Japanese metalcore powerhouse SABLE HILLS have officially released their highly anticipated new album, Homura, out now via Arising Empire. Blending their signature mix of crushing metalcore and melodic death metal with traditional Japanese instrumentation, melodies and Buddhist chants, the album marks a bold new chapter in the band’s evolution, pushing their sound into exciting and […]
Following on from the announcement of both the Howlin’ ROCK N RODEO and also the highly-anticipated arrival of multi-platinum selling US country artist SAM BARBER in April, the Howlin’ team is beyond excited to announce beloved Australian rock group GANG OF YOUTHS will be headlining an unmissable night of music for an all-ages crowd in […]
Melbourne deathcore outfit Body Prison will drop their violent new EP, A Waste Of Good Suffering, this Friday 20 November via Greyscale Records. Today, the band share one last single, Ironclad, as a final teaser of what’s still to come. A Waste Of Good Suffering is Body Prison fully realised, embodying everything the band have […]
Longtime Journey drummer Dean Castronovo has stepped away from the band’s ongoing Final Frontier tour for health reasons.
“After careful consideration and an extensive year of touring, our talented, longtime drummer Deen Castronovo has decided to step away to focus on personal health matters that require his attention,” say the band in a statement. “He has our full support during this time and extends his heartfelt thanks to the fans for the love, encouragement, and kindness he has received.
“Native New Yorker Steve Murphy, who comes to us from working with bands such as Alan Parsons Project, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Christopher Cross and Jack Bruce, will be joining us for the remainder of November. We look forward to continuing to share unforgettable nights of music with all of you.”
After working with Journey leader Neal Schon in Bad English between 1987 and 1998, Castronovo joined Journey in 1998. He was dismissed from the band in 2015 after being charged with fourth-degree assault, and was placed on probation for four years after pleading guilty to domestic violence crimes. He returned to Journey in 2021.
“I needed to take some time off,” Castronovo told Ultimate Classic Rockin 2023. “I had to take some time off and, pardon my language, get my shit together. I was a mess, and it was horrible what happened. But today, I’m doing great, clean and sober, working hard, doing what I need to do – and I put God first, family second. My job is third, where before it was all the other way around.”
Seven shows remain on the current leg of Journey’s Final Frontier tour. Full dates below.
“What began as ‘The Final Frontier’ now feels more like ‘The Long Goodbye.'” Schon said last month. “We’re letting our hearts – and the connection we feel with you every night – help guide what comes next.
“Thank you for standing with us, singing with us and giving us so many reasons to keep playing. This journey belongs to all of us.”
Journey Final Frontier tour dates
Nov 16: St. Louis Enterprise Center, MO Nov 18: Houston Toyota Center, TX Nov 20: Dallas American Airlines Center, TX Nov 22: Denver Ball Arena, CO Nov 24: Anaheim Honda Center, CA Nov 27: Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena, NV Nov 28: San Francisco Chase Center, CA
Apr 21: Stateline Tahoe Blue Events Center, NV Apr 23: Stateline Tahoe Blue Events Center, NV Apr 24: Indio Stagecoach Festival, CA
This week’s Suicide Silence interview on The Loaded Radio Podcast is with bassist Dan Kenny, five days before Graceless, the band’s eighth album, arrives November 20 through Century Media, a show night in Philadelphia. Kenny has been in the band since 2008; the conversation covers a record of short songs, a label line that reaches back to the MySpace years, Chris Garza’s return, a tour opened one guitarist down, and what a bass player is for when everything else is tuned into the floor.
Scott Penfold talks to Suicide Silence bassist Dan Kenny about Graceless, the short songs, the deathcore-roots framing, Garza’s return, the new producers and The Cleansing at 20. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play, or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
What’s In The Conversation
Thirteen questions, recorded with the band on the road and the album a week out: how a touring band finds out how a record is doing, whether the short songs were a rule, who wrote the “MySpace-era” line, Garza’s “serve the band logo” brief, Ian Waye’s time in the band, what producers Hunter Young and Austin Coupe asked of the bass, and whether The Cleansing’s 20th anniversary is a plan or a question he’s already tired of.
A few of the threads, without giving away the answers. Graceless opens with a title track that runs one minute fifty-three and follows it with “Make Your Exit” at two thirty-three; Kenny talks about whether writing short was a decision or just where the songs stopped. Century Media’s own copy says the album “embraces the band’s early MySpace-era deathcore roots,” and Scott asks him whether that framing came from the band or the label. Garza’s announcement quote, that the job was to “just get out of the way and serve that band logo,” gets turned into the harder question: what does getting in the way look like, from someone who was there for the version of the band that did.
There’s the long view too. Kenny joined in 2008 and has outlasted almost everyone, so Scott asks what has never changed about this band. There’s a question about Ian Waye, the Soreption guitarist who filled in for Garza from January until Garza came back in July, and what a technical death metal player brought into a deathcore room. And the one every deathcore bassist eventually gets asked, put plainly: when the guitars are tuned that low and doing what they do, what is the bass for?
Spares, if the tape ran long: which of the eleven songs he’s most looking forward to playing, which will be hardest live, and whose set he’ll actually watch on a 29-night bill with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia.
Graceless: Eleven Songs, 32 Minutes, Out November 20
Graceless is Suicide Silence’s eighth album, out November 20, 2026 on Century Media, recorded with Hunter Young (Psycho-Frame) and Austin Coupe (The Devil Wears Prada), announced September 11 with the title-track video and previewed by “Make Your Exit” (September 24, video directed by Nathan Karma Cox) and “Reminders Of Hell” (October 22, released with an Ernie Iniguez drum playthrough).
The track list, with lengths: “Graceless” (1:53), “Unenlightened” (2:49), “Make Your Exit” (2:33), “Rotting Inside” (2:59), “Cursed Since Birth” (2:47), “Incisions” (3:07), “Parasitic” (3:17), “Reminders Of Hell” (3:29), “NVRFXLD” (3:17), “Devoured Dreams” (3:01), “Sour” (3:02). Nothing passes three and a half minutes; the whole record is about 32. The lineup on it is Eddie Hermida, Chris Garza, Mark Heylmun, Dan Kenny and Ernie Iniguez, the first album with Iniguez as a full member after Alex Lopez left in 2022.
The label’s pitch is the roots: a record that goes back to the sound of the band’s first years “while sounding unmistakably fresh and contemporary,” timed, in Century Media’s words, as the band approaches the 20th anniversary of The Cleansing. Garza’s framing was blunter: “just playing heavy [music] and doing it from the heart,” and getting out of the way of the logo. Whether that’s a return or a reset is one of the things the episode is about. Where it lands against the band’s own catalog, and the deathcore canon it helped write, is a question for November 20.
The Band On The Road: Garza Back, Heylmun Out, One Guitarist Down
The Reminders Of Hell tour opened November 6 in Riverside and runs 29 dates to December 13 at 1720 in Los Angeles, with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia; Mark Heylmun announced the day after opening night that he’s sitting the tour out to put his sobriety and mental health first, with a fill-in guitarist named Jordan, and Chris Garza, back since July after a seven-month hiatus, playing the other side of the stage.
That’s the context Kenny is speaking from: a band that spent most of 2026 with one of its two guitarists absent, first Garza, now Heylmun, and kept playing. We covered Heylmun’s statement and the band’s response to it, which was a replacement and a thank-you; Whitechapel made a similar call this year, and the genre’s reaction to both says something about where it is now. Heylmun talked to us in 2023 about the last record; Kenny is the one carrying the low end through all of it.
Philadelphia, November 20, at the TLA, is release day. After the U.S. run: 26 dates across Europe and the UK with Fleshgod Apocalypse, April 22 to May 23, 2027.
Suicide Silence In Brief: 2002 To Graceless
Formed in Riverside, California in 2002; eight albums; one of the bands that defined deathcore with The Cleansing in 2007, one of Century Media’s best-selling debuts; the death of Mitch Lucker on November 1, 2012; Eddie Hermida joining in 2013; and a catalog that has never stayed in one place for two albums running.
The albums: The Cleansing (2007), No Time To Bleed (2009), The Black Crown (2011), You Can’t Stop Me (2014), Suicide Silence (2017), Become The Hunter (2020), Remember… You Must Die (2023), Graceless (2026). Kenny joined in late 2008, after Mike Bodkins left, for an Australian tour, and was made permanent the following spring; he’s played on everything since. The 2017 self-titled album, the nu-metal turn led by the single “Doris,” drew the loudest backlash of the band’s career and sold a fraction of its predecessor; the three records since have been, in different ways, answers to it. Graceless is the fourth.
The Cleansing turns 20 in September 2027. Century Media has already started saying so; the band hasn’t announced anything. Kenny gets asked.
TL;DR
Dan Kenny, Suicide Silence bassist since 2008, is this week’s guest on The Loaded Radio Podcast, five days before Graceless.
Graceless: eighth album, November 20, 2026, Century Media, recorded with Hunter Young and Austin Coupe; 11 songs, about 32 minutes; singles “Graceless,” “Make Your Exit” and “Reminders Of Hell.”
Topics: the short songs, the “MySpace-era” framing, Garza’s “serve the band logo” brief, Ian Waye’s fill-in run, what the producers asked of the bass, what a deathcore bassist is for, and The Cleansing at 20.
The Reminders Of Hell tour runs November 6 to December 13 with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia; Heylmun is sitting it out for his sobriety; release day is a show night in Philadelphia.
Europe and the UK with Fleshgod Apocalypse follow, April 22 to May 23, 2027.
FAQ
When is the new Suicide Silence album out?
Graceless, the band’s eighth album, is out Friday, November 20, 2026 on Century Media. It was announced on September 11 with the title-track video, recorded with Hunter Young and Austin Coupe, and previewed by the singles “Make Your Exit” and “Reminders Of Hell.” It has 11 tracks and runs about 32 minutes.
Who is in Suicide Silence in 2026?
Eddie Hermida (vocals), Chris Garza (guitar), Mark Heylmun (guitar), Dan Kenny (bass) and Ernie Iniguez (drums), the lineup on Graceless. Heylmun is sitting out the Reminders Of Hell tour to focus on his sobriety and mental health, with a fill-in guitarist; Garza returned in July 2026 after a hiatus during which Soreption’s Ian Waye filled in live.
How long has Dan Kenny been in Suicide Silence?
Since late 2008, when he joined for an Australian tour after Mike Bodkins left; he was made a permanent member in 2009. He has played bass on every Suicide Silence album from No Time To Bleed (2009) through Graceless (2026).
Is Suicide Silence doing a 20th-anniversary tour for The Cleansing?
Nothing has been announced. The Cleansing was released September 18, 2007, so the anniversary falls in September 2027. Century Media’s description of Graceless notes the approaching anniversary; the band has announced a European and UK tour with Fleshgod Apocalypse for April and May 2027, which is not billed as an anniversary run.
Where can I hear the Dan Kenny interview?
On this page via the player above, in the free Loaded Radio app for Apple iOS and Google Play, and on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you get podcasts, by searching The Loaded Radio Podcast.
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Demon had a pretty good thing going with the supremely upbeat and hooky batch of horror metal songs that opened their 1981 debut album Night Of The Demon. But the Staffordshire band got the heebie jeebies about the appeal of their creepy concept and hedged their bets, filling the album’s second side with more generic hard rock fare.
Album closer One Helluva Night is the best of that bunch. A fairly rote bit of Saturday night boozing anthemry, it doesn’t quite have the crafty class of the album’s creepier tracks. But it is the record’s heaviest track with excellent dissonant, crunchy riffing and a gruffer performance from the usually more Phil Mogg-like vocalist Dave Hill. I can’t help but find Night Of The Demon‘s evil side far more seductive but One Helluva Night is still a helluva fun NWOBHM banger. Proof that even a less demonic-than-usual Demon were still more than capable of lifting the spirits.
The Iron Maiden Rock Hall induction finally happened on Saturday, November 14, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, but the band was on the other side of the planet when it did. With Maiden touring Australia, Jack Black gave the induction speech and fronted a one-night supergroup through "The Trooper."
It was the kind of tribute only the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame could produce, honored by a room full of famous fans while the band itself was busy playing stadiums.
What happened at the ceremony
Jack Black, a lifelong Maiden devotee, opened with a question and answered it himself. "Has there ever been a band that has rocked this hard for this long? The answer is 'no,'" he told the crowd.
He also explained the empty seats with a grin, noting the band wasn't there "because they're rocking halfway around the world."
Then came the music. Black named his house band St. RageTallica 5, a nod to everyone involved:
Jack Black – vocals
St. Vincent – vocals
Kirk Hammett (Metallica) – guitar
Robert Trujillo (Metallica) – bass
John 5 (Mötley Crüe) – guitar
Brad Wilk (Rage Against the Machine) – drums
The group tore through "The Trooper," the 1983 Piece of Mind single that remains one of the most recognizable gallops in heavy metal. Black and St. Vincent split lead vocals, and the Peacock Theater audience got the closest thing to a Maiden set the night would allow.
Why Iron Maiden weren't there
The absence was no surprise. Back in April, shortly after the 2026 class was announced, manager Rod Smallwood told Billboard the band would be touring Australia around the ceremony date and had made clear to the Hall that its "fans always come first."
The timing proved exactly as tight as expected. Maiden played Melbourne's AAMI Park on November 13 and were booked for Sydney's Allianz Stadium on November 15, with Megadeth supporting on the Australasian leg of the 50th-anniversary Run For Your Lives world tour.
No current or former members made the trip, according to The MetalList. Smallwood did thank the Hall for recognizing the band's former members alongside the current lineup.
Who was inducted
The Hall inducted Maiden in the Performer category and named ten members across the band's history:
Steve Harris
Bruce Dickinson
Dave Murray
Adrian Smith
Janick Gers
Nicko McBrain
Paul Di'Anno
Clive Burr
Dennis Stratton
Blaze Bayley
Including Di'Anno, Burr, Stratton and Bayley matters to longtime fans. Di'Anno sang on the first two albums, Burr drummed through The Number of the Beast, and Bayley fronted the band for two records in the mid-to-late '90s. Di'Anno and Burr have both died, so this honor arrives posthumously for two key architects of the early sound.
Background: a long road to Cleveland
Maiden became eligible in 2005 and waited more than two decades for the call. During that stretch, the Hall's treatment of metal became a running argument among fans, and Dickinson in particular was openly scornful of the institution for years.
The Hall's official description now calls Maiden "original ambassadors of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal," crediting the band's mix of progressive song structures, galloping rhythms and theatrical visuals with shaping the sound of 1980s metal.
The band's own reactions this year were dry rather than hostile. Harris suggested he was mostly glad Americans could stop debating it, while Dickinson said he no longer had the energy to fight it, per The MetalList.
Maiden were part of a 2026 class that also included Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Oasis, Joy Division/New Order, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan.
What's next
Fans who weren't in Los Angeles can watch the tribute when the ceremony airs as a primetime special on ABC on December 8, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET. It streams on Disney+ and Hulu the following day.
As for Maiden, the Run For Your Lives tour rolls on through Australia, with a third and final North American leg scheduled for spring 2027. The band will be on stage that night either way, which is the most Iron Maiden response to a Hall of Fame induction imaginable.
FAQ
Did Iron Maiden attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony?
No. Iron Maiden were on tour in Australia and no current or former members attended the November 14, 2026 ceremony in Los Angeles.
Who inducted Iron Maiden into the Rock Hall?
Jack Black gave the induction speech for Iron Maiden at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
Who performed "The Trooper" at the Rock Hall ceremony?
Jack Black and St. Vincent sang, backed by Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo of Metallica, John 5 of Mötley Crüe and Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine. Black called the group St. RageTallica 5.
When does the 2026 Rock Hall induction ceremony air on TV?
The ceremony airs on ABC on December 8, 2026, from 8 to 11 p.m. ET, and streams on Disney+ and Hulu the next day.
I bought this HAUNT 7” vinyl a couple of years ago on the band’s Bandcamp. This Damaged State 7” features 2 songs: “Damaged State” and “Big Race” which exemplify the Metal brilliance of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Trevor Church.
Above: back cover
Yes, I’m a big fan! HAUNT has taken the Traditional Heavy Metal torch and done our beloved Metal genre proud! Damaged State was released back in 2023.
Japanese metalcore powerhouse SABLE HILLS have officially released their highly anticipated new album, Homura, out now via Arising Empire. Blending their signature mix of crushing metalcore and melodic death metal with traditional Japanese instrumentation, melodies and Buddhist chants, the album marks a bold new chapter in the band’s evolution, pushing their sound into exciting and […]
Following on from the announcement of both the Howlin’ ROCK N RODEO and also the highly-anticipated arrival of multi-platinum selling US country artist SAM BARBER in April, the Howlin’ team is beyond excited to announce beloved Australian rock group GANG OF YOUTHS will be headlining an unmissable night of music for an all-ages crowd in […]
Melbourne deathcore outfit Body Prison will drop their violent new EP, A Waste Of Good Suffering, this Friday 20 November via Greyscale Records. Today, the band share one last single, Ironclad, as a final teaser of what’s still to come. A Waste Of Good Suffering is Body Prison fully realised, embodying everything the band have […]
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