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...
Behemoth eyeing 2017 for next album
Two years ago, Behemoth released The Satanist, a rare example where a band’s 10th album was arguably their best. As of last year, the band suggested that the best way to follow up the album was to perhaps break up. Then frontman Adam “Nergal” Darski...
Photos: Behemoth, Myrkur, The Observatory, Santa Ana, CA, 5/7/16
Polish black metal heathens Behemoth brought their ritualistic stage show back to Southern California’s The Observatory last Saturday, May 7, 2016 to perform their latest album “The Satanist” in full for eager fans. Supporting the headliners was Danish black metal...
Behemoth, Abbath and Taake also scatter ashes of late fan on stage
Remember yesterday when we told you about Dying Fetus scattering the ashes of a deceased metalhead on stage during a Chicago show? Turns out that wasn’t an isolated event, as it seems like other metal bands have complied to the fan’s last request,...
Behemoth release “Ben Sahar” video
With Nergal making a rootsy blues album, it’s going to be a while before there’s another Behemoth album. However, with The Satanist being their magnum opus, and the band playing the album in its entirety on tour later this month, the 2014 album the gift...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...