by Matt Brown | Apr 8, 2014 | Metal Memes
Metal has its share of iconic album covers, but have you ever thought about seeing some of them from a different perspective? Take Iron Maiden’s Killers for example with the famous image of Eddie introducing a hatchet to someone’s face and imagine what he...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 3, 2014 | Film, Interviews, News, Touring
[youtube]http://youtu.be/_OeSAUNvpvY[/youtube] It being that Metal Insider is a hard rock and metal blog, we haven’t written much about indie rock band The National, and with good reason. They’re perfectly fine, but “heavy” isn’t the...
by Metal Insider | Mar 22, 2014 | Today In Metal
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G90ngH2anxQ[/youtube] Metal Insider contributor Anthony Maisano is listening to a different metal album that was released on that day every day this year. Today, it’s Iron Maiden’s breakthrough album, The Number of the...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 12, 2014 | Secret Metalhead, SXSW
Until yesterday, instrumental thrash/jazz trio Lazer/Wulf could have qualified as one of our top five unsigned bands to watch at SXSW. However, yesterday was also the day they signed a deal with Kylesa’s Retro Futurist label. And they can already claim a...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 5, 2014 | Books
If you’re not familiar with them, the 33 1/3 series of books is a stellar way to read about an album. Each book of 30,000 words is written about a particular album. Some of them are actually about the album, others are written from the point of view of the...