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Fresh off their successful tour with BABYMETAL, BLACK VEIL BRIDES have unleashed their first new music since 2024’s chart-topping single “Bleeders.” The latest track, titled “Hallelujah,” finds the band tapping into their heaviest sound yet while doubling down on their signature emotional intensity and theatrical flair.
Swedish death metal stalwarts UNLEASHED have announced their fifteenth studio album, Fire Upon Your Lands, set for release on August 15 via Napalm Records. Ahead of the full record, the band has unveiled the lyric video for their powerful third single, “A Toast To The Fallen.”
Phil Fasciana, founding guitarist of Florida death metal veterans MALEVOLENT CREATION, has been admitted to the ICU in Montpelier, France after developing a severe case of bacterial pneumonia. The condition is considered critical, and doctors have indicated it may have spread to nearby organs.
GHOST, the celebrated Swedish rock band led by Tobias Forge, will appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next Wednesday, July 23. The performance, recorded live in Studio 6B at Rockefeller Center in New York City, will be available shortly after on the show’s official YouTube channel.
Swedish heavy metal outfit AVATAR — made up of vocalist Johannes Eckerström, guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — has dropped the official video for their latest single, “In The Airwaves.” The track follows May’s “Captain Goat” and marks another bold step toward their highly anticipated tenth studio album.
In a recent conversation with Riff X’s Metal XS, Saxon vocalist Biff Byford confirmed that work has already begun on the follow-up to the band’s 24th studio release, Hell, Fire And Damnation, which was released in January 2024 via Silver Lining Music.
Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess recently spoke with The Keyboard Chronicles about the strong reception to the band’s new album, Parasomnia, which dropped in February. Though they’ve only performed two tracks live so far — “Night Terror” and “Midnight Messiah” — Rudess noted, “They have a lot of power. There’s a lot of energy in those songs, and you can feel it. It’s very tangible.”
Appearing on the July 17 episode of Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk on SiriusXM, ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello confirmed that the band’s long-awaited new album — the follow-up to 2016’s For All Kings — has officially wrapped recording and is heading into the mixing stage.