Tag Archives: Stabbing Westward

Ultimate Guide to 2024 Spring & Summer Tours and Festivals: fresh lineups & changes

Posted by on February 5, 2024

  We thought 2023 had an extensive touring cycle. Well, it seems to continue in 2024, and then some. While sharing a list of treks to look forward to this year, there’s been plenty of announcements since.  We’ve collected an extensive list consisting of tour announcements, cancellations, festival lineups, and more. Other tours to look […]

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Motley Crue, Foo Fighters, Limp Bizkit & Slipknot to headline 13th annual Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida

Posted by on November 8, 2023

    Announced today (8th), the 13th annual Welcome To Rockville festival will host a powerful collective of artists, with 150 bands performing over 4 days. This coming May 9th-12th, 2024, Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida will once again host this monstrous festival produced by the masterminds at Danny Wimmer Presents. After setting […]

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Blue Ridge Rock Fest: Static-X, Dope, Pantera, Vince Neil, and more added to 2023 lineup

Posted by on January 5, 2023

  The 2023 edition of Blue Ridge Rock Festival will take place in Alton, VA from September 7th – 10th. While Metal Insider enjoyed the 2022 run, the 2023 lineup could be the best year yet as Static-X, Pantera, Vince Neil, and many more have been added to the lineup.   Check out the extensive […]

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Inaugural Sick New World festival to see the return of Coal Chamber and Lacey Strum in Flyleaf in Las Vegas 2023

Posted by on November 8, 2022

  Fresh off the most successful debut of Las Vegas’s When We Were Young festival, it seems it’s time for metal fans to get the same treatment. While October’s festival focused mainly on mid-2000s emo-centric bands coming together in a star-studded affair, May 13th, 2023, will give rise to what has been dubbed as Sick […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/20: The charts take an ‘Ego Trip’

Posted by on May 10, 2022

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Here are the numbers for the April 8th releases.   Notable Debuts: Papa Roach, Ego Trip (New Noize) Debut #11 6,900 sold This is the band’s 11th studio album.             Joe Satriani, […]

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Metal By Numbers 4/6: Animals As Leaders have their highest charting debut

Posted by on May 10, 2022

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Here are the numbers for the March 25th releases.   Notable Debuts: Animals As Leaders, Parrhesia (Sumerian) Debut #17 4,025 sold 5th studio album from the instrumental progressive metal unit.             Dream […]

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Metal By Numbers 3/30: Charting Westward

Posted by on May 10, 2022

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We back! Here are the numbers for the March 18th releases.   Notable Debuts:   Stabbing Westward, Chasing Ghosts (COP International) Debut #29 1,957 sold Industrial rock from Chicago. It’s their first album since their 2001 self-titled […]

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New & Noteworthy 3/18/22 – 4/15/22: Lost in new music

Posted by on April 18, 2022

    New & Noteworthy, Metal Insider’s weekly column highlights some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week, we’re catching up with April 15th through March 18th 2022’s releases, which features new music from Darkher, Animals As Leaders, Undeath, Dark Funeral, and more. For previous releases you can read […]

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18 awesome album updates – 1/27/22

Posted by on January 27, 2022

  2021 ended with an incredible amount of new albums. Now, with just a few weeks into 2022, here are ## album updates recently announced.  01) Carpenter Brut announce new album Leather Terror:     French synthwave artist Carpenter Brut has announced his return with the new album, Leather Terror, out April 1st via Universal. […]

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Metal Inside(r) Home Quarantine: Stabbing Westward’s Christopher Hall – “Just hang in there”

Posted by on July 2, 2020

  Metal Inside(r) Home Quarantine is Metal Insider’s new column during this time of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked artists five questions on what’s been keeping them busy ranging from their favorite movies, food they’ve been eating, music they’ve been listening to and more. We caught up with Stabbing Westward frontman Christopher […]

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