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...
Metal By Numbers 5/8: What’s With HIM?
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you start to look at the charts this week, you’ll notice two things: 1) There were a shit ton of albums that debuted this week, and 2) HIM is our top debut....New & Noteworthy, April 30th: In The Arms Of Rain
As promised, this week is full of melodic death metal albums, and the list is being led off by a gothic metal giant from Finland. While HIM may not necessarily be a metal band in the strictest sense, they’re still one of the most popular rock acts in the world,...Testament, Corrosion Of Conformity, Whitechapel And More Added To Scion Rock Fest 2013
Last week, part of the lineup to the 2013 edition of the Scion Rock Fest was revealed. Today, though, the full lineup was revealed, and holy crap does it look awesome. Testament has been confirmed as the additional co-headliner (along with the Melvins), while bands...Melvins, Municipal Waste, Six Feet Under Among First Bands Announced For This Year’s Scion Rock Fest
At the beginning of March, Scion A/V revealed that the fifth annual Scion Rock Fest would take place on June 1 in Memphis, TN. And yesterday, the first batch of bands were confirmed for the festival, and it’s already shaping up to be a killer billing. One of the...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...