Charting the course to 2026: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2025 Artist Spotlight: Majestica
Countdown to 2026: 56 Days SOOOOOOON, a word 70000tons of Metal cruisers know all too well, love it or hate it. 70000tons of Metal, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, returns for its 2026 edition from January 29 – February 2, 2026, setting sail from...
Kelly Osbourne accepts Ozzy Osbourne’s Lord Mayor’s Award
Birmingham honored the late Ozzy Osbourne with a private ceremony celebrating his life, legacy, and lasting impact on his hometown. Held on what would have been Ozzy’s 77th birthday, on Wednesday (3rd), the event saw the Deputy Lord Mayor, Councillor Ken Wood,...
God Forbid release short documentary film
God Forbid have released a new mini-documentary, 20 Years of Treason via YouTube. The film revisits the band’s landmark album, 2005's IV: Constitution Of Treason, which they performed in full during their 2025 tour. Featuring new interviews with Doc Coyle, Byron...
Metal By Numbers – October Legends in charts – 10/17/2025
Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from October 17, 2025. Yes, we’re catching up, stay tuned, there’s more to come! From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts....
Sebastian Görlach announces new project Avertat
After stepping away from Thuringian death-doom outfit Décembre Noir in April 2024, Sebastian Görlach has returned with a new project: Avertat. Musically and lyrically, Avertat dives into darker corners of human connection. The project’s first single, “[7]”, is...
Pets, Paws & Metal: Born Divided introduce the cat who loves their music
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 Quebec City melodic death metal act Born Divided, who recently dropped...
Fan dies during Battle Beast performance in Slovakia
A tragedy occurred during Battle Beast's show on Monday (1st) at the Majestic Music Club in Bratislava, Slovakia, when a concertgoer suffered a heart attack and passed away during the band's performance. On Tuesday (2nd), Battle Beast issued a statement addressing the...
Metal By Numbers: October when Testament topped the charts 10/10/2025
Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from October 10, 2025. Yes, we’re catching up, stay tuned, there’s more to come! From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts....
Ex–I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser releases Taylor Swift cover “Look What You Made Me Do”
Former I Prevail singer Brian Burkheiser has dropped a video of a new cover of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do,” released under his project Scatterbrain. The track marks one of Burkheiser’s first major releases since his departure from I Prevail, which was...
Charting the course to 2026: reflecting on 70000tons of Metal 2025 Artist Spotlight: Lutharo
Countdown to 2026: 57 Days SOOOOOOON, a word 70000tons of Metal cruisers know all too well, love it or hate it. 70000tons of Metal, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise, returns for its 2026 edition from January 29 – February 2, 2026, setting sail from...
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Nuclear Blast Records signs Finnish rock supergroup HOKKA
Nuclear Blast Records has signed HOKKA, a new Finnish rock supergroup featuring former Blind Channel frontman Joel Hokka, The Rasmus founding guitarist Pauli Rantasalmi, and rising drummer Jimi Aslak. The band makes their official musical debut with a video for their...
Catch up now: 53 new songs/videos recently released – 11/11/2025
New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk a few weeks ago with 48 new songs, this week brings a solid batch of 53 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums or live performances. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything,...
Interview: Omnium Gatherum’s Jukka Pelkonen on celebrating tenth album ‘May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way’ & full breakdown
2026 will mark Omnium Gatherum's thirtieth year as they close 2025 with their tenth studio album, May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way, out November 7, 2025, via Century Media Records. These Finnish melodic death metal giants have reached a milestone that not many...
New & Noteworthy: Origins of Releases – 5/23/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see new music from the likes of Skunk Anansie, …and Oceans, Age of Apocalypes and Witchcraft, as well as cover and...
New & Noteworthy: Will You Haunt Me, With Releases – 5/16/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week are new releases from the likes of Bury Tomorrow, Pelican and Steve Von Till,...
New & Noteworthy: Even in Releases – 5/9/2025
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week includes new albums from the likes of Sleep Token, Behemoth, Ghost Bath, Peter Murphy and Tetrarch among the many outstanding...
