Posted by Zenae Zukowski on July 14, 2022
Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci has announced his first headlining solo tour. Petrucci has recruited Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs) on bass and Mike Portnoy (ex-Dream Theater) on drums for the trek with special guests Meanstrea who will be opening all shows. Petrucci comments: “My first headlining solo tour is set to take […]
Posted by Matt Brown on May 5, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I gotta say, wasn’t expecting a box set from The Mars Volta to top our debuts for the week but here we are. The Mars Volta are one of those bands that I, unfortunately, […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 28, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s a big one. Greta Van Fleet, Cannibal Corpse, and Liquid Tension Experiment lead the way on a chart chock full of debuts from acts both old and new. And it’s only gonna […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 7, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Man, it was Papa Roach and Serj Tankian topping the charts last week and now its Evanescence this week. There’s even an Underoath box set on here. Next you’ll tell me Ozzfest is happening […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 1, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. What? No, of course I’m not going to do some half-assed April Fools joke with the charts. Do you really think I would do something like that? I know how annoyed people get when […]
Posted by Matt Brown on March 24, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Long album and song titles are always funny to me. Unless they have a commonly understood abbreviation, fans are forced to say the whole title out loud. In the case of Rob […]
Posted by Matt Brown on March 17, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Winter is almost fully in the rearview mirror, meaning the number of album debuts will grow long and feature more heavy hitters. Between last week, which we skipped, and this week, we […]
Posted by Matt Brown on March 3, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I can’t pretend that I care much about Whitesnake, but I gotta say they’ve found an impressive excuse to release three consecutive compilations. Last year saw the release of The Rock Album and Love Songs. […]
Posted by Chris Annunziata on February 26, 2021
Liquid Tension Experiment, the supergroup of Dream Theater and King Crimson members, have dropped their second new song, “Beating The Odds.” The album, LTE3 drops March 26th via InsideOut Music and is twenty-two years after the bands’ last studio album. Each member commented on the single. Guitarist John Petrucci referred to the single as […]
Posted by Matt Brown on February 25, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I spent the first five minute writing this week’s edition of MBN thinking “I should listen to that Pretty Reckless song that was big on the radio a few years ago, it was […]
