by Zach Shaw | Apr 8, 2013 | Events
We’re about ten months away from next year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise setting sail. Yet within the past week, we’ve already learned about a few big names confirmed for the metal cruise festival. On Easter, it was revealed that Dark Tranquillity, Death Angel,...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 1, 2013 | Metal Musical Chairs, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/x_IrbtD5rvU[/youtube] While the audition videos are probably rolling in for Machine Head after announcing open online auditions last week, they’ve likely got one that can move to the top of the pack. Former Fear Factory member Christian...
by Metal Insider | Mar 1, 2013 | Interviews, My First Band
Everything has to start somewhere, and this fact is no different for our metal heroes. Over that past few years I have been asking some of my favorite artists the question “What was your first band called and what did it sound like?” and here are their...
by Metal Insider | Feb 28, 2013 | Unsigned & Streamed
Why should major label bands be the only ones who get love? Unsigned & Streamed is a column where we stream a song from an unsigned band we at Metal Insider really dig. This week on Unsigned & Streamed, we’re spotlighting the Long Island, NY-based...
by Metal Insider | Feb 20, 2013 | Interviews
Devin Townsend is the mad Canadian mastermind behind the Devin Townsend Project, all things Ziltoid and the former mainman of Strapping Young Lad. Prior to his Sacramento performance at the Ace of Spades, Townsend and I met in a shady alley that smelled like burgers...