Author Archives: Matt Brown

Metal Insider’s Matt Brown’s Top 10 Albums of 2023

Posted by on December 22, 2023

I’ve become quite the picky bastard nowadays. Ten years ago, I listened to multiple albums a day, back to back. Now, faced with an ever-growing list of music, I find myself turning albums off after two or three tracks if I’m not feeling it. On the one hand, I believe in judging an album as […]

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Metal Insider’s Matt Brown’s Top 10 Albums of 2022

Posted by on December 27, 2022

Long time no see, Metal Insider readers. My listening was not so prolific in 2022 compared to previous years, but I’ll take that as a quality over quantity thing. Each of this album came along at the right time and hit me just the right way, and that’s all I can really ask for.   […]

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Metal Insider’s Matt Brown’s Top 10 Albums of 2021

Posted by on December 22, 2021

  In 2021, I spent as much time listening to podcasts and audiobooks as I did music, a first for me. That doesn’t mean I deprived myself of good albums (obviously, because I wrote a whole list about them). Like last year, I avoided scrambling last minute to listen to any albums I might have […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/30: I fear this is farewell

Posted by on June 30, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Readers and friends, I regret to inform you that today’s edition of Metal By Numbers will be my last. After 9 years of pouring over the charts every week, the time has come for […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/23: Wolfgang Van Halen has a mammoth debut

Posted by on June 23, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I was in high school when Van Halen announced they would be going on tour with Eddie Van Halen’s son, Wolfgang, on bass guitar. I heard many friends complain about Michael Anthony’s absence or […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/16: Rising nowhere

Posted by on June 16, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This was another week heavy on the debuts (14 to be exact) and features some heavy hitters. Also, just a heads up, the quotation marks/apostrophe key on my laptop is broken, so if notice […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/9: Lustful listings on the charts

Posted by on June 9, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s edition was loaded. If you saw the May 28th edition of New & Noteworthy, then you know that week was chock full of album releases. Fast forward to this week and you’ll […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/2: The charts are rather prada-ctive.

Posted by on June 2, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The Devil Wears Prada have been around for over 15, which is about as long as both the book and film of the same name. Yet I never thought to ask myself what the […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/26: I can see for Myles

Posted by on May 26, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week presents quite the variety of debuts. Myles Kennedy was always going to be the top debut, but then you have everything from a Michael Sweet/Tracii Guns supergroup, a Charlie Benante covers album, […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/19: Sumo time and the livin’ is easy

Posted by on May 19, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Well, it’s not technically summertime quite yet but where I’m living it broke 80 degrees the other day and now I gotta get the window AC units installed. And I needed a good pun […]

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