Posted by Matt Brown on June 27, 2018
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Vinnie Paul died this past weekend, as I’m sure you know by now. Naturally, you can expect a surge in Pantera and Hellyeah sales when the charts are released next week, as is the […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 26, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Well, we knew this might happen. Inevitably, when an artist dies, their sales increase. Old fans that grew up on a band’s music pick up the album that meant so much to them that […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 25, 2017
The tributes for fallen Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell continue to roll in. As you can see above, Soundgarden themselves have changed their profile picture to all black, which is a sad and fitting update. Now another tribute has rolled in, this one from Jane’s Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro, who spoke to Billboard: The fact […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on September 30, 2016
In its second year, the latest Shadow Woods Metal Fest took place a few weeks back deep in the wilderness of Maryland. A 3-day open-air camping festival that brings together some of the best American metal acts in the current scene, it proves once again to be an excellent newcomer to the festival world. Metal Insider […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on April 6, 2016
We usually talk about more mainstream festivals across the US with big headliners like Megadeth, Five Finger Death Punch or Disturbed; we also talk a bit about more underground fests like the well-known Maryland Deathfest or Hells Headbash but if we wanna go deep in the true underground, we need to talk about Shadow Woods Metal Fest. […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 7, 2015
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The list of new debuts this week is notably shorter than previous weeks and lacking in big heavy hitters (no offense to Parkway Drive or any other bands listed here). So you may be […]
Posted by Cheska Colombo on April 28, 2015
There’s been a lot of talk lately about there not being enough female representation in festival booking – and for good reason. It’s surely not always an intentional exclusion of course, but is definitely worth discussing and calling attention to. Festivals like Flight of the Valkyries and Metal Female Voices Fest aim to highlight and celebrate metal […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on March 27, 2012
Behold what is likely to be one of the biggest, most talked-about weeks on the metal release calendar for all of 2012! Technically, most of these albums were actually released yesterday, March 26, but that’s not the point. Today’s list reads like a who’s who of the metal world, featuring artists from virtually every single […]
