Another week and change has gone by since we shared 20 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1,437 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and...
Metal By Numbers 1/15: The Charts (And The Site) Get a Makeover
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. So yeah, dat new design. We’re looking flashier that ever on the site, which means that Metal By Numbers is also flashier than ever. Some new debuts would...Metal By Numbers 1/8: The Charts Have Gone Cold
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You’ve probably had enough about people talking about the weather, so I won’t say anything else about it other than the picture on the right is actually...Metal By Numbers 1/2: Happy New Year; Here’s Some Record Sales
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Nothing changes on New Year’s Day, so say U2. Such lyrics are true in many ways, but are particularly fitting for record sales. The only real big debut at the...Metal By Numbers 12/18: Charts Are Coming At You Like A Dead Horse
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It should come as no surprise that there isn’t much happening in the way of metal record sales this week since 1) it’s nearly the end of the year, and 2)...Follow Us
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Catch up now: 50 new songs/videos released this week – 9/9/2025
New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk last week with 37 new songs, this week brings a larger round of 50 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including Sun Don’t Shine,...
Månegarm’s Erik Grawslö shares his Top 5 viking metal bands
Swedish viking metal veterans Månegarm have returned with Edsvuren, released on August 29th via Napalm Records. Marking a powerful new chapter in their 30-year career and continuing their legacy, the record blends Norse mythology, folk traditions, and blackened...
New & Noteworthy: Project Releases Vol.01/26/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a...
New & Noteworthy: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
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 highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....
New & Noteworthy: Here Comes the Releases – 1/12/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As the 2024 new music cycle revs up, we will see new albums from metal staples The Rods and Magnum, as well as the first original...