With Into Oblivion, Lamb of God’s tenth studio album and first since 2022, set to arrive March 13 via Epic Records, the band celebrate the new album’s release with nationwide listening parties from March 13 to 15. More than 140 record stores will host events including Amoeba Music (Los Angeles), Waterloo Records (Austin), Generation Records (New York), Repo Records (Philadelphia), and Plan 9 Music (Richmond).
Norway’s sludge-fueled heavy groove titans SLOMOSA will bring their riffs to North American stages later this month! The Breaking Ice Tour 2026 will commence on March 26th at The Bowery Ballroom in New York City and close on May 1st at The Grog Shop in Cleveland. Support will be provided by The Mainliners. The journey marks the band’s first ever US/Canadian headlining tour.
STEPHEN PEARCY—the voice of RATT—has teased his upcoming sixth solo album by rolling out a snippet of the song “Drive.” The track was written by PEARCY and features one of the album’s many special guests on lead guitar—someone whose name will soon be revealed. PEARCY and early RATT bassist (circa 81’) Matt Thorne co-produced the album, which will be released on PEARCY’s own Top Fuel Records (exact release date is TBA).
Revered Philadelphia punks Poison Ruin have expanded their signature approach to grim mythmaking and scythe-swinging aggression in bold new directions, offering up a new body of songs that strike one as equal parts natural, undeniably of this world, and phantasmal. Hymns from the Hills is meticulously composed, a dense sculpture of rhythmic and tonal juxtapositions that regularly shift without warning, persistently commanding attention yet denying the comfort of predictability.
Home Front hit the road next month in support of their timeless new album which cemented them as one of punk and hardcore’s most revered current bands. Watch It Die was released via La Vida Es Un Mus to high acclaim from the likes of NPR, The Needle Drop, Stereogum, Bandcamp, Paste, Alternative Press, See-Saw, New Noise Magazine, just to name a few. In addition to their select dates with Angel Du$t and Beton Arme next month, today Home Front announce a headlining run across East Coast, Midwest and more with support from Bootlicker.
MEGADETH have good reason to celebrate. The Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum metal titans’ self-titled final studio album—released last week (January 23) to worldwide critical acclaim—has exploded onto the charts at #1 on the Billboard 200 in their native U.S. (highest previous position #2). This debut also marks the band’s 9th Billboard Top 200 album.
While long enshrined amongst the hallowed halls of metal, after nearly three and a half decades, Cryptopsy are as insatiable as ever. After cracking year-end lists at Decibel, Metal Injection and BangerTV with their latest Billboard-shaking album, An Insatiable Violence, the most vile band in death metal were just crowned headliners of the longest-running heavy metal tour in North America. Now, as they continue to bang heads on their current European tour, the Canadian legends are proud to add another honor to their Hall of Fame career.
One week after announcing their 15th studio album ONE, GRAMMY® Award–nominated metal icons Sevendust return with their first new music of 2026, releasing the powerful new single “Is This The Real You.” The track showcases the unmistakable sound that has propelled the band to the top of rock radio throughout their career.
Final Gasp’s forthcoming album New Day Symptoms is steeped in nocturnal, death rock adventurism, driven with a post-punk anxiety that feels increasingly like the twitching heart of our modern age, and driven by hardcore punk intensity. Vocalist Jake Murphy poignantly gives voice to fears and frustrations lurking just under the surface of waking consciousness and turns them into a rallying cry.
