New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk a few weeks ago with 53 new songs, this week brings a solid batch of 48 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including Megadeth,...
Dave Grohl shouts out Sepultura on late night TV
James Corden is only a few weeks in to his gig as the host of The Late Late Show, and it seems like he’s hit the ground running. How else to describe a segment in which Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl and actors Rainn Wilson and Fast and Furious’ Jordana...Chris Cornell joins Zac Brown band on SNL
We’ve already known that Zac Brown Band, although a country act, likes rock. They’ve appeared on Late Night with David Letterman with the Foo Fighters, performing “War Pigs.” Grohl also played drums on and produced 2013’s The Grohl...
Metal Insider’s Top 10: Heaviest SNL Musical Guests
Since launching in 1975, Saturday Night Live has become a mainstay for comedy. And while the live TV sketch show is renowned for its timely and sometimes politically incorrect satire, it’s also been revered for its musical performances from rising stars and music...Dave Grohl, Ryan Adams represent metal at Grammys
While we know that metal wasn’t particularly well represented at the Grammy awards this year, Dave Grohl and Ryan Adams found a way to represent the genre by their fashion choices. And while it might not have been a birthday suit or a baseball outfit, both of...Follow Us
Catch up now: 48 new songs/videos recently released – 10/14/2025
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Explore 33 New albums just announced – 10/13/2025
A few weeks have flown since we shared 26 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1663 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album...
The New Testament is here! Animated video for latest single “High Noon” released
Bay Area thrash legends Testament have unleashed their fourteenth studio album, Para Bellum, today (10th) via Nuclear Blast Records. The record serves as a reflection on humanity's uneasy relationship with technology and the impacts of disconnection, while blistering...
New & Noteworthy: Manual Fire Releases 6/21/2024 – 6/28/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The next couple of weeks will see the returns of Kittie, earthtone9, The Story So Far and Dirty Three, debuts from O. and Mighty Mighty...
New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Friday’s releases include new music from legendary artists John Cale and Fu Manchu, long-running bands Annabel, The Early November...
New & Noteworthy: Theories of Releases – 6/7/2024
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 June sees releases from veteran bands like Bon Jovi, Cactus and Evergrey, as well as Butthole Surfers’ JD...