Beyond the Gates 2025: final lineup and daily schedules revealed
The Beyond the Gates Festival 2025 has unveiled its final lineup, adding eleven new acts, including Opeth, Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Taake, Tribulation, Lucifer, Hexvessel, Misþyrming, Attic, Helheim, and Gehenna. With eighteen bands making their festival debut, this...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Pythonic’s Morgan Warriner on his moshpit-loving dog and metal-hating cat
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s ongoing column on bands with pets, discovering who watches them on the road, and more. Get to know more about these metal furbabies. We caught up with Pythonic bassist Morgan Warriner as he reveals his dog creates mosh pits...
While She Sleeps announce 2025 North American Tour with Bury Tomorrow & Vended
UK metalcore outfit While She Sleeps have announced a North American tour in 2025 to promote their latest album, Self Hell. The tour kicks off April 2 in Cleveland, OH, and runs through April 30 in Charlotte, NC. Support will come form Bury Tomorrow and Vended....
Interview: dark Nordic folk artist Kati Rán on healing and mythology
Suffering is a universal experience, whether from loss, trauma, or the inevitable changes life brings. Music has long served as a powerful means of coping, offering a therapeutic resonance that soothes the mind and spirit. Dutch artist Kati Rán within the dark Nordic...
Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe expands ‘Just Beyond the Light’ spoken word book tour
Lamb of God's Randy Blythe has added more dates to his North American book tour in support of his second book, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head, out February 18 via Grand Central Publishing. The 15-stop tour offers an intimate evening...
Patriarkh (formerly Batushka) share “ВЕРШАЛИН II” visualizer
Polish black metal offering Patriarkh (formerly Batushka), led by Bartłomiej Krysiuk, have released a visualizer for their new single, "ВЕРШАЛИН II" (Lat. WIERSZALIN II). The track is taken from their upcoming album, ПРОРОК ИЛИЯ (Lat. PROROK ILJA), which is scheduled...
Reba Meyers (Code Orange) releases debut solo single: “Certain Uncertainty”
Code Orange guitarist/vocalist Reba Meyers has released her debut solo single, “Certain Uncertainty.” The track is accompanied by a self-shot video directed by Greg Puciato (Better Lovers/The Black Queen). Meyers collaborated with Gil Sharone (drums) and Judy Meyers...
Týr announce second leg of ‘Battle Ballads’ North American Tour
Faroe Islands-based folk metal giants Týr will return to North America for the second leg of their Battle Ballads tour. The trek kicks off on February 13th in Brooklyn, NY, and will run through March 5th in Joliet, IL, with support from Æther Realm. Tickets are...
The Melvins announce California “spring break” 2025 tour
The Melvins will enjoy spring break next year with a string of California shows. Their Spring Break trek kicks off in March, preceding their highly anticipated Savage Imperial Death March Part II tour with Napalm Death. Tickets for the California dates will go on sale...
Whitechapel announce spring 2025 tour w/ Brand of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds & Alluvial
Whitechapel have announced their Hymns in Dissonance headlining North American tour. The trek kicks off this spring on March 18th in Raleigh, NC, and concludes on April 19th in Atlanta, GA. Support will come from Brand of Sacrifice, 200 Stab Wounds, and Alluvial....
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Linkin Park announce 2025 World Tour, drop new single “Two Faced”
Linkin Park have announced a massive world tour in 2025, supporting their new album, From Zero, out tomorrow (15th) via Warner. The trek will cover North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America with special guests on select dates, including Queens of the Stone Age,...
Counterparts announce winter 2025 North American Tour
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...
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,...
New & Noteworthy: Life promises releases – 2/16/2024
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 the returns of The Jack Rubies and Ihsahn, the debuts of Crawlers and The Requiem, as well as...
New & Noteworthy: Releases in Oath 2/9/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s New Music Friday sees the release of new albums from the likes of Chelsea Wolfe, tAKiDA, Infected Rain, TSO, Split...
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...