Posted by Anthony Maisano on December 10, 2014
It’s that time of year again. As 2014 draws to a close, we check in with the Metal Insider staff to see what new albums got them the most excited. For the past year, Anthony Maisano has been sporadically posting his “Today in Metal,” spotlighting an album that came out on that day and reviewing it. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 3, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/_OeSAUNvpvY[/youtube] It being that Metal Insider is a hard rock and metal blog, we haven’t written much about indie rock band The National, and with good reason. They’re perfectly fine, but “heavy” isn’t the first, or even 10th word that comes to mind when describing them. However, Mistaken For Strangers, a documentary that was released last […]
Posted by Matt Brown on February 26, 2014
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We get a lot of bands on the charts we haven’t really heard of before, but usually they don’t break the top 200 or at least aren’t very high up. Sometimes they drop off […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on February 18, 2014
As I promised last week, there is a lot of prog coming out today. Bask in the glory of these great new progressive releases, as well as the rest of this week’s excellent new albums! Cynic, Kindly Bent to Free Us (Season of Mist) Those that experienced the full fifteen-year gap between […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on February 17, 2012
It’s unfair to define Christian Mistress as a NWOFHM-revival band. While you can certainly hear their influences in the music, the Olympia, WA group’s mixture of classic and modern heavy rock is a refreshing change from what’s being released in today’s active rock scene. Christian Mistress first gained critical acclaim with 2010’s Agony & Opium. […]
Posted by Metal Insider on December 14, 2011
Ramming Speed are in the middle of a Winter tour that has them playing across the country for an entire month. Along the way, Ramming Speed’s drummer Jonah will be sharing highlights and pictures of all the craziness that’s been happening while on the road in his 2011 Ramming Speed Winter Tour Diary. I’m bad […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 10, 2009
Is Brutal Legend going to be the most metal video game ever? Until now, we’d heard more about the endless legal battles over the game than the game itself, but the just-released track listing just gave it even more metal cred. Sure, we know that Jack Black, Lemmy, Ozzy, Rob Halford and more lent their voices […]
