French post-black metal act The Great Old Ones have released the video for “In the Mouth of Madness." The track is taken from the group's upcoming album Kadath, out January 24, 2025, via Season of Mist. Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath,...
Strong Growth Continues For Online Radio
Thanks to Hypebot for pulling this nifty graphic from Compete. Pandora and Last FM, among others, continue to bring in more and more listeners at a steady rate. By the looks of it, the royalty people are more likely to destroy online radio before a general lack of...Pandora Limits Users To 40 Hours Per Month
After settling on new royalty rates, Pandora is compensating their increased costs by limiting users to 40 hours per month with a $0.99 monthly fee for the remainder of that month. From their blog: The revised royalties are quite high – higher in fact than any...Pandora, Other Webcasters Settle On Royalty Deal
After an extremely long negotiation period, “pure-play” webcasters (those who are not part of large corporations or are also over-the-air broadcasters) have reached a settlement for royalty payments to SoundExchange. The agreement includes the massively...Pandora Adds Roadblocks For Indie Bands
Until recently, music recommendation/internet radio service Pandora accepted music from independent artists at no cost, in any form, even home-burned CD’s. Hypebot now reports submitting your own music has a few extra steps, and some costs. In part because of a...Follow Us
The Great Old Ones unveil “In the Mouth of Madness” video
read more
Killswitch Engage drop “Forever Aligned,” announce new album
Killswitch Engage have announced their new album, This Consequence, is scheduled to arrive on February 21, 2025, via Metal Blade Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has dropped a video for their new single, "Forever Aligned." Killswitch Engage will take the...
Architects drop “Whiplash” video; new album arriving in February
British metalcore outfit Architects are back with a new record, The Sky, The Earth & All Between, scheduled to arrive on February 28, 2025, via Epitaph Records. Their forthcoming eleventh full-length offering is the overall follow-up to 2022's The Classic Symptoms...
New & Noteworthy: God Damned You To Releases – 4/5/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Albums hitting shelves this week include the return of The Libertines, the final album from Cock Sparrer and the debut solo LP from...
New & Noteworthy: Thoughts & Releases – 3/29/2024
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 final album from Sum 41, the debut of Glyph and a tour EP featuring Puscifer, A Perfect Circle and Primus,...
New & Noteworthy: Myths of Releases – 3/22/2024
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Among this week’s new albums are the returns of Gossip and Brodequin, as well as highly-anticipated works from Elbow, The Jesus...