Slash approves of BABYMETAL

By now, pretty much everyone with any interest in metal music is well aware of the Japanese act BABYMETAL. And while reactions to their existence is understandably mixed, there’s no doubt that they have been successful in achieving a now ever-increasing global...

Metal By Numbers 1/21: We heart Sylosis

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Now that’s more like it! The first good helping of metal debuts for 2015 is spearheaded by some great up-and-comers with one or two oddities thrown in (thanks,...

Metal By Numbers 1/8: New year, same charts

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As is typical of the New Year, we don’t have any debuts this week. That’s soon to change, but for now all we have to tell you is that Taylor Swift is...