We’re nearing the final quarter of 2025, with 1,284 New & Noteworthy metal releases already on record this year. In the fast-moving world of new music, missing even a week means missing countless new songs and album announcements. To help you catch up, Metal...
Black Sabbath Announce Dates For European Tour
It was just last week when the original Black Sabbath lineup announced that they would be reuniting for a tour and new album in 2012. Though at the time they only announced one headlining show (the Download Festival in the UK on 6/ 10), Black Sabbath has now revealed...Video Of Black Sabbath’s Reunion Press Conference Makes Its Way Online
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bneH3WLW7aE[/youtube] Black Sabbath’s announcement last Friday, November 11, is still causing buzz amongst the metal community. Sure, it may not come as much of a shock to some that the original lineup of Black Sabbath is...Black Sabbath Officially Confirm Reunion And New Album
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU3SZjfbcpI[/youtube] As we speak, the four original members of Black Sabbath are holding a press conference at the Whiskey A-Go-Go in Hollywood, the site of their first American show 41 years ago. However, once the clock turned...Headbangers’ Brawl 11/4: What Could Black Sabbath Have In Store For 11/11/11?
Headbangers’ Brawl is a weekly column where Metal Insider’s Bram and Zach take a moment to debate and analyze two opposing sides of a topical issue occurring in the world of metal and/or the music industry. Earlier today, Black Sabbath’s website was updated with the...Follow Us
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Album Review: Auri – ‘III: Candles and Beginnings’
“We are the stuff of lovely oddities.” -Oh Lovely Oddities. When it comes to music that finds beauty in the mundane and romanticizes life itself, no band does it better than folk/world multigenre band Auri. Their third album, III: Candles and Beginnings, is no...
Megadeth 2026: Final studio album, global farewell tour, and new Dave Mustaine memoir set for next year
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has announced that the band’s next studio album, due in early 2026, will be his final record. Shared with fans via his Vic Rattlehead persona, the statement also confirmed a global farewell tour launching next year, with the first dates...
New & Noteworthy: Releases Out – 10/20/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Hitting shelves this week, we have the first new material from The Rolling Stones in nearly two decades and a return to form from...
New & Noteworthy: Goodnight, Releases, I Love U, Listen – 10/6/2023 – 10/13/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. Over the next two weeks, we have the return of Dogstar and prog-rocker Trevor Rabin to look forward to, as well as new works from...
New & Noteworthy: The releases ride again 9/29/2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week’s albums include the debut of a new death metal project from Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen and the return of...