Posted by Jeff Podoshen on August 13, 2020
Pan-international quintet Darkened may not exactly be a household name in the metal community, but they will be soon. While the band itself may only be slightly more than a year old, the collective experience of the band members is pretty incredible. Here’s the lineup for their debut LP: Drums: Andy Whale (ex Bolt Thrower/Memoriam) […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on July 17, 2019
UK death metal giants Memoriam’s new album Requiem For Mankind was released last month via Nuclear Blast (order here). This mark’s the group’s overall third full-length effort as they’ve consecutively released an album three years in a row since 2017’s For the Fallen. We caught up frontman Karl Willetts (ex-Bolt Thrower) to discuss more about […]
Posted by Matt Brown on July 3, 2019
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I had to do a quick search to check if I already made a “The Stars and Stripes Forever” joke in a previous edition of MBN. And I did. It was just last […]
Posted by Matt Zaniboni on April 9, 2019
U.K. based death/grind metal outfit Memoriam featuring Karl Willets (Bolt Thrower) on vocals, Frank Healy (Benediction, Cerebral Fix) on bass, Scott Fairfax (Cerebral Fix) on guitar and Andy Whale (Bolt Thrower) on drums, are slated to release their third studio album titled Requiem For Mankind out June 21st via Nuclear Blast. The album was recorded at Parlour studios in […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 4, 2018
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s another big week for debuts. Fifteen new albums, a few highly anticipated. For me, The Sword was the big one this week. There aren’t too many bands I can say I’ve stuck with […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 20, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Blah blah happy 4/20 bro blah blah. We don’t have a whole bunch of doom/stoner bands on the debut list this week, though the two that are present are particularly good […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 12, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Mastodon have been a cornerstone for modern metal for years now, so to see them take the top spot makes my day. In a time where many metal bands that reigned in […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 5, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. One of the things I’ve enjoyed about writing this column for nearly five years (wait, that long?) is seeing sales patterns of bands growing in popularity, tracking the numbers for their new top 20 […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 20, 2017
Old school death metal band Memoriam formed in early 2016 with Bolt Thrower vocalist Karl Willetts and Benediction bassist Frank Healy. The band have unveiled information about their forthcoming debut album, For The Fallen out on March 24 via Nuclear Blast. The album will consist of eight tracks and it is available for pre-order in both digital […]
