by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 23, 2025 | Lists
2025, what an incredible year for music. I want to thank our readers and the Metal Insider team for another year of metal. We sacrifice what we can to support metal and the scene. It’s what we live for. So, thank you for being part of the adventure. While it was...
by Elise Yablon | Apr 29, 2025 | New & Noteworthy
April 25, 2025 New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The final New Music Friday of April will see the return of Billy Idol, new works from Ghost, Machine Head and Wednesday...
by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 29, 2021 | Lists, Top 20
2021 has been another challenging year, but we saw a return of live music. Artists have once again found more creative ways to virtually bring live music, such as Epica’s unique cinematic event with Omega Alive. Many have unveiled powerful new tunes via LP and...
by Chris Annunziata | Jul 22, 2021 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s releases weren’t as strong as previous weeks but the numbers didn’t fall too far. We also saw some bands fall off, such as Go Ahead And...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jul 22, 2021 | Interviews, News, Releases
Laurenne/Louhimo, the new collaboration project between Finnish vocalists Noora Louhimo (Battle Beast) and Netta Laurenne (Smackbound), released their debut album, The Reckoning, on July 9th via Frontiers Music s.r.l (order here). We caught up with Louhimo and...