Tag Archives: Anvil

New & Noteworthy, January 19th, 2018: Pounding the New Music

Posted by on January 19, 2018

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Today we’re getting new albums from Anvil and Of Mice & Men. If you would like to check out the last New & Noteworthy, you can do so here, if you want […]

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Metal By Numbers 3/9: The charted again shall be king

Posted by on March 9, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Within the past six months, three-fourths of the Big Thrash Four have released new albums, all of which had their own buzz surrounding them. Slayer’s latest was their first without the late Jeff Hanneman, […]

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New & Noteworthy, February 26th – The Giant

Posted by on February 26, 2016

The release calendar picked up at a great time, backing up one of the most anticipated releases of the entire year. Almost every metal genre is represented today, and it is all top-notch quality. It’s good to have a stocked release calendar again! Check it all out!   Anthrax, For All Kings (Megaforce) Anthrax’s triumphant return […]

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Win a Lord Dying CD and tickets to see them with Anvil

Posted by on February 12, 2015

A few weeks ago, Portland riff masters Lord Dying released their sophomore album, Poisoned Altars.It’s hooky and heavy, and already a contender for album of the year. If you don’t believe us, listen to it below. If you like what you hear (and we’re pretty sure you will), you’ll have an opportunity to see them […]

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Lord Dying saves Portland from yuppies

Posted by on January 30, 2015

What happens when a scourge of yuppie scum invade Portland, Oregon? Well, Lord Dying saves the city, of course. This new video is for the song “Poisoned Altars,” the title track of their latest album, which came out this month on Relapse Records, their second album with the label. You’ll notice that Lord Dying has some help, too, as members of […]

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This time, Philip Anselmo comes along for ‘Cooking Hostile’

Posted by on August 18, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/Ds5fnfz-DTY[/youtube] So far, there have been three pretty hysterical “Cooking Hostile” episodes, the animated cooking show supposedly narrated by Philip Anselmo. The series, drawn and animated by Joey Siler, has  been comic gold for people that like metal and bad cooking puns, and apparently, it was enough for Anselmo himself to get involved for the fourth […]

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Interview: Lamb of God’s John Campbell and director Don Argott talk ‘As the Palaces Burn’

Posted by on February 25, 2014

It’s not that often that a documentary about metal makes it to theaters. But along with Some Kind of Monster, Anvil: The Story of Anvil and the Lemmy documentary, the Lamb of God film As the Palaces Burn will be hitting theaters starting later this week. Starting out as a film about the global appeal of metal, it quickly […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 5: Hard Rock/Metal ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Cameos

Posted by on September 9, 2013

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. For better or worse, metal and hard rock has often been associated with motorcycles and biker gangs. So it’s unsurprising that there would be some sort of crossover between metal and FX’s Sons Of Anarchy, the crime drama following everyone’s […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/19: Black Sabbath Have Their First Ever Number One In The US

Posted by on June 19, 2013

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Many metalheads will tell you that metal is more popular in other parts of the world in comparison to the United States. Others will tell you that Americans have terrible taste in music (a […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/12: Like Clockwork, Here’s A Number One Rock Record

Posted by on June 12, 2013

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you may or may not have heard by now, Queens Of The Stone Age have a number 1 album. There’s a bit more to the story than that too. According to Billboard, …Like […]

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