These were the Top Hard Rock, Metal, and Punk(ish) News Stories in March 2022, for a number of media outlets. Plus, the Top 10 metal media outlets ranked by story engagement on Facebook and the Top 10 metal outlets on Instagram.
Plus, top YouTube channels and current cover stories (print/digital).
Blabbermouth🗣
TAYLOR HAWKINS's Cause Of Death: Colombian Police Issue Statement
JAMES HETFIELD’s Son CASTOR Releases Debut Album From BASTARDANE
SNOT's MIKEY DOLING Calls Out LIMP BIZKIT's FRED DURST Over Upcoming Tour: 'How Dare You, Man?'
Rockers React To Death Of FOO FIGHTERS Drummer TAYLOR HAWKINS
KISS's PAUL STANLEY Names 11 Of 'Best Lead Singers Of All Time'
Watch VINCE NEIL Perform MÖTLEY CRÜE Classics In Durant, Oklahoma
Report: OZZY And SHARON OSBOURNE To Leave Los Angeles For U.K. To Avoid Rising Taxes
Lambgoat 🐑🐐
First Patient to Communicate Via Brain Implant Asks to Hear TOOL Album
THE LAST TEN SECONDS OF LIFE Vocalist, Drummer and Bassist All Quit Band
MENTAL CRUELTY Part Ways with Vocalist Lucca Schmerler Following Allegations
Russian Deathcore Vocalist Alex Terrible Issues 'Official Statement' on Ukraine Invasion
Ex-MAKE THEM SUFFER Keyboardist Booka Nile Issues Statement on Allegations
Loudwire💥🔌
Rockers Mourn the Loss of Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins
New Study Finds the Three Most Controversial Figures in Rock Music
Cardi B Tweeted About My Chemical Romance + The Band Responded
Rockers Weigh In On Will Smith Slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars
Rob Zombie Announces Summer Tour With Mudvayne, Static-X + Powerman 5000
Man With ALS Uses Brain Implant to Ask to Listen to Tool Loud
Travis Barker Weighs in on Kourtney Kardashian's Cannibal Corpse T-Shirt Controversy
Metal Injection 🤘🏼💉
Slash Names What He Considers To Be The Heaviest Riff Of All Time
Paul Stanley Calls These 12 Vocalists The "Best Lead Singers Of All Time"
Jonathan Davis Calls One Early Korn Song "The Worst Song Ever"
11 Comeback Albums In The Works That You Should Be Stoked For
Soundgarden's Kim Thayil Names The One Band That Best Embodies Grunge
MetalSucks🤘🏼😝
Viral Drummer Nandi Bushell Pays Tribute to Taylor Hawkins: “Thank You for Looking After Me”
Staind Frontman Aaron Lewis: “Maybe We Should Listen to What Vladimir Putin Is Saying”
Review: Sorry, Guys, Dave Grohl’s Dream Widow Album Might Be One of the Best Metal Releases of 2022
Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner On Dolly Parton’s Hall of Fame Bow-Out: “It Was a Classy Move”
16 Women Who Have Changed The Face of Metal In the Last 20 Years
The PRP🕺🏻🪨🏰
Deftones Have Officially Parted Ways With Bassist Sergio Vega (Updated)
Limp Bizkit’s First Show Of 2022 Served As A Live Debut To Several Songs And Fred Durst’s New Look
Hear The Debut Album From Bastardane, Who Feature From The Son Of Metallica’s James Hetfield
Eskimo Callboy Change Name To Electric Callboy Following Criticism
Current And Former Members Of Lamb Of God Trade Insults On Twitter
Story Engagement 🗞
Facebook, This Week
Revolver 893k (83 posts)
Blabbermouth 671k (137)
Metal Hammer 506k (87)
Loudwire 399k (39)
MetalSucks 316k (53)
Metal Injection 258k (81)
UCR 265k (101)
Kerrang! 234k (67)
AltPress 187k (52)
Knotfest 118k (29)
INSTAGRAM 📸
Followers
Loudwire 871k (+14k)
AltPress 831k (+2k)
Kerrang! 449k (+1k)
Knotfest 437k (+11k)
Metal Injection 258k
Rock Sound 237k (-1k)
Revolver 239k (+6k)
Metal Hammer 212k (+1k)
MetalSucks 80k
Decibel 73k
YouTube📺
Total Subscribers
Loudwire 1.87M subs (started: 2011)
Rock Feed 665k (2015)
Punk Rock MBA 368k (2016)
AltPress 347k (2008)
BangerTV 335k (2011)
Metal Injection 283k (2006)
Rock Sound 211k (2006)
MetalSucks 144k (2013)
Revolver 141k (2005)
Kerrang! 130k (2008)
Knotfest 102k (2014)
Rocked 87k (2012)