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Metal By Numbers: Lonely Charts – 8/18/2025

Metal By Numbers: Lonely Charts – 8/18/2025

by Zenae Zukowski | Aug 18, 2025 | Metal By Numbers

Metal By Numbers returns with a closer look at weekly metal sales from August 1, 2025. From major releases to underground newcomers, we’re tracking how these New & Noteworthy releases debuted in charts. This week highlights new albums from Fit For a King, Kayo...
Metal By Numbers 2024: Better Late Than Never (11/22/2024 – 4/26/2024)

Metal By Numbers 2024: Better Late Than Never (11/22/2024 – 4/26/2024)

by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 16, 2024 | Metal By Numbers

After a long and challenging year, Metal By Numbers returns in full force. We’re diving into the top metal sellers and notable debuts of each week, catching up from where we left off on April 26th through November 22nd. November 22, 2024: Notable Debuts:...
Live Gig Review: The Brooklyn Paramount Goes Wild for Clutch on 9/05/24

Live Gig Review: The Brooklyn Paramount Goes Wild for Clutch on 9/05/24

by Ian Weber | Sep 12, 2024 | Reviews

Ah, summer’s almost over. With the mercury dipping, the SPOoOOooOooOOOOOoOokiest time of the year fast approaching, flannel shirts and hoodies keeping the chill air at bay, and the killer tours for our kind of music dominating America, now until December, making...
Album Review: Fu Manchu – ‘The Return of Tomorrow’

Album Review: Fu Manchu – ‘The Return of Tomorrow’

by Mar Morannon | Jun 17, 2024 | Reviews

Fu Manchu has a distinctive sound that they’ve maintained for nearly forty years, and their latest release, The Return of Tomorrow, fits right into that. If you’ve never listened to them before, their signature sound is a blend of skater punk and psych rock and sounds...
New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024

New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024

by Elise Yablon | Jun 16, 2024 | New & Noteworthy

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This Friday’s releases include new music from legendary artists John Cale and Fu Manchu, long-running bands Annabel, The Early November...
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Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release
Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release

Slipknot will finally release Look Outside Your Window, a long-rumored collection of previously unreleased material recorded during the sessions for 2008's All Hope Is Gone. The experimental project — created by Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn "Clown"...

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Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’
Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’

Progressive German metal outfit The Hirsch Effekt have unleashed their most melancholic and introspective album yet with Der Brauch on January 30, 2026. Read the review on Metal Insider here. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nils Wittrock and bassist/vocalist Ilja...

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Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’
Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’

I don't think I could possibly love a band more than when I'm watching them actively refuse to become a fixed idea. The Hirsch Effekt take up shop in the lab where music feels less like a product and more like a mid-thought transcription from a parallel universe....

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New & Noteworthy: Eon Of Releases – 1/30/2026

New & Noteworthy: Eon Of Releases – 1/30/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new albums include music from the likes of Blackwater Holylight, Buzzcocks, Kula Shaker and MØL amongst the many outstanding...

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New & Noteworthy: the final releases – 1/23/2026

New & Noteworthy: the final releases – 1/23/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week finds albums from the likes of Megadeth, Poppy, The Format, Crystal Lake, The Damned, Goldfinger and Rotting Christ...

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New & Noteworthy: Krushers of the Releases – 1/16/2026

New & Noteworthy: Krushers of the Releases – 1/16/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week are new releases from the likes of Sleaford Mods, Greywind, Kreator, Soen...

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