Posted by Chris Annunziata on November 9, 2017
Unfortunately, more and more bands are getting robbed while on tour, and the most recent victims were Truckfighters the other night in San Francisco. The band has now started a gofundme. Hey guys! We got robbed, of everything we’ve earned so far on the tour, both merch and fee’s. It sucks big time! It […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 16, 2017
Things are about to get busy for Brooklyn doom quintet Kings Destroy. The band just released an EP, None More, on cassette via War Crime Recordings. Interestingly enough, it’s one fourteen-minute song broken down into six movements. It’s meant to be listened to as one song, but you can pretty much trace the six movements. You […]
Posted by Matt Brown on October 13, 2016
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. If you thought that Opeth’s continued avoidance of their death metal roots would hurt album sales, you’d be wrong. While Sorceress didn’t sell as much as Heritage did in its first week, it did sell more than […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on September 30, 2016
One of the biggest releases of the whole year? Check. Representation of nearly every subgenre of the metal scene? Check. The mainstream and the underground both well represented by multiple artists? Check. Yeah, this week’s list has it all and then some more. Read up and get excited, because it’s a great time to be […]
Posted by Matt Brown on May 21, 2014
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. You know, when you write this column enough times, you think you’re going to be able to predict what’ll have the best debut, what’s going to stick around longest, etc. And then Mushroomhead comes […]
Posted by Matt Brown on May 13, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/TwmFMgYlWSs[/youtube] Did your day need a cool new music video? Of course it did. A new music video for “Mind Control” by Truckfighters has premiered on Noisey and not only features a sweet digitized version of the band, but also a guy with a hatchet running through various landscapes. Why? You can watch to find out, […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 3, 2014
Right now, downtown Austin is bracing itself for the calm before the storm. In just four days (7), annual music, interactive and film mega-convention South by SouthWest (SXSW) will begin, and won’t let up until the following Sunday (16). Spring break for the music industry, place where bands go to get signed, or place where […]
Posted by Matt Brown on February 12, 2014
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. In a week where digital albums outsold physical CDs for only the fourth time ever, Within Temptation reigns supreme. The band’s sixth album sold 3,000 more copies than their last one did three years ago, […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on February 4, 2014
This week’s list alternates between the deeply melodic and the insanely heavy. A fair amount of it comes from overseas, and nearly all of it consists of well-known acts. Dig in, because the material here is some of the best you will get in 2014! Within Temptation, Hydra (Nuclear Blast) The Dutch symphonic […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 16, 2014
The lineup for this year’s Rock on the Range has been announced, and the annual Columbus, Ohio festival has gotten bigger and more metal than ever before. Expanding to three days this year, ROTR will take place on May 16th, 17th and 18th. And while the rock fest is headlined this year by Guns N’ […]
