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Balancing Acts: Chained Saint’s Ethan Kahn on juggling school and metal career

Balancing Acts: Chained Saint’s Ethan Kahn on juggling school and metal career

by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 28, 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. At just 17 years old, guitarist Ethan Kahn of Chained Saint already...
Balancing Acts: Katerina Nicole channels chaos into music while rescuing animals in Greece

Balancing Acts: Katerina Nicole channels chaos into music while rescuing animals in Greece

by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 16, 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. Metal Insider recently caught up with Katerina Nicole, an ethereal metal artist...
Balancing Acts: Vesseles’ Valira Pietrangelo and Her Dual Life in Metal

Balancing Acts: Vesseles’ Valira Pietrangelo and Her Dual Life in Metal

by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 15, 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. Metal Insider recently caught up with Valira Pietrangelo of Vesseles to discuss...
TSS dissect new album ‘End of Time’ with track-by-track breakdown

TSS dissect new album ‘End of Time’ with track-by-track breakdown

by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 15, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases

French metal outfit TSS have carved a unique path within the realms of modern metal, blending a range of genres including, emo, metalcore, and synthwave. Formerly known as The Sunday Sadness, the band, led by Kirby with John on guitar/vocals and Hugo on drums, has...
Eric Bass (Shinedown) shares track-by-track breakdown of solo album ‘I Had a Name’

Eric Bass (Shinedown) shares track-by-track breakdown of solo album ‘I Had a Name’

by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 9, 2025 | Guest Blog, New Music, Releases

Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Eric Bass (Shinedown) released his debut solo album, I Had A Name, earlier this year. Written, recorded, and produced entirely by Bass, the full-length effort introduces listeners to a sprawling dystopian world of his...
Balancing Acts: Crowdkill’s Nathan James on merging creativity, business, and music

Balancing Acts: Crowdkill’s Nathan James on merging creativity, business, and music

by Zenae Zukowski | Jun 30, 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. Crowdkill artist Nathan James, gearing up for his new album Hollywood Mortician...
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Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’
Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’

Progressive German metal outfit The Hirsch Effekt have unleashed their most melancholic and introspective album yet with Der Brauch on January 30, 2026. Read the review on Metal Insider here. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nils Wittrock and bassist/vocalist Ilja...

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Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’
Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’

I don't think I could possibly love a band more than when I'm watching them actively refuse to become a fixed idea. The Hirsch Effekt take up shop in the lab where music feels less like a product and more like a mid-thought transcription from a parallel universe....

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Ian’s Favorite Heffy Records of January ’26
Ian’s Favorite Heffy Records of January ’26

Hey, welcome to a new feature on Metal Insider, where it's all about the best of the best albums released throughout the month. Get ready to catch up with me - January was about riffs and heavy metal brakdowns! Bullet, Kosuke Hashida, and Megadeth all have that...

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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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New & Noteworthy: Echoes In Releases – 11/7/2025

New & Noteworthy: Echoes In Releases – 11/7/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. November kicks off with new music from the likes of Finger Eleven, Agnostic Front, Armor For Sleep, Drain and Alcatrazz among the many...

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New & Noteworthy: Releases Go in the Forest – 10/31/2025

New & Noteworthy: Releases Go in the Forest – 10/31/2025

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Halloween saw new music from the likes of Avatar, Aephanemer, Despised Icon and Primitive Man, as well as an early holiday EP from...

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