Posted by Matt Brown 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. […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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, […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown on May 12, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Gojira is one of the biggest acts in metal today and their new album was highly anticipated. That said, I’m not sure people expected the band to chart at number one based on […]
