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Metal By Numbers 12/20: War on Christmas

Posted by on December 20, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. No, there isn’t actually any Christmas music on here nor do I think there is a war on Christmas. Anyway, it’s a pretty sizable list of debuts this week including the surprise live album […]

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Metal By Numbers 12/13: December’s destructive debuts

Posted by on December 13, 2017

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s list of debuts is a bit more robust compared to last week, not least of all because it features some long-awaited heavy hitters like The Faceless and Morbid Angel, the latter of […]

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New & Noteworthy, December 1st, 2017: New Releases Disdained

Posted by on December 1, 2017

New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. The year is winding down, and so are releases. That said, we get some long awaited death metal releases from Morbid Angel and The Faceless. If you would like to check out […]

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“Wake Me Up” from Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime

Posted by on October 30, 2017

  Geoff Tate’s Operation Mindcrime has released “Wake Me Up” as the latest single from the forthcoming new album, A New Reality. This is the third and final installment in the concept album trilogy exploring international politics, the world economy and social ethos. The former Queensrÿche front man shed some insight into the process of the album, “The whole […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/5: Every time I crack the top 10

Posted by on October 5, 2016

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another week, another slew of fall hard rock/metal releases (fourteen to be exact). I talked months ago about how crazy the amount of music coming out over the next two months, and that was […]

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New & Noteworthy, September 23rd – The Great Secret

Posted by on September 23, 2016

Last week’s article featured several albums that have gone relatively unheralded, because media focus has been dedicated heavily to a select few new albums that are forthcoming. This week, we get several more of these “surprise” releases, which will catch many off-guard if they do not closely follow the social media accounts of these bands […]

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Geoff Tate’s Operation: Mindcrime releases to be a trilogy

Posted by on October 26, 2015

In a recent interview for Music Life Magazine, Geoff Tate (Operation: Mindcrime, ex-Queensrÿche) spoke in great detail about how the story behind his first album released with his newest project, Operation: Mindcrime. Tate’s debut album under this new moniker, The Key was released on September 18th, via Frontiers Records, and is expected to be just […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/21: Feel the sting of album sales

Posted by on October 21, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s a shorter list of debuts this week, but you could probably use a breather from all the new music, eh? The past few months have been bountiful for metal, and each week continues […]

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Metal By Numbers 10/7: The charts drive it home

Posted by on October 7, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. The list of new debuts this week is notably shorter than previous weeks and lacking in big heavy hitters (no offense to Parkway Drive or any other bands listed here). So you may be […]

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Metal By Numbers 9/30: Fortune shines down on the charts

Posted by on September 30, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Yet another stout list of metal debuts has graces Metal By Numbers this week with a total of twenty bands. I would have definitely missed a few if I hadn’t used Chris Colgan’s handy-dandy […]

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