by Metal Insider | Nov 18, 2016 | Covers, Metallica Insider
As the heavy metal and hard rock institution that they are, Metallica’s catalog has long since become a go-to song book for newer bands in the genre to cover. The thrash veterans are no strangers themselves to covering others’ work, having done an album of...
by Matt Brown | Nov 16, 2016 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As I predicted last week, Avenged Sevenfold had a strong enough second week that they remained in the top 10, and so are still the best-selling metal album on the...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 15, 2016 | Metal By Numbers, Updates
When Avenged Sevenfold signed to Capitol Records and decided to go out on a limb by surprise-releasing The Stage, they took a big risk. The album’s title track was released less than two weeks before the album appeared online and in stores at midnight on...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 11, 2016 | Updates
When post-gaming the first-week sales of Avenged Sevenfold’s The Stage, we suggested that there might be some people that still don’t even know the band has an album out. The band’s seventh ablum sold less than half of what...
by Matt Brown | Nov 9, 2016 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s the morning after Election Day in the United States and, well, things happened. Relax, I’m not going to go on a big political rant here; you get...