Posted by Matt Brown on December 4, 2019
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The top 40 is a good place to be for most bands, but it’s especially killer to see a death metal band on there. Blood Incantation only have two studio albums under their […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on November 22, 2019
New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week features new music from from Rammstein frontman Lindemann, Avatariul, and more, as well as some Iron Maiden reisses. For last week’s releases you can check out the last New & […]
Posted by Kayla Bojkovsky on February 1, 2019
Serious question: did anything super important happen in 2009? Seeing as how I was 12, I really wasn’t in-the-know with a lot of the grown-up things happening at the time — but, more importantly, Apparently, I hadn’t yet been introduced to “devil music,” so I initially missed out on all of the celebrated releases like […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 10, 2016
It has come to our attention that drummer and founding member of Lord Mantis, Bill Bumgardner has taken his own life. Bumgardner performed with Indian as well until they split in 2015. Thus far, no concrete confirmations have been made aside from some of his former bandmate, Abigail Williams frontman Ken Sorceron. Sorceron announced this […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on February 11, 2016
American black metal has been very solid for a long time and bands like Cobalt are the perfect example of the quality it possess. Cobalt has been a duo project helmed by multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder and Phil McSorley in charge of the vocals, but the couple had many issues down the road and finally went […]
Posted by Metal Insider on March 14, 2015
Welcome to Metal Power Rankings: Our weekly rankings take a number of factors into account: newsworthiness, record sales, internet buzz, word of mouth and overall importance in the genre. Ultimately, it’s subjective, but if a band generates enough buzz, they’ll wind up on the list. This week, Mastodon, buoyed by the surprise release of their […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on March 11, 2015
With the recently announced line-up changes of Lord Mantis, two ex-members have dusted themselves off and formed a brand new band with a couple of other notable musicians. Both Charlie Fell and Ken Sorceron, now ex-members of Lord Mantis (but current members of Abigail Williams), have joined with Jeff Wilson (also of Abigail Williams) to form a new […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on December 11, 2014
As the year in music winds down, we’ve given plenty of artists a chance to reveal their favorite music of the year. Now it’s our turn. We’ve already given you Zach Shaw’s, Nick DeSimone’s, Anthony Maisano’s and Chris Colgan’s. Now we bring you Chip McCabe’s list. Chip’s weekly column Dissident Aggression tends to focus on more […]
Posted by Metal Insider on December 4, 2014
It’s December, which means that, for the most part, the year in music is over. Almost everything that’s going to come out has already, as the music industry focuses on the holiday shopping rush by pushing everything that’s come out in the first 11 months of the year. It’s also a good time to take […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 4, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/BvCopkWM8E8[/youtube] There are a lot of NSFW videos that get released – a boob here, a little bit of blood there, but Lord Mantis have just released a video for “Possession Prayer” (via Bloody Disgusting) that’s actually bloody and disgusting. The clip, directed by Gretchen Heinel, is even more dark and disturbing than their music, which is […]
