Counterparts have announced a North American Tour for February and March 2025 with support from Pain of Truth, Malevolence, and Foreign Hands. Tickets go on sale Friday (15th) at 10:00 AM local time. The tour announcement arrived shortly after the Canadian metal...
Metallica reveals book cover for ‘Master of Puppets’ story
If you wanted to know more about Metallica’s history, aside from the countless of documentaries, biographies and videos you can find at this point in time, wait no more as the band revealed the cover for their next book documenting the story of their 1986 Master...Metallica (kinda) playing the Super Bowl
Metallica should play the halftime show at Super Bowl 50. We’ve said as much, and sports analysts and industry luminaries like Metal Blade’s Brian Slagel agree with us. And while it looks like the honors are going to Bruno Mars for the second time in three...Metallica making album as Kirk Hammett eyes making horror film
While we’ve spoken about why they don’t need to, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has given an interview to heavymetal.about.com where he confirms that Metallica are in the studio working on another album. That being said, there’s no timetable as to...Here’s why you’re not getting a Metallica album soon
In the seven years since Metallica released Death Magnetic, we’ve gotten one new song from them, last year’s “The Lords of Summer.” In between, the band’s done a lot of talking about heading to the studio, finishing the album, writing new...Here’s the Metallica beer truck… and some bad puns
We told you a few days ago that Metallica was coming out with their own line of limited edition Budweiser. Last night, attendees to the first major rock event at Quebec’s Centre Videotron saw a tanker truck filled with Bud outside the show. After the show, the...Follow Us
Counterparts announce winter 2025 North American Tour
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Balancing Acts: Camden Cruz of Seven Kingdoms on pushing forward with new EP ‘The Square
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. Seven Kingdoms guitarist Camden Cruz discusses the group's recent success,...
Thulcandra drop “Fallen Angel’s Dominion” live video
Blackened death metal outfit Thulcandra are set to release their first live album, Live Demise, on December 6 via Napalm Records. Recorded live in 2011 in Munich, this album captures rare tracks from the group's early days, many of which haven’t been played in over a...
New & Noteworthy: Releases Can Wait – 2/2/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. On the first Friday of February, we’ll be getting new music from rock stalwarts J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.) and KMFDM, the return of...
New & Noteworthy: Project Releases Vol.01/26/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a...
New & Noteworthy: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
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 highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....