Tag Archives: Tenacious D

Metal By Numbers 6/27: Is This The Worst Record We’ve Ever Covered?

Posted by on June 27, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. That’s it – we’ve reached the end of the internet. When these two screamo, rapist, dance/techno idiots can have 10,000 14 year-olds waste their allowance money on this terrible music, something’s wrong. The band […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/20: Big Time Rush

Posted by on June 20, 2012

Five years ago, the last Rush album, Snakes & Arrows, sold 93,000 copies. That’s why it’s even more impressive that in 2012, their new album has sold over 100,000 copies, matching the #2 peak that they reached back in 1993 with Counterparts. Is rock alive? Did their cameo in I Love You Man help out? Was it their […]

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Headbangers Brawl 6/15: The (Half) Year In Metal

Posted by on June 15, 2012

Back in January when New & Noteworthy writer Chris Colgan wrote his list of the most anticipated albums of 2012, we only had an inkling of what to expect from the new release calendar this year. Of course there  are gems, some surprises, and some flops, but with the first half of the year all […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/13: Rock Is Ageless As Fear Factory Has Great Debut

Posted by on June 13, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I’m pretty sure this is the first and last time we’ll be writing about the Rock of Ages soundtrack here on Metal By Numbers. It did have a pretty solid debut, but basically, this bullshit […]

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Metal By Numbers 6/7: Today Brings One Impressive Debut

Posted by on June 7, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. While last week saw a crap load of new metal and hard rock releases, this week brings us only two. The top honor comes from arguably Iowa’s second biggest metal import For Today. And […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/30: Forward Slash

Posted by on May 30, 2012

Chew on this: While Slash has kept himself extremely busy after leaving Guns N’ Roses in 1996, it took him until 2010 to release his first solo album. That’s almost as much time as it took for Axl and friends to record Chinese Democracy, which came out in 2008. The man legally known as Saul […]

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Metal By Numbers 5/23: Tenacious D Rize To The Top 5

Posted by on May 23, 2012

Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. “When The Pick Of Destiny was released it was a bomb. And all the critics said that the D was done,” Jack Black sings on the title track to Rize Of The Fenix. Well […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 5: Metal Cameos In Movies

Posted by on May 21, 2012

Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0NAdSyj8PA[/youtube] Previously, we’ve shared our top 5 metal themed movies. However, Vulture.com published a piece recently called “When Rock Stars Cameo As Themselves in Movies,” which listed the top 10 cameos from rock stars playing themselves. Their list […]

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New & Noteworthy, May 15th – A New Level

Posted by on May 15, 2012

We’ve had a lot of 20th anniversaries recently, and each one that has passed was marked in a very special way. This week, we’re celebrating a vintage release from the catalogue of a band that is near and dear to the hearts of almost every metal fan on the planet. It’s difficult to say what […]

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Video: The Beards Think You Should Have Sex With A Bearded Man

Posted by on May 11, 2012

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5nE4UqqLk[/youtube] Behold South Australia’s The Beards. As you might imagine, the members of the band are hirsute. In fact, every one of their songs are about beards – three albums worth. And while their new album, Having a Beard is the New Not Having a Beard doesn’t contain gems from their first two, like “A Wizard […]

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