Slipknot’s Joey Jordison Will Scar The Martyr With New Band
Slipknot are no strangers to side projects, with many of the band’s eight members involving themselves in other bands. Now there’s another one. Drummer Joey Jordison has announced Scar the Martyr, his...
View ArticleJoey Jordison’s Scar the Martyr Releases Second Video Teaser
Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison’s new side project has released a second video teaser for their debut album. This video features former Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson member Chris Vretta (who plays...
View ArticleJoey Jordison’s Scar The Martyr To Tour With Danzig
Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison’s new side project has just booked its first major tour. It’s been announced that Scar The Martyr will be touring with Danzig this August, starting in Toronto on August...
View ArticleGene Hoglan Found Out He Was Out Of Fear Factory The Same Way We Did
While last year’s The Industrialist was an impressive album, many fans wondered why Fear Factory opted to record the album with a drum machine instead of longtime drummer Gene Hoglan. As it turns out,...
View ArticleRoadrunner Records to release 30th anniversary box set
Roadrunner is celebrating more than 30 years of music with the release of a box set, XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records, hitting the market October 1. The set, to be released in America and...
View ArticleJoey Jordison Talks Scar The Martyr; Says No Definite Time Plan For...
Any project with Joey Jordison’s name attached to it will receive a fair amount of attention. After all, Jordison is the rhythm backbone of Slipknot and a driving force behind the Murderdolls. Yet with...
View ArticleMegadeth To Tour US With Fear Factory And Nonpoint
Gigantour finished up back in August, but Megadeth will soon be back in the States. The Super Collider Tour will be hitting the US come November with support from Fear Factory and Nonpoint. If you...
View ArticleLamb of God’s John Campbell Leaves Tour
The fans at Lamb of God’s Oakland, California show on November 9th might be the last crowd to see the band perform as a whole for a while. A family emergency has forced the band’s bassist, John...
View ArticleBassist of Testament leaves same tour bassist of Lamb of God left
It looks like Lamb of God isn’t the only metal band on tour that’s suddenly missing their bassist. In fact, on the same tour, Testament’s Greg Christian had to back out for their remaining dates for...
View ArticleTop 10s of the year from Broken Hope, Eyehategod, Fear Factory, Armed for...
As 2013 ticks down, it’s time for everyone to take stock of what they’ve been listening to for last 11 months or so. Metal Insider and its contributors will start releasing it’s contributors’ lists...
View ArticleDeath To All To Play 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise? Looks Likely
How could this year’s 70,000 Tons Of Metal Cruise (featuring Carcass, The Haunted, Death Angel, Fear Factory, Overkill, Symphony X, Obituary and many others) get any better? Well even though the metal...
View ArticleFear Factory’s Burton C. Bell gives album update, rips Roadrunner founder
In an interview with Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Fear Factory frontman Burton C. Bell had a few things to say, most notably about 1) a new album, and 2) Roadrunner Records founder Cees Wessels....
View ArticleRogue Records looking to crowdfund supergroup compilation album
Metal label Rogue Records doesn’t have a particularly large or well-known roster (Synthetic Breed, Means End, Humanity’s Last Breath and Dischordia are a few of it’s bands), but what they lack in size,...
View ArticleDavid Davidson on Revocation’s fresh start with Metal Blade Records
It’s a little after 8pm on a Thursday evening. Revocation just finished its set at the DevilDriver / Whitechapel tour’s stop in New York City, and now frontman David Davidson is standing a few blocks...
View ArticleSatyricon, Napalm Death, Fear Factory among bands added to Slipknot’s Knotfest
The second American Knotfest, which was announced earlier this year, isn’t until the end of October, but things appear to be going pretty well for it. Things have to be for them to have added a fifth...
View ArticleFear Factory sign to Nuclear Blast, new album coming early 2015
Ever since Monte Conner made the jump to Nuclear Blast, he’s consistently brought over some of the bands that we worked with when he was the longtime head of A&R at Roadrunner Records. Now Fear...
View ArticleMetal Insider top 5: metal songs in horror movies
It’s Halloween, and while we could post a Helloween album on here and call it day, we’d rather do something different. With that in mind, here’s our top five list of heavy songs in horror movies. We’re...
View ArticleMetal community reacts to Wayne Static’s passing
With the sudden untimely passing of Wayne Static yesterday, the hard rock and metal community are coming to grips with the loss of the Static-X frontman, which happened just days before his 49th...
View ArticleFear Factory announce then postpone European tour
Fear Factory announced – then postponed - a European tour that was scheduled for spring of 2015. All within a day. The official statement from the band’s website: “To our fans in Europe, The UK, and...
View ArticleSkrillex reps Fear Factory in speaker commercial
It makes sense that Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, would get into the portable speaker business. He’s at the forefront of current EDM, so his $160 “Boom” bluetooth speaker that he helped design will...
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