by Zenae Zukowski | Apr 17, 2017 | News, Touring, Updates
Early last week, Metallica announced their Hit the Stage contest, welcoming local acts to open for them on selected dates. The band revealed eight finalists for five selected show dates that kick off in Foxborough, MA at the Gillette Stadium on May 19th. The bands are...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 7, 2016 | New Music, Touring
When Helmet emerged with their debut album, 1990’s Strap It On, they probably had no idea they’d be more or less popularizing an entire genre. Yet their subsequent signing to Interscope Records and blend of noise rock. precise hardcore and metal...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 2, 2015 | News, Touring
Failure, if you haven’t realized, is one of our favorite ’90s bands that managed to not only reunite and release an album in 2015, but to reunite and release a really good album in 2015. The Heart is a Monster. They’ve been touring behind the album,...
by Matt Brown | Feb 13, 2013 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another year, another Grammy Awards Ceremony that most metalheads probably ignored in favor of something that wasn’t hosted by LL Cool J. Inevitably, a huge...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 3, 2012 | Metal By Numbers, Metal on Metal
It’s a nice start for As I Lay Dying’s sixth album, although it’s their first album since 2005 to not debut in the top ten. In other news, with Mumford and Sons selling 600,000 copies of their sophomore album this week to have this year’s...