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...
Metal By Numbers 11/15: Sales From Another Dimension
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You’d think that Aerosmith’s first album in 8 years would be an event. Especially since in that time, an entire generation that missed out on the awesome...Machine Head Pull Out Of Dethklok Dates Due To Robb Flynn’s Health
Machine Head have already been forced to sit out the December 4 show with Dethklok, All that Remains and The Black Dahlia Murder due to Disney’s corporate policy. Now it looks like that’s not the only show on the tour they won’t be playing. While...Machine Head Get Banned From Performing By Disney…Again
Machine Head has announced that they will not be joining tourmates Dethklok, All That Remains, and The Black Dahlia Murder at the House Of Blues in Orlando, FL on December 4. Why? Well as it turns out, Machine Head are still banned by Walt Disney from performing on...New & Noteworthy, November 6: Keepers Of Fellow Man
Being that today is Election Day, I must lead off this week by being yet another person to remind you all of your civic duty. If you are of voting age, please make sure you go out and vote today. I do not care who you vote for, because that is a decision for you and...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: Chaos releases – 9/22/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s list finds us looking forward to albums from Cannibal Corpse, Chaver, My Lament, Teenage Fanclub, Winterstorm,...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)
New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the...
New & Noteworthy: Reader of the releases – 04/28/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. 2023 is flying by with April coming to a close! With the new Elvenking album to the live Cradle of Filth record, there’s so much...