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Dayseeker’s Creature in the Black Night Redux arrives Feb. 26, 2027 on Spinefarm with six remixes by The Midnight, two stripped SiriusXM Octane tracks and a cover of My Chemical Romance’s ‘The Ghost of You.’
Coal Chamber’s Mikey Cox shattered his femur in a pickup basketball fall and will miss Sick New World Texas and the Oct. 31 HOB Anaheim show with P.O.D. DevilDriver’s Davier Perez Ortega fills in.
Laura Guldemond has left Burning Witches after seven years and four albums. Jennifer Gruber of Fireborn steps in for the band’s end-of-year shows while auditions continue.
On Trunk Nation, Todd La Torre said Queensryche’s new material sounds like Rage for Order and The Warning. Michael Wilton calls it ‘a really good album.’ No release date yet.
Suicide Silence released ‘Reminders of Hell,’ the third single from Graceless (out Nov. 20), ahead of their Reminders of Hell Tour, which opens Nov. 6 in Riverside.
Guitarist Reece Scruggs has confirmed that he is no longer a member of Machine Head, which he joined in 2022. Reece Scruggs made the announcement in an Instagram post, reported Oct. 22 by Metal Injection and Lambgoat. Metal Injection reports that he stepped away to be with his father following a diagnosis. Reece Scruggs’ Statement…
Washington, D.C. metalcore band Darkest Hour will play House of Blues San Diego on Wednesday, Nov. 25, as direct support for Fear Factory, 26 days after releasing their 11th album, “Suffer Divine,” on Oct. 30 via MNRK. The band announced the album in a September press release and followed it with a second single and…
Nile guitarist and vocalist Karl Sanders is recovering from multilevel spinal fusion surgery in his neck, and he says he expects to be back on the road when the band’s Underworld Europe 2026 Tour opens Nov. 29 in Athens, Greece. Karl Sanders shared the update on social media on Thursday, Oct. 22, writing that the…
Swedish d-beat band Disfear have shared “Shackled To Our Vice,” the latest single from The Last Nail, their final album with late vocalist Tomas Lindberg and late drummer Marcus Andersson. The album is out Nov. 20 through Relapse Records. “Shackled To Our Vice” surfaced around Oct. 20 and 21. Blabbermouth and Lambgoat both ran it…
Havok’s fall tour started without one of its openers. Scottish blackened thrash act Hellripper missed the opening Havok tour date on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at Metro Music Hall in Salt Lake City because the band’s U.S. visas still haven’t been approved, according to a statement from Hellripper mastermind James McBain published by Lambgoat. The shows…
Florida death metal veterans Obituary will release remastered reissues of Xecutioner’s Return and Darkest Day on Friday, Dec. 11 through Relapse Records. The Obituary reissues come on LP/2LP, CD and cassette, and the two albums are also coming to streaming for the first time, according to the announcement published Wednesday, Oct. 21 by Blabbermouth. Pre-orders…
Lita Ford has signed with Frontiers Music Srl, and her first new single for the label, “Dracula,” is out Tuesday, Oct. 27. The Lita Ford Dracula single was produced by Gary Hoey, mixed by Max Norman and played by Ford, Hoey and drummer Bobby Rock, according to the announcement published Wednesday, Oct. 21 by Blabbermouth…
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