Tag Archives: Melvins

Top 10 Breakthrough Metal/Hard Rock Albums of 1993

Posted by on November 10, 2023

  It’s hard to believe that 1993 was 30 years ago. With grunge becoming a mainstay on MTV and Top 40 radio over the previous couple of years, the mainstream was starting to favor a harder edge to their music. The year saw highly praised debuts from Tool, Cynic and Life Of Agony and breakthrough […]

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Inaugural Sick New World festival to see the return of Coal Chamber and Lacey Strum in Flyleaf in Las Vegas 2023

Posted by on November 8, 2022

  Fresh off the most successful debut of Las Vegas’s When We Were Young festival, it seems it’s time for metal fans to get the same treatment. While October’s festival focused mainly on mid-2000s emo-centric bands coming together in a star-studded affair, May 13th, 2023, will give rise to what has been dubbed as Sick […]

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Concert Calendar (9/27-10/2) : Show Them Your Devil Horns! Testament, Wednesday 13, & more

Posted by on September 27, 2022

  Oh yeah, you guys. Summer was AMAZING. For those of you that were following any of the goodness that everyone and myself were posting on our socials or Metal Insider, you’ll notice that it was pretty heavy on reviews since the shows came back like a storm of fire blades. That made it all […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/9: We’re almost there!

Posted by on February 21, 2022

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.     Notable Debuts: Jethro Tull, The Zealot Gene (InsideOut) Debut #7 6,225 sold The British natives with their twenty-second album.           Steve Vai, Inviolate (Favored Nations/Mascot) Debut #24 2,850 sold The legendary guitarist drops […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/12: Mastodon top the charts

Posted by on November 12, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Mastodon absolutely crushed the charts with their eight studio album. Fun fact, this was the first time since 2002’s Remission where Scott Kelly of Neurosis didn’t guest on a track. Also making a surprised impact was […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/03: A View From The Top Of The Charts

Posted by on November 4, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. A day late, but here we are! Dream Theater battled it out with Every Time I Die for the highest debut this week. Amazing albums from both bands, especially the Buffalo die-hards. Dropping hard […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/29: Welcome to Horrorwood

Posted by on October 29, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Welcome to Horrorwood! The hype for Ice Nine Kills is real as they hit #4 for their debut week. The internet is loving them and their witty horror-themed concept albums. Most of the debuts […]

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Melvins TV 3 Live Stream Takes Us Back to the Public Access Days… kind of

Posted by on May 3, 2021

  This past weekend the Melvins released their third live streaming event entitled simply, Melvins TV 3. The first couple of songs was primarily geared for the lovers of the kindly, softer, acoustic version of the band as the guys relied more on melody than distortion. This changed about 30 minutes in when the band […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/21: Wow, look at Zao

Posted by on April 21, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s another week with a shorter debut list and a couple of other noteworthy albums have dropped off. However, next week will see a round of heavy hitters, including Cannibal Corpse, Liquid Tension Experiment’s […]

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Tour and streaming events recently announced – 4/20

Posted by on April 20, 2021

  Here are eight tour and streaming events that were recently announced.   01) Deicide announce 2021 summer tour with Kataklysm, Internal Bleeding and Begat The Nephilim   Deicide have announced a headlining 2021 summer tour, which is arguably one of the first tour announcements that make it look like concerts are slowly getting back […]

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