Vimic have teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere their latest single, "Parasite Persona," out September 5. The track serves as the final preview of their long-awaited debut album, Open Your Omen, scheduled to arrive on October 3, 2025, following a successful...
Steve Rennie’s Top 5: Crowdsourcing Tips
Steve Rennie has over thirty years of experience in the music business, including having been a senior VP/GM at Epic Records and currently managing Incubus. His background in the industry led Rennie to develop Renman Music and Business as a web platform for the...Metal Insider’s Top 5: Shortest Rock Stars
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Rock stars are often perceived as being larger than life. Posters, album covers, and band photos are shot from low camera angles with the band looking down at the lens. We...Metal Insider’s Top 5: Hard Rock/Metal ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Cameos
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. For better or worse, metal and hard rock has often been associated with motorcycles and biker gangs. So it’s unsurprising that there would be some sort of crossover between...Oderus Urungus’ Top 5: Meals Complemented By GWAR Beer
Labor day weekend may mark the end of the summer, but GWAR Beer is perfect for chugging down during any season. “This goes well with everything,” Oderus Urungus declared about GWAR’s recently launched line of beer. “It’s hard to name a top five when you have a product...Gyre Guitarist Ian McCartney’s Top 5: Hikes in the Hudson Valley
When Unsigned & Streamed vets Gyre aren’t killing it with new music, they go hiking. Why? Well, we’ll let guitarist Ian McCartney explain before he shares his top five hikes in the Hudson Valley. What the hell do hiking and metal music have in common? Well, for...Follow Us
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Video Premiere: Ancient Thrones – “A Turning Point” Guitar Playthrough
Halifax, Canada’s Ancient Thrones have teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere a guitar playthrough video for their crushing new single, “A Turning Point.” The track is taken from their upcoming full-length album, Melancholia, which is scheduled to arrive on...
Between the Buried and Me unveil “The Blue Nowhere” video
Between the Buried and Me have unveiled a video for the title track from their upcoming album, The Blue Nowhere, scheduled to arrive on September 12 via InsideOutMusic. To support the release, the band will kick off a North American co-headlining tour with Hail the...
New & Noteworthy: Myths of Releases – 3/22/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus...
New & Noteworthy: Warp Speed Invincible Project Releases – 3/1/2024 – 3/15/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases hitting shelves. The last couple of weeks saw new music from the likes of Waves In Autumn, Bruce Dickinson, Ministry, Kaiser Chiefs, Judas Priest, The...
New & Noteworthy: The Other Side of Releases – 2/23/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among the releases on this packed New Music Friday, we will see the returns of Modern English, Job For A Cowboy and Sleepytime...