by Metal Insider | May 22, 2012 | Releases
In the highly competitive music industry, even metal bands have to fight for increasing recognition with each new release. It’s very difficult for bands to see increases in sales numbers from one album to the next, as any reader of Metal by Numbers is aware....
by Metal Insider | Oct 11, 2011 | Interviews
1986 was a rough year. The Challenger shuttle exploded, Chernobyl melted down, plus Lady Gaga and Shia LaBeouf were both born. Amidst these horrible events a young hardcore band surfaced from a nondescript alleyway in Queens, NY. Two and a half decades later, that...
by Metal Insider | Sep 13, 2011 | Releases
This week is going to be jam-packed with high-selling metal albums, I can already tell. The list of high-profile new records appearing today just seems to keep going on and on and on! It’s certainly exciting, but it also raises the question – is it...
by Metal Insider | Sep 6, 2011 | Releases
The Summer came and went in a flash, and suddenly it’s Autumn again, with all the usual back-to-school mayhem occurring and the holiday season just over the horizon. For metalheads, this is a bittersweet time, because while the Summer concert festival period is...
by Metal Insider | Jul 29, 2011 | Headbangers Brawl
Headbanger’s Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’sBram and Zach take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. This past week, we got to hear new music from not one but TWO...