Tag Archives: Necromancing the Stone

Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon, Necromancing the Stone celebrate Metal Blade’s 35th Anniversary in NYC

Posted by on February 27, 2017

Opportunities sometimes occur by accident instead of long term planning. 35 years ago, Brian Slagel worked at a record store and wrote for a handful of publications, having no intention on creating a label (Metal Blade). However, he was pissed off by seeing great bands get ignored and by 1982 the praised Metal Massacre compilation was born, […]

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Metal By Numbers 8/17: Skillet is unleashed upon the top five

Posted by on August 17, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Many of you probably aren’t surprised that Skillet had a hugely successful first week with their latest album. But did you know that there’s actually two metal albums in the top ten this week? […]

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New & Noteworthy, August 5th – Lucid Dreamer

Posted by on August 5, 2016

Well, the heat wave finally broke, to the delight of everyone over at Metal Insider HQ. What’s even better, though, is that we’re getting closer to a wild fall release season. Normally it’s summer that has the crazy release period, but for 2016, the fall will be that time. We still have plenty to get […]

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Members of Revocation, GWAR, Alien Ant Farm & more state their favorite Nintendo game

Posted by on July 15, 2016

  Yesterday, the internet went insane after Nintendo announced that they would be relaunching their classic NES system as the NES Classic Edition. The new console will come with 30 built-in games, many of them classics, like Super Mario Bros., Metroid and The Legend of Zelda. Initially launched in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System brought […]

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AC/DC with Axl Rose US dates announced; would you go?

Posted by on June 2, 2016

  When we break down 2016 in hard rock and metal in about six months or so, the comeback of Guns N’ Roses will certainly rank among it’s biggest stories. But it’s only part of the story. In what first seemed like the most far-fetched rumor ever, singer Axl Rose announced that he’d be filling […]

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Here’s what Necromancing the Stone sound like (spoiler alert: good)

Posted by on September 23, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/oRIjtvfxTpg[/youtube] If it seems like only yesterday that you heard about Necromancing the Stone, the new supergroup featuring members of Arsis, The Absence, former The Black Dahlia Murder and Brimstone Coven members, that’s because it was. Yet the band’s all-out war against deathcore already has a song streaming on YouTube. “From Graves to Infamy” is […]

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