Two decades in, Swedish power metal veterans Bloodbound are ready for their next chapter with album number eleven. Field Of Swords, out today (21st) via Napalm Records, marks the group's first record with the label. Metal Insider caught up with guitarist Tomas Olsson...
Protest The Hero Announce Tour With Battlecross, The Safety Fire, Intervals, and Night Verses
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Anyone that lives in the New York area and appreciates metal listens to WSOU. Operating out of South Orange, New Jersey, Seton Hall’s college radio station plays metal nearly 24/7, and has launched and nurtured countless careers. And while we’ve already...CMJ lists top 20 Metal albums of the year at college radio
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It’s been a pretty insane year for metal, when you think about it. Sure, there were massive crowd-pleasers like Five Finger Death Punch and Avenged Sevenfold, but every subgenre of metal from black metal to stoner rock was well-represented, and the band that...Follow Us
Interview: Tomas Olsson on Bloodbound’s 20-year legacy and new album ‘Field of Swords’
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Interview: The Devil Wears Prada’s Mike Hranica talks new album ‘Flowers’
The Devil Wears Prada have never taken the easy route. Two decades into their career, the band continues to evolve while refusing to gloss over the harder parts of life. Their ninth studio album, Flowers (out November 14, 2025, via Solid State Records; read our...
Megadeth unleash “I Don’t Care” video
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June 20, 2025 New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new music includes albums from the likes of Badflower, Cryptopsy, Alestorm, Malevolence and Yungblud, among...