by Metal Insider | Apr 16, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Recently, both As I Lay Dying and Slayer revealed which producers they’ll be working in the studio soon. At first, these announcements reminded us how crucial of a role the...
by Metal Insider | Jan 10, 2012 | Releases
Welcome back to New & Noteworthy, and welcome to a new year of metal! I sincerely hope that all of you had an enjoyable holiday season, and that you enjoyed the end-of-year specials that appeared all everywhere (including my incredibly late Top 10 list). We had a...
by Metal Insider | Dec 20, 2011 | Lists
Here we are again, at the end of another year, and a list has to be made. And what do I do? I spend so much time deliberating and being indecisive that I’m late sending it in. Apologies to my MetalInsider colleagues for my lack of expediency. That said, this...
by Metal Insider | Nov 8, 2011 | Releases
It is now a foregone conclusion that I would likely be a terrible A&R person at a record label, because I am very bad at predicting trends in the metal world. For example, if you had asked me four years ago if instrumental metal would ever be a popular genre, I...
by Metal Insider | Oct 25, 2011 | Releases
With Halloween approaching, today’s title is only fitting, given that names are ideally kept hidden on the holiday of hidden identities. It also fits because there is a very strong likelihood that most of the bands on today’s list will not be recognized by...