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Metal By Numbers 8/4: Lamb of God sturm the charts

Posted by on August 4, 2015

There aren’t too many bonafide metal bands you can depend on to make a bloody splash on the , but for the past decade or so Lamb of God have proven over and over again that they are indeed one of those bands. And it’s only fitting that the highly anticipated album should be accompanied […]

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Metal by Numbers 7/28: The calm before the Lamb

Posted by on July 28, 2015

This past Friday, one of the biggest metal albums of the year came out, Lamb of God’s VII: Sturm und Drang. If you care about the state of the music industry and like metal, you’ve probably already bought it. As Randy Blythe noted in an Instagram post, it’s battling Jill Scott for the #1 album […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/11: Out of the Darkness

Posted by on June 11, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Right, so, elephant in the room: there was no MBN last week. Why? Would you believe…bizarre gardening accident in which I lost all of my fingers that have since been replaced by cybernetic ones? […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/15: The quest for Kamelot

Posted by on May 15, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. So, MBN on a Friday huh? What gives you might ask? Well, pretty soon we’re going to start getting our new music releases on Fridays anyway, so oh well. Anyway, most of you will […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/7: Meanwhile on the charts…

Posted by on May 7, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We like to think we know our audience here at Metal Insider. As such, I expect we’ll get more than a few cries of disdain and objection when the masses discover that we have, […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/30: Buried by sales

Posted by on April 30, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Oddly, we have more debuts this week than last week’s post-Record Store Day charts. Granted, not all of these releases were as  highly anticipated as a Metallica demo, but still a good week for […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/22: Halestorm go wild

Posted by on April 22, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s the post Record Store Day edition of Metal By Numbers, so you know what that means! Showing you numbers for random releases that you won’t be able to easily acquire, mostly because they’re […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/17: Swear on the charts

Posted by on April 17, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. People often talk about how bad thing come in threes, but this week it seems good things come in twos: two newer bands putting out their respective sophomore albums, two bands with decade long […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/8: Say goodbye to Hollywood

Posted by on April 8, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I really thought we were going to see Nightwish take the top spot this week but apparently Hollywood Undead made an album too. I attribute my lack of foresight to not thinking about Hollywood […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/1: These charts are no joke

Posted by on April 1, 2015

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I debated doing some April Fool’s prank for the charts today like making metal bands take over the top 10 or featuring One Direction as the top debut for the week. But I didn’t. […]

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