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...
Epica, Eluveitie, the Agonist to play Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock Tour
The latest incarnation of Revolver’s Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock tour has been announced, and this year, it’s got a decidedly European twist to it. Epica and Eluveitie will be co-headlining, along with The Agonist as support. Epica’s symphonic metal...Karmaflow The Rock Opera Videogame releases soundtrack
Karmaflow the Rock Opera Videogame, featuring a large set of internationally renowned metal musicians, has released today their OST which includes tracks featured in the game, along with the release of Act II. The symphonic rock and metal tracks, released via...Members of Torche, Vampire, Serpents/Defiler list their top music of 2014
It’s December, which means that for the most part, the year in music is over. Almost everything that’s going to come out has already, as the music industry focuses on the holiday shopping rush by pushing everything that’s come out in the first 11 months of the year....Machine Head postpones tour with Children Of Bodom, Epica and Battlecross
Looking forward to seeing Machine Head on the road with Children Of Bodom, Epica and Battlecross this fall? Well then we got some bad news for you… as the tour has been postponed. Machine Head has announced that they’ve decided to postpone the previously announced...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: Releases Out – 10/20/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Hitting shelves this week, we have the first new material from The Rolling Stones in nearly two decades and a return to form from...
New & Noteworthy: Goodnight, Releases, I Love U, Listen – 10/6/2023 – 10/13/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Over the next two weeks, we have the return of Dogstar and prog-rocker Trevor Rabin to look forward to, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy: The releases ride again 9/29/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s albums include the debut of a new death metal project from Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen and the return of...