Following an incendiary performance at this past weekend’s Vans Warped Tour in Long Beach, CA, hardcore punk quintet, XCOMM have shared new music video featuring footage from their instant-classic set performing “Purity” taken from their debut album, ‘Time To Burn’ out now on Blowed Out Records. Watch the clip below. The appearance catches XCOMM in the middle of a blistering live run, with new dates now confirmed through October, including a huge main-support slot with Guns N’ Roses at the final North American show of their World Tour 2026 in Atlanta on September 19th. Adding to a rapidly expanding live résumé that already includes shows with Foo Fighters, Dethklok and Militarie Gun and festival performances... 

Dutch black metal solo artist BLACK DOOR is now unveiling yet another haunting, vampiric new single, “Forged by Promethean Fire.” The haunting track is taken from the project’s upcoming sophomore full-length, ‘In the Shadows of a Funerary Gleam,’ due on August 28 via Wolves of Hades. The song can be found below. Additionally, pre-orders for ‘In the Shadows of a Funerary Gleam’ are now live via Wolves of Hades! The USA shop can be found HERE while the EU shop is available HERE. BLACK DOOR mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Vestibulum comments, “Forging a conclusion out of the melancholic aestheticism I portrayed in this manifestation, ‘Forged by Promethean Fire’... 

In anticipation of the September 18 release of their long-awaited 12th full-length studio album CURSUM PERFICIO via Megaforce Records, ANTHRAX are rolling out uniquely animated short clips based on the album cover, with the first clip shared yesterday (July 28). The multi-GRAMMY® Award-nominated New York hard rock titans—Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar)—worked with artist Mark Stritzel for the striking cover and the animation was done by Emmanuel Cappellini. Mark initially worked with the band’s Charlie Benante on the characters featured on the album cover.  

Progressive metal has always been about evolution, pushing boundaries, and refusing to stand still. With the release of their new album, RISEN, LIVESAY embraces that philosophy with their most inspired and dynamic work to date.  

U.S. Death Metal duo FOG WALL are set to release debut album, Gloomweaver, on September 4! Gloomweaver collects some of Tolkien’s most harrowing tales, as well as stories of the torturous, terrifying worlds depicted in the work of FromSoftware, the Japanese video game development studio. Included therein are everything from haunted fortresses to arachnid-shaped demons whose sole purpose is to eat the world, not to mention the forceful enclosure of humans into glass jars.  

Living Weapon will release their new LP Death in the Family next month, and it’s an album that confronts mortality, meaninglessness, and the aftermath of existence. The album’s pummeling new single— “Interspecies Quality Assessment”— arrives today alongside a music video filmed and produced by Eric Richter, Anthony Didio, and the band themselves.  

Intercontinental Death Metal force EMASCULATOR sign to Relapse Records & have begun working on their debut full-length album! EMASCULATOR will enter the studio this Winter with a to-be-announced 2027 release date.  

Skybound and Image Comics, in collaboration with Hasbro, a leading games, IP and toy company, announced the much-demanded open to order release of ROM Special #1, reprinting the surprise first appearance of the pop culture icon in the Energon Universe, as well as M.A.S.K. Origins #1. Both issues initially released in the M.A.S.K. #1 Blind Bag program and will now be available at comic book shops on August 26, 2026.  

Italian doom metallers MESSA are pleased to present their latest single: a Cold Cave remix of “At Races.” The original track appears on the band’s critically lauded full-length, The Spin, released last year via Metal Blade Records. The Cold Cave remix gives the enveloping track a darkwave/synthpop touch.  

This fall, Craft Recordings revisits that landmark period with vinyl reissues of Slide It In (1984), Whitesnake (1987), and Slip of the Tongue (1989). Powered by hits including “Here I Go Again,” “Is This Love,” “Still of the Night,” and “Fool for Your Loving,” the David Coverdale-led group’s run of multi-Platinum albums helped define the sound and spectacle of ’80s hard rock. In the mid- to late 1980s, Whitesnake exploded from a popular British hard rock band into a worldwide phenomenon, becoming one of the decade’s most successful rock acts.<  

Following this year’s extensive series of tour dates and festival appearances celebrating their landmark progressive doom album Foundations of Burden, Pallbearer are bringing their North American campaign to its culmination with a fresh set of dates performing the record in its entirety. This new, lengthy run includes shows in Texas, California, Pacific Northwest, the midwest and more, and tickets for the new shows will go on sale this Wednesday, July 1 at 10am local time here.  

Chuck Varga, a founding member of GWAR and the man behind The Sexecutioner from 1985 to 2022, is currently battling cancer. Chuck and his wife, Bambi, are facing tremendous medical, financial, and personal challenges as they navigate this difficult chapter together.