Paws, Pets, and Metal: How Kingcrown’s animals became natural metalheads
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 Kingcrown as their pets immersed into metal naturally. Tell us more...
Alice Cooper expands 2025 ‘Too Close For Comfort’ U.S. Tour
Alice Cooper has added more dates to the spring and summer 2025 leg of his Too Close For Comfort tour. General ticket sales begin Friday via this location. Tour dates 05/02 Huntsville, AL @ VBC Mark C. Smith Concert Hall 05/03 Macon, GA @ Atrium Health Amphitheater...
Steel Panther and Buckcherry announce co-headlining tour
Steel Panther and Buckcherry are teaming up for The Northern Exposure Tour. The 25-city trek kicks off April 11 in Redding, CA, before heading into Canada and wrapping up May 18 in North Towanda, NY. Tickets and more information can be found here. Tour Dates 04/11...
Inferno Metal Festival Founder Jan-Martin Jensen passes away
Jan-Martin Jensen, founder and organizer of Norway’s Inferno Metal Festival, has passed away after a battle with cancer. The festival, scheduled to take place April 17-20, 2025, in Oslo, will continue as planned. Our thoughts are with Jensen’s family and friends...
Dropkick Murphys Embark on St. Patrick’s Day Tour This Month
St. Patrick's Day comes with many built in traditions, but it's not wearing green or enjoying a pint that has many along the East Coast most excited every year. As has come tradition for the band, Dropkick Murphys have announced their St. Patrick's Day 2025 Tour. This...
New York Dolls’ David Johansen reveals stage 4 cancer diagnosis
David Johansen, co-founder of New York Dolls, has revealed he has been battling stage 4 cancer and a brain tumor since 2020. The singer kept his illness private until now, as the financial burden of his care has grown overwhelming. In November 2024, Johansen suffered...
Ozzy Osbourne sued for posting photos of himself without permission
According to Billboard, Ozzy Osbourne is facing a copyright lawsuit for allegedly posting unlicensed photos of himself on social media. Filed in Los Angeles federal court, the lawsuit claims the Black Sabbath legend shared images taken by rock photographer Neil...
The Legendary Tor-Helge Skei’s The Holos Collective Inks a Deal with Italy’s These Hands Melt
The Holos Collective, the project of the legendary Tor-Helge “Cernunnus” Skei of Manes, has inked a deal with the esteemed label These Hands Melt. Skei is celebrated for his pioneering brilliance within the realm of black metal and far beyond, having created a number...
Jet owned by Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil involved in fatal runway collision at Scottsdale Airport
A Learjet 35A registered to Chromed in Hollywood, a private charter plane business owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil based in Franklin, TN, was involved in a runway collision at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona. The incident left one person dead and three others...
Curses announce indefinite hiatus following drummer’s departure
West Virginia-based metalcore band Curses have announced an indefinite hiatus following the departure of drummer Tyrsson Demarest. The group cited "an untenable situation brought about by personal conflict" as the reason for both the lineup change and the hiatus....
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Spectral Wound unleash new single “The Horn Marauding”
Québec black metal outfit Spectral Wound have unleashed their new single, "The Horn Marauding." The track is taken from their upcoming album, Songs Of Blood and Mire, out August 23rd via Profound Lore Records. Following "Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal," the...
The Smashing Pumpkins announce new album
The Smashing Pumpkins have announced their new album, Aghori Mhori Mei, is set to arrive on August 2. This announcement comes ahead of their North American tour, with Green Day starting later this month. Aghori Mhori Mei marks the band's thirteenth album, following...
Simone Simons unveils “R.E.D.” video
Epica vocalist Simone Simons is gearing up for her debut solo album, Vermillion, out August 23rd via Nuclear Blast Records. Today (18th), the singer has unveiled a video for the song "R.E.D." Simons and Arjen Lucassen comment: "R.E.D. deals with the rise of artificial...
New & Noteworthy, January 22nd – Don’t Turn Your Back
This is not normal. January is supposed to be a month with few, if any, big-name releases. Yet here we are, three weeks into the release calendar, and several extremely significant albums are all hitting shelves this week. The game is changing, it would seem, since...
New & Noteworthy, January 15th – An Alternative to Freedom
After kicking off the year with a hefty release week, things normalize a bit for a January release date. 2016 continues to have a strong start, though, with a number of underground up-and-comers releasing new material today. Check it all out here! ...
New & Noteworthy, January 8th – Know Your History
Happy New Year to you all! It's been a crazy couple of weeks since we parted company. The loss of an icon, Lemmy, still hurts my soul, but I know he would want the music to go on, first and foremost, in the same manner that he lived his life. Lemmy would certainly be...
