by Zach Shaw | Sep 12, 2012 | Branding, Screaming For Justice
As you may recall, The Gap recently sold a t-shirt with a design that had a striking resemblance to the cover of Judas Priest’s Screaming For Vengeance. In fact, it seemed like a blatant rip off of Doug Johnson’s iconic 1982 artwork. And as it turns out, Judas Priest...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 31, 2012 | Television
Whether you’ve been watching it or not, we all know that the Republican National Convention took place this past week in Tampa, FL. Now to many fans, Tampa serves as the “mecca” of death metal. And as it turns out, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow agrees. During a segment called...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 21, 2012 | Recaps
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiTexi4vg8Q[/youtube] The Metal Insider crew couldn’t make it out to this past weekend’s inaugural Knotfest because we’re on the East Coast. That didn’t stop contributor and KSYM/San Antonio metal...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 20, 2012 | That's Unfortunate, Touring
One of the high points of the excellent Summer Slaughter tour we got to see earlier this month was Periphery’s rock solid set. It was great to hear songs from Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal played live, and while they’re more or less the gods...
by Metal Insider | Aug 10, 2012 | New Music
We’ve seen quite a bit of Enslaved since Axioma Ethica Odini came out, as they’ve been touring in support of it with such luminaries as Cannibal Corpse, Dimmu Borgir, Triptykon and Alcest. In fact, the Norwegian prog-black masters have been on the road so...