Counterparts announce winter 2025 North American Tour
Counterparts have announced a North American Tour for February and March 2025 with support from Pain of Truth, Malevolence, and Foreign Hands. Tickets go on sale Friday (15th) at 10:00 AM local time. The tour announcement arrived shortly after the Canadian metal...
Download Festival 2025 announces Green Day, KoRn, and Sleep Token as headliners
The 2025 edition of U.K.'s Download Festival is set for June 13-15 at Donington Park, Leicestershire, marking its 22nd edition with a refreshed lineup branded as DLXXII. For the first time, the festival will feature first-time headliners Green Day, KoRn, and Sleep...
Machine Head announce 2025 Spring Tour w/ In Flames, Lacuna Coil & Unearth
Machine Head have announced a massive North American tour with Swedish legends In Flames, Italian metal giants Lacuna Coil, and Unearth. To mark the tour, Machine Head are releasing a collaborative track, "These Scars Won't Define Us," featuring all four bands. The...
My Chemical Romance announce summer 2025 Stadium tour
My Chemical Romance have announced a summer 2025 North American stadium tour, celebrating their iconic album The Black Parade. Following a full album performance at the When We Were Young festival, the group will perform the classic record in 10 select cities. Each...
Album Review: MIRACLE OF SOUND – ‘Materia Best Of 2011 – 2024’
Renowned producer and musician Gavin Dunne has released his solo project, Miracle of Sound, the first physical release, Materia (Best of 2011-2024), on November 8th via Napalm Records. Miracle of Sound already has multimillion followers on YouTube; Dunne shows off his...
Interview: Lifesick’s Simon Shoshan talks new album ‘Loved By None, Hated By All’
The band biographies on the Metal Blade Records website are impressively rich in historical and geographical detail. Each profile leaves you with a vivid sense of the era and atmosphere surrounding the artist - by the end, I almost feel prepared to defend myself with...
Balancing Acts: Camden Cruz of Seven Kingdoms on pushing forward with new EP ‘The Square
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. Seven Kingdoms guitarist Camden Cruz discusses the group's recent success,...
Album Review: Lifesick – ‘Loved By None, Hated By All’
Sweet Jesus, absolutely nothing better than a hardcore album that has you forgetting that you wanted to jump off a cliff five minutes prior. The Danish delicacy, Lifesick, come at us again with gnashing teeth, dropping their much-needed fourth album (follow up to...
Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno’s cause of death revealed
Former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno’s cause of death has been revealed. Di'Anno, born Paul Andrews, passed away on October 21 at his home in Salisbury at 66. A statement from his sisters, Cheryl and Michelle, shared that he died from a tear in the sac around his...
Photos/Review: Set It Off take on Long Island w/ From Ashes To New, New Years Day & If Not For Me – 11/2/2024
Set It Off are proving to be road warriors in 2024. The red-hot band spent the latter parts of the summer on tour with Nothing More, Post Profit and From Ashes to New through late September as part of Nothing More’s CARNAL TOUR. After capping off that tour on...
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Balancing Acts: Camden Cruz of Seven Kingdoms on pushing forward with new EP ‘The Square
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. Seven Kingdoms guitarist Camden Cruz discusses the group's recent success,...
Thulcandra drop “Fallen Angel’s Dominion” live video
Blackened death metal outfit Thulcandra are set to release their first live album, Live Demise, on December 6 via Napalm Records. Recorded live in 2011 in Munich, this album captures rare tracks from the group's early days, many of which haven’t been played in over a...
Avatarium share “I See You Better In The Dark” video
Swedish doom rockers Avatarium are set to release their sixth studio album, Between You, God, The Devil and The Dead, on January 24, 2025, via AFM Records. The group has now dropped a music video for their latest single, "I See You Better In The Dark." Guitarist...
New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Friday’s releases include new music from legendary artists John Cale and Fu Manchu, long-running bands Annabel, The Early November...
New & Noteworthy: Theories of Releases – 6/7/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first New Music Friday of June sees releases from veteran bands like Bon Jovi, Cactus and Evergrey, as well as Butthole Surfers’ JD...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of the Forgotten – 5/31/2024
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 works from the likes of Buffalo Tom, Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Nestor, Shrapnel & Thou, the debut of...