by Zenae Zukowski | Sep 12, 2016 | Metal on Metal, New Music
Not exactly sure what happened this year, but I couldn’t be any happier with the plethora of kickass releases that has been coming out this year which started from January with Avantasia’ Ghostlights to the recent release of Gojira’s Magma. The list is endless...
by Metal Insider | Dec 10, 2015 | Best of 2015, News
Composing 2015’s Top 10 began with reflecting on my Top 10 of 2014 and what lessons I learned from that process. There were two that stood out: expect the unexpected, and go with my gut instinct. To that end, I’m not spending any time overthinking and...
by Metal Insider | Aug 14, 2015 | Columns, Criminally Slept-On
In Criminally Slept-On, Schuler Benson takes a look at some of the most underrated tracks from his favorite prolific bands’ back catalogs. Without a doubt, Soilwork is one of the most celebrated acts in the history of Scandinavian metal. From their early...
by Metal Insider | Mar 6, 2015 | News, Touring
Finnish progressive melodic death/doom metallers Insomnium released their latest album, Shadows of the Dying Sun, last April on Century Media. The band just wrapped up a tour supporting Dark Tranquillity in January, and have already announced their first ever...
by Metal Insider | Dec 11, 2014 | Best of 2014, Lists, New & Noteworthy, News, Top 10
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...