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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...
Photos/Review: Deicide Holds Sunday Mass in San Diego on the Banished by Sin Tour

Photos/Review: Deicide Holds Sunday Mass in San Diego on the Banished by Sin Tour

by Chris Loomis | Oct 9, 2024 | Photos, Reviews

Death Metal legends Deicide are out supporting their April 2024 release Banished by Sin with a 34-date trek across North America with fellow Death Metal heavyweights Krisiun and support from Inferi and Cloak in the direct opening slots. The Banished by Sin 2024 Tour...
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Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release
Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release

Slipknot will finally release Look Outside Your Window, a long-rumored collection of previously unreleased material recorded during the sessions for 2008's All Hope Is Gone. The experimental project — created by Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn "Clown"...

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Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’
Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’

Progressive German metal outfit The Hirsch Effekt have unleashed their most melancholic and introspective album yet with Der Brauch on January 30, 2026. Read the review on Metal Insider here. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nils Wittrock and bassist/vocalist Ilja...

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Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’
Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’

I don't think I could possibly love a band more than when I'm watching them actively refuse to become a fixed idea. The Hirsch Effekt take up shop in the lab where music feels less like a product and more like a mid-thought transcription from a parallel universe....

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New & Noteworthy: Embrace the Releases – 11/14/2025

New & Noteworthy: Embrace the Releases – 11/14/2025

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...

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New & Noteworthy: Echoes In Releases – 11/7/2025

New & Noteworthy: Echoes In Releases – 11/7/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. November kicks off with new music from the likes of Finger Eleven, Agnostic Front, Armor For Sleep, Drain and Alcatrazz among the many...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases Go in the Forest – 10/31/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases Go in the Forest – 10/31/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Halloween saw new music from the likes of Avatar, Aephanemer, Despised Icon and Primitive Man, as well as an early holiday EP from...

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