Rob Zombie has announced his eighth studio album, The Great Satan, scheduled to arrive on February 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. The new record marks the follow-up to 2021's The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy. To coincide with the announcement, the...
Dispatches from Kirk Von Hammett’s Fear FestEvil
While we were unable to make it to San Francisco for Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s inaugural Fear FestEvil that took place this past weekend, friend of Metal Insider Nona* and her friend Marc were there, where they filed this report: “Heavy metal and...Metallica haven’t “really started” working on next album yet
With Metallica Through the Never now out on home video, Metallica can turn to the next thing on their plate, which is recording the follow up to 2008’s Death Magnetic. And while they’ve made it seem like they’re getting down to business in earlier...
Kirk Hammett explains why ‘Metallica Through the Never’ flopped
As documented by many websites other than ours, Metallica’s film Metallica Through the Never wasn’t exactly a box office smash. In fact, it made less than three times the $1.2 million that the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster grossed, despite the fact...Metallica finally getting to work on next album
It’s not like Metallica have been sitting still since the release of Death Magnetic back in 2008. Not only have they toured extensively, but they’ve also produced their own festival for the last few years, bought back their masters and started their own...Follow Us
Rob Zombie unleashes new song “Punks and Demons; new album arriving in February
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Track Premiere: Beau Anderson – “As If”
ATL alt-rocker Beau Anderson has teamed up with Metal Insider to premiere his latest single, “As If,” out October 9th. The track hits with sludgy riffs and heavy grooves, channeling a failing romance destined to collapse. “As If” is taken from Anderson’s debut EP,...
Album Review: Orbit Culture’s Death Above Life & Interview with Niklas Karlsson
2000 marked a pivotal year for the rise of nu metal. While the genre had already exploded by the mid-to-late nineties, the turn of the millennium felt like its mecca, when bands like Slipknot, Linkin Park, Deftones, KoRn, Disturbed, and System of a Down (to name a...
New & Noteworthy: Manual Fire Releases 6/21/2024 – 6/28/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The next couple of weeks will see the returns of Kittie, earthtone9, The Story So Far and Dirty Three, debuts from O. and Mighty Mighty...
New & Noteworthy: Ridiculous And Full Of Releases 6/14/2024
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...
New & Noteworthy: Theories of Releases – 6/7/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This first New Music Friday of June sees releases from veteran bands like Bon Jovi, Cactus and Evergrey, as well as Butthole Surfers’ JD...