New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk a few weeks ago with 53 new songs, this week brings a solid batch of 48 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including Megadeth,...
Maiden, Slipknot Clean Up At Golden Gods Awards
While America is still getting used to the idea of a metal awards show following Revolver’s foray into the Golden Gods earlier this year, the UK and Metal Hammer have been doing it for years. Their seventh annual event found Iron Maiden and Slipknot the big...“Paperless” Ticket Technology Might Be Scaring Off The Younger Kids And Old People
Not to my surprise, Ticketmaster’s experiment with mandatitorily introducing “paperless tickets” on a major tour might not be going so well.Brutal Legend Game Drops Dio, Breaks Silly Record
Brutal Legend, the much-hyped Jack Black-fronted video game, made a bit of news this week. While Ozzy, Lemmy, Rob Halford and Lita Ford are keeping their guest appearances in the game, Heaven & Hell frontman Ronnie James Dio is out in favor of Tim Curry, best...Heavy Metal In Baghdad Streaming For Free
If you haven’t seen the Vice Films documentary Heavy Metal In Baghdad, you really should. Especially if you’re one of those guys who makes a Facebook page for your local band’s show and whines that it’s not enough to get signed or put on a...Follow Us
Catch up now: 48 new songs/videos recently released – 10/14/2025
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Explore 33 New albums just announced – 10/13/2025
A few weeks have flown since we shared 26 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1663 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album...
The New Testament is here! Animated video for latest single “High Noon” released
Bay Area thrash legends Testament have unleashed their fourteenth studio album, Para Bellum, today (10th) via Nuclear Blast Records. The record serves as a reflection on humanity's uneasy relationship with technology and the impacts of disconnection, while blistering...
New & Noteworthy: Sub Rosa in Releases – 11/1/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first New Music Friday of November will see the long-awaited returns of The Cure, Beardfish, Planes Mistaken For Stars and Warren...
New & Noteworthy: PowerReleases – October 25 – August 2, 2024
Editor's Note: New & Noteworthy has finally returned! After a lengthy delay with server issues, Metal Insider is back and here's all the New & Noteworthy releases from August 2nd - October 25th, including new playlists added and updated. Enjoy! October...
New & Noteworthy: Wake Up the July 2024 Releases
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. July is filled with new music from supergroups Category 7 and Painted Shield, live albums from Ghost and Metal Church, fictitious band...