by Elise Yablon | Feb 10, 2025 | New & Noteworthy
February 7, 2025 New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first New Music Friday of February sees the highly anticipated return of Dream Theater’s classic line-up, as well...
by Tom Mis | Nov 10, 2023 | Lists, Top 5
Essential Audiobooks for Metalheads For those of us too busy to sit down and binge a book, there’s always the audiobook, and there’s no shortage of metal to be found here. For biographies and histories, the audiobook will probably feel more...
by Elise Yablon | Dec 12, 2019 | Editorials, Lists
This past summer, a story hit the news cycle about the legal journey of Iranian metal band Confess. Singer/guitarist Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi, who fled to Turkey after his trial in 2016 and is currently residing in Norway, spoke with Louder Sound about he and bandmate...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 10, 2019 | Bummer Alert, News
Two members of Iranian metal band Confess, Nikan “Siyanor” Khosravi and Arash “Chemical” Ilkhani have been sentenced to a combined 14.5 years in prison by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Tehran. Frontman Khosravi was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison and 74 lashes as...
by Metal Insider | Feb 10, 2016 | News
It’s no shock that being a metal musician is hard. It’s also not hard to imagine that being a metal musician from the Middle East is unbelievably difficult. In most of the western world, (mainly the US and Europe), metal gets a few dirty looks and some...