by Metal Insider | Nov 9, 2010 | Releases
We are halfway through autumn, mere weeks away from the holiday season, and the Christmas music is already starting to play in some stores. Personally, I’m rather irritated by this – not because of the music itself, but because of the choice in Christmas...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 5, 2010 | Events, Touring
You’ve gotta hand it to Taco Bell. All touring bands need to eat, and their ‘Feed The Beat’ program has come through for hungry bands for the last several years. The way the program works is that 100 bands are given $500 in Taco Bell bucks. If they...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 23, 2010 | Touring
Taco Bell’s annual Feed The Broke Beat program is launching again today. It’s the fifth year of the program and alongside other genres of music, they’ve always shown support to metal bands. In the past few years, they’ve sponsored Shadows Fall, Atreyu,...
by Metal Insider | Jul 13, 2010 | Releases
For those who have been living under a rock for the past four months, the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival kicked off this past weekend in California. It’s only fitting, therefore, that three of this week’s new releases come from Mayhem bands. In its third...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 28, 2010 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week saw a lot of metal and rock debuts hitting the charts. But it’s the AC/DC Iron Man 2 soundtrack that had the biggest debut. While Bram’s prediction that it...