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The next Megadeth album might have blast beats on it

by Bram Teitelman | Dec 13, 2016 | Metal on Metal, New Music

It’s been a great year for Megadeth. Not only was Dystopia a nice comeback album that garnered the band another Grammy nomination and will likely end the year as one of the 100 best-selling albums of 2016, but the band picked up a new drummer in...

Mike Patton joins Dave Lombardo’s Dead Cross; album next year

by Bram Teitelman | Dec 12, 2016 | Metal on Metal

If you tune into Late Night With Seth Meyers this week, you’ll get a chance to see one of the best drummers in metal, as Dave Lombardo sits in on the kit. That’s not the only Lombardo news, however. As of today, his band Dead Cross, which features The...

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn writes protest song about Trump

by Bram Teitelman | Nov 22, 2016 | Metal on Metal, Video

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a pretty fascinating individual. His “The General’s Journals” entries on the band’s Facebook page are kind of like a diary, an unfiltered look that’s likely done without consulting any...

Sirenia have “Dim Days of Dolor” in new video

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 11, 2016 | Metal on Metal, Video

As this week focused on the Elections, there haven’t been that many videos released this week. However, today is November 11, and in case you did not know, the Norwegian gothic metallers Sirenia’s Dim Days of Dolor via Napalm Records is out now! To celebrate this...

Watch Oni’s xylosynth player play through “Barnburner”

by Bram Teitelman | Nov 10, 2016 | Metal on Metal

Ever seen a xylosynth player before? We didn’t until we saw Oni a few months back It was a strange thing to behold – a technical death metal band with a xylophone player that wasn’t exactly playing a xylophone took some getting used to. Earlier...

Korn says new album initially sounded like Meshuggah

by Bram Teitelman | Nov 10, 2016 | Metal on Metal

When Brian Welch first started talking about Korn’s then-forthcoming album earlier in the year, he said that The Serenity of Suffering was going to be a heavier album than The Paradigm Shift. It turns out that it is a surprisingly heavy album, a...

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Glass Lungs reveal track-by-track guide to new EP ‘Afterglow’

Brooklyn’s Glass Lungs are celebrating the arrival of their new EP, Afterglow. A blend of shoegaze atmosphere and post-hardcore melodies, the EP highlights the group's evolution. Glass Lungs have teamed up with Metal Insider to share a track-by-track guide behind...

Sadistic Force share track by track guide to new EP ‘Morbid Odyssey’

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