While we highlighted Slipknot's long-awaited, rumored collection, Look Outside Your Window, will get a Record Store Release, there are many more for 2026 to explore. Highlights include records from Megadeth, Meshuggah, Puscifer, Babymetal, Motorhead, and more. Metal...
It’s 2014, so of course Motograter are reuniting
Remember Motograter? It’s ok if you don’t. Forming in the mid-90s, the nu-metal band split the difference between Mudvayne and Slipknot on their one major label album, which was released in 2003 on Slipknot’s label No Name via Elektra. Aside from the...Nadja Peulen returns to Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber, the pre-Devildriver nu-metal band fronted by Dez Fafara, surprised everyone a few years back by reuniting and touring. And while it was viewed as somewhat of a one-off that might have ended after their tour with Sevendust earlier this year, that seems to...A Perfect Circle to release greatest hits collection with new single
A Perfect Circle are documenting a decade of music from the past with a greatest hits release, along with their first new song in 10 years. The compilation, Three Sixty, will come out on November 19 and features the yet-to-be-released single “By and Down.”...Emperor To Reunite At Wacken Open Air 2014
The Wacken Open Air festival literally just kicked off today. Yet we already know one major addition to next year’s lineup: Emperor. Ihsahn and Samoth took part of a press conference earlier today at the German metal festival to announce that the legendary black metal...Nora Reuniting Later This Year
Two things are coming back to New Jersey this fall that will make metal and hardcore fans very happy. In September, Sayreville venue The Starland Ballroom will repoen following nearly a year of being closed due to Hurricane Sandy damage and renovations. And on...Follow Us
Record Store Day 2026 Releases: Meshuggah, Babymetal, Megadeth, Motorhead, etc.
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Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release
Slipknot will finally release Look Outside Your Window, a long-rumored collection of previously unreleased material recorded during the sessions for 2008's All Hope Is Gone. The experimental project — created by Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn "Clown"...
Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’
Progressive German metal outfit The Hirsch Effekt have unleashed their most melancholic and introspective album yet with Der Brauch on January 30, 2026. Read the review on Metal Insider here. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nils Wittrock and bassist/vocalist Ilja...
New & Noteworthy: Field of Releases – 11/21/2025
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 the release of Aerosmith and Yungblud’s collaborative EP and a holiday album from Stryper, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy: Embrace the Releases – 11/14/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week saw new albums from the likes of Cheap Trick, The Devil Wears Prada, Mezzrow and Of Mice & Men amongst the many...
New & Noteworthy: Echoes In Releases – 11/7/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. November kicks off with new music from the likes of Finger Eleven, Agnostic Front, Armor For Sleep, Drain and Alcatrazz among the many...