Posted by Zenae Zukowski on October 18, 2022
August Burns Red have announced the return of Christmas Burns Red! The 2022 edition officially marks the third annual of the holiday extravaganza, which is set to take place on December 16th and 17th a the Lancaster County Convention Center in Lancaster, PA. August Burns Red will headline both nights, with the first […]
Posted by Chris Annunziata on September 9, 2021
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. What a week! The end of August (queue 36Crazy Fists) had many notable debuts from all over the metal spectrum. Topping the charts was Turnstile with their impactful debut, crushing the metal competition. This […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown 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 […]
Posted by Matt Brown on December 6, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. December is to the records industry what January is to the film industry: a quiet month with a very small number of releases. That’s not to say that the quality of the releases are […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 29, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Few bands are renowned for the live albums like Iron Maiden. If you’ve ever seen then live, then you understand why. Their studio albums are the best of the best, no question, but you […]
Posted by Nicholas Durant on January 12, 2017
Barely two weeks into 2017 and the metalcore universe has been turned upside down. While 2016 was the year that we lost a ton of iconic musicians, 2017 is becoming the year of band members stepping away from their bands. Either it’s very coincidental that several metalcore bands are now down a member and some […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 28, 2015
This past Friday, one of the biggest metal albums of the year came out, Lamb of God’s VII: Sturm und Drang. If you care about the state of the music industry and like metal, you’ve probably already bought it. As Randy Blythe noted in an Instagram post, it’s battling Jill Scott for the #1 album […]
Posted by Matt Brown on July 23, 2015
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s edition of Metal By Numbers is an important one as it’s the first one to be posted after the record industry’s shift to new music Fridays. Plus, we have a Between The […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on July 15, 2015
While Los Angeles-area band Phinehas initally formed in 2001, they didn’t really get going until about six years ago. The Christian metalcore quartet put out a pair of albums and an EP on a small label before being picked up by Artery Recordings, who recently released Till the End. Vocalist Sean McCulloch stopped by the Metal Insider […]
