We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
Wendy Dio To Re-release Hear N’ Aid Charity Single “Stars”
In the 80’s, the mainstream had charity songs like “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and “We Are The World,” where the biggest names in pop sang together to raise awareness and money for famine relief in Africa. The metal community, though, had Hear N’ Aid’s “Stars.”...Video: Watch Rush Evolve Through Time
Fans who got to see Rush on their 2010-2011 Time Machine tour, where they performed 1981’s Moving Pictures in its entirety, will recall a humorous skit that was shown before the band ripped into “Tom Sawyer.” The filmed skit shows each member of the Canadian prog rock...3’s Joey Eppard And Daniel Grimsland Discuss ‘The Ghost You Gave To Me’ And Recent Label Mix Up
It’s been a long road for 3 leading up to the release of their new album The Ghost You Gave To Me. While they knew the direction they wanted to head towards with their new material, the hybrid prog rock band’s sixth studio album was delayed for about a year and a half...Rush Signs New Label Deal With Roadrunner Records
According to Billboard, Rush have just signed a new label deal with Roadrunner Records. The Canadian prog rock legends’ first release via Roadrunner will be a live album, followed by their new studio album Clockwork Angels in 2012. The band’s manager Ray Daniels had...Follow Us
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Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: Chaos releases – 9/22/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s list finds us looking forward to albums from Cannibal Corpse, Chaver, My Lament, Teenage Fanclub, Winterstorm,...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)
New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the...
New & Noteworthy: Reader of the releases – 04/28/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. 2023 is flying by with April coming to a close! With the new Elvenking album to the live Cradle of Filth record, there’s so much...