Posted by Matt Brown on November 21, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Remember how last week we didn’t have much in the way of debuts besides that one Stryper album and Melvins? Well, there’s even less this time considering our top debut is….Get Scared? Guess there’s […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 14, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We had A LOT of debuts last week. Naturally, there isn’t much this week besides Impending Doom and Melvins. Still, it’s all worth checking out to display your record selling knowledge to your friends […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 6, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. So, apparently every band in the whole damn world had an album debut this week. But there are a lot of awesome bands and albums in there, particularly Protest The Hero and Skeletonwitch, who […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 30, 2013
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. When it comes to metal (or really any kind of music), there’s a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” outlook on a band’s musical direction. If a band changes its sound, there […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on August 20, 2013
Metal has been regularly intruding on the mainstream charts for quite some time now, and it’s not unexpected these days for the more prolific bands to chart in the higher ranks of the charts upon release. But what happens when it’s only underground bands or the heaviest, most extreme artists that are releasing new material? […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 22, 2012
How does an Australian wind up running the American arm of influential UK metal label Earache? It’s kind of a long story, but Al Dawson was more than happy to oblige. Starting out as a tape trader in the ’80s (he was thanked on a 1984 compilation by Pushead), he eventually visited the UK, where […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 27, 2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghuJgD0J9Kg[/youtube] Starting in April, Overkill will be hitting the road with God Forbid as part of the Electric Age Tour. It’s a rather fitting combo since both bands will be releasing new albums right around the same time. And it just so happens that we have tastes of new music from both bands today as […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 14, 2012
Overkill was originally supposed to hit the road this Spring on the Killfest 2 tour. However, the past few weeks saw many of the bands originally on the bill drop off. The dates for the tour remain the same, while Diamond Plate and Suidakra are still slated for the two month trek as well. However, […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on December 12, 2011
The New England Metal & Hardcore Festival has announced the lineup for its 14th year. And after dropping an obvious hint last week, it’s been confirmed that Killswitch Engage will be one of the three day festival’s headliners. The festival also confirmed that The Black Dahlia Murder will be headlining one of the nights as […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on August 9, 2011
Time has proven that young metal bands that hit their stride in the early to mid-2000s have had the most success since bands reaching similar levels in the early ’80s. More household metal names emerged between 2002 and 2006 than at any other time in the past two decades. The eruption of talent from those […]
