by Chris Colgan | May 5, 2015 | New & Noteworthy, New Music, News
This week’s new release list brings us a lot of veteran acts extending their legacies even further. Representing almost every genre available, at least one of these albums will be to your liking, no matter what. Dig in and enjoy! Kamelot, Haven (Napalm)...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 20, 2015 | New Music, News, Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/33_dcoedmPg[/youtube] Japanese metal band Sigh have a new album, Graveward, coming out in May, and while you might not expect Trivium’s Matt Heafy to show up, he lends his voice to “Out of the Grave,” the first single to be...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 19, 2014 | News
You’d expect to find a lot of grimness and death at a metal festival, and there’s been plenty of that on display at the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo Norway this week. But as Sigh began the final night of the festival earlier this evening on one of the...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 12, 2014 | Festivals
There must be something about the 20 hour days of sunlight or its Viking heritage that makes Norway such a hotbed for extreme music. For a country of just over 5 million, a surprising amount of metal bands have made their way into the international spotlight. Since...
by Anthony Maisano | Oct 30, 2013 | Scene Report
Hey awesome Metal Insider readers! I’m Anthony Maisano. Last summer, I was an intern for Metal Insider, and a frequent contributor to the site. Currently, I am studying abroad in Fukuoka, Japan. Like almost every other country in the world, Japan too has its...