DOWN will return to North American stages this Summer for a two-week headlining tour with support provided by Helmet and Spirit In The Room! The Strap It Down tour begins in Atlanta, Georgia on August 15th and closes in Shakopee, Minnesota on September 4th with a special previously announced performance as direct support to Slayer. The journey also includes slots on the 2026 installment of Zakk Wylde’s Berzerkus Festival featuring Lamb Of God, Black Label Society, and others on August 28th in Scranton, Pennsylvania and August 29th in Wantagh, New York.
Sarcasm is one of those Swedish death metal acts that’s difficult to pin down. Labels like “Swedeath” and “melodic death metal” only tell part of the story, the band has deliberately avoided those safe categories. Instead, Sarcasm embraces a broad spectrum of metal while remaining uncompromisingly extreme.
Hard rock giants Breaking Benjamin surprised fans with the live debut of their brooding and haunting new single, “Something Wicked,” across dates on last year’s tour with Three Days Grace as well as at Welcome To Rockville, signaling the latest chapter for the band and teasing a forthcoming full-length album. Marked by their signature blend of atmospheric tension, thunderous instrumentation, and raw emotional weight, the track finds the band pushing deeper into darker sonic territory while staying rooted in the sound that has defined them for years.
IGORRR will return to North American stages this Fall and on a month-long headlining tour! The journey begins on September 18th in Worcester, Massachusetts and runs through October 20th in Toronto, Ontario. Support will be provided by American experimentalists Secret Chiefs 3, led by guitarist/composer Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle) and Osaka-based experimental electronic black metal group VMO (AKA Violent Magic Orchestra).
Solo pagan black metal project SERPENT LORD will be releasing its debut album, ‘The Once Forgotten Ways of Old,’ on May 29, 2026 via Eisenwald Records. The project is now releasing another haunting new single from the offering, “A Pagan’s Spell,” which can be found below… SERPENT LORD first slithered into existence in 2003, emerging as a solitary pagan black metal vessel forged by Jake Superchi (UADA, Ceremonial Castings). Though the project’s first true album was recorded in 2005, the work was abruptly shelved and lay dormant for twenty years. Now, in the Year of the Snake, the ancient offering has been reborn and reimagined as ‘The Once Forgotten Ways of Old,’...
John Carpenter has announced his highly anticipated return to the realm of audio/visual narrative storytelling with Cathedral, a new album set for release August 7 on Sacred Bones Records alongside his first ever graphic novel, set for release August 4 via Storm King Comics. Carpenter and longtime band mates Cody Carpenter (synths) and Daniel Davies (guitar) offer its first single and visualizer for “Lord Of The Underground”.
ARCH ENEMY + THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER will return to North American stages this Fall on a co-headlining tour. The Wrath Across America tour runs from October 5th through November 19 and includes a performance at this year’s edition of Aftershock. Additional support will be provided by Septicflesh, Crypta, and Thrown Into Exile. The Black Dahlia Murder’s latest journey follows their recent and wildly successful Spring Fling US headlining tour. Comments THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Alan Cassidy. “I’d take my arch enemy to see THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and ARCH ENEMY!…Then throw them in the pit. See you this Fall!” Comments ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott, “North America, we are...
LEFT TO DIE has signed to Relapse Records and today announce their debut full-length, Initium Mortis, set for release on July 17th! Death alumni Rick Rozz and Terry Butler joined forces with gore metal pioneer Matt Harvey and Gruesome drummer Gus Rios to form LEFT TO DIE. Their new album, Initium Mortis, pays homage to the brutal beginnings of Death.
HELLMETALL unveil “Gemona Btg. Doesn’t Exist Anymore”, the second single taken from their forthcoming album “Mgla”, set for release on September 4th, 2026, via Rockshots Records. Emerging from the isolated mountain valley of Resia, on the border between Italy, Austria, and Slovenia, HELLMETALL continue to forge a deeply personal vision of Thrash/Death Metal rooted in memory, identity, and cultural heritage. What sets the band apart is not only the violent fusion of razor-sharp Thrash riffs, Death Metal aggression, and dark melodic undertones but also their uncompromising decision to perform entirely in Resian – the ancient Slavic language still spoken in Val Resia.
The third annual Bon’s Birthday Bash will be held on Thursday, July 9 in New York City at The Cutting Room (44 E 32nd St). The only U.S. tribute event authorized by the Bon Scott Estate, the Birthday Bash will feature vocal luminaries Corey Glover of Living Colour, Constantine Maroulis, Steve Brown of Trixter, Jimmy Kunes of Cactus, and many more. The band will once again be Paul McGilloway on lead guitar, John Jackson on rhythm guitar, Ivan Bodley on bass, and Kenny Soule on drums, with the evening hosted by legendary rock radio personality Terrie Carr.
