Killswitch Engage have announced their new album, This Consequence, is scheduled to arrive on February 21, 2025, via Metal Blade Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has dropped a video for their new single, "Forever Aligned." Killswitch Engage will take the...
Black Sheep Wall tour diary: installment 3
On Sunday, the tour between fellow California sludge bands Black Sheep Wall and Colombian Necktie draws to a close. As proud sponsors of the tour, we’ve been bringing you a tour diary from Black Sheep Wall. You can read installments one and two with from drummer...Tour Diary: Black Sheep Wall, installment two
Black Sheep Wall and Colombian Necktie are smack dab in the middle of their Metal Insider-sponsored tour. They’ll be continuing on the road through the end of the month, and Black Sheep Wall guitarist Scott checked in with us on the road for another update. You...Black Sheep Wall tour diary: Day 1
On Friday, the Metal Insider-sponsored tour with Black Sheep Wall and Colombian Necktie kicked off. The two-like-minded sludge bands will be shredding the west coast and Southwest for the remainder of the week, and we’re having Black Sheep Wall drummer Jackson...Tour Diary: Arabrot, Norway and Belgium
Norwegian band Arabrot were one of our five bands to watch at the Inferno Festival in Norway earlier this year. The band’s brand of sludge and noise had us pretty instantly hooked, and they delivered live. With the band recently having wrapped up a tour in Europe,...Tour diary: Arabrot, week 1
Norwegian band Arabrot were one of our five bands to watch at the Inferno Festival in Norway earlier this year. The band’s brand of sludge and noise had us pretty instantly hooked, and they delivered live. With the band currently on tour in Europe, the band...Follow Us
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Architects drop “Whiplash” video; new album arriving in February
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...
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...
New & Noteworthy: Manual Fire Releases 6/21/2024 – 6/28/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The next couple of weeks will see the returns of Kittie, earthtone9, The Story So Far and Dirty Three, debuts from O. and Mighty Mighty...
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...