Posted by Metal Insider on February 28, 2019
On Episode 17 of Metal Insider’s Newsroom w/ M.I Crowley, Crowley caught up with Ensiferum’s Petri Lindroos during this year’s 70000tons of Metal. Petri discussed the group’s plans, reflected on their recent North American tour as they hope to return for another run within the next year. Watch the discussion below: In case you […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 14, 2019
Ensiferum kicked off the first concert of 2019 for us as we were at their show on January 6th at New York City’s Irving Plaza with Septicflesh and Arsis. While we saw Septicflesh last March and Arsis’ trek this past summer, this was Ensiferum’s first North American run in nearly four years. These Finnish folk […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 16, 2018
Septicflesh has revealed they will be joining Ensiferum on the Paths of Glory North American tour in January 2019. We’ve seen these Greek symphonic death metallers earlier this year with Dark Funeral, however it’s been almost four years since Ensiferum performed in North America. The Finnish folk metal outfit will be supporting their latest […]
Posted by Alexander Stafford on December 13, 2017
Hellfest is back for their 13th annual heavy metal festival and has announced their final line up. Featuring over 150 bands on 6 stages, Hellfest takes place in Clisson France from June 22-24. Previously announced headliners such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Marilyn Manson, Megadeth, Limp Bizkit, Nightwish, […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 18, 2017
Sometimes it’s awkward to write about album sales in 2017, specifically when it comes to bands and artists with longstanding careers. You have to put out qualifiers like “it’s a good debut but it’s nowhere near their best.” Take Marilyn Manson for example: he’s our to debut this week with 32,000 copies sold. Now, that’s […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 11, 2017
Hello, Matt Brown here returning to bring you the charts once again. Well, mostly. It’s another week where we’ve only got sales numbers to display. But good lord do we have along list of debuts, fifteen to be exact. I’m sure you don’t need me to tell you that with less than three months to […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 4, 2017
While we cover a solid handful of hard rock (like, y’know, Foo Fighters) along with the metal, there’s no reason for us to cover other types of rock that’s less guitar-driven. However, it should be noticed that the umbrella of “rock” has landed a solid amount of #1 albums this year. The Killers just […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 28, 2017
There’s been some debate about whether or not we should include Foo Fighters in Metal by Numbers. Are they metal? No, and we’re pretty sure they’d be the first to tell you that. However, Dave Grohl was responsible for his solo project Probot, which featured everyone from Max Cavalera and Lee Dorrian to Wino and […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on September 15, 2017
New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week is a pretty big one and features releases from Nothing More and The Contortionist, as well as the debut album from Prophets of Rage. If you would like to check […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 21, 2017
It was just one month ago that Ensiferum announced their upcoming seventh studio album Two Paths will be released on September 15th via Metal Blade Records, along with sharing their new song “For Those About to Fight for Metal.” Over the weekend, these Finnish folk metallers unleashed a music video for another new track, “Way […]
