Concert Calendar (11/13-11/19): What Happened To This Year, YA’LL? Goatwhore, Dying Fetus, & more
Hey, all. Hope everybody is attending all of the gigs. This week, Ian sliced out the fat while listing a bunch of totally awesome shows that are speed walking us towards the end of another crispy November. There is plenty of primo events to check out as the...
Top 10 Breakthrough Metal/Hard Rock Albums of 1993
It’s hard to believe that 1993 was 30 years ago. With grunge becoming a mainstay on MTV and Top 40 radio over the previous couple of years, the mainstream was starting to favor a harder edge to their music. The year saw highly praised debuts from Tool, Cynic...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Hyperia’s Jon Power reveals his cat’s metalhead tendencies since kittenhood
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s newest 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 Hyperia’s Jon Power reveals his cat has enjoyed metal since she was a...
Top 5 Essential Audiobooks for Metalheads
Essential Audiobooks for Metalheads For those of us too busy to sit down and binge a book, there's always the audiobook, and there's no shortage of metal to be found here. For biographies and histories, the audiobook will probably feel more personal, engaging,...
Paws, Pets & Metal: Display of Decay’s Brandon Siefert reveals his cat loves the band’s new album ‘Vitriol’
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s newest 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 Display of Decay’s Brandon Siefert, who just released their new...
Alluvial unleash “Fogbelt” video; new EP arriving in January
Alluvial have unleashed a video for their latest single "Fogbelt." The track is taken from their upcoming EP, Death Is But a Door, set to release on January 12 via Nuclear Blast Records. The live performance video, shot and edited by Randy Edwards, captures the...
New & Noteworthy: Dark Releases – 11/3/2023 -11/10/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Last week saw new albums from the likes of The Struts, Suffocation, Bad Wolves, Spiritbox, Silent Planet, Yawning Balch, Dying...
Hinayana share “A Tide Unturning” lyric video featuring Wolfheart’s Tuomas Saukkonen
Austin, Texas-based melodic death metal unit Hinayana are set to release their sophomore album, Shatter And Fall, tomorrow (10th) via Napalm Records. The group has now shared a lyric video for their latest single, "A Tide Unturning," featuring guest vocals from...
Green Lung share “Hunters In The Sky” video
Green Lung's third full-length offering, The Heathen Land, arrived last week via Nuclear Blast. To continue with the celebration of their new record, the group has shared a video for their latest single, "Hunters In The Sky." Tom Templar comments:...
Steven Wilson unveils “Beautiful Scarecrow” video
Steven Wilson shares a haunting music video for "Beautiful Scarecrow," a track from his latest album, The Harmony Codex. The video, directed by Jess Cope and Venkatram Viswanathan, tells a gothic horror story in a post-apocalyptic world divided by a deadly...
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Within Temptation streaming ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ inspired track “Ritual”
Within Temptation are set for their new album, Bleed Out to arrive on October 20th. These Dutch symphonic metal giants have recently unveiled their latest single, "Ritual." According to vocalist Sharon den Adel, the song was inspired by the 1996 classic, From...
Exclusive Album Stream: Australia’s Rocky’s Pride & Joy unveil debut LP ‘All The Colours of Darkness’ – a dive into doom and enigmatic wonders
Hailing from Adelaide, South Australia, meet doom trio Rocky's Pride & Joy, set to release their debut LP, All the Colours of Darkness, on Friday (29th)via Electric Valley Records. This eerie and enigmatic album explores occult rituals, parasites,...
Breaking the chains: an interview with Nervosa’s Helena Kotina on new album ‘Jailbreak’
Thrash metal outfit Nervosa are back with their fifth full-length album, Jailbreak, set to release this Friday (29th) via Napalm Records. This fresh record marks a bold new direction and serves as an introduction to their latest lineup. Guitarist and founding...
New & Noteworthy, August 7th – Difference Engine
The first release day of August brings a LOT of big names to the calendar. It's one of the biggest weeks on the busy summer release schedule, for that matter. And it all starts with one of the most well-respected names in the entire metal community. Check it all out...
New & Noteworthy, July 31st – Kill the Elite
It's been a great summer of releases so far, and that trend continues this week. It may be a short week in terms of numbers, but quality remains high with one of the greatest death metal acts in the world leading things off. Check it all out here! Kataklysm, Of...
New & Noteworthy, July 24th – Terminally Unique
It's the week that many metal fans around the world have been waiting for. A new magnum opus from Virginia's pride and joy is being unleashed, and no one can wait to get their hands on it! That's just the tip of the iceberg, though. Be sure to read everything for the...