Tag Archives: Scar Symmetry

New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)

Posted by on September 16, 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 albums that hit shelves since May that are worth a spin. These […]

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Metal By Numbers Visions of charts 8/1/2023

Posted by on August 1, 2023

  Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Metal By Numbers is back! After a delay with summer vacations, the column has returned, which includes seeing how albums from Cavalera, Queens of the Stone Age, Extreme, and more debuted in charts […]

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Scar Symmetry share “Xenotaph” video

Posted by on July 22, 2023

  Scar Symmetry have dropped a video for “Xenotaph.” THe track is taken from their latest album, The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph).” The group has enlisted The Ultraterrestrial Choir – a 233 – voice ensemble consisting of fans, friends, and famiy from all over the world for the track.    Guitarist Per Nilsson comments: […]

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Scar Symmetry announce first new album in nine years; unveils new song “Scorched Quadrant”

Posted by on March 31, 2023

  Scar Symmetry have announced the release of their first new album in nine years, The Singularity (Phase II – Xenotaph), out June 9th via Nuclear Blast. The forthcoming record marks the second installment of The Singularity Trilogy. To celebrate the announcement, the band has shared a video for the album’s first single, “Scorched Quadrant.”  […]

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Scar Symmetry parts ways with bassist Andreas Holma

Posted by on March 14, 2019

Scar Symmetry have parted ways with Andreas Holma. While the group are working on their new album The Singularity (Phase II: Xenotaph) as well as getting ready to tour Finland, Japan, and the Baltic Sea, the band had no choice but to cut ties with their bassist. Holma has been with the band since 2016 […]

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Review: ProgPower USA XVII Day 3 @ Center Stage Theater, Atlanta, GA 9/9/16

Posted by on September 14, 2016

ProgPower USA is the premier US festival for progressive and power metal, bringing together a dozen and from all over the world. It takes place every year on a Friday and Saturday in mid-September at the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. It should be noted that while the main festival is on Friday and Saturday, […]

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Scar Symmetry lose a member, add two

Posted by on October 28, 2015

[youtube]https://youtu.be/SGhGH-mHcE0[/youtube] Yesterday, on the same day that their tour with Epica and Eluveitie kicked off, Scar Symmetry announced that founding bassist, Kenneth Seil, was leaving the band. Not only did they do it via Facebook, but also by posting  a video of what they referred to as an “important drunken announcement.” And in addition to […]

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ProgPower USA announces 2016 festival line-up/format changes; Fates Warning & Devin Townsend to headline

Posted by on September 14, 2015

Friday night, sandwiched between the Anathema and Falconer sets, ProgPower USA XVII and it’s line-up were announced at the festival, gathering an explosion of applause and screams with every name to come up on the screen. Next year’s main festival will take place on Friday September 9th and Saturday the 10th, with the Wednesday Midweek […]

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Metal Insider Contributor Chris Colgan’s Top 10 of 2014

Posted by on December 11, 2014

If you’ve ever spent days agonizing over a project, checking and rechecking to make sure that it’s right, finding something at the last minute that changed everything, and then finally deciding that you were just done and had to cut it off, then you understand what it was like finalizing my Top 10 list this […]

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Metal By Numbers 11/6: Here Come The Brides

Posted by on November 6, 2014

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Another day, another band people dislike hitting the charts. But hey, there’s so many other major debuts that we’re sure you won’t even notice (even though the album art is right next to this […]

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