Metal Insider’s Lisa Burke’s Top 10 Metal Albums of 2024
10) Kerry King, From Hell I Rise (Reigning Phoenix Music) Slayer broke up in 2019, so Kerry King decided to go solo. He's an amazing creative thrash guitarist, and this album is just as good as any of the most recent Slayer albums, if not better. His line up is...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Einherjer
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: Telling Lies honors unbreakable bond with Sam the dog
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 Telling Lies as the artist reflects on his dog Sam, who passed away last...
I(an) had to Be There: My Top Ten Gigs of 2024
Valzer delle candele, my fellow concert junkies. The end of another great year in concerts is coming to light, so it's now time I encapsulated my 2024 of attending gigs. Everyone this year in metal has memories of gigs and tours that will forever alter how they view a...
Metal Insider’s Meryth’s favorite albums of 2024
01) Persefone, Lingua Ignota: Part I (Napalm Records) This EP by the Andorrans with 5 songs says it all. Very Gojira-like, it plays between rough vocals and fast guitar riffs in a constant flirtation with the technicality of progressive metal. Incorporating...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: BornBroken’s Mike Decker’s cats purrfur attention over metal
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 BornBroken’s Mike Decker reveals his cats purrfur attention over listening...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Edenbridge
Countdown to 2025: 37 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...
Rammstein share hour-long ‘World Stadium Tour 2019-2024’ documentary
German industrial metal giants Rammstein have unveiled a nearly hour-long documentary chronicling their monumental World Stadium Tour from 2019 to 2024. The film highlights 135 concerts witnessed by six million fans worldwide. Watch the clip below:
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Dynazty
Countdown to 2025: 37 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...
Mayhem to headline Decibel Magazine Tour 2025
The Decibel Magazine Tour returns in 2025 with Norwegian black metal legends Mayhem headlining the 12th edition of the North American tour. Support will come from Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, and New Skeletal Faces. Tickets are available at this location. Mayhem...
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Deathwish share Track By Track guide for new album ‘The Fourth Horseman’
Deathwish, from northern Wisconsin, are set for their new album, The Fourth Horseman, to drop tomorrow (7th) via Beer City Records (pre-order here). Known for their fierce, thrashy, hardcore punk sound, the band blends metal, hardcore, and punk rock throughout their...
Video Premiere: Shumaun – “Opposing Mirrors”
Virginia-based progressive rock outfit Shumaun have teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere the video for their latest single, "Opposing Mirrors." The track is the title track from their upcoming album, set to arrive on June 28th. The single features a lineup of...
Xasthur release new single “Selling Yourself to Die”
Xasthur has released "Selling Yourself to Die," the final single from their upcoming album Disharmonic Variations, set for release on July 5th. Scott Conner comments: "Giving too much of yourself, or whatever you have, and receiving very little in return. It means not...
New & Noteworthy, January 13th – Born Anew
Restarting the year in music is normally a slow process, but metal is jumping out the gate faster than most other genres. This week sees a pretty good mix of established groups and new talent, led by a band that leaped into prominence early in their career and has...
New & Noteworthy, January 6th – Glorious Treasures
We're back! It's 2015, and New & Noteworthy returns with the very first metal album to appear in the new year! It's also the only metal album being released this week, but as we all know, the new year starts slow. Besides, that just means all of your attention...
Metal Insider Contributor Chris Colgan’s Top 10 of 2014
If you've ever spent days agonizing over a project, checking and rechecking to make sure that it's right, finding something at the last minute that changed everything, and then finally deciding that you were just done and had to cut it off, then you understand what it...
