by Alix Vallecillo | Apr 4, 2016 | Award Show Battles, Awards, News
Music awards are usually focused on popular styles of music with mostly mainstream artists being nominated and some try to pretend they also acknowledge metal but usually fail doing so. That’s why, if you wanted to see metal in one an award ceremony, you have to...
by Metal Insider | Mar 24, 2016 | Interviews
If you hadn’t yet heard of the recently formed supergroup, Good Tiger, you have to check them out ASAP. With ex-Tesseract vocalist Elliot Coleman, ex-The Safety Fire guitarists Derya Nagle and Joaquin Ardiles, ex-The Faceless drummer Alex Rüdinger, and bassist...
by Metal Insider | Dec 10, 2015 | Best of 2015, News
Composing 2015’s Top 10 began with reflecting on my Top 10 of 2014 and what lessons I learned from that process. There were two that stood out: expect the unexpected, and go with my gut instinct. To that end, I’m not spending any time overthinking and...
by Alix Vallecillo | Nov 11, 2015 | Money Talks, Music Biz, News
If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, including rock and metal ones, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This week, we...
by Seth Werkheiser | Oct 16, 2015 | News, Touring
When Dan Tompkins left TesseracT back in 2011 he apparently became a cop. That line of work usually comes with a salary and benefits, but in 2014 Dan returned to TesseracT, and not long after revealed that he’s nearly broke. In a recent interview with Metal...