British metalcore outfit Architects are back with a new record, The Sky, The Earth & All Between, scheduled to arrive on February 28, 2025, via Epitaph Records. Their forthcoming eleventh full-length offering is the overall follow-up to 2022's The Classic Symptoms...
Black Sabbath’s ‘Heaven And Hell’ Is 33 Years Old Today
33 years ago today, one of the most important Black Sabbath albums in their career was released. Heaven and Hell was the first album to feature the band’s replacement for Ozzy Osbourne, former Rainbow singer Ronnie James Dio. In fact, it was essentially an album...Ozzy One Year Closer To Retirement Age
If there’s one thing we can be sure of, it’s that with a Black Sabbath album in the works, that Ozzy Osbourne isn’t retiring anytime soon. In fact, five years ago on the mostly-forgettable Black Rain, he released a single telling his fans that...Did Billy Joel Help Invent The Blast Beat?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLuiVJBZyVM[/youtube] This is absolutely insane, and it’s been kicking around for a while, but according to Decibel, the modern blast beat is 42 years old, and one of the co-owners of it is none other than Billy Joel....Happy Birthday Geezer Butler!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOXPSSZkFD0[/youtube]Today is G//Z/R bassist Geezer Butler’s 63rd birthday. He also played bass in a band called Black Sabbath. In honor of the master bassist, here’s “N.I. B.” with the bass solo intro...Peter Steele Would Have Turned 50 Today
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aWWXcDY3zM[/youtube] Today is the day that Type O Negative frontman/bassist Peter Steele would have turned 50. Had he been around to witness it, he’d likely have made a wry, sarcastic comment about it. It’s tragic...Follow Us
Architects drop “Whiplash” video; new album arriving in February
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Obscura unveil “Silver Linings” video; new album arriving in February
German progressive/technical death metal masters Obscura have announced their new album, A Sonication, is scheduled to arrive on February 7, 2025, via Nuclear Blast. The album marks the second installment of their conceptual trilogy, and overall follow-up from 2021's...
Spiritbox unveil “Perfect Soul” video; new album arriving in March
Spiritbox have revealed their second album, Tsunami Sea, set to release on March 7, 2025 via Pale Chord and Rise Records. To accompany the announcement, the group has unveiled a Dylan Hryciuk-directed video for their new single, "Perfect Soul." The Canadian metal...
New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Friday’s releases include new music from legendary artists John Cale and Fu Manchu, long-running bands Annabel, The Early November...
New & Noteworthy: Theories of Releases – 6/7/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first New Music Friday of June sees releases from veteran bands like Bon Jovi, Cactus and Evergrey, as well as Butthole Surfers’ JD...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of the Forgotten – 5/31/2024
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 new works from the likes of Buffalo Tom, Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Nestor, Shrapnel & Thou, the debut of...