Concert Calendar (12/27-12/31): Dance the Year Away. The Bouncing Souls, NYE parties, and more
Ultra heavy holidays, ya'll! This will be the last gig listing of a great year for heavy music. Just four more day left, then it’s time for a little bit of the bubbly! Wrapping up 2024, Ian listed a bunch of New Year's Eve parties for you. Look out below at all some...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Equilibrium
Countdown to 2025: 34 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...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Sandveiss share their pets’ playlist featuring Job For a Cowboy and Alestorm
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 Sandveiss as their pets enjoy listening to artists including, Job For A...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Epica
Countdown to 2025: 34 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...
Metal Insider’s Zenae Zukowski’s Top 35 Albums of 2024
Fun fact: our New & Noteworthy section includes as many albums as possible released each week. We aim to cover them all, from independent artists just starting to big names. Compiling order links and adding songs to monthly playlists is an extensive process. The...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Forsaken Rite’s pets battle between calming cat music and Satyricon playlists
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 Forsaken Rite as their pets battle between calming cat music and Satyricon...
Interview: Mind Incision discuss their favorite music of 2024, plans for 2025, and more
Denver, CO rockers Mind Incision, led by Jason Neil (formerly of Arcanium), formed in 2022, have been releasing a number of singles throughout 2024 ahead of their U.S. tour supporting Mushroomhead. While the trek concluded in October, the group is looking ahead to...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Endseeker
Countdown to 2025: 35 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...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Maitreya’s pets purrlist include Knocked Loose & Between The Buried And Me
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 Canada’s Maitreya as their pets enjoy some Knocked Loose or Between the...
Balancing Acts: Hi/Jack’s Ron on juggling music, podcasting, and career
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. Ron of Milwaukee, WI rockers Hi/Jack, who released their new album, Everything...
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Testament to release remastered versions of The Legacy & The New Order in July
Bay Area thrash legends Testament will release remastered versions of their seminal albums The Legacy and The New Order on July 12th via Nuclear Blast Records. To celebrate, the band has also released video visualizers for "Over the Wall" and "Into the Pit." Chuck...
Nails unleash “Imposing Will” single; new album arriving in August
Southern California’s Nails have announced their long-awaited fourth album, Every Bridge Burning, is set to arrive on August 30th via Nuclear Blast Records. The album, produced by Kurt Ballou and featuring artwork by Jef Whitehead, led by founding vocalist/guitarist...
Simone Simons (Epica) unveils “In Love We Rust” video
Epica vocalist Simone Simons has unveiled a video for her new song "In Love We Rust." The track is the second single taken from her debut solo album, Vermillion, written alongside Arjen Lucassen (Ayreon). The record is set to arrive on August 23 via Nuclear Blast...
New & Noteworthy, February 3rd – Wheel of Time
Whether you like power metal or not, you have to respect Blind Guardian. This band is one of the greatest in the world when it comes to their genre, and no one will ever dispute that. While other bands have fallen apart and had to restructure themselves along the way,...
New & Noteworthy, January 27th – Mile Zero
It has officially begun. The release calendar has hit its stride, and with that stride we get a strong selection of high-profile new albums. Topping today's list are two albums from one of America's premier young bands, a progressive metal group that has been at the...
New & Noteworthy, January 20th – Disengaged
A slow release schedule for January continues, as only one new album makes it onto today's list. It is an extremely prominent album, though, so as with previous weeks, it's not about quantity as it is about quality. Check it out! Marilyn Manson, The Pale...
