Posted by Sara Elizabeth on October 13, 2022
Summing up what has made Virginia’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival so successful over the years comes down to “Growth.” What started in 2017 as a one-day festival headlined by Creed’s Scott Stapp has ballooned into a four-day tribute to all things rock and metal. While the scope became bigger and better every year, the […]
Posted by Matt Brown on May 6, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. There’s 17 albums on the debuts list this week, and a lot of them have gotten heaps of praise. A few of our contributors have written-up some reviews as well, including the new […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 29, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I’ve seen some talk regarding artists delaying releases due to the current pandemic vs. releasing music anyway. Perhaps the most notable delay in the world of metal is Lamb of God’s self-titled album, […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 22, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad time with a Nightwish album, so its nice to get one while the world is in such a muddied state. Their new double album is […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 16, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. There was a time in a my life were I was at a show at least every two months or so. The last show I went to was Dream Theater in March 2019. […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 18, 2019
Based on Spotify’s 2019 Wrapped, In Flames reached 146.1M streams, 9M hours, 6.5M listens in 79 countries. And out of those 79 countries, these Swedish metal giants selected North America to wrap the year for one last tour before the decade officially comes to an end. We saw the group earlier this year, around the […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on September 18, 2019
Typically, at this point of the year, we will hear tours for early next year. However, tours continue to get announced for the last quarter of 2019. We decided to compile these announcements together as there have been at least thirteen treks recently announced for both 2019 and well into 2020. 13) 3Teeth announce European/UK […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 15, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week The last time Converge put out an album I had barely started writing at Metal Insider. Hell, I hadn’t even taken over Metal By Numbers yet. And, on top of it all, I didn’t […]
Posted by Matt Brown on November 8, 2017
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We’ve got the full-blown charts this week, which means I can list percentage increases and decreases without having to bust out my cell phone’s calculator like I’m back in math class. There’s also a […]
Posted by Zach Fehl on November 3, 2017
New & Noteworthy is a weekly column in which we highlight some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week is we have releases from Cannibal Corpse and Converge, as well as Bruce Dickinson’s long awaited autobiography. If you would like to check out last week’s New & Noteworthy, you […]
