Swiss heavy metal outfit Burning Witches have released their sixth studio album, Inquisition, on August 22, 2025 via Napalm Records. Diving into themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and resilience, the follow-up to 2023's The Dark Tower, marks a bold...
Metal Insider’s (More Than) Top 5: Black Friday Vinyl Releases
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. The idea behind Record Store Day is a great one – get music consumers into independent record stores to pick up rare and limited-edition music from some amazing artists. It...Marduk Guitarist Is The Proud Owner Of Mayhem Singer’s Skull
One of metal’s most infamous and horrifying tales has to be Mayhem vocalist Per “Dead” Ohlin’s suicide in 1991. As the story goes, members of Mayhem (including guitarist Euronymous) supposedly collected pieces of Dead’s skull and sent it to fellow black...Euronymous’ Face Will Not Be Appearing On The Tail Of A Plane
A few weeks ago, Norwegian Air Shuttle launched a web campaign where they’d place the face of a deceased Norwegian personality on the tail of their airplanes. And thanks to a major push by fans online and metal blogs, none other than Mayhem co-founder/guitarist than...Wouldn’t Euronymous Look Great On The Tail Of An Airplane?
To celebrate their tenth anniversary, low cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle launched a web campaign where users can vote on which famous Norwegian personality they want to see on the tail of their airplanes. And according to Italian blog Metal Skunk, none other than...Follow Us
Interview: Burning Witches’ Jay Grob talks Inquisition, touring hurdles, and the witch she’d add for a day
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Feuerschwanz’s Ben Metzner talks new album ‘Knightclub’ with track-by-track explainer
Germany’s folk metal unit Feuerschwanz have unveiled their twelfth studio album, Knightclub, out now via Napalm Records. Known for their chaotic, high-energy performances, whether bringing vikings, theatrics, or sheer madness to the stage (as seen during their...
Catch up now: 37 new songs/videos released this week – 8/27/2025
New music continues to spiral its way in. Since our chunk last week with 36 new songs, this week brings a slightly larger round of 37 new tracks as well as fresh videos from already-existing albums. Metal Insider has collected a bit of everything, including The Halo...
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...
New & Noteworthy: Conditioned for Releases – 1/5/2024
Metal Insider's New & Noteworthy, the weekly column highlights the latest and most notable rock and metal releases hitting the shelves each week. As we kick off 2024, we see a wave of fresh albums from artists like At The Plates, Cancer Christ, Haywire,...