Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 26, 2017
This afternoon, Lars Ulrich appeared on Chicago radio station WLUP to announce their winner of the “Hit the Stage” contest. It might have been a giveaway that it was a Chicago station, because Illinois grunge-rockers Local H won the contest. The band, who you might remember from their ’90s anthems “High Fiving MF” and “Bound […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on April 17, 2017
Early last week, Metallica announced their Hit the Stage contest, welcoming local acts to open for them on selected dates. The band revealed eight finalists for five selected show dates that kick off in Foxborough, MA at the Gillette Stadium on May 19th. The bands are as follows: Blood People – Chicago – punk rock […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 7, 2016
When Helmet emerged with their debut album, 1990’s Strap It On, they probably had no idea they’d be more or less popularizing an entire genre. Yet their subsequent signing to Interscope Records and blend of noise rock. precise hardcore and metal brought the Amphetamine Reptile sound (the label Strap It On was released on) to the alternative […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 2, 2015
Failure, if you haven’t realized, is one of our favorite ’90s bands that managed to not only reunite and release an album in 2015, but to reunite and release a really good album in 2015. The Heart is a Monster. They’ve been touring behind the album, as you might have seen yesterday, and their live sound […]
Posted by Matt Brown on February 13, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another year, another Grammy Awards Ceremony that most metalheads probably ignored in favor of something that wasn’t hosted by LL Cool J. Inevitably, a huge surge in sales for winners and nominees occured this […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 3, 2012
It’s a nice start for As I Lay Dying’s sixth album, although it’s their first album since 2005 to not debut in the top ten. In other news, with Mumford and Sons selling 600,000 copies of their sophomore album this week to have this year’s biggest debut, you might want to think about dusting off […]
Posted by Metal Insider on September 26, 2012
When Down decided to release four EP’s over the course of a year, it was essentially done so there wouldn’t be another five year break between albums. That might be a good idea. While the first of the four planned EPs sold nearly 12,000 copies, that’s a far cry from the 29,000 or so that Down […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 18, 2012
It’s likely been a while since you’ve thought of Local H, if you even remember them. The Chicago-area duo have been around since 1987, and are probably best known for their song “Bound For the Floor,” from 1996’s As Good As Dead. At any rate, the pair, which consists of singer/guitarist Scott Lucas and drummer Brian St. […]
