Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.
Hello and welcome to 2021, or, as some like to call it, 2020 New Game Plus. Yes, the outlook, for this year is a mix of “let’s hope this year is better” and “2020’s problems don’t magically disappear.” Both statements are valid, though I will say starting off with the death of Alexi Laiho was not the greatest thing. Still, allow me to continue the aforementioned video game metaphor: while new game plus does involve starting over, it also means you keep new abilities and equipment you earned the last time around. So, really, whatever 2021 brings, you’ll be prepared because of 2020. And if nothing else, there’s gonna be new music eventually.
Mayhem have unveiled a visualizer for their new single, "Despair." The track is taken from their upcoming album, Liturgy of Death, scheduled to arrive on February 6, 2026. Nearly four decades into their career, Mayhem frame death not as an ending but as an inevitable...
A few weeks have flown since we shared 37 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 2059 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...
Rob Zombie has unleashed a video for his latest single, “Heathen Days.” The track is taken from his upcoming album The Great Satan, scheduled to arrive on February 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This final week of November sees releases from the likes of Excide, Blut Aus Nord, Plosivs and Equilibrium amongst the many outstanding...
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see the release of Aerosmith and Yungblud’s collaborative EP and a holiday album from Stryper, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week saw new albums from the likes of Cheap Trick, The Devil Wears Prada, Mezzrow and Of Mice & Men amongst the many...
George Lynch & Jeff Pilson, 
AC/DC, 
Beastie Boys, 
Metallica & The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, 
Deftones, 
Five Finger Death Punch, A Decade Of Destruction, Volume 2 (Prospect Park)
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, 
Puscifer, Existential Reckoning (BMG)
Ozzy Osbourne, 
Iron Maiden, Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City(Parlophone Records/BMG)
Five Finger Death Punch, 
Mr. Bungle, The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo (Ipecac)
Smashing Pumpkins, CYR (Sumerian)
Queen + Adam Lambert, 
Pearl Jam, 
Tool, Fear Inoculum (Tool Dissectional LLC/Volcano)
Dream Theater, Distant Memories – Live In London(Century Media)
Chris Cornell, No One Sings Like You Anymore, Vol. 1 (A&M)
Thou & Emma Ruth Rundle, May Our Chambers Be Full (Sacred Bones)
Ghostemane, ANTI-ICON (Blackmage)
Hum, 
The Hu, 
Armored Saint, 
Nothing, 
Zakk Sabbath, Vertigo (Magnetic Eye)
Vein, Old Data In A New Machine Vol. 1(Closed Casket)
Deeds Of Flesh, Nucleus (Unique Leader)
Polaris, The Death Of Me (SharpTone)
Inquisition, Black Mass for a Mass Grave (Agonia)
Sodom, Genesis XIX (eOne)
Fates Warning, 
Poppy, I Disagree (Sumerian)
All Them Witches, Nothing As The Ideal (New West)
Enslaved, Utgard (Nuclear Blast)
Of Feather and Bone, Sulfuric Disintegration (Profound Lore)
Wayfarer, A Romance With Violence (Profound Lore)
Vader, Solitude In Madness (Nuclear Blast)
Laura Jane Grace, Stay Alive (Polyvinyl)
Riverside, Lost’N’Found – Live In Tilburg (Century Media)
Benediction, Scriptures (Nuclear Blast)
Necrophobic, Dawn Of The Damned (Century Media)
Anaal Nathrakh, Endarkenment (Metal Blade)
