Swiss heavy metal outfit Burning Witches have released their sixth studio album, Inquisition, on August 22, 2025 via Napalm Records. Diving into themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and resilience, the follow-up to 2023's The Dark Tower, marks a bold...
Soundgarden to perform ‘Superunknown’ in its entirety at SXSW
While there are already a handful of SXSW parties worth attending (and you’ll be getting our list of them later this week), Soundgarden just went and upped the ante. The band have announced via their website that they’ll be performing their fourth...Seattle Woman Charged With Tweeting Death Threats To Chris Cornell
Ever wonder why people go through so much effort to cause trouble on the Internet? Here’s such an example: according to Seattle News station KIRO 7, a woman has been charged with sending death threats to Chris Cornell of Soundgarden via Twitter. But this...Headbangers Brawl 2/1: Our Predictions For The 2013 Revolver Golden Gods
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. The nominees for the 5th annual Revolver Golden Gods Awards...Soundgarden Releases Dave Grohl-Directed Music Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/oTaVHM6HGuQ[/youtube] Last month, Soundgarden revealed that they hired none other than Dave Grohl to direct a music video for the song “By Crooked Steps.” Now the video has premiered online. And as photos from the filming already indicated,...Follow Us
Interview: Burning Witches’ Jay Grob talks Inquisition, touring hurdles, and the witch she’d add for a day
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Feuerschwanz’s Ben Metzner talks new album ‘Knightclub’ with track-by-track explainer
Germany’s folk metal unit Feuerschwanz have unveiled their twelfth studio album, Knightclub, out now via Napalm Records. Known for their chaotic, high-energy performances, whether bringing vikings, theatrics, or sheer madness to the stage (as seen during their...
Catch up now: 37 new songs/videos released this week – 8/27/2025
New music continues to spiral its way in. Since our chunk last week with 36 new songs, this week brings a slightly larger round of 37 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including The Halo...
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,...