by Nick DeSimone | Dec 26, 2014 | Amplified
Amplified is a weekly column focusing on new and emerging artists. Got a band that fits the bill? Email amplified@metalinsider.net. Our submissions inbox over here tends to favor sludge pretty heavily, which is great given that most of us are always in the mood for...
by Nick DeSimone | Dec 19, 2014 | Amplified, Columns
Who doesn’t love a little shred? There’s such a cool intensity to watch a really incredible player rip through a sick guitar solo; if I hadn’t spent so much of my adolescence trying to explain my friends why Buckethead was the coolest guitar player...
by Nick DeSimone | Dec 17, 2014 | News, Touring
File this one under “a damn good start to the year:” hot off the heels of each releasing some seriously critically-lauded records in 2014, The Contortionist, Revocation, Fallujah, and Toothgrinder will be together under one roof in the new year, thanks to...
by Nick DeSimone | Dec 15, 2014 | New Music, News, Video
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAXX0PSq1EM[/youtube] It’s an interesting time to be a Ministry fan. Not long after frontman Al Jourgensen went back on his plans to break the long-running industrial metal group up after the death of guitarist Mike...
by Nick DeSimone | Dec 12, 2014 | Satan
This probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard people talking about the Satanic Temple trying to have a statue of Baphomet installed on the Oklahoma state house lawn. Even more hilariously, the statue was intended to be placed next to a monument of the...