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Staind announce Break The Cycle 25th anniversary tour

Staind announce Break The Cycle 25th anniversary tour

by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 5, 2026 | News, Touring

It’s Been a While since Staind’s landmark album, Break the Cycle, was released. Twenty-five years to be exact. Therefore, the group will be celebrating its 2001 release by embarking on the “Break The Cycle 25th Anniversary Tour.” The run will...
Rockville 2026: Guns N’ Roses, My Chemical Romance, Foo Fighters & Bring Me The Horizon lead 4-day Festival

Rockville 2026: Guns N’ Roses, My Chemical Romance, Foo Fighters & Bring Me The Horizon lead 4-day Festival

by Marie-Christine Quirion | Nov 19, 2025 | Festivals, News, Previews

After shattering attendance records in 2025 with more than 230,000 fans, Welcome To Rockville roars back into Daytona once again at the Daytona International Speedway this May 7th–10th, 2026. Celebrating its 15th anniversary with the festival’s most ambitious lineup...
Metal Insider roundup: 21 recent tour and festival announcements – 11/05/2025

Metal Insider roundup: 21 recent tour and festival announcements – 11/05/2025

by Zenae Zukowski | Nov 5, 2025 | Metal on Metal, Touring

The last few weeks have brought us countless new music and live announcements, with no sign of slowing down for live shows. Metal Insider has rounded up 21 of some of the latest tour announcements, updates, and major festival news, so you can catch up on...
Sonic Temple Lineup 2026: My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Shinedown, Tool & many more

Sonic Temple Lineup 2026: My Chemical Romance, Bring Me The Horizon, Shinedown, Tool & many more

by Marie-Christine Quirion | Oct 29, 2025 | Festivals, News, Previews

After breaking every attendance record in 2025 with over 175,000 attendees over four days, and hosting the largest Rock Event in Ohio history, Danny Wimmer Presents came out swinging for the fences this year, with a HUGE announcement. This upcoming May 14th-17th,...
Grammys 2025 Highlights: Gojira’s victory & Courtney LaPlante’s standout red carpet moment

Grammys 2025 Highlights: Gojira’s victory & Courtney LaPlante’s standout red carpet moment

by Zenae Zukowski | Feb 6, 2025 | News

While Metal Insider was sailing alongside 3,000 metalheads on the 2025 voyage of 70000 Tons of Metal, another “ship,” in a far more troubling sense, unfolded at the 67th Grammy Awards. While the media fixated on turning it into a spectacle of fashion and...
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Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release
Slipknot’s ‘Look Outside Your Window’ project set for Record Store Day vinyl release

Slipknot will finally release Look Outside Your Window, a long-rumored collection of previously unreleased material recorded during the sessions for 2008's All Hope Is Gone. The experimental project — created by Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn "Clown"...

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Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’
Interview: The Hirsch Effekt’s Nils & Ilja talk new album ‘Der Brauch’

Progressive German metal outfit The Hirsch Effekt have unleashed their most melancholic and introspective album yet with Der Brauch on January 30, 2026. Read the review on Metal Insider here. We caught up with guitarist/vocalist Nils Wittrock and bassist/vocalist Ilja...

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Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’
Album Review: The Hirsch Effekt – ‘Der Brauch’

I don't think I could possibly love a band more than when I'm watching them actively refuse to become a fixed idea. The Hirsch Effekt take up shop in the lab where music feels less like a product and more like a mid-thought transcription from a parallel universe....

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New & Noteworthy: Eon Of Releases – 1/30/2026

New & Noteworthy: Eon Of Releases – 1/30/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s new albums include music from the likes of Blackwater Holylight, Buzzcocks, Kula Shaker and MØL amongst the many outstanding...

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New & Noteworthy: the final releases – 1/23/2026

New & Noteworthy: the final releases – 1/23/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week finds albums from the likes of Megadeth, Poppy, The Format, Crystal Lake, The Damned, Goldfinger and Rotting Christ...

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New & Noteworthy: Krushers of the Releases – 1/16/2026

New & Noteworthy: Krushers of the Releases – 1/16/2026

New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Amongst the many outstanding works hitting shelves this week are new releases from the likes of Sleaford Mods, Greywind, Kreator, Soen...

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