Cleveland post-hardcore outfit Along Came a Spider are gearing up for their forthcoming EP, The Fall, to arrive tomorrow (21st) via Manic Kat Records. Following the success of their 2021 album Blackhole, the band continues to draw influence from acts like Bring Me The...
Metal By Numbers 3/30: Another Lively Week
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week sees a handful of new releases making their debut, five of whom making it into the top 200. However, for the second week in a row, the top metal and hard...We’re Ending March Is Metal Month With A Bang!
If you haven’t gotten it through your skull yet that March is Metal Month, what do we have to do? Give away an amazing Celtic Frost box set from Century Media? What else? A Carcass box set featuring all of their Earache albums? How about a Five Finger Death...Metal By Numbers 3/24: The Skye’s The Limit
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another week, another #1 album that didn’t even sell 100,000 copies. It’s more or less the new normal these days. However, Mastodon move over 7,000 of...Metal By Numbers 3/16: Sales This Week Are Reckless
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week we see multiple new metal and hard rock debuts, four of which made it into the top 200. The top selling new release comes from Children Of Bodom. Though the...Follow Us
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Apocalyptica return with ‘Plays Metallica Vol. 2’: A Conversation with Eicca Toppinen on reinventing metal classics
A quick Google search will bring you countless bands and artists covering Metallica songs. Metallica encouraged artists to cover their music with the second Marching Band competition and the release of The Metallica Blacklist, where artists re-envisioned songs from...
Ensiferum share “Winter Storm Vigilantes;” new album arriving in October
Finnish folk metal giants Ensiferum have announced their new album, Winter Storm, is scheduled to arrive on October 18th via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2020's Thalassic was written largely during lockdown by guitarist Markus Toivonen with lyrics by bassist...
New & Noteworthy, September 11th – Beauty Through Order
The past few weeks have seen metal taking over the charts, with several of the genre's biggest names releasing albums and scoring top 20, top 10, and top 5 debuts. This week sees another genre mainstay releasing a new album, and it's sure to be a big seller. Read on...
New & Noteworthy, September 4th – The Man Who Would Be King
This past week has been rough for the classic metal bands. Between final tour announcements and scary health conditions, the first generation of metal is not in the greatest shape. However, we can take heart in the fact that one of those first-generation bands still...
New & Noteworthy, August 28th – Death Machine
Very few metal bands can make the claim that their career has lasted for forty years. Fewer still can claim that their career has lasted forty consecutive years. So when it came time to pick the album that leads off today's list, there was really no question. All hail...