We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
New Shai Hulud Album To Be Produced By Former Vocalist
Longtime hardcore band Shai Hulud have decided on the producer for their next album, and it’s a name that fans of the band will find familiar: former vocalist Chad Gilbert. A founding member of New Found Glory, he sang on Shai Hulud’s 1997 album Hearts...A Day To Remember Suing Victory Records
Say what you will about Victory Records, but the Chicago-based label has helped a lot of bands break big in the metal and hardcore scene (including Darkest Hour and Between The Buried And Me in the past). One band that has greatly benefited from Victory Records is A...Hole Pull Out Of Australia’s Soundwave Festival Because Of Limp Bizkit
Australia’s Soundwave Festival brings a lot of rock, metal, and punk bands together on the same bill. However, apparently Courtney Love wasn’t all too pleased to find out who her band Hole was being billed under in the 2012 lineup. Hole have reportedly pulled out of...Metal By Numbers 6/2: Sales Have Gone Completely Gaga
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It is simply amazing in this day and age that a metalcore band like For The Fallen Dreams can sell 1.1 million copies. I mean seriously! Sure, they probably have...Follow Us
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Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: The beautiful releases of life – 12/8/2023
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 albums from the likes of Dimmu Borgir, Atreyu, Have Mercy and Mars Red Sky, among others. Don’t forget to...
New & Noteworthy: 666 Releases – 12/1/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. On Friday, December 1st we saw the returns of Peter Gabriel and Codeseven, a new take on Visions Of Atlantis' 2022 LP, the debut...
New & Noteworthy: The hex of new releases – 11/17/2023 – 11/24/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out over the next couple of weeks. Last week saw new albums from the likes of Madness, Plain White T’s, Bad Suns and more. This week,...