Tag Archives: Helms Alee

Metal By Numbers 5/11: Rammstein making time for charts

Posted by on May 25, 2022

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Here are the numbers for the April 29th releases.   Notable Debuts: Rammstein, Zeit (Universal) Debut #4 17,000 sold The always entertaining German unit drop their eighth studio record. Written and recorded during the lockdown in […]

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The Melvins announce ‘The Electric Roach’ 2022 Tour

Posted by on April 12, 2022

  The Melvins have been enjoying their time touring with Ministry that  they’ve announced their return to the road for their first headlining run since 2019. Dubbed The Electric Roach Tour, is scheduled to kick off on June 15th in Long Beach, CA and will run through July 20th in Berkeley, CA with support from […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/8: I wonder where that fish did go

Posted by on May 8, 2019

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week.   If you’ve been reading this column for long enough, you might remember there was an era about two years ago where it felt like King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard was on here […]

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New & Noteworthy, September 2nd – Temple

Posted by on September 2, 2016

It would happen that the first week of the most exciting September that I’ve seen in years starts off with an absolute whimper. Only three new albums are coming out this week, but it will only serve as a short respite before we start to hit the real meat of this month’s release calendar. Enjoy […]

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Russian Circles are offering us Guidance in August

Posted by on May 17, 2016

For the last 12 years, Chicago trio Russian Circles have been bringing us beautifully heavy instrumental post-rock. As sludgy and post-metally as Isis, but with the uplift of Explosions in the Sky, they’ve even wound up being used as background music by NBC Sports. It’s  been three years since their last album, and this August, we’ll […]

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More details emerge about Robert Trujillo’s side project

Posted by on July 24, 2015

Remember that supergroup from earlier this year? The one featuring Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Torche drummer Rick Smith, Magic Bullet Records founder Brent Eyestone, and Converge bassist Nate Newton? Well, in a recent interview with Eyestone about his other band Harmonic Cross he revealed some info about the mystery supergroup: Said Eyestone: “It’s a project through the Tony Hawk Foundation. It’s […]

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Robert Trujillo recording with a band that’s not Metallica

Posted by on February 9, 2015

Photos first surfaced on Instagram a few weeks ago, but now the Magic Bullet Records website has made it official; a new supergroup has formed! That’s Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Torche drummer Rick Smith, and Magic Bullet Records founder Brent Eyestone and Graham Scala (they played together in Highness and Bleach Everything) on guitar.  The photo is from Wishbone Studios in […]

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Seth Werkheiser’s Top 10 of 2014

Posted by on December 15, 2014

As 2014 draws to a close, we check in with the Metal Insider staff to see what new albums got them the most excited. Metal Insider’s contributors have been listing their top ten albums of 2014. We’ve heard from Bram, Zach, Kodi, Matt, Nick, Chip, Anthony and Chris. Now it’s time for Seth Werkheiser’s list of […]

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Want To See Helms Alee Recreate Your Favorite Videos From The 80s And 90s?

Posted by on February 15, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmcX97Y3vE4[/youtube] Thanks to the money they raised via Kickstarter, Helms Alee and director Andrew Cox were able to create a pretty memorable video for the song “8/16.” Actually, the point of the video is that hopefully you’ll remember some of the old music videos they’re spoofing. In a nutshell, Helms Alee recreate scenes from your […]

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New & Noteworthy, June 21st – Triumph

Posted by on June 21, 2011

Lasting success is hard to come by in the modern music industry. All too often, artists are compromising their integrity and standards for the sake of gaining fans and attracting attention. It takes a truly remarkable talent to achieve lasting success in the music industry and also maintain an individual, unique style that is not […]

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