Paws, Pets, and Metal: The Mourning’s pets are “fur-ever” stuck listening to heavy tunes
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 The Mourning as they reveal their pets had no choice getting into...
Killswitch Engage announce May tour dates w/ Shadows Fall, Fit For a King, and Boundaries
Killswitch Engage have added dates to their spring 2025 headline tour in support of their upcoming album, This Consequence, out February 21 via Metal Blade. Support for the new leg will come from Shadows Fall, Fit For a King, and Boundaries. Tickets go on sale this...
Venamoris unveil Scorpions cover “Animal Magnetism;” new album arriving in February
Darkwave-metal duo Venamoris, featuring Paula and Dave Lombardo, will release their second album, To Cross or To Burn, on February 28 via Ipecac Recordings. Along with the announcement, the duo shared a Displaced/Replaced-created video for the haunting cover of...
Jane’s Addiction members working on new music
As mentioned in Metal Insider's list of bands that disbanded in 2024, three members of Jane's Addiction appear to be working on new music together. On Friday (3rd), bassist Eric Avery addressed his excitement on Instagram about working on new tunes with drummer...
Former Mushroomhead vocalist Jeffrey Nothing reveals cancer diagnosis
Former Mushroomhead vocalist/co-founder Jeffrey Hatrix, known as Jeffrey Nothing, has come forward to reveal he's battling cancer only nine months after losing his wife, Stacy, to the same illness. His daughter, Mea, launched a GoFundMe campaign to assist with medical...
New & Noteworthy: New Year, New Releases – 1/3/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. To Start off 2025, this week sees new music from the likes of Megafauna and Patriarkh among the outstanding works hitting shelves. Don’t...
Golden Globes 2025: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross win, Daron Malakian reacts to System of a Down joke
The 2025 Golden Globes, held on Sunday (5), saw a mix of heartfelt moments and unexpected humor. Among the night's highlights of the metal world were Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross winning Best Original Score for their work on Challengers. This marks...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Heidevolk
Countdown to 2025: 23 Days SOOOOOOON, the famous word for 70000tons of Metal cruisers know to love and hate. And one thing you learn is announcements are always unpredictable. After experiencing the 2024 edition to its fullest capability, we captured all sixty-two...
SPV founder Manfred Schütz has died
We are saddened to report Manfred Schütz, founder of SPV and MIG Music, passed away on Friday (3rd). Schütz died at 74 after a long illness. An essential figure in the music industry, Schütz established SPV in 1984. After leaving SPV, Schütz founded MIG Music, where...
Former Unleashed guitarist Fredrik Lindgren passes away
Fredrik Lindgren, also known as Freddie Eugene, the original guitarist for Swedish death metal giants Unleashed, has passed away at 53. Lindgren played with Unleashed from 1989 to 1995, contributing to iconic albums like Where No Life Dwells (1991), Shadows In The...
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Lords of The Trident share “To Kill a God” video; new EP arriving in October
Lords of the Trident have announced their new EP, V.G.E.P. (Video Game EP), is set to arrive on October 1st. The EP is inspired by video games and is available exclusively to their $5+ Patreon supporters, along with access to past albums and more. To provide a taste...
Orden Ogan share “Conquest” video
Orden Ogan have shared a video for their new single, "Conquest." The track is taken from their upcoming album, The Order of Fear, out July 5th via Reigning Phoenix Music. Vocalist Sebastian "Seeb" Levermann comments: "'Conquest' turned out to be one of the best songs...
Crobot drop “Come Down” single; new album arriving in September
Crobot have announced their new album, Obsidian, set to arrive on September 13th via Megaforce Records. The group has dropped a visualizer for their new single, "Come Down," co-written by drummer Dan Ryan. Guitarist Chris Bishop comments: “As we started demoing songs,...
New & Noteworthy, April 28th – Cashing Out
More and more in the heavy music world these days, we're seeing that "breakup" very often means "hiatus" instead. That is the case with tonight's leading release, as one of the leading bands of last decade's post-hardcore scene returns with a new lineup and a new...
New & Noteworthy, April 21st – Beautiful
We have entered the greatest time of the year - festival season! With the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival kicking things off this past weekend, we've officially begun that wonderful period when entire weekends (or weeks) are devoted solely to concerts,...
New & Noteworthy, April 14th – Break In
Record Store Day is coming up this Friday, and a lot of great metal material is among the scheduled releases. However, there are still some albums making their regular Tuesday release, so read up on them here. Halestorm, Into the Wild Life (Atlantic)...
