Counterparts have announced a North American Tour for February and March 2025 with support from Pain of Truth, Malevolence, and Foreign Hands. Tickets go on sale Friday (15th) at 10:00 AM local time. The tour announcement arrived shortly after the Canadian metal...
Dissident Aggression: Taake – Stridens Hus
In the early 1990’s, when the great second wave of black metal was reaching the first of many creative peaks, Norway seemed to spawn corpse paint clad outfits like rabbits giving birth. While many of those acts faded away as quickly as they came, and others...Dissident Aggression: Dead In The Manger – Cessation
Somewhere between the early 1990’s and today the realm of Black Metal took so many left turns that at times it’s almost hard to distinguish who we should and shouldn’t call by that name. One thing has remained a constant though, and that’s the...Dissident Aggression: Hearing Voices
Storytelling as an art form has existed for thousands of years. That doesn’t make crafting a good story any easier, especially in the musical world. The tries and failures of musicians to piece together story through music are well documented and the often...Dissident Aggression: Unsacred Shine The False Light
This. This album is why year-end lists can often be a fruitless undertaking. Inevitably, almost every year, there is that one band that drops an album just prior to the calendar flipping that one final time and completely blows up everything you thought was...Metal Insider Contributor Chip McCabe’s Top 10 of 2014
As the year in music winds down, we’ve given plenty of artists a chance to reveal their favorite music of the year. Now it’s our turn. We’ve already given you Zach Shaw’s, Nick DeSimone’s, Anthony Maisano’s and Chris...Follow Us
Counterparts announce winter 2025 North American Tour
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Balancing Acts: Camden Cruz of Seven Kingdoms on pushing forward with new EP ‘The Square
Balancing Acts is Metal Insider's new column, in which artists explain the challenges within the music industry by juggling day jobs or multiple jobs while pursuing their musical careers. Seven Kingdoms guitarist Camden Cruz discusses the group's recent success,...
Thulcandra drop “Fallen Angel’s Dominion” live video
Blackened death metal outfit Thulcandra are set to release their first live album, Live Demise, on December 6 via Napalm Records. Recorded live in 2011 in Munich, this album captures rare tracks from the group's early days, many of which haven’t been played in over a...
New & Noteworthy: Releases Can Wait – 2/2/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. On the first Friday of February, we’ll be getting new music from rock stalwarts J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) and KMFDM, the return of...
New & Noteworthy: Project Releases Vol.01/26/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a...
New & Noteworthy: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....