Tag Archives: RED

SLAYER resurrected: Legends to headline 2024 Louder Than Life & Riot Fest

Posted by on February 21, 2024

  This is not a drill; Slayer are back! After wrapping up their final world tour in November 2019, these legends featuring Tom Araya (bass/vocals), Kerry King (guitar), Gary Holt (guitar), and Paul Bostaph (drums) have announced their first return to the stage. At least for two festival appearances, for now: Riot Fest in Chicago, […]

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New & Noteworthy: The releases ride again 9/29/2023

Posted by on September 29, 2023

    New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s albums include the debut of a new death metal project from Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen and the return of Taproot, as well as releases from Black Stone Cherry, Code Orange, Blue […]

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In Depth Review/Photos: Blue Ridge Rock Festival Day 1 09/08/22 w/ Ghost, Kittie, Spiritbox, Cannibal Corpse, etc.

Posted by 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 […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/6: Dance to dead men

Posted by 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 […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/29: Victorious verminous

Posted by 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, […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/22: Nature, nurture, Nightwish, numbers

Posted by 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 […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/16: April burns red

Posted by 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. […]

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In Flames brought “Monsters in the Ballroom” to NYC on 12/8/19 w/ Red & Arrival of Autumn

Posted by 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 […]

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Thirteen tours recently announced – 9/18

Posted by 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 […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/15: The dusk in sales

Posted by 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 […]

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