by Metal Insider | Nov 1, 2013 | Events, Record Stores, Releases
This year Black Friday has been made more tolerable, with the announcement of Record Store Day slated for November 29. Now music fans can feel a little more included in physical shopping activities with official events scheduled for the day and special album releases...
by Metal Insider | Oct 22, 2012 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. The idea behind Record Store Day is a great one – get music consumers into independent record stores to pick up rare and limited-edition music from some amazing artists. It...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 18, 2012 | Releases
Given The Sword’s not-that-secret ’70s worship, they probably wish the only format you could buy their albums on were vinyl and 8 track. However, with their fourth album, Apocryphon, coming out on October 22, fans will be able to pick the album up in...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 31, 2012 | New(ish) Music
Earlier this year for Record Store Day, fans of Mastodon and Feist were treated to a single with the band and singer/songwriter covering each other’s songs. There was probably many a Mastodon fan that weren’t aware that they’d ever like a song by...
by Zach Shaw | Apr 20, 2012 | New(ish) Music
To celebrate Record Store Day (which is tomorrow, April 21), Cradle Of Filth will be releasing Midnight In The Labyrinth. This album sees the UK extreme metal group “reinventing” select songs from their first four albums with the help of orchestras and choirs. In...