Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 4, 2021
While Dir en Grey fans are waiting on a follow-up to 2018’s The Insulated World, it looks like we will hear new music from the Japanese avant-garde metal outfit sometime this spring. The group checked in to reveal two new singles “Kirin” and “Bamboo” are expected to arrive during springtime. The band shared […]
Posted by Metal Insider on December 9, 2019
Written by Metal Insider guest contributor Austin Rowey Japan’s avant-garde metal phenomenon, Dir En Grey, masters of the bizarre, uncommon and uncanny, have returned to North America for the first time since 2015. With a headlining tour, TOUR19 This Way to Self-Destruction, consisting of eight dates in the U.S. and one in Mexico throughout December. […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 3, 2018
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week boasts another list of debuts that is robust both in size and pedigree from the return of Slash’s solo albums to Voivod’s first album in five years to another slab of post […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 17, 2014
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The holiday shopping season is in full effect, as many of the artists on the chart have a nice uptick in sales. Whether it’s online shopping or people actually doing it the old fashioned […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on November 25, 2013
Five Finger Death Punch, just released their second album this year, The Wrong Side of Heaven And the Righteous Side of Hell, Vol. 2. And while the first of the two albums had several guest vocalists, including Rob Halford, Maria Brink and Tech N9ne, Vol. 2 doesn’t have any guests. It turns out that there’s […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on April 9, 2012
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAZ0J4XMr1g[/youtube] Trivium have been on the road with Asking Alexandria, Dir En Grey, I See Stars, Motionless In White and The Amity Affliction for the past month. And during the tour’s stop in Louisville, KY last Saturday night (April 7), Trivium performed a cover of Metallica’s “Creeping Death.” Though Trivium have covered Metallica before, this […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 24, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While Breaking Up Benjamin have the top rock debut (no, we’re not counting Blue October, who debuted in the top ten), the top metal debut belongs to Chimaira, who sold a respectable 7,400 of […]
Posted by Metal Insider on August 17, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s top metal debut comes from Florida’s very own Trivium, who have reason to celebrate. Their fifth studio album In Waves sells just under 21,000 copies, cracking the top 20. While it may […]
Posted by Metal Insider on August 10, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s top heavy metal/hard rock debut came from Japan’s very own Dir En Grey. The experimental metal group’s eighth studio album Dum Spiro Spero cracks the top 120, selling over 3,900 copies. As […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on August 9, 2011
Another Wacken Open Air Festival has come and gone. We’ve been fortunate that our publicist buddy Jon Freeman from Freeman Promotions has been guest blogging for us from the festival. We’ve enjoyed his beer fueled coverage of Day 1 and Day 2. Now, without further ado, here’s Jon’s final wrap up of the 2011 Wacken Festival. They say […]
