Another week and change has gone by since we shared 30 albums recently announced. Since then there’s now 1,381 New & Noteworthy metal releases on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and...
System of a Down show interrupted due to fans injuries
If you’re putting tens of thousands of people in an arena or festival grounds, it’s normal to some injuries sustained by fans at rock festivals, like that time two lightning strikes injured 33 people at Rock am Ring or that time Firefest ended early due...‘Rock Band 4’ adds System of a Down, Disturbed and more
With Rock Band 4 landing on PS4 and XBox One in October to reboot the guitar-based rhythm game franchise, more bands are starting to be announced for the game. They seem to be doling out the artist and song listings slowly, with last month’s addition of 11 songs...Metal Insider Top 5: Karaoke performances from 70,000 Tons of Metal
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. We are in summer now and that means a tons of news on the festival side of the metal scene, particularly in Europe who are about to go full-steam with their amazing fests...Photos: System of a Down, Melvins, Le Butcherettes, DTE Energy Music Theater, Detroit MI 6/17/15
Last night (17), System of a Down played the second of two American dates of their leg of ‘Wake up the Souls’ tour at Detroit’s DTE Energy Music Theatre. The tour, which is being done to raide awareness of the Armenian genocide on its 100th...Follow Us
Explore 20 new albums just announced – 9/03/2025
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Interview: Burning Witches’ Jay Grob talks Inquisition, touring hurdles, and the witch she’d add for a day
Swiss heavy metal outfit Burning Witches have released their sixth studio album, Inquisition, on August 22, 2025 via Napalm Records. Diving into themes of medieval persecution, religious oppression, and resilience, the follow-up to 2023's The Dark Tower, marks a bold...
Feuerschwanz’s Ben Metzner talks new album ‘Knightclub’ with track-by-track explainer
Germany’s folk metal unit Feuerschwanz have unveiled their twelfth studio album, Knightclub, out now via Napalm Records. Known for their chaotic, high-energy performances, whether bringing vikings, theatrics, or sheer madness to the stage (as seen during their...
New & Noteworthy: Releases of Being – (5/5/2023 – 9/15/2023)
New & Noteworthy has returned! Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. For this week’s list, we’re not only bringing you the week’s must-know releases, we’re taking you back to the...
New & Noteworthy: Reader of the releases – 04/28/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. 2023 is flying by with April coming to a close! With the new Elvenking album to the live Cradle of Filth record, there’s so much...
New & Noteworthy: Metallica release day – 04/14-2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Metallica’s new album has finally arrived! We’ve been rocking out to this record since last night’s Global Premiere. Were...