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 4/23: Charts get Sevendust-ed
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You had to figure we were going to have a lot of debuts on here what with Record Store Day and all that. Even without it, there was still a lot lined up in terms of...Devil You Know’s debut album available to stream
You’ve been reading and hearing about the Howard Jones-fronted Devil You Know for a while, and now you have the chance to experience the band in full. The band’s debut album The Beauty of Destruction is now streaming via Metal Hammer a week ahead of its...Metal By Numbers 4/16: Black Label Society cracks the top 5
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This is the fourth week in a row that a metal album has debuted in the top 5, the previous bands being Chevelle, Memphis May Fire, and The Pretty Reckless. This week,...The Ultimate Warrior had metal ties
The wrestling world is reeling from the sudden passing yesterday of James Brian Hellwig, better known as The Ultimate Warrior. He was 54. And perhaps more than any other wrestler (okay, maybe Chris Jericho), he had ties to metal. The 2 time WWF Intercontinental...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: The beautiful releases of life – 12/8/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see new albums from the likes of Dimmu Borgir, Atreyu, Have Mercy and Mars Red Sky, among others. Don’t forget to...
New & Noteworthy: 666 Releases – 12/1/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. On Friday, December 1st we saw the returns of Peter Gabriel and Codeseven, a new take on Visions Of Atlantis' 2022 LP, the debut...
New & Noteworthy: The hex of new releases – 11/17/2023 – 11/24/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out over the next couple of weeks. Last week saw new albums from the likes of Madness, Plain White T’s, Bad Suns and more. This week,...