by Bram Teitelman | Feb 6, 2018 | Metal By Numbers
With the muted reaction that Machine Head’s Catharsis received from critics, you’d think that they might have had a Suicide Silence-like disaster on their hands. However, the album sold about 9,000 units in its debut week. That’s not bad by any...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 6, 2018 | Video, Viral Videos
YouTuber Rob Scallon has seemingly done it all. The guitarist has covered plenty of Slayer and Metallica songs on banjo, made songs consisting of lyrics that people have tweeted him, and even wrote a song without hearing a note of it. The latest challenge he got...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 5, 2018 | Updates
So, we found out today that A Perfect Circle have an album coming out on 4/20, brah. That’s in keeping with what the band have said, and we’ve already heard three songs from the album. Of course, that leaves Maynard James Keenan’s other band, Tool,...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 5, 2018 | Updates
Just last week, we were wondering what the status of AC/DC would be given that heritage rock and metal acts are dropping like flies. Singer Brian Johnson was forced to leave or risk total hearing loss, and founding guitarist and riff master Malcolm Young died,...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 5, 2018 | Retail
One of the longest-running columns on this site is Metal by Numbers, a weekly look at the hard rock and metal that sold the most the prior week. Anyone that’s read it over the course of time has noticed, of course, that people are buying a lot less music. That...