German progressive/technical death metal masters Obscura have announced their new album, A Sonication, is scheduled to arrive on February 7, 2025, via Nuclear Blast. The album marks the second installment of their conceptual trilogy, and overall follow-up from 2021's...
Metal By Numbers 2/16: The Wörld Is Yours, But The Charts Belong To Motörhead
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 release comes from the legendary Motörhead, whose new album The Wörld Is Yours debuts at #86. In comparison to their previous releases, 7,000...Metal By Numbers 2/9: Sales Are In The Red
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Last week, sales hit a new low, with the top album on the charts selling around only 40,000 copies. Sales this week see a slight improvement, though not by much....Metal By Numbers 2/2: If You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse…
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you may have/hopefully noticed, we were unable to deliver Metal By Numbers to you last week. The only thing we missed were a few new releases, such as Times Of...New & Noteworthy, January 18th – Great Expectations
One of the things that the digital age of music has forced artists to do is learn how to deal with the near-inevitability of piracy occurring before an album is officially released. Leaks occur nearly all the time with any album that has even the slightest...Follow Us
Obscura unveil “Silver Linings” video; new album arriving in February
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Spiritbox unveil “Perfect Soul” video; new album arriving in March
Spiritbox have revealed their second album, Tsunami Sea, set to release on March 7, 2025 via Pale Chord and Rise Records. To accompany the announcement, the group has unveiled a Dylan Hryciuk-directed video for their new single, "Perfect Soul." The Canadian metal...
Poppy unveils “the centers falling out” performance video
Poppy's new album, Negative Spaces has dropped today (15th) via Sumerian Spaces. The innovative artist has unveiled a performance video for the song "the centers falling out," in celebration of her latest effort's arrival. Poppy is set to kick off 2025 supporting...
New & Noteworthy: Myths of Releases – 3/22/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus...
New & Noteworthy: Warp Speed Invincible Project Releases – 3/1/2024 – 3/15/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases hitting shelves. The last couple of weeks saw new music from the likes of Waves In Autumn, Bruce Dickinson, Ministry, Kaiser Chiefs, Judas Priest, The...
New & Noteworthy: The Other Side of Releases – 2/23/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among the releases on this packed New Music Friday, we will see the returns of Modern English, Job For A Cowboy and Sleepytime...