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...
Between the Buried and Me’s Paul Waggoner talks about not playing older songs
Between the Buried and Me have been pretty busy this month, as they’ve been touring with Meshuggah. During a recent interview with Heavy Blog is Heavy, guitarist Paul Waggoner upset a lot of fans by saying the band would not be playing any songs released before...Meshuggah’s guitarist worked on ‘Wolfenstein’ video game soundtrack
On May 20th, the latest Wolfenstein video game, Wolfenstein: The New Order video game will be released. We know we’re a metal site and not a video game one, but there’s a reason we’re writing about it. That’s because Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik...Linkin Park listen to Botch and Meshuggah
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been 14 years since Linkin Park ushered in an era of commercial nu-metal with their 10 million-selling debut, Hybrid Theory. And for their forthcoming sixth album, The Hunting Party, the band are going back to their roots. Of...The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman suggests metal bands stop being Meshuggah
The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman recently sat down with Premier Guitar to discuss the state of metal and hardcore music in 2014. The guitarist is extremely excited about what’s happening in underground music, but he has a supreme dislike for the bands out...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: Leviathan Releases 12/15/2023
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 the release of never-before-heard tracks from Stymie and the conclusion of a trilogy from Therion among the...
New & Noteworthy: The beautiful releases of life – 12/8/2023
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 new albums from the likes of Dimmu Borgir, Atreyu, Have Mercy and Mars Red Sky, among others. Don’t forget to...
New & Noteworthy: 666 Releases – 12/1/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. On Friday, December 1st we saw the returns of Peter Gabriel and Codeseven, a new take on Visions Of Atlantis' 2022 LP, the debut...