by Tom Mis | Feb 13, 2025 | Reviews
Suppose you don’t count Lacuna Coil’s re-recording of their classic 2002 record Comalies. In that case, the gap between their pre-COVID album Black Anima and 2025’s Sleepless Empire is the longest between studio releases in their storied career....
by Ian Weber | Feb 13, 2025 | Reviews
Please leave it to my first major show of 2025, a tri-headed Cerberus billing, to drop an ultimate night of three spectacular bands before my eyes. Do you know what is not metal? Waiting in line. Do you know what IS? Kerry King and Phil Demmel hammering roofing...
by Jordeana Bell | Feb 12, 2025 | Reviews
Jinjer, the Ukranian hyper-soundscape of nu-metal heartthrob, just dropped the most perplexing example of early Ozzfest-style nostalgia with their new album, Duel. Metal has never been more lucrative and comforting than its current state of remarkable outbursts from...
by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 7, 2025 | Guest Blog, Reviews
Days of Jupiter’s new album, The World Was Never Enough, is now available via RPM (order here).The group has teamed up with Metal Insider to share a track by track guide of their latest release. Introduction The new album from Days Of Jupiter ”The world was...
by Chris Loomis | Feb 4, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
If you are a thrash-metal fan, this is the show for you . . . Metal Allegiance is the all-star team of heavy metal musicians, spawned from the Metal Masters clinics by former Marketing Director at Samson Technologies Mark Menghi. Metal Allegiance started as a live...
by Chris Loomis | Jan 28, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Mid to late January is always an exciting time in Southern California as the annual NAMM convention takes over Anaheim at the Convention Center drawing the who’s who of the music industry from artists to equipment manufacturers and also spawns dozens of music industry...