We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
PBS and Power Trip don’t get along that well at SXSW
[youtube]http://youtu.be/lk6ZRmFy50I[/youtube] You’ve gotta hand it to PBS. They’re not quite as stodgy as they let on. Take for example, their ‘Everything But the News’ online series. Labeled as “PBS Reporter Fail,” this clip finds...Petition started to get Leonardo DiCaprio onstage with Meshuggah
It’s no exaggeration to say that the internet moves faster than the speed of light. On Sunday, a clip of Leonardo DiCaprio from Wolf of Wall Street set to Meshuggah with him making Jens Kidman-like facial expressions set the web on fire. It’s garnered 1.8...Yep, there’s an instrumental ‘brony metal’ band
[youtube]http://youtu.be/GKGevW0UyBY[/youtube] If you don’t know what “bronies” are, consider yourself lucky and try not to Google it. In fact, we’ll save you some time. Essentially, it’s dudes, many of them older ones, that are into...It’s a slow news day – here are some goats
[youtube]http://youtu.be/58-atNakMWw[/youtube] We here at Metal Insider love goats. They’re pretty much the most metal of all animals. From Biquette, the grindcore-loving French goat that passed away recently, to the band Goatwhore, they’re well...Metal albums with googly eyes is why the internet exists
Every now and then, you can start to wonder why the internet was even invented. Then you see a Tumblr page like Metal Albums with Googly Eyes and everything makes sense. Thank you, internet! The site’s only a few days old, but it’s already chock full of...Follow Us
Explore 30 new albums just announced – 8/19/2025
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Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: Chaos releases – 9/22/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s list finds us looking forward to albums from Cannibal Corpse, Chaver, My Lament, Teenage Fanclub, Winterstorm,...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)
New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the...
New & Noteworthy: Reader of the releases – 04/28/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. 2023 is flying by with April coming to a close! With the new Elvenking album to the live Cradle of Filth record, there’s so much...