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...
The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Darkest Hour Set For Summer Slaughter Tour
The lineup to this year’s Summer Slaughter Tour has been revealed. Headlining the fifth annual tour will be The Black Dahlia Murder and Whitechapel. Also appearing on this year’s bill will be Darkest Hour, Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, As Blood Runs Black, Oceano,...Metal By Numbers 3/30: Another Lively Week
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week sees a handful of new releases making their debut, five of whom making it into the top 200. However, for the second week in a row, the top metal and hard...Metal By Numbers 3/24: The Skye’s The Limit
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another week, another #1 album that didn’t even sell 100,000 copies. It’s more or less the new normal these days. However, Mastodon move over 7,000 of...Metal By Numbers 3/16: Sales This Week Are Reckless
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week we see multiple new metal and hard rock debuts, four of which made it into the top 200. The top selling new release comes from Children Of Bodom. Though the...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: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
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 highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....
New & Noteworthy: Here Comes the Releases – 1/12/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As the 2024 new music cycle revs up, we will see new albums from metal staples The Rods and Magnum, as well as the first original...
New & Noteworthy: Conditioned for Releases – 1/5/2024
Metal Insider's New & Noteworthy, the weekly column highlights the latest and most notable rock and metal releases hitting the shelves each week. As we kick off 2024, we see a wave of fresh albums from artists like At The Plates, Cancer Christ, Haywire,...