Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Dalriada
Countdown to 2025: 41 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...
Power Trip, Nekrogoblikon, Category 7, and more added to 2025 Headbangers Boat
More bands have been added to the 2025 edition of Lamb of God's Headbangers Boat. The voyage will now see Power Trip, The Exploited, Nekrogoblikon, Gideon, Walls of Jericho, and Category 7, setting sail from Miami, Florida, to Cozumel, Mexico, on the Norwegian Jewel...
New & Noteworthy: Post Releases – 12/20/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As we near the end of the year, this next-to-last week of 2024 sees new releases from the likes of Subway to Sally, Epitaph and Pandemic...
Watch pro-shot video of Metallica’s 2024 Helping Hands show
Professional footage of Metallica's fourth Helping Hands Concert & Auction, held on December 13 at the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, is now available to watch on YouTube. The event featured an incredible acoustic and electric set by Metallica and guest...
Metal Insider’s Matt Brown’s Top 10 Albums of 2024
Let’s face it: there’s a lot of music out there and so little time to truly enjoy it all. Even when you do enjoy it, how do you remember all the albums you’ve listened to throughout the year? And how do you make sure you bug your friends to listen to that new kickass...
Static-X announce 2025 Machines vs Monsters tour with GWAR
Static-X will return on the road in 2025 with their Machines Vs Monsters Tour. Featuring original Wisconsin Death Trip members Tony Campos, Koichi Fukuda, and Ken Jay, along with vocalist/guitarist Xer0, the tour will feature special guests GWAR, Dope, and A Killer's...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Crypta
Countdown to 2025: 42 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...
Ice Nine Kills announce ‘The Silver Scream-A-Thon’ U.S. headline tour
Ice Nine Kills have announced their headlining Silver Scream-A-Thon U.S. tour, produced by Live Nation. Taking a part of Metallica's two-night playbook, likely inspired by opening for them over the last two years and into next, Ice Nine Kills will have a two-night...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Insurrection share their pets’ eclectic playlist
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 Mike Birch of Insurrection as he shared what pets the band has and their...
King Diamond unleashes “Spider Lilly” video
Finally! New King Diamond music is on its way. Earlier this week, the legend dropped a video for “Spider Lilly,” the lead single and video from his upcoming Horror Trilogy. The first part of the trilogy, Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920, introduces a collaboration with...
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The Halo Effect share “Cruel Perception” video
The Halo Effect have released a video for their new song, "Cruel Perception." The track is the third single taken from their upcoming album, March Of The Unheard, scheduled to arrive on January 10, 2025, via Nuclear Blast. Guitar wizard and main songwriter Niclas...
Dream Theater unveil “A Broken Man” visualizer
Dream Theater have released a Wayne Joyner-created visualizer for their new song, “A Broken Man.” The track is the second single taken from their forthcoming sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia, out February 7, 2025, via Inside Out Music/Sony Music. The track explores...
Wardruna share “Birna” video
Norwegian collective Wardruna has released "Birna," the title track from their upcoming album, out January 24 via Sony Music and By Norse Music. Meaning "she-bear" in Old Norse, the song honors the bear as a symbol of nature's guardian. The accompanying video, filmed...
New & Noteworthy: Permanent Releases – 11/8/2024
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 albums from the likes of Primal Scream, State Champs, Sólstafir, Neal Morse & The Resonance, Bad Astronaut and an...
New & Noteworthy: Sub Rosa in Releases – 11/1/2024
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 November will see the long-awaited returns of The Cure, Beardfish, Planes Mistaken For Stars and Warren...
New & Noteworthy: PowerReleases – October 25 – August 2, 2024
Editor's Note: New & Noteworthy has finally returned! After a lengthy delay with server issues, Metal Insider is back and here's all the New & Noteworthy releases from August 2nd - October 25th, including new playlists added and updated. Enjoy! October...