by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 13, 2020 | News
The next batch of show cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic includes Alice Cooper, Dragonforce, Overkill, William DuVall, Imonolith, Tool, Attila, I Prevail, and more. Tyr’s epic Valor & Folklore North American Tour with Heidevolk, Trollfest, and...
by Zenae Zukowski | Mar 2, 2020 | News, Touring
Faroe Island metal giants Týr have announced their return to North America for a massive folk metal trek. The group has invited Dutch folk metallers Heidevolk, Norwegian Fairytale folk metal-conga pit masters, Trollfest, and Estonian folk metal outfit Metsatöll...
by Metal Insider | Oct 13, 2014 | CMJ Music Marathon
Next week, New York will be overtaken by hundreds of bands from around the world, even more college students from the United States and Canada and countless music industry executives for the annual CMJ Music Marathon. If you’ve looked at Metal Insider in the...
by Metal Insider | May 27, 2014 | New & Noteworthy, New Music
To those of you that had a long weekend, we hope you enjoyed it safely and in good company! This week is considered by those here in the US as being the unofficial beginning of summer, and if this release week is any indicator, summer is going to be heavy as hell this...
by Zach Shaw | May 15, 2014 | Exclusive, Interviews, New Music
Nowadays, you can associate a handful of stereotypes with the folk metal genre. Yet Metsatöll further differentiate themselves from the pack with their new album, Karjajuht, taking its Estonian folk roots and injecting it with a nice dose of brutal thrash. That’s why...