Courtesy of NetflixAfter turning Metallica’s “Master of Puppets” into a resurgent hit, Stranger Things’ connection to metal continues thanks to actor Jamie Campbell Bower.Bower, who plays the villainous Vecna in the Netflix sci-fi series, has released a cover of the Sleep Token song “Euclid,” the closing track off the band’s 2023 breakout album, Take Me Back to Eden.You can…… read more »
Reprise RecordsDisturbed is bringing their 25th anniversary The Sickness tour overseas.The metal outfit has announced a European leg of the trek, launching in September. Megadeth will also be on the bill.As with the U.S. leg, which kicks off Tuesday in Nampa, Idaho, the European shows will feature two Disturbed sets: one featuring a full-album performance of The Sickness and…… read more »
Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesThe reformed Pantera has announced a U.S. summer tour.The headlining outing launches July 15 in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and will wrap up Sept. 13 in West Palm Beach, Florida. A presale begins Tuesday at noon local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.For the…… read more »
Metal BladeKillswitch Engage has premiered the video for “Collusion,” a track off the band’s new album, This Consequence.The clip follows a hacker who breaks into an authoritarian news broadcast to replace it with footage of KsE rocking out, jolting the brainwashed masses out of their trances.”‘Collusion’ is about the struggle between people in power and the…… read more »
Scott Weiland; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty ImagesScott Weiland’s son Noah Weiland sings his late father’s words in a newly released cover of the Stone Temples Pilots song “Sex Type Thing.”The recording is accompanied by a video that Noah says he “filmed … about a dream I had long ago about seeing my father again.””It’s hard for me to stay…… read more »
Atlantic Records/Rhino EntertainmentOver the course of their career, Led Zeppelin released six #1 albums — and one of those is turning 50 on Monday.Physical Graffiti, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band’s fifth studio album, was released on Feb. 24, 1975. It was a double album and the band’s first to be released under…… read more »
Atlantic RecordsKaleo has released a new song called “Back Door,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Mixed Emotions.”‘Back Door’ is a song that we’ve had for quite a while,” says frontman JJ Julius Son. “We’d performed it live for years, therefore, many of our fans already know it and have been begging us to record it. We’re…… read more »
Big Machine RockThe Struts frontman Luke Spiller has revealed the details of his upcoming debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine.The record is due out April 25. It includes the previously released title track and a newly premiered track called “The Ending Is Always the Same,” which is out now via…… read more »
Barry Brecheisen/Getty ImagesMastodon is bringing metal to the opera.Members of the band are set to take part in an upcoming event alongside composer Jake Heggie, whose stage adaptation of Moby-Dick is set to premiere at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera on March 3. Mastodon, of course, based their 2004 album Leviathan on the classic Herman Melville novel.The free event…… read more »
MNRK RecordsBlack Label Society has premiered a new single called “Lord Humungus.”The track is out now, and is accompanied by a video featuring Zakk Wylde and company wearing hockey masks and sumo wrestling suits. You can watch that on YouTube.”Lord Humungus” follows the 2024 BLS single “The Gallows.” The band’s most recent album is 2021’s Doom Crew…… read more »
