by Bram Teitelman | May 14, 2014 | Festivals, News, Updates
For the past nine years, the Riot Fest has taken place in Chicago. For its tenth year, the Fest is tripling in size, also expanding to Denver and Toronto, with The Cure headlining all three. There are over 100 bands playing the festivals, some of them metal. But the...
by Metal Insider | Aug 15, 2013 | Releases
Roadrunner is celebrating more than 30 years of music with the release of a box set, XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records, hitting the market October 1. The set, to be released in America and abroad, is a pretty good summation of the label’s beginnings as an...
by Bram Teitelman | May 16, 2013 | Festivals
What would you say if we told you that Motorhead, GWAR, Quicksand, Glassjaw and Bad Brains and The Devil Wears Prada were playing a festival. Pretty cool, right? What about if we told you they were also appearing with the likes of Fall Out Boy, Blondie, Public Enemy...
by Metal Insider | Apr 12, 2012 | Unsigned & Streamed
Why should major label bands be the only ones who get love? Unsigned & Streamed is a new column where we stream a song from an unsigned band we at Metal Insider really dig. This week, we’re giving a little extra exposure to Boston’s For Sleeping Or Jumping. Having...
by Zach Shaw | Mar 6, 2012 | News Ticker
Glassjaw, Kvelertak, Skindred, Crowbar, Seether, Alestorm and many others have been added to this year’s UK edition of Sonisphere.