New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk a few weeks ago with 53 new songs, this week brings a solid batch of 48 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including Megadeth,...
Metal community reacts to Wayne Static’s passing
With the sudden untimely passing of Wayne Static yesterday, the hard rock and metal community are coming to grips with the loss of the Static-X frontman, which happened just days before his 49th birthday. Information is still scarce about his cause of death, but...Metal Insider top 5: metal songs in horror movies
It’s Halloween, and while we could post a Helloween album on here and call it day, we’d rather do something different. With that in mind, here’s our top five list of heavy songs in horror movies. We’re sure you’ve got a few of your own,...Fear Factory sign to Nuclear Blast, new album coming early 2015
Ever since Monte Conner made the jump to Nuclear Blast, he’s consistently brought over some of the bands that we worked with when he was the longtime head of A&R at Roadrunner Records. Now Fear Factory is joining Machine Head, Soulfly, Nightwish and Within...Satyricon, Napalm Death, Fear Factory among bands added to Slipknot’s Knotfest
The second American Knotfest, which was announced earlier this year, isn’t until the end of October, but things appear to be going pretty well for it. Things have to be for them to have added a fifth stage. Fear Factory, Napalm Death, Satyricon, Amen, Otep,...Follow Us
Catch up now: 48 new songs/videos recently released – 10/14/2025
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Explore 33 New albums just announced – 10/13/2025
A few weeks have flown since we shared 26 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1663 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album...
The New Testament is here! Animated video for latest single “High Noon” released
Bay Area thrash legends Testament have unleashed their fourteenth studio album, Para Bellum, today (10th) via Nuclear Blast Records. The record serves as a reflection on humanity's uneasy relationship with technology and the impacts of disconnection, while blistering...
New & Noteworthy: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....
New & Noteworthy: Here Comes the Releases – 1/12/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As the 2024 new music cycle revs up, we will see new albums from metal staples The Rods and Magnum, as well as the first original...
New & Noteworthy: Conditioned for Releases – 1/5/2024
Metal Insider's New & Noteworthy, the weekly column highlights the latest and most notable rock and metal releases hitting the shelves each week. As we kick off 2024, we see a wave of fresh albums from artists like At The Plates, Cancer Christ, Haywire,...