Another week and change has gone by since we shared 30 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1,381 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and...
Dissident Aggression: Making Chains And Other Dirty Deeds With Nightbitch
The hard/occult rock and NWOBHM revival in the metal scene is a bit out of control in the best way possible. Every sub genre under the broad umbrella of “metal” has gone through (and will possibly again go through) this rush of bands racing to create...Dissident Aggression: Attending The ‘Sky Burial’ With Inter Arma
There are people out there who would try to convince you that, in musical terms, everything has been done before. They rest their case on the fact that there are only a certain amount of notes in this world and only so much you can do with them. Clearly anyone who...Dissident Aggression: Travelling ‘In Planetary Sugar’ With Atrina
The best music is also usually the most challenging to write about. How do you describe to someone that which is often times indescribable? How too do you try and categorize that which inherently defies categorization? Therein lies the only problem with the new...Dissident Aggression: Vreid Bring The Darkness
“Metal” is a word than can be applied to a very broad array of music. We as a musical community have spent the last 30+ years slicing and dicing bands up into genres and sub-genres and even sub-sub-genres. This sort of categorization, both mentally and...DISSIDENT AGGRESSION: DEVOURMENT – DEATH METAL DONE RIGHT
Welcome to Dissident Aggression, where we sow the future, reap the present and highlight the past to bring you the underground of The Underground… Relapse Records has always been one of the champions of death metal. Whether it was the early days of the label working...Follow Us
Explore 20 new albums just announced – 9/03/2025
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Interview: Burning Witches’ Jay Grob talks Inquisition, touring hurdles, and the witch she’d add for a day
Swiss heavy metal outfit Burning Witches have released their sixth studio album, Inquisition, on August 22, 2025 via Napalm Records. Diving into themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and resilience, the follow-up to 2023's The Dark Tower, marks a bold...
Feuerschwanz’s Ben Metzner talks new album ‘Knightclub’ with track-by-track explainer
Germany’s folk metal unit Feuerschwanz have unveiled their twelfth studio album, Knightclub, out now via Napalm Records. Known for their chaotic, high-energy performances, whether bringing vikings, theatrics, or sheer madness to the stage (as seen during their...
New & Noteworthy: Life promises releases – 2/16/2024
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 the returns of The Jack Rubies and Ihsahn, the debuts of Crawlers and The Requiem, as well as...
New & Noteworthy: Releases in Oath 2/9/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s New Music Friday sees the release of new albums from the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, tAKiDA, Infected Rain, TSO, Split...
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...