We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
First Round Of Vocalists For Mitch Lucker Tribute Show Announced
During an appearance at the California Metalfest several weeks ago, the surviving members of Suicide Silence announced plans to perform a memorial show in honor of their late singer Mitch Lucker. The group said that a different singer would join them onstage for each...Sevendust, Lacuna Coil Tour Announced – Coal Chamber Says “Hang Tight”
It’s been three years since Cold Day Memory, the first Sevendust album since Clint Lowery rejoined the band. Now their next album, Black Out the Sun, has finally gotten a release date. The album,their ninth, will be released on their own 7Bros. Records on March...DevilDriver’s Dez Fafara Releases Benefit Single For Ailing Sister
This past summer, DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara announced plans to release a song to benefit his sister Kerri, who was diagnosed with breast cancer. And now the benefit single is available for purchase. Titled “Dark Meadowlark,” the song was mixed by Logan Mader and...Lamb Of God’s Chris Adler: This Tour Will Be Like Therapy For Us
2012 should have been a banner year for Lamb of God: they were touring behind Resolution, an album that was well-reviewed and debuted near the top of the charts around the world. Nearing the end of a world tour, they were set to begin their first proper stateside run...Follow Us
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Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: Chaos releases – 9/22/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s list finds us looking forward to albums from Cannibal Corpse, Chaver, My Lament, Teenage Fanclub, Winterstorm,...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)
New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the...
New & Noteworthy: Reader of the releases – 04/28/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. 2023 is flying by with April coming to a close! With the new Elvenking album to the live Cradle of Filth record, there’s so much...