Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Crypta
Countdown to 2025: 42 Days SOOOOOOON, the famous word for 70000tons of Metal cruisers know to love and hate. And one thing you learn is announcements are always unpredictable. After experiencing the 2024 edition to its fullest capability, we captured all sixty-two...
Ice Nine Kills announce ‘The Silver Scream-A-Thon’ U.S. headline tour
Ice Nine Kills have announced their headlining Silver Scream-A-Thon U.S. tour, produced by Live Nation. Taking a part of Metallica's two-night playbook, likely inspired by opening for them over the last two years and into next, Ice Nine Kills will have a two-night...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Insurrection share their pets’ eclectic playlist
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s ongoing column on bands with pets, discovering who watches them on the road, and more. Get to know more about these metal furbabies. We caught up with Mike Birch of Insurrection as he shared what pets the band has and their...
King Diamond unleashes “Spider Lilly” video
Finally! New King Diamond music is on its way. Earlier this week, the legend dropped a video for “Spider Lilly,” the lead single and video from his upcoming Horror Trilogy. The first part of the trilogy, Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920, introduces a collaboration with...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Carnation
Countdown to 2025: 42 Days SOOOOOOON, the famous word for 70000tons of Metal cruisers know to love and hate. And one thing you learn is announcements are always unpredictable. After experiencing the 2024 edition to its fullest capability, we captured all sixty-two...
Paws, Pets, and Metal: Nightwraith’s Benjamin Pitts on his pets’ love for Steely Dan and Peter Gabriel
Paws, Pets & Metal is Metal Insider’s ongoing column on bands with pets, discovering who watches them on the road, and more. Get to know more about these metal furbabies. We caught up with Nightwraith’s Benjamin Pitts reveals his pets prefer world musical...
Charting the course to 2025: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2024 Artist Spotlight: Blood Red Throne
Countdown to 2025: 42 Days SOOOOOOON, the famous word for 70000tons of Metal cruisers know to love and hate. And one thing you learn is announcements are always unpredictable. After experiencing the 2024 edition to its fullest capability, we captured all sixty-two...
Def Leppard, Nickelback, Mötley Crüe and Shinedown to headline inaugural Boardwalk Rock Festival
May 2025 is becoming a competitive month for festivals, from Milwaukee Metal Fest and more. A brand new fest is heading to the East Coast: Boardwalk Rock Festival in Ocean City, Maryland, which will take place on May 17th and 18th, 2025 with headliners Def Leppard,...
Milwaukee Metal Fest 2025: Gwar, Arch Enemy, and more added + daily lineup revealed
Milwaukee Metal Fest will return to The Rave/Eagles Ballroom from May 16-18, 2025, with a pre-party on May 15. More bands have been added to the stacked lineup, including Gwar, Arch Enemy, Oppressor, Wormrot, Between The Buried And Me, Sacred Reich, Necrot, and Frozen...
Beyond the Gates 2025: final lineup and daily schedules revealed
The Beyond the Gates Festival 2025 has unveiled its final lineup, adding eleven new acts, including Opeth, Paradise Lost, Candlemass, Taake, Tribulation, Lucifer, Hexvessel, Misþyrming, Attic, Helheim, and Gehenna. With eighteen bands making their festival debut, this...
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Obscura unveil “Silver Linings” video; new album arriving in February
German progressive/technical death metal masters Obscura have announced their new album, A Sonication, is scheduled to arrive on February 7, 2025, via Nuclear Blast. The album marks the second installment of their conceptual trilogy, and overall follow-up from 2021's...
Spiritbox unveil “Perfect Soul” video; new album arriving in March
Spiritbox have revealed their second album, Tsunami Sea, set to release on March 7, 2025 via Pale Chord and Rise Records. To accompany the announcement, the group has unveiled a Dylan Hryciuk-directed video for their new single, "Perfect Soul." The Canadian metal...
Poppy unveils “the centers falling out” performance video
Poppy's new album, Negative Spaces has dropped today (15th) via Sumerian Spaces. The innovative artist has unveiled a performance video for the song "the centers falling out," in celebration of her latest effort's arrival. Poppy is set to kick off 2025 supporting...
New & Noteworthy: Myths of Releases – 3/22/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus...
New & Noteworthy: Warp Speed Invincible Project Releases – 3/1/2024 – 3/15/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases hitting shelves. The last couple of weeks saw new music from the likes of Waves In Autumn, Bruce Dickinson, Ministry, Kaiser Chiefs, Judas Priest, The...
New & Noteworthy: The Other Side of Releases – 2/23/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among the releases on this packed New Music Friday, we will see the returns of Modern English, Job For A Cowboy and Sleepytime...