Tag Archives: Otherwise

Throwdown at the Campground 2024: Buckcherry, Nonpoint, Taproot, and more at new location

Posted by on December 6, 2023

  Throwdown at the Campground will return for the second year at a new site in Soperton, Georgia, a 150-acre location just one hour away from Savannah and two hours from Atlanta with a private lake. The second annual event will take place on June 6th-9th with performances from Buckcherry, Nonpoint, Taproot, Butcher Babies, and […]

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New & Noteworthy: Awakening releases – 03/17/2023

Posted by on March 17, 2023

  New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Check out the releases from March 10th & 17th! Don’t forget to check out the playlist below. Enjoy!   March 17th:  All Time Low, Tell Me I’m Alive (Fueled By Ramen)     […]

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Photos/Review: Disturbed, Lamb of God, Baroness, etc. closed successful Blue Ridge Rock Fest 2022!

Posted by on December 12, 2022

  One day remained for the Virginia crowd attending the 2022 Blue Ridge Rock Festival, and perhaps now it was as much on the fans as it was on the musicians to kick it up a notch. After three, and for some four, days of great music, could the live crowd keep the party chugging […]

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Review/Photos: Shiprocked the waves with Stone Sour, Black Label and many more

Posted by on February 5, 2018

Over the past ten years, I’ve covered too many shows to count, and at least 4-5 festivals a year. Once in a while someone always asks if I’ve been on Shiprocked. This past January the Carnival Liberty set sail to the beautiful Bahamas with myself and 3,000 other rock/metal fanatics. Making the trip extra special, […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/1: Robert Plant’s got the fire

Posted by on November 1, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unfortunately, I didn’t receive the chart information necessary to complete MBN last week, so I’m a week behind over here. Hope you all had a happy and metal Halloween.   Notable Debuts:  Robert Plant, […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/8: Marilyn Manson has a heavenly debut

Posted by on October 18, 2017

Sometimes it’s awkward to write about album sales in 2017, specifically when it comes to bands and artists with longstanding careers. You have to put out qualifiers like “it’s a good debut but it’s nowhere near their best.” Take Marilyn Manson for example: he’s our to debut this week with 32,000 copies sold. Now, that’s […]

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Metal by Numbers 10/11: Primus are Primed

Posted by on October 11, 2017

Hello, Matt Brown here returning to bring you the charts once again. Well, mostly. It’s another week where we’ve only got sales numbers to display. But good lord do we have along list of debuts, fifteen to be exact. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that with less than three months to […]

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Metal by Numbers 10/4: Even Mastodon’s EPs sell

Posted by on October 4, 2017

  While we cover a solid handful of hard rock (like, y’know, Foo Fighters) along with the metal, there’s no reason for us to cover other types of rock that’s less guitar-driven. However, it should be noticed that the umbrella of “rock” has landed a solid amount of #1 albums this year. The Killers just […]

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The Food Truck & Rock Carnival: Through The Eyes Of A Ten Year Old

Posted by on October 8, 2015

A few weeks ago, the first annual Food Truck & Rock Carnival was held in Clark, NJ. Part food truck gathering, part family carnival and part full blown rock concert, the festival’s organizers emphasized to us that they intended to create a weekend event that could be enjoyed by all ages. With that in mind, we […]

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Limp Bizkit headlining ShipRocked 2015

Posted by on October 22, 2014

The ShipRocked 2015 line-up has been announced, and it’s headlined by Limp Bizkit. Setting sail from Miami, FL and heading to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, it’ll be six days of loud music and a pretty solid line-up of hard rock and metal music. Fred Durst seems pretty excited: “Limp Bizkit? New album? Sunshine? Metal party? Phil […]

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