by Metal Insider | May 9, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
Fourteen years. Fourteen long and lonely years we’ve all gone without an album’s worth of new material from New Orleans’ kings of sludgy misery, Eyehategod. How did we survive it? Surely there were the hundreds of bands influenced by...
by Matt Brown | Apr 15, 2014 | News, Rumors and Gossip
Last time we heard about AC/DC’s future plans, frontman Brian Johnson claimed that the band would be entering the studio and playing 40 shows around the world in celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary. Now there are reports emerging about AC/DC’s...
by Metal Insider | Apr 4, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
There was a time when you could easily identify a death metal band based on their geographic locale. Swedish death metal bands sounded utterly Swedish in the buzzsaw way. New York bands had their sound, Floridian bands theirs, Brazilian bands theirs, and so on and...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 3, 2014 | Conventions, Festivals
Right now, downtown Austin is bracing itself for the calm before the storm. In just four days (7), annual music, interactive and film mega-convention South by SouthWest (SXSW) will begin, and won’t let up until the following Sunday (16). Spring break for the...
by Metal Insider | Feb 28, 2014 | Awards, Columns, Headbangers Brawl
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. Yup, it’s that time of year again. The nominees for the 6th annual...