Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 10, 2023
Imagine setting sail on a four-day cruise, surrounded by 3000 fellow metalheads and 60 bands, all sharing the same passion for heavy music. This is 70000tons of Metal, an epic journey that was sadly cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many wondering if this one-of-a-kind experience would ever return. And it did! […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 23, 2023
With one week to go, there’s five bands left to be announced for Round 11 of 70000tons of Metal. The event is scheduled to set sail on January 30th in Miami, Florida to Bimini, Bahamas and back on February 3rd, 2023. Promising sixty bands to perform two sets throughout the voyage. Dragonforce, Bodyfarm, Wormed, […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on January 5, 2021
Spanish technical death metal outfit Wormed have unveiled a play-through video for the song “Bionic Relic.” The track is taken from their 2019 EP, Metaportal. The group comments: “We’re not fans of play-throughs, but since this world is changing and we haven’t played anywhere for a year (!!!) we thought you would like […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 13, 2018
Spain’s sci-fi tech death metal outfit Wormed have been hit with an unexpected turn of events. Unfortunately and regretfully, drummer G-Calero (Guillermo Calero) has passed away this past Friday (9th). The band confirmed the news on their Facebook stating “our friend and bandmate has left so suddenly.” No other details about his death have been […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on May 31, 2016
Over the past weekend, the biggest annual gathering of metalheads in the US took place with the latest installment of the Maryland Deathfest. The eagerness for the “America’s biggest metal party of the year” was visible among my list of friends and foes planning to lose their necks and minds over the excellent list of […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 6, 2016
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Hot damn, how about that alliteration in the title, huh? Also: hot damn there’s fourteen debuts this week. April is definitely off to a monster start with all these albums, and there’s only more […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on March 25, 2016
If there’s one appropriate way to close out “March is Metal Month”, it’s by having the last Friday in March be the busiest day on the release calendar up to that point for the year. So it is today, with a deluge of new albums taking over the charts and our ears. The most intriguing part […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on June 26, 2015
It only took a month after Maryland Deathfest, the biggest festival of extreme metal in the US, to reveal some of the bands confirmed to perform next year and, as usual, it is loaded with a lot of heavy hitters that the metal community can certainly appreciate. These are the bands who will grace the […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 4, 2013
It’s December, which means it’s time for that annual rite of passage where everyone attempts to summarize a year’s worth of music into a top ten list. Metal Insider and its contributors will be releasing our lists starting soon, but we’ve also gotten lists from some of the artists themselves. In the latest installment, members of Gypsyhawk, […]
Posted by Chris Colgan on March 26, 2013
Most bands get better with age, but there are very few that don’t seem to reach a noticeable peak. Fewer still manage to reach a peak, fall back from it, and then ascend to an even higher peak. Today’s lead artist is one such band, and their release today comes over a decade after their […]
