Metal By Numbers 9/29: Imperfect First Week Sales

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I guess it’s fair to say that we’ve been pretty spoiled the past few weeks, seeing as how for a majority of the Summer, there was at least one metal/hard rock album...

The Damned Things Set U.K. Release Date

The Damned Things, the new supergroup featuring members of Anthrax, Every Time I Die and Fall Out Boy, will reportedly release their debut album on December 13 in the U.K. While a U.S. release date has yet to be revealed, signs point to December 14.

Go Ahead, Steal These Tour Names

Tour names are a lot like band names. The good ones are taken, and a lot of the bad ones are too. Also a lot of them are cyclical. For example, metal bands with “black” and something animal-related in their name are proliferating like pop-punk bands with...