends in the metal world. For example, if you had asked me four years ago if instrumental metal would ever be a popular genre, I...

New & Noteworthy, March 8th – Mask of Sanity

It’s still fairly early in 2011, but already this year and during the second half of last year, we’ve seen a number of metal musicians taking steps to better themselves and their lives by gaining control over their addictions to drugs and alcohol, and...