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 5/8: What’s With HIM?
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you start to look at the charts this week, you’ll notice two things: 1) There were a shit ton of albums that debuted this week, and 2) HIM is our top debut....New & Noteworthy, April 30th: In The Arms Of Rain
As promised, this week is full of melodic death metal albums, and the list is being led off by a gothic metal giant from Finland. While HIM may not necessarily be a metal band in the strictest sense, they’re still one of the most popular rock acts in the world,...Lamb of God Announce First Show Overseas Since Randy Blythe’s Arrest
Lamb of God’s tour for Resolution came to a screeching halt earlier this year when frontman Randy Blythe was arrested in Prague on suspicion of manslaughter for an incident at a 2010 concert where a fan died. While he was released a month later, he’ll...Wacken Open Air 2013 Already Sold Out
Hoping to travel Germany next summer to catch the Wacken Open Air festival? Well unless you already bought a ticket, then you’re out of luck. That’s because the 2013 edition of Wacken Open Air is already sold out. That’s right, all 75,000 tickets have been sold to...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: Releases Out – 10/20/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Hitting shelves this week, we have the first new material from The Rolling Stones in nearly two decades and a return to form from...
New & Noteworthy: Goodnight, Releases, I Love U, Listen – 10/6/2023 – 10/13/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Over the next two weeks, we have the return of Dogstar and prog-rocker Trevor Rabin to look forward to, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy: The releases ride again 9/29/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s albums include the debut of a new death metal project from Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen and the return of...