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Balancing Acts: Incite bassist El on life between tattooing and touring the world

Balancing Acts: Incite bassist El on life between tattooing and touring the world

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 13, 2025 | Guest Blog

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. Phoenix-based groove and thrash metal outfit Incite returned with full force...
Cold Steel break out with debut album Discipline & Punish, share Top 5 influences

Cold Steel break out with debut album Discipline & Punish, share Top 5 influences

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 13, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases, Top 5, Touring

Hailing from Tampa, Florida, Cold Steel stepped into the spotlight with their ferocious debut album, Discipline & Punish, out November 7, 2025, via Spinefarm Records. Blending hardcore and thrash elements, the record was produced by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Blood...
Defecto breakdown new album ‘Echoes of Isolation’ with track-by-track guide

Defecto breakdown new album ‘Echoes of Isolation’ with track-by-track guide

by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 31, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases

Danish metallers Defecto are celebrating the release of their new album, Echoes of Isolation, out now via Frontiers Music Srl. Today (31st), the group teamed up with Metal Insider to share a track-by-track guide. Echoes of Isolation – Concept: This album...
Aephanemer unveil track-by-track breakdown of new album ‘Utopie’

Aephanemer unveil track-by-track breakdown of new album ‘Utopie’

by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 31, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases

French melodic death metal outfit Aephanemer are celebrating the release of their fourth studio album, Utopie, out today, October 31, 2025, via Napalm Records. To continue with the celebration, the group has teamed up with Metal Insider for a track-by-track guide....
ODC mark the release of debut album ‘Twisted Love’ with track-by-track feature

ODC mark the release of debut album ‘Twisted Love’ with track-by-track feature

by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 31, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases

French modern rock outfit ODC have dropped their long-awaited debut album, Twisted Love, out now (31st) via BLKIIBLK. To celebrate the release, ODC teamed up with Metal Insider to share a track-by-track guide. Album Overview — Twisted Love Twisted Love is a distorted...
Telling Secrets’ Vik Kovacs shares his Top 5 most terrifying Halloween Horror flicks to celebrate the release of new single, “Crazy”

Telling Secrets’ Vik Kovacs shares his Top 5 most terrifying Halloween Horror flicks to celebrate the release of new single, “Crazy”

by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 30, 2025 | Guest Blog, Top 5

Telling Secrets, led by Vik Kovacs, have unleashed their Halloween-inspired video for “Crazy.” Just in time for the spooky season, Vik has teamed up with Metal Insider to share his five most terrifying Halloween horror films in celebration of the new single’s release....
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Mayhem unveil new single “Despair”
Mayhem unveil new single “Despair”

Mayhem have unveiled a visualizer for their new single, "Despair." The track is taken from their upcoming album, Liturgy of Death, scheduled to arrive on February 6, 2026. Nearly four decades into their career, Mayhem frame death not as an ending but as an inevitable...

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Explore 37 New albums just announced – 12/02/2025
Explore 37 New albums just announced – 12/02/2025

A few weeks have flown since we shared 37 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 2059 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 album...

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Rob Zombie unleashes “Heathen Days” video
Rob Zombie unleashes “Heathen Days” video

Rob Zombie has unleashed a video for his latest single, “Heathen Days.” The track is taken from his upcoming album The Great Satan, scheduled to arrive on February 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here:

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New & Noteworthy: Winter Releases – 11/28/2025

New & Noteworthy: Winter Releases – 11/28/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This final week of November sees releases from the likes of Excide, Blut Aus Nord, Plosivs and Equilibrium amongst the many outstanding...

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New & Noteworthy: Field of Releases – 11/21/2025

New & Noteworthy: Field of Releases – 11/21/2025

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 release of Aerosmith and Yungblud’s collaborative EP and a holiday album from Stryper, as well as new works from...

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New & Noteworthy: Embrace the Releases – 11/14/2025

New & Noteworthy: Embrace the Releases – 11/14/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week saw new albums from the likes of Cheap Trick, The Devil Wears Prada, Mezzrow and Of Mice & Men amongst the many...

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