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...
Bullet For My Valentine Cancel Show Due To Illness
Bullet For My Valentine has canceled their performance tonight (October 5) in Providence, RI after frontman Matt Tucker has taken ill. Openers Escape The Fate, Black Tide and Drive A will still go ahead and perform.Metal By Numbers 9/14: Sour To The People
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week is a bit quieter on the metal front compared to last week’s charts, and from what we can expect next week. The only metal/hard rock album to debut in the...Metal By Numbers 9/8: A Disturbance At The Top
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I admit, the title is a bit deceiving because even though album sales have been at a crazy low this past Summer, all in all it was a very good season for metal. For...Metal By Numbers 9/1: An (Un)Dead Week On The Charts
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week saw a lot of metal bands rank either higher than their previous release or for the first time ever. But the highest rock debut comes from Christian...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...