Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 7, 2017
When 2017 began, I was overly excited to hear countless new albums from artists including Ensiferum, Myrkur, Chelsea Wolfe, Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse Iced Earth and, many more. Unfortunately, a multitude of these new releases by talented artists felt more as a contractual obligation instead of a brilliant creative execution. The overall production quality remained […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 15, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week The last time Converge put out an album I had barely started writing at Metal Insider. Hell, I hadn’t even taken over Metal By Numbers yet. And, on top of it all, I didn’t […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on November 3, 2017
New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week is we have releases from Cannibal Corpse and Converge, as well as Bruce Dickinson’s long awaited autobiography. If you would like to check out last week’s New & Noteworthy, you […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 16, 2017
Moonspell are less than three weeks away from their forthcoming album, 1755′s release, on November 3rd via Napalm Records. Last month, the group shared the lyric video to the new song “Todos Os Santos,” and recentlyy, they revealed another taste with the tune “Evento.” Frontman Fernando Ribeiro commented about the track: “‘Bury the dead. Take care of […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on September 14, 2017
Moonspell’s upcoming album 1755 will be released on November 3 via Napalm Records. It is a follow-up to 2015’s Extinct and it will be in their native Portuguese-language. The album was written about the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which the band stated it will be “a lyrical concept that looks into the death and rebirth of […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 8, 2017
Just last week we noticed Moonspell were in the studio and today they confirmed we will see a new album this year! The Portuguese gothic metal masters unveiled the title of their forthcoming album will be 1755 and it will be sung entirely in Portuguese. Rightfully so, since the album is about the Great […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 2, 2017
It seems Portuguese gothic metal icons Moonspell have returned to the studio. Their last album was 2015’s Extinct, and it looks like they are bringing Orchestral Metal with them again. Orchestral Metal who has also worked with Amorphis and Angra, added orchestral elements to Extinct with songs “Malignia,” “A Dying Breed,” “The Future Is Dark” and […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on February 14, 2017
Today is Valentine’s Day, and while we are sick of the same old sappy love songs, we figured to have a little fun by gathering a few extreme romantic tracks. Despite most of them coming from the nineties written about lust or love, they all lead to the same message. Enjoy! 5) Rotting Christ, […]
Posted by Metal Insider on December 27, 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, regardless of anything else, it can’t be said that it wasn’t an eventful year. When we asked artists to give us their top ten of the year, we also asked them to weigh in on the past year. Not surprisingly, a particularly nasty election year and the loss of […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 19, 2016
We’ve gotten a lot of great music this year, and while you may have been following along with our list of the best music of 2016 as according to us, the artists that made some of that music should have a say in it as well. That’s why we reached out to a handful of […]
