# thebotwire.com Metal & Hard Rock News Feed

> thebotwire.com Metal & Hard Rock News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches the latest metal and hard rock news — album announcements, tour dates, and lineup changes — from sources like Metal Injection, Blabbermouth, and Loudwire

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/metal/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-metal-hard-rock-news-feed-6e156ff1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UnH3P9wAEqp-eo1cW0w1E

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-com-metal-hard-rock-news-feed-6e156ff1
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest metal and hard rock news from Blabbermouth and Metal Injection — up to 20 results from the last 24 hours — and flag anything about album announcements or tour dates.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, genre-specific metal and hard rock news from trusted sources (Metal Injection, Blabbermouth, Loudwire) rather than broad general music or entertainment news. It is ideal for fan-facing bots, tour-alert automations, and completist metal fandom workflows where genre precision matters more than breadth.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if freshness window is too narrow and no news has been published in that period
- Invalid 'since' format (e.g. '1week' instead of '7d') may cause a parsing error or empty result
- Specifying an invalid 'src' enum value returns an error
- Exceeding the maximum limit of 50 triggers a validation error
- Source sites may be temporarily unavailable, resulting in partial or empty results

## How this service works

Metal and hard rock: album announcements, tours, lineup changes. Genre fandom bots and tour-alert automations. Metal fandom is famously completist and news-hungry

## Output

A list of metal and hard rock news items sourced from Metal Injection, Blabbermouth, and/or Loudwire, each including headline, source, publication time, and content summary covering album announcements, tour news, and lineup changes.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-metal-hard-rock-news-feed-6e156ff1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)