Show Notes
A lot of heavy feelings this week sadly, with the losses of Bo Lueders, James Lollar of Gost, and Ross the Boss. Elsewhere the Kreator/Carcass/Exodus/Nails package lights up the UK, Damnation 2026 unveil all their headliners, Converge unveil a second album, and another messed up story comes out of the world of hardcore so... yeah, one of those weeks.
Releases: Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition Myrath - Wilderness of Mirrors Moodring - death fetish Chamber - this is goodbye… A Winter’s Remorse - The Day Our Gods Abandoned Us Concealer - This Room Could Be Heaven Divine Chaos - Hate Reactor Zerre - Rotting on a Golden Throne The Twilight Sad - It’s the Long Goodbye Tigers Jaw - Lost on You Free Throw - Moments Before the Wind Winterfylleth - The Unyielding Season Këkht Aräkh - Morning Star Cruel Force - Haneda Cryptworm - Infectious Pathological Waste Growth - Under the Under Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir - Enslaved & Storm Weather Shanty Choir Corrosion of Conformity - Good God / Baad Man Sunn O))) - Sunn O))) Poison Ruïn - Hymns From the Hills Lantlôs - Nowhere In Between Forever Knumears - Directions Masca - Love Letters LavaLove - Tan Lines Nervosa - Slave Machine Commitment - Fear Of Jarboe - Sightings Angine de Poitrine - Vol.II
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There's big surprise releases from Deafheaven and Power Trip, major Nightwish and Judas Priest line-up shifts, a tremendous festival announcement from Fortress, live shows from Joyce Manor, Blaze Bayley, and Khemmis, but no one wants to talk about any of it because the world's up in arms about James Hetfield.
Nails tear through the UK, Trivium unveil their Eastern darkness-inspired new album, and Aerosmith plot their own Back to the Beginning style party.
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It's real highs and lows in the news for rock music this week, with incredibly exciting reveals from Disfear and Repugnant, the 2027 line-up announcements from Slam Dunk and ArcTanGent, but also the news of Enter Shikari's incoming hiatus and the mountain-moving loss of Venom's Cronos, the forefather of extreme metal without whom our world is unthinkable.