Tag Archives: Abiotic

Concert Calendar (6/6-6/12) | Who Is This That Performs Before Us? Pentagram, John 5, & more

Posted by on June 6, 2022

  Where do I begin? Oh yes. Hey, we’re in June now (don’t forget the sunscreen), which means the summer concert season has officially started. Before summer officially begins, go out and enjoy the season of hopefully not paying a lot of money to see many good shows outside these next few months (they’re going […]

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New & Noteworthy: December 3rd, 2021 – Servant of the New Music

Posted by on December 6, 2021

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week feature new music from Volbeat, Of Mice & Men, and more! For last week’s releases you can read the previous New & Noteworthy, and for the latest sales numbers Metal by Numbers. Be […]

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Metal By Numbers 2/25: Rock and roll all over the charts

Posted by on February 25, 2021

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   I spent the first five minute writing this week’s edition of MBN thinking “I should listen to that Pretty Reckless song that was big on the radio a few years ago, it was […]

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Abiotic stream new record “Ikigai”

Posted by on February 10, 2021

  The Florida quintet, Abiotic are now streaming their entire 11 track record, Ikigai ahead of it’s scheduled released date of Friday February 12th. The album is loaded with guest appearances including members from The Black Dahlia Murder, Entheos, Fallujah, and Archspire. Guitarist John Matos elaborated on the concept of the record and the significance of the […]

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Thirteen tours recently announced – 9/18

Posted by on September 18, 2019

Typically, at this point of the year, we will hear tours for early next year. However, tours continue to get announced for the last quarter of 2019. We decided to compile these announcements together as there have been at least thirteen treks recently announced for both 2019 and well into 2020.  13) 3Teeth announce European/UK […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/7: Meanwhile on the charts…

Posted by on May 7, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We like to think we know our audience here at Metal Insider. As such, I expect we’ll get more than a few cries of disdain and objection when the masses discover that we have, […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/30: Buried by sales

Posted by on April 30, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Oddly, we have more debuts this week than last week’s post-Record Store Day charts. Granted, not all of these releases were as  highly anticipated as a Metallica demo, but still a good week for […]

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New & Noteworthy, April 21st – Beautiful

Posted by on April 21, 2015

We have entered the greatest time of the year – festival season! With the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival kicking things off this past weekend, we’ve officially begun that wonderful period when entire weekends (or weeks) are devoted solely to concerts, congregating with fellow metalheads, and of course, a well-stocked release calendar. This week […]

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Members of Intronaut, The Contortionist, Wings Denied and more partaking in The Brian Shields Memorial Grant

Posted by on March 19, 2015

Earlier this year, Heavy Blog Is Heavy contributor and weekend editor Brian Shields passed away. He played a major role in helping support and champion new talent. That’s why in honor of his memory, Heavy Blog Is Heavy is launching the Brian Shields Memorial Grant, a crowd funding campaign to help unsigned and lesser known […]

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New Abiotic song features Dying Fetus vocalist

Posted by on February 20, 2015

Miami’s Abiotic have proven to be one of the more exciting younger bands in technical progressive death metal. With their tight compositions and the occasional engaging deathcore elements, they exhibit something for every extreme metal fan. The band is gearing up for the April 21 release of their new album Casuistry by officially releasing the first […]

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