Swedish heavy metal outfit Ambush have released their long-awaited fourth album, Evil In All Dimensions, today (5) via Napalm Records. Packed with unrelenting energy, the record gives a resurgence to traditional heavy metal. To celebrate the release, Ambush’s Osker...
Metal Insider top 5: Sophomore albums
It’s a cliche in music, but also the truth, that a band has their whole lives to create their first album, and only a year or two to write their second. So while a lot of sophomore albums find artists trying to recapture the magic of their first albums, or...Metal By Numbers 9/25: The charts are hardly bare-bones this week
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Yeah, Cannibal Corpse was not the highest debut of the week, but we focused on that album anyway. Why? Well, between them, Motionless In White, and Slash, the band...Metal By Numbers 9/18: Charmed, I’m sure
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It feels like every metal band out of Sweden has put out an album this month, yet there’s still one or two big albums waiting before the year is out including...Metal By Numbers 9/11: The charts are freakin’ Swede this week
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s sales were taken over by a combination of bands with colorful names and Swedes. Of course, last week featured a pretty big Swedish act as well, but...Follow Us
Ambush’s Osker Jakobsson share his Top 5 NWOTHM bands
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Nine Inch Nails drop new video; faces unexpected Santa moment on tour
Nine Inch Nails have released a Maxime Quoilin-directed video for “As Alive As You Need Me To Be,” the lead single from their Tron: Ares soundtrack, out September 19 via Interscope. The track marks the band’s first official new music in five years. The band is...
Vimic premiere new track “Parasite Persona” + Kalen Chase interview on honoring Joey Jordison
Vimic have teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere their latest single, "Parasite Persona," out September 5. The track serves as the final preview of their long-awaited debut album, Open Your Omen, scheduled to arrive on October 3, 2025, following a successful...
New & Noteworthy: Project Releases Vol.01/26/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a...
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...