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Today in Satan: Pagan priest wins right to wear goat horns in license photo

Today in Satan: Pagan priest wins right to wear goat horns in license photo

by Nick DeSimone | Dec 20, 2016 | Satan

Only in Maine, we guess. A Pagan priest in Augusta made national news when he appealed to the secretary of state for his right to wear goat horns in a state ID photo as a “religious headdress.” Phelan Moonsong is ordained as a Pagan religious figure, and...
Groan: internet predictably flips out over Kanye West in a Testament shirt, Alex Skolnick reacts

Groan: internet predictably flips out over Kanye West in a Testament shirt, Alex Skolnick reacts

by Nick DeSimone | Dec 20, 2016 | We Care A Lot

We know, we know. But it’s also rare that an artist weighs in so heavily as well. Professional shit-disturber Kanye West was photographed wearing a vintage Testament t-shirt this week, following in his new family’s awful footsteps of probably having never...
Orange Goblin frontman sets up crowdfunding campaign to help ex-Team Rock employees

Orange Goblin frontman sets up crowdfunding campaign to help ex-Team Rock employees

by Nick DeSimone | Dec 20, 2016 | For A Good Cause

Yesterday, we learned that Metal Hammer publisher Team Rock is liquidating its assets as the company prepares to close. That’s bad news for metal in print media to be sure, but even worse is that 73 people with homes and families are out in the cold a week...
Orange Goblin frontman sets up crowdfunding campaign to help ex-Team Rock employees

Metal Hammer parent company closing its doors, 2016 continues to be terrible

by Nick DeSimone | Dec 19, 2016 | Calling It Quits

British publishing company Team Rock “went into administration” officially this week, following layoffs of nearly its entire staff. This is essentially the UK equivalent of bankruptcy; the company is currently retaining a small handful of administrators to...
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster vocalist offers update on condition

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster vocalist offers update on condition

by Nick DeSimone | Dec 19, 2016 | Updates

Last we heard from Maylene and the Sons of Disaster/ex-Underoath vocalist Dallas Taylor, he’d survived a serious ATV accident in Florida – the kind where “doing better” was still something you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy. After a...
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Textures breakdown new album ‘Genotype’ with track-by-track guide
Textures breakdown new album ‘Genotype’ with track-by-track guide

Dutch progressive metal veterans Textures are back with Genotype, their long-awaited new album, out today (23rd). Serving as a conceptual counterpart to 2016’s Phenotype, Genotype isn’t a continuation so much as a reset, written entirely from scratch and self-produced...

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The Grudge That Should Not Be: Album Review: Megadeth’s final record
The Grudge That Should Not Be: Album Review: Megadeth’s final record

The overall seventeenth, self-titled album marks the beginning of the end for Megadeth. Dave Mustaine deserves credit. That part isn't up for debate. Getting kicked out of Metallica, starting over, and building Megadeth into one of the defining bands of American...

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Rush Announce Super Deluxe Grace Under Pressure Reissues
Rush Announce Super Deluxe Grace Under Pressure Reissues

Rush will release Super Deluxe editions of Grace Under Pressure, arriving March 13, 2026, via UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records. The 1984 album, has been fully revisited with multiple new configurations, including Super Deluxe box sets on CD, LP, Blu-ray, and digital...

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New & Noteworthy: 2026 Releases have arrived – 1/2/2026

New & Noteworthy: 2026 Releases have arrived – 1/2/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Kicking off 2026, this week’s new music includes albums from the likes of Excavated Graves, Fuath, Wildhunt and Dawnbreaker amongst the...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases is a Grave – 12/19/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week sees new muisc from the likes of Peter Criss, Dead Sun and Lychgate amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t...

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New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy: Mirror Releases – 12/12/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This New Music Friday sees new releases from the likes of Volumes, Lord Of The Lost and Windswept, as well as the debut full-length...

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