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...
by Zach Shaw | Oct 11, 2011 | Label Moves
Just a day after entering the studio to record a new album, Shadows Fall announced that they have signed a new multi album recording deal with Razor & Tie in North America. This may comes as a bit of a surprise for fans since the band’s last album Retribution was...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 26, 2011 | Web 2.Oooh Yeah!
Twitter is such a magical thing. First the social network brought Devin Townsend and The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Greg Puciato together, and now it looks like it’s the cause of another awesome collaboration. Thanks to a series of tweets, Devildriver frontman Dez Fafara...
by Metal Insider | Jul 26, 2011 | Releases
The aspirations of young bands are usually to become the best in their genre and achieve widespread recognition. It’s not often that bands reach these aspirations very quickly, though, due to the highly competitive nature of the modern metal world. Usually it...