Another week and change has gone by since we shared 20 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1,437 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and...
Sevendust Planning Tour With Coal Chamber And Lacuna Coil
With a new album (tentatively titled Black Out The Sun) due out in March/April next year, one would expect that Sevendust would hit the road soon. And according to guitarist Clint Lowery, the group is planning to tour early next year with Coal Chamber and Lacuna Coil....Headbangers’ Brawl 11/16: Which Signing Has A Better Impact For Century Media Records?
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s contributors take a moment to debate and analyze opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. Yesterday, Century Media Records announced the signing of Swedish...Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer Comments On File Sharing Lawsuit
Although they were filed in June, it wasn’t until earlier this week that it came to light that Century Media has filed lawsuits against 7,000 people that illegally downloaded albums by Iced Earth and Lacuna Coil. Century Media hasn’t issued an official...Century Media Files Suit Against Illegal Downloaders [UPDATED]
Earlier this year, there was a mini-shitstorm after a company from Panama called World Digital filed suit against 80 fans that had downloaded All Shall Perish’s This is Where it Ends. After the band and management (and label, initially) denied reports that they...Follow Us
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Catch up now: 50 new songs/videos released this week – 9/9/2025
New music continues to pile its way through. Since our chunk last week with 37 new songs, this week brings a larger round of 50 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including Sun Don’t Shine,...
Månegarm’s Erik Grawslö shares his Top 5 viking metal bands
Swedish viking metal veterans Månegarm have returned with Edsvuren, released on August 29th via Napalm Records. Marking a powerful new chapter in their 30-year career and continuing their legacy, the record blends Norse mythology, folk traditions, and blackened...
New & Noteworthy: Project Releases Vol.01/26/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this New Music Friday, we will see the return of Kula Shaker’s original line-up, more rediscovered tracks from Static-X, a...
New & Noteworthy: Hell, Fire And Releases – 1/19/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see highly-anticipated works from the likes of Green Day, Sleater-Kinney, Saxon and Neck Deep, among many others....
New & Noteworthy: Here Comes the Releases – 1/12/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. As the 2024 new music cycle revs up, we will see new albums from metal staples The Rods and Magnum, as well as the first original...