by Zach Shaw | Mar 1, 2012 | Touring
It’s been about two years since the Scorpions announced that their album Sting in the Tail (as well as the extensive tour in support of it) would be their last. By now, then, you’d think that the German metal veterans would have completed their “farewell” tour…right?...
by Metal Insider | Feb 1, 2012 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While we weren’t able to deliver on our call to arms that we issued last week, anyone that likes or ever has liked extreme metal still succeeded, as Lamb of...
by Metal Insider | Jan 24, 2012 | Releases
We’ve hit the first big day of new releases in the New Year, and it’s a pretty big one at that. One of the most heavily-hyped albums of the last six months is debuting today, and it’s the first legitimate chance of the year for a metal album to debut...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 13, 2011 | Hell Bent For Greatest Hits
While we love Judas Priest, normally we wouldn’t get too excited over another greatest hits package from the metal gods. They’ve already officially released five compilation albums or packages since 1993. So what makes their sixth compilation The Chosen Few so...
by Metal Insider | Aug 22, 2011 | Lists, Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Other than Satan and colors (generally black or white), a lot of metal bands look to the animal kingdom when they’re trying to pick out a name. There are plenty of...