Scottish Caledonian metal project Saor has released the title track and video for their upcoming album, Amidst the Ruins, due February 7, 2025, via Season of Mist. Blending black metal's intensity with Celtic folk melodies, the song reflects on Scotland's rich...
Hockey Goalie To Wear Iron Maiden Inspired Mask This Season
As if hockey wasn’t metal enough, Winnipeg Jets goalie Chris Mason has revealed his new Iron Maiden inspired goalie mask. The mask’s design is taken from the artwork for the “Aces High” single (the one where Eddie is flying a fighter jet). In an interview with InGoal...Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel Gives Us His Picks For The Remaining NHL Playoffs
You most likely know Brian Slagel as the CEO and founder of Metal Blade Records. But what you might not know about him is that he’s a diehard hockey fan as well. Slagel has given Metal Insider his NHL Playoff hockey picks before. So now that we’re down to the final...Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel Handicaps NHL PLayoffs
As 2009 was drawing to a close, we asked Metal Blade Chairman/CEO and huge hockey fan Brian Slagel to write about his favorite pasttime other than metal. While it was only about a third of the way through the season, the teams he picked as the two most fun to watch...Follow Us
Saor unveil “Amidst the Ruins” video; new album arriving in February
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The Great Old Ones unveil “In the Mouth of Madness” video
French post-black metal act The Great Old Ones have released the video for “In the Mouth of Madness." The track is taken from the group's upcoming album Kadath, out January 24, 2025, via Season of Mist. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,...
Killswitch Engage drop “Forever Aligned,” announce new album
Killswitch Engage have announced their new album, This Consequence, is scheduled to arrive on February 21, 2025, via Metal Blade Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has dropped a video for their new single, "Forever Aligned." Killswitch Engage will take the...
New & Noteworthy: PowerReleases – October 25 – August 2, 2024
Editor's Note: New & Noteworthy has finally returned! After a lengthy delay with server issues, Metal Insider is back and here's all the New & Noteworthy releases from August 2nd - October 25th, including new playlists added and updated. Enjoy! October...
New & Noteworthy: Wake Up the July 2024 Releases
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. July is filled with new music from supergroups Category 7 and Painted Shield, live albums from Ghost and Metal Church, fictitious band...
New & Noteworthy: Manual Fire Releases 6/21/2024 – 6/28/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The next couple of weeks will see the returns of Kittie, earthtone9, The Story So Far and Dirty Three, debuts from O. and Mighty Mighty...