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Metal By Numbers 5/31: Linkin Park light up the charts

by Matt Brown | May 31, 2017 | Metal By Numbers

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Linkin Park may be more pop than rock nowadays but not many psudo-metal-related bands can put out a number one record with nearly 100,000 copies sold, let...

Linkin Park’s ‘One More Light’ becomes their sixth #1 album

by Bram Teitelman | May 29, 2017 | Metal By Numbers

We’ll cover this more later in the week, but Linkin Park’s One More Light, the band’s seventh album, has debuted at #1, the sixth time that’s happened for the band. The album sold 111,000 copies total, 100,000 of them in pure album...

Metal By Numbers 5/24: Of Seether and Soundgarden

by Matt Brown | May 24, 2017 | Metal By Numbers

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s always a somber affair looking at the charts after the death of a renowned musician. I’m of course speaking of the passing of Chris Cornell...

Metal By Numbers 5/17: Motionless In White make a grave debut

by Matt Brown | May 17, 2017 | Metal By Numbers

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We’re still operating on limited info for Metal By Numbers, but I do have a treat for you. A few weeks ago I mentioned having total sales numbers for the...

Metal By Numbers 5/11: Madness remains on the charts

by Matt Brown | May 11, 2017 | Metal By Numbers

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s list of debuts is even bigger than the last. While last week contained many Records Store Day numbers, this week is everything from returning...

All That Remains have lowest first sales week in 13 years

by Bram Teitelman | May 10, 2017 | Columns, Metal By Numbers

It’s a given that the golden age of album sales are over. Actually, music sales have been on a steady decline since 2001, when file sharing became a thing, and people decided that it was ok to steal music. By the time the music industry caught on to the...

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Paradise Lost unveil “Silence Like the Grave” video; new album arriving in September

Gothic doom giants Paradise Lost have announced their overall seventeenth studio album, Ascension, is scheduled to arrive on September 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. The follow-up to 2020's Obsidian was produced by guitarist Gregor Mackintosh and mixed and mastered by...

Video Premiere: Night’s Edge – “Smite”

Baltimore alt-metal outfit Night’s Edge have teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere the lyric video for their latest single, “Smite.” The track marks the third single taken from their upcoming fourth-full-length album, The World That Never Was, scheduled to arrive...

Fit For A King share title track for new album “Lonely God”

Fit For A King have announced their eighth studio album, Lonely God, is scheduled to arrive on August 1 via Solid State Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has released the video for the album’s title track. Vocalist Ryan Kirby comments: "In general, 'Lonely...

New & Noteworthy: October 30th, 2020 – The Raging Wrath of the New Releases

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week features new releases from Carcass, Bring Me the Horizon, Mr. Bungle, Puscifer, and more! For last week’s new releases you...

New & Noteworthy: October 23th, 2020 – Order of New Releases

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week features new releases from Pallbearer, Mors Principium Est, Fever 333, a new live album from Devin Townsend and more!...

New & Noteworthy: October 9th, 2020 – Dawn of the New Music

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The week is a bit a slow one, but still features new releases from Five Finger Death Punch, Blue Öyster Cult, Necrophobic, and...