by Elise Yablon | Mar 29, 2024 | New & Noteworthy
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week will see the final album from Sum 41, the debut of Glyph and a tour EP featuring Puscifer, A Perfect Circle and Primus,...
by Chris Colgan | Jun 18, 2013 | New Music
Live albums can be a strange beast for bands. They can be integral pieces of their discography, or they can be quickly-forgotten show pieces. That’s why it’s rare to find live albums that are larger in scale or containing multiple parts. Iron Maiden is one...
by Zach Shaw | Aug 5, 2011 | Festivals, Guest Blog
Damn it, we wish we were at the Wacken Open Air Festival! Lucky for us, our publicist buddy Jon Freeman from Freeman Promotions offered to do some guest blogging for us. Just like Day 1, Jon seemed to consume his fair share of beer and metal madness during the...
by Chris Colgan | Jul 26, 2011 | Releases
The aspirations of young bands are usually to become the best in their genre and achieve widespread recognition. It’s not often that bands reach these aspirations very quickly, though, due to the highly competitive nature of the modern metal world. Usually it...
by Matt Kleinschmidt | Jul 25, 2011 | New Music
Since their formation in the ’90s, Swedish stoner rock band The Quill have kept up the trend of awesome rock bands from Sweden. Seriously, what is it about bands from Sweden continually being awesome? At any rate, Full Circle, the band’s first album in...