Photos/Review: Dark Angel level Los Angeles with an Extinction Level Event at The Belasco Theater with Hirax, Vio-lence and Sacred Reich – 10/16/2025
Southern California-based Dark Angel have made a triumphant return in 2025 by releasing their first album in 34 years, Extinction Level Event. They have also completed their first US headline tour in 30 years, supporting their latest musical contribution to their...
New & Noteworthy: Releases We Fall – 10/17/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see new music from the likes of Biohazard, Chrissie Hynde, Militarie Gun, All Time Low, Battle Beast and Sabaton amongst...
Iron Maiden celebrate 50 years with 40th anniversary vinyl, new coloring book
Iron Maiden are concluding 2025 with a bang, celebrating their 50th year by resurrecting Live After Death, a revised limited-edition of their 40th anniversary collector's 2LP set, out November 28, 2025, via Parlophone Records. The release includes remastered audio on...
Malevolent Creation’s Phil Fasciana steps away from tour
Malevolent Creation guitarist and founding member Phil Fasciana has been having a difficult time getting back on track since contracting a life-threatening illness of bacterial pneumonia while on tour in France back in August. Less than two months later, Fasciana did...
Watch: Metallica perform at Dreamfest; Kirk Hammett shares video from Tampa book tour
Metallica headlined Dreamfest at the Chase Center in San Francisco. These legends performed a 12-song set in support of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. The annual benefit, organized by Salesforce, featured tickets starting at $1,500, with proceeds going toward...
Fred Durst shares emotional video on the late Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers
Last night (18th), the music world was shaken up once again when we all learned the tragic news of Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers' passing. Now, in the aftermath of his death, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst has shared a heartfelt video processing the loss of his...
Slipknot files lawsuit to reclaim Slipknot.com domain
Ever wonder why Slipknot's website is Slipknot1.com all of these years? Well, we now have answers to that mystery that may have never crossed many minds. According to Domain Name Wire, Slipknot have filed a federal lawsuit to regain control of the domain Slipknot.com....
Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers dies at 48
We are sad to hear of the passing of Limp Bizkit bassist, backing vocalist, and co-founding member Sam Rivers, who has died at the age of 48. The band announced his passing earlier this evening (18th) via Instagram, with no cause of death disclosed, stating: " In...
Album Review: Battle Beast – Steelbound
2025 hasn't been an easy year for the metal world, following the heartbreaking losses of Ozzy Osbourne, Ace Frehley, Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg, and Brent Hinds, to name a few. Moments like these remind us why we turn to music in the first place: to feel, to remember, and...
Inside the sound of Hulu’s Into The Void: composer Andrew Gordon Macpherson on crafting an ‘ambient metal’ score
The new Hulu docuseries Into The Void: Life, Death & Heavy Metal premiered on September 22, 2025, exploring some of metal's darker stories of murder, addiction, rebellion, and redemption. Capturing eight episodes for its first season, creators Jason Eisner and...
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Explore 30 new albums just announced – 8/19/2025
We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: Releases Out – 10/20/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Hitting shelves this week, we have the first new material from The Rolling Stones in nearly two decades and a return to form from...
New & Noteworthy: Goodnight, Releases, I Love U, Listen – 10/6/2023 – 10/13/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Over the next two weeks, we have the return of Dogstar and prog-rocker Trevor Rabin to look forward to, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy: The releases ride again 9/29/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s albums include the debut of a new death metal project from Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen and the return of...
