by Zach Shaw | Jul 20, 2012 | Festivals
It’s been less than two months since this year’s Maryland Deathfest was held. Yet now we already know the first sixteen bands confirmed for the eleventh edition of the festival. And even though there are still many other acts left to be confirmed, the fest has already...
by Metal Insider | Apr 18, 2012 | Unsigned & Streamed
Why should major label bands be the only ones who get love? Unsigned & Streamed is a new column where we stream a song from an unsigned band we at Metal Insider really dig. This week, we’re excited to showcase We All Fall from Madrid, Spain. Formed in 2005, this...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 22, 2012 | Interviews
How does an Australian wind up running the American arm of influential UK metal label Earache? It’s kind of a long story, but Al Dawson was more than happy to oblige. Starting out as a tape trader in the ’80s (he was thanked on a 1984 compilation by...
by Zach Shaw | Dec 14, 2011 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs4ZyEuk2FY[/youtube] What can we say, we’re suckers for classical covers of metal songs. And this one takes the cake for the most unlikely combo of classical piano and death metal. Ukrainian pianist Viktoriya Yermolyeva (aka...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 22, 2011 | Secret Metalhead
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpOAXIgF9U[/youtube] Most people know singer/songwriter Tori Amos for her softer, piano based alt pop music. However, in a new interview with Spinner, Amos claimed that the emotion in her music could take down the...