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Photos/Review: Metal Allegiance kicks off its 11th year with a BANG at House of Blues in Anaheim on 01/23/2025

Photos/Review: Metal Allegiance kicks off its 11th year with a BANG at House of Blues in Anaheim on 01/23/2025

by Chris Loomis | Feb 4, 2025 | Photos, Reviews

If you are a thrash-metal fan, this is the show for you . . . Metal Allegiance is the all-star team of heavy metal musicians, spawned from the Metal Masters clinics by former Marketing Director at Samson Technologies Mark Menghi. Metal Allegiance started as a live...
Photos/Review: Metal Hall of Fame 2025 ROCKS Anaheim with Awards and Live Performances

Photos/Review: Metal Hall of Fame 2025 ROCKS Anaheim with Awards and Live Performances

by Chris Loomis | Jan 28, 2025 | Photos, Reviews

Mid to late January is always an exciting time in Southern California as the annual NAMM convention takes over Anaheim at the Convention Center drawing the who’s who of the music industry from artists to equipment manufacturers and also spawns dozens of music industry...
Interview with Alex Skolnick from Metal Allegiance: “It’s nice to not have this show be predictable . . . you never know who is going to show up”

Interview with Alex Skolnick from Metal Allegiance: “It’s nice to not have this show be predictable . . . you never know who is going to show up”

by Chris Loomis | Jan 22, 2025 | Interviews

Interview with Alex Skolnick from Metal Allegiance: “It’s nice to not have this show be predictable . . . you never know who is going to show up.” METAL ALLEGIANCE is a supergroup of sorts, beginning as a celebration of heavy metal, the “core 4” of the band –...
Photos/Review: Opeth & Tribulation deliver a memorable evening of progressive heavy metal in Los Angeles on 10/30/2024

Photos/Review: Opeth & Tribulation deliver a memorable evening of progressive heavy metal in Los Angeles on 10/30/2024

by Chris Loomis | Nov 6, 2024 | Photos, Reviews

It was an exciting night in Los Angeles on Wednesday, October 30, as not only were the Dodgers trying to win the World Series (which they did), but the Swedish progressive metal kings Opeth were in town at The YouTube Theater as part of their brief North American Fall...
Photos/Review: Judas Priest & Sabaton give LA a Metal Meltdown with ‘Invincible Shield Tour’

Photos/Review: Judas Priest & Sabaton give LA a Metal Meltdown with ‘Invincible Shield Tour’

by Chris Loomis | Oct 21, 2024 | Photos, Reviews

Fifty years is a long time in any respect of life, but being one of the world’s greatest Heavy Metal bands for fifty years and still releasing quality Heavy Metal records is a monumental accomplishment. Judas Priest, half a century in, continue to sell out...
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Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA
Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA

Nuclear Blast Records has signed HOKKA, a new Finnish rock supergroup featuring former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka, The Rasmus founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, and rising drummer Jimi Aslak. The band makes their official musical debut with a video for their...

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Catch up now: 53 new songs/videos recently released – 11/11/2025
Catch up now: 53 new songs/videos recently released – 11/11/2025

New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk a few weeks ago with 48 new songs, this week brings a solid batch of 53 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums or live performances. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything,...

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Interview: Omnium Gatherum’s Jukka Pelkonen on celebrating tenth album ‘May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way’ & full breakdown
Interview: Omnium Gatherum’s Jukka Pelkonen on celebrating tenth album ‘May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way’ & full breakdown

2026 will mark Omnium Gatherum's thirtieth year as they close 2025 with their tenth studio album, May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way, out November 7, 2025, via Century Media Records. These Finnish melodic death metal giants have reached a milestone that not many...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases Stays Together – 9/26/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases Stays Together – 9/26/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The final New Music Friday of September will feature the likes of Geese, The Starting Line, Dying Wish, Rainbow Kitten Surprise and...

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New & Noteworthy: AMEN Releases – 9/19/2025

New & Noteworthy: AMEN Releases – 9/19/2025

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 likes of Motion City Soundtrack, 38 Special, Bad Cop Bad Cop, I Prevail, Igorrr and Stoned Jesus among the many...

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New & Noteworthy: The Blue Releases – 9/12/2025

New & Noteworthy: The Blue Releases – 9/12/2025

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 likes of Dance Gavin Dance, Silverstein, Between The Buried And Me, Chameleons, Der Weg Einer Freiheit,...

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