Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 11, 2019
While Metal Insider are currently working on our year-end lists, we’ve seen quite a few from Decibel Magazine and Revolver sharing their best albums of 2019. Rolling Stone have now revealed their favorites and the choices may surprise you, especially seeing the lack of Tool. Check out the list below and read the full explanations […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on July 3, 2019
Rolling Stone magazine has launched five daily interactive charts yesterday (2nd), which consists of Rolling Stone 100 Songs, The Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums, The Rolling Stone Artists 500, The Rolling Stone Trending 25, and The Rolling Stone Breakthrough 25. While the original launch date was set for May 13th, Billboard has reported the release […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on June 22, 2017
Let’s be honest, sometimes metal fans can be a bit snobbish. For instance, Rolling Stone could publish a list of the 100 top metal albums of all time that does a marvelous job showcasing the diversity of the genre (which they did), and fans can still find something to whine about. Yet many of those […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on June 22, 2017
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s next episode of his Apple Music Beats 1 radio show It’s Electric will be focused on fifteen of his favorite hard rock and metal albums of all time. Ulrich revealed his list to Rolling Stone and his choices will surprise you. It has a decent variety, ranging from Black Sabbath’s 1975 […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 21, 2017
It’s not an enviable position to come up with a list of the 100 top metal albums of all time. There are so many different genres to consider. Bands that were considered “metal” back in the day sometimes barely qualify as rock these days. And the genre is 47 years old. However, Rolling Stone has made […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on February 17, 2017
While waiting for a release date on Jonas Åkerlund’s upcoming Lords of Chaos film based off of the controversial book about the early Norwegian black metal scene, it seems Mayhem would rather see this film disappear. The band are currently on the road playing their iconic album De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Tickets have been selling out, […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 1, 2015
There’s pretty much nothing as arbitrary as a mainstream music magazine or blog’s year-end list. As Rolling Stone, Spin, Pitchfork, Stereogum and more pick their year-end albums, they all coalesce into one list that defies genre. The tastes of many different writers battle it out for who can make what album or song seem more […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 2, 2014
It’s not like Rolling Stone necessarily has their finger on the pulse of heavy music. In fact, they famously trashed the first albums by both Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. So it’s not all that surprising that even though 2014 was a banner year for metal that only one album that’s remotely heavy wound up […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 25, 2014
It’s been 40 years since KISS released their self-titled album (and their sophomore album, Hotter Than Hell, which also came out in 1974). And while they’ve never been critical darlings, with their impending induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 15 years after they first became eligible, they’re finally making the cover of […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 13, 2014
Until Saturday, all we knew about Beats Music is that Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre and Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor were behind it, and that it was launching this year. In an article in the New York Times over the weekend, more details have surfaced. The “this year” is now next Tuesday, January 21, and […]
