by Matt Brown | Oct 11, 2012 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Unless your band name starts with “M” and you’re from the UK, you probably weren’t seeing the top album sales for this week. That being said,...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 3, 2012 | Metal By Numbers, Metal on Metal
It’s a nice start for As I Lay Dying’s sixth album, although it’s their first album since 2005 to not debut in the top ten. In other news, with Mumford and Sons selling 600,000 copies of their sophomore album this week to have this year’s...
by Matt Brown | Sep 28, 2012 | Video
The Devin Townsend Project came through New York this past weekend on the Epic Kings & Idols tour. Our friends over at Metal Injection managed to snag an interview with Hevy Devy himself before the show. To get the job done right, they had to choose their...
by Metal Insider | Sep 26, 2012 | Metal By Numbers
When Down decided to release four EP’s over the course of a year, it was essentially done so there wouldn’t be another five year break between albums. That might be a good idea. While the first of the four planned EPs sold nearly 12,000 copies,...
by Metal Insider | Sep 18, 2012 | New Music
The idea of a multi-part album cycle or EP series is not new in the metal world. Bands have been engaging in such concepts for decades, even becoming well-known exactly for that reason. Hell, there are even some bands whose entire discography is portrayed as chapters...