by Zach Shaw | Apr 19, 2011 | Festivals, I'm On A Boat
After the large success of the first 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise this past year, it was pretty inevitable that it would return for a second run. And after only 3 months since the first one came to an end, plans have already been revealed for 2012. The “world’s biggest...
by Metal Insider | Feb 2, 2011 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As you may have/hopefully noticed, we were unable to deliver Metal By Numbers to you last week. The only thing we missed were a few new releases, such as Times Of...
by Metal Insider | Jan 18, 2011 | Releases
One of the things that the digital age of music has forced artists to do is learn how to deal with the near-inevitability of piracy occurring before an album is officially released. Leaks occur nearly all the time with any album that has even the slightest...
by Zach Shaw | Nov 19, 2010 | Sad News
Stratovarius has revealed that drummer Jörg Michael has been diagnosed with cancer. Keyboardist Jens Johansson has released the following statement: “Dear Stratovarius fans, I am afraid we have some quite terrible news. News of the worst imaginable kind....
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 10, 2009 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations that have...