Trivium are gearing up for a new chapter, announcing a North American headlining tour for fall 2026 while confirming that fresh music is on the way. The band has also revealed plans to introduce new songs during the upcoming run, giving fans an early taste of what’s next.
The tour begins on November 5 in St. Petersburg, Florida, and wraps up on December 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Joining Trivium on the road will be In Flames, Orbit Culture, Fit For An Autopsy, and Frozen Soul, making for a lineup packed with established names and rising heavy hitters. Pre-sale begins at 12 pm ET today (July 21). Use code CROWNhere to secure your tickets early.
The band’s latest full-length, In The Court Of The Dragon, arrived in 2021 and earned widespread praise across both mainstream and metal-focused publications. Before that, Trivium made a major impact with 2005’s Ascendancy, which earned Kerrang!‘s “Album Of The Year”, received a gold certification in the U.K., and surpassed 500,000 copies sold worldwide. Metal Hammer also included the record in the Top 15 of “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of The 21st Century”.
That momentum carried into a run of six consecutive Top 25 entries on the Billboard 200 and five straight Top 3 placements on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, reaching a high point with 2017’s The Sin And The Sentence. The album pushed the band’s total streaming numbers beyond 250 million, while the track “Betrayer” earned a Grammy nomination in the “Best Metal Performance” category.
Critical praise continued throughout that period, with Metal Hammer describing the group as “quite simply one of the best bands in modern metal.”
In 2020, Trivium released What The Dead Men Say, produced by the band alongside JoshWilbur. The record debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard 200, reached No. 2 on the Top Current Albums chart, and landed at No. 3 on both the Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts.
Over the years, Trivium have shared stages with Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and many other major acts, while also appearing on the main stages at Download, Bloodstock, Knotfest, and other leading festivals. The band also released the Struck Dead EP in fall 2025.
With new material ready to hit the stage and a tour featuring one of the strongest support bills of the year, Trivium looks set to close out 2026 with plenty of momentum.
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna has offered his most candid account yet of navigating the band’s lineup upheaval in a new interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece. Erna addressed the late 2024 departures of drummer Shannon Larkin and guitarist Tony Rombola — both of whom quit to stop touring — the circumstances surrounding Wade Murff’s brief tenure as drummer, and Mike Mangini’s no-rehearsal live debut with the group. Erna also pushed back against critics who argue that Mangini, a former member of Dream Theater, is “overqualified” for the Godsmack gig.
Erna said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “Well, actually, that’s a good question, because, first of all, to answer in short, right now it feels great because we have the right people that we replaced Tony and Shannon with. They’re great players, they’re great people. They’re good human beings, but they’re very qualified, and they make it all feel very natural for me and Robbie.”
“When you’re used to playing with two other people that you’ve been with for 30 years, that’s hard to replace sometimes, ‘cause there’s a natural chemistry that happens that you can’t just acquire quickly. When you play with three other guys for 30 years, you just develop a natural chemistry. So to replace that was not easy to do. But we got very lucky and we found two people that are doing a great job. It’s taken a lot of work and some patience, but we’re in a really good place right now and I think, for once, I’m feeling that Godsmack has a second life and that we’ll be able to continue for as long as we want to,” he added.
“Now, that being said, is it the same feeling as [it was with] Tony and Shannon? No, it will never be that. You can’t replace that part of it. There’s an emotional attachment to people that you consider brothers than there is to the new guys. But the new guys are also great, and we have a different relationship that we’re building with them. So it’s not the same, but it doesn’t mean that it’s bad.”
Asked how late Rush drummer Neil Peart’s quote that “nothing great lasts forever” came into play as he navigated the lineup changes, Erna said: “Well, that got me through, I think, how to navigate and tackle this new chapter. Because when I heard Neil say that, I’m, like, ‘You know, he’s right.’ There’s no way around it. That’s how life is designed, that nothing great lasts forever, at least not while we’re in a human form on Earth. We’re not designed that way. There’s a beginning, and there’s an end.
“And so I had to accept that at that point and realize as much as I wanted the original members to be together forever… And I even felt betrayed at one point. I felt like I spent my whole life building this band and giving other people an opportunity to accomplish their own dreams, and then they left me. So there’s a sense of abandonment there, and there’s a sense of betrayal.
“But I really sat down with it, and I’m, like, ‘No. No one abandoned anyone and no one betrayed anyone.’ They gave me almost 30 years of amazing memories and good times, and they put in their work. They just got to a point where they wanted to be home with their family and their houses, and they didn’t wanna tour at this level anymore. And I have to honor that and respect it and find my peace and understanding with that.
“So when Neil had said to me — and Shannon, by the way, when we met him — and we were asking him if he’s ever gonna play drums again, and he’s, like, ‘I don’t think so.’ And we’re, like, ‘Really? You’re not even gonna have a drum set in your house just to play for fun?’ And he said, ‘I don’t think so. I think I’ve done everything I can do on the drums.’ And we’re, like, ‘You sure have.’
“And then he just said, ‘Yeah, as far as being with the band, I love these guys, but life moves on, and there’s other things that we wanna do, and nothing great lasts forever.’ And that helped me a lot, understanding that as great as I felt Godsmack has been for what we are, I was faced with that same decision: here we go. And now is it time to just retire with Tony and Shannon, or do we try to keep going a little bit? And that all depended on who was gonna play and replace them.”
Mangini made his live debut with Godsmack on June 12 at the Morton Amphitheater in Riverside, Missouri, following the abrupt departure of Wade Murff. Murff had joined Godsmack in early May as Larkin’s replacement and played more than a dozen shows before his final gig on May 30 in Houston, Texas — just hours before which he had posted to social media suggesting he was looking forward to the band’s upcoming Kansas City date. On June 6, it was announced that Murff would fill in for Black Veil Brides drummer Christian “CC” Coma for the remainder of that band’s 2026 European tour, playing his first show with Black Veil Brides on June 10 in Munich, Germany.
Asked whether he felt apprehensive about putting Mangini onstage with no prior rehearsal, Erna said: “Very little. Very little, because I’ve known Mike for 30 years. I knew him back in the ’90s when he was taking over for Extreme. And I knew his level of play. And I knew his level of experience. And I would have never put that kind of responsibility in his hands to just send him a live show… ‘Cause we put out that double live album recently. And I just sent that to him, and I said, ‘Just learn this, the live version of every song.’
“I would have never put that responsibility on him if I didn’t know he was capable of coming in and playing it pretty damn close, and that’s exactly what he did. Was it perfect? No. But rock and roll is not supposed to be perfect. So he came in and did a phenomenal job on the first show. No rehearsal, we just did a long soundcheck, and I’m, like, ‘He knows. He’s got this. Nothing is gonna be a train wreck.’ And he came in, and he surprised everyone. But, of course, I had confidence in him, because it’s Mike Mangini, and he’s just very qualified to do this job.”
After Fragos noted that some progressive metal fans have claimed Mangini is “overqualified” for the Godsmack gig, Erna said: “It’s true. By people saying… And by the way, those people are a very small audience, and those people are mostly fans of Dream Theater and Mike Portnoy.
“And poor Mike [Mangini] was in Dream Theater for 13 years, just trying to do his job and learn some very complicated music that Mike Portnoy chose to leave the band himself. So Mike Mangini just came into that position, was hired, and he caught a lot of sh*t for it. He had a lot of Mike Portnoy fans that didn’t wanna accept Mangini. But by saying that Mike is overqualified to play for Godsmack is just like saying that Shannon’s overqualified to play for Godsmack, ‘cause I don’t think people realize the depth of detail that’s involved in Godsmack’s music as a drummer.”
Erna added: “I’m a drummer. I’ve been a drummer my whole life. Shannon’s an amazing drummer, and we both spent a lot of years and a lot of time designing those drum parts. And although they may not be as complicated as Dream Theater, they’re very detailed, and that calls for someone like Mike Mangini to fill that spot.”
He continued: “Listen, I’ve always said the most complicated kind of music sounds very simple. People may say, like, ‘Oh, AC/DC, that’s not hard to play.’ It really is. And you know why it is? Because it’s very detailed and it’s very steady. It’s very hard to play in a pocket like that and deliver it in a way that makes it sound easy.
“Yeah, maybe there’s not seven different time signatures happening and very complicated drum fills, but Godsmack’s stuff is complicated because it’s designed to sound easy, but when you actually dive into learning the parts, they’re fairly challenging. It’s not Rush, but it’s not AC/DC either.”
On whether the new lineup presents an opportunity to reinvent Godsmack’s creative direction, Erna said: “I think it’s a great opportunity to reinvent the band and the kind of music that we wanna put out now, because over the years as I have evolved as a songwriter and a musician, my style of writing has changed a lot.
“The one thread that Godsmack always had to maintain is staying powerful and being a hard rock band. We’re not metal, but we’re not classic rock. We’re right in the middle. But there was some stuff in the early days that was a little closer to metal. It was heavier back then; it was darker. And then over time, as I’ve evolved and grown, I wanted to regress back to just hard rock, which is what I grew up with — Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, bands like that.
“So I think every album that has come out now since the IV album has led to becoming more established as just a hard rock band. And now sometimes the band even starts to gravitate towards being just rock. There’s always one song on a record that opens the door for the next album. And I think with the last album — like when we did When Legends Rise, we had a new kind of sound. Well, let me go back even further. When we did the Faceless album, on album number three, that song ‘I Stand Alone’ came about, and that really set us in a different direction. We started to introduce harmonies on the vocals and things like that.
“And then we went through a bunch of albums and did some heavy stuff, and then when albums like When Legends Rise came out, we had that song ‘Bulletproof,’ and that introduced us to a little bit more of a commercial sound, and we started to see our audience grow even more with women and children. So we took ‘Bulletproof’ and we expanded from that, and we wrote Lighting Up The Sky. And Lighting Up The Sky, I think, stayed more true to just being a hard rock band. And there’s songs like ‘You And I’ — the first song on the last album — that lends itself to being a little bit more ’70s rock feeling, but in a modern way.
“So I think we’re gonna take that and kind of move forward from there. And I think the next record, you may hear a little bit more classic rock feeling. It’ll be heavy, but it won’t be metal. But I haven’t wrote any music yet, and that’s just what my mind is telling me. For all I know, we could end up writing a record that could sound like Pantera, so I have no idea. [Laughs]”
Mangini announced his exit from Dream Theater in October 2023 after 13 years, following the band’s decision to reunite with founding drummer Mike Portnoy, who had departed in 2010. Mangini had been selected through a widely publicized audition that saw him beat out six of the world’s top drummers — including Marco Minnemann, Virgil Donati and Derek Roddy — a process documented in a reality-format special called The Spirit Carries On. Before Dream Theater, Mangini built his name in the 1990s playing with Extreme before spending nearly a decade on the road with guitarist Steve Vai. He subsequently joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music as a full-time instructor. Since leaving Dream Theater, Mangini has released a solo album, Invisible Signs (November 2023), and in February 2025 launched a new trio called Monolith alongside bassist and vocalist Hernán “Motley” Rodríguez and guitarist Andy Barrow. Godsmack’s current lineup is Erna, bassist Robbie Merrill, guitarist Sam Koltun, and Mangini.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats have announced their seventh full-length album, Shapes Of Midnight, and unveiled its title track. The album, arriving later in 2026 on the band’s own Killer Candy Records, follows 2024’s Nell’ Ora Blu, the band’s synth-heavy soundtrack for an imaginary Giallo film. Shapes Of Midnight returns Uncle Acid to a guitar-forward sound while introducing new layers of melancholic pop, NWOBHM gallop, jazz-inflected arrangements and Krautrock-influenced synthesizer textures.
A concept album partly inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque Of The Red Death,” Shapes Of Midnight weaves the anxieties of the modern world into a framework of eerie harmonies, twin-guitar interplay and the dense, downbeat heaviness that has defined the band’s catalog since the breakthrough of 2011’s Blood Lust. Founder and chief songwriter Kevin Starrs offered this about the band’s worldbuilding approach: “Our albums exist in an alternate universe to our own. They’re all stories that could happen here, but everything’s just a bit ‘off.’”
Shapes Of Midnight was recorded live to analog tape at Abbey Road Studios over three days with engineer Chris Bolster, whose previous credits include work with Phil Spector, Ozzy Osbourne and Paul McCartney. The sessions employed era-appropriate microphones — including vintage Neumann models previously used by The Beatles and Pink Floyd — as well as period-correct consoles and compression equipment. Mastering was handled by Grammy-nominated engineer Noel Summerville, whose catalogue spans The White Stripes, The Clash and My Bloody Valentine.
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Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats were formed in Cambridge in 2009 by Starrs as a solo project before evolving into a full band. Their catalog of psychedelic doom-influenced hard rock attracted wide critical attention with Blood Lust (2011) and its follow-up Mind Control (2013), both released through Rise Above Records. The band further cemented their cult status with The Night Creeper (2015) and Wasteland, before venturing into more atmospheric and experimental territory with Nell’ Ora Blu. A 2013 tour as sole support to Black Sabbath announced Uncle Acid to a wider heavy music audience. The current lineup is Starrs (vocals, lead guitar), George Hudson (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Jus Smith (bass), Jon Rice (drums) and Rachel Burnett (keys, vocals).
Crowbar has canceled its summer 2026 “Confess To Nothing” European tour following an announcement from frontman and founding guitarist Kirk Windstein that his bilateral spinal synovial cyst is flaring up and preventing him from traveling. The 12-date trek was set to open July 27 at Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Braşov, Romania, and close Aug. 7 at Alcatraz Metal Festival in Kortrijk, Belgium.
In a video message released today, Windstein said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “Hey, everybody. Kirk Windstein from Crowbar here, and I have an announcement to make. As everybody knows, or most fans know, I had to perform sitting down last year during the Crowbar/Eyehategod U.S. tour. And I have a bilateral synovial cyst on my spine that is beginning to flare up again, and it’s giving me a lot of problems.
“To cut straight to the point, it’s acting up and has been for a couple of weeks now, so I begin physical therapy tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, we have to cancel this upcoming European tour. I have been touring for 36 years, and I’ve never canceled a tour. But due to my physical health at this point, I’m unable to get on plane flights and ride in the van for two weeks and catch two flights home.”
“So I do apologize, and I understand y’all will be disappointed, understandably, but we’re gonna do everything we can to make up these shows. We’re not rescheduling the tour, but just to make up these cities next year when we’re over in Europe with Crowbar.
“So thank y’all for understanding and all the best.”
Canceled dates:
July 27 — Braşov, Romania — Rockstadt Extreme Fest
July 28 — Belgrade, Serbia — Belgrade
July 29 — Pécs, Hungary — Pécsi Est
July 30 — Cham, Germany — L.A. Cham
July 31 — Lacznik, Poland — Lacznik
Aug. 1 — Lobnitz, Germany — Full Rewind
Aug. 2 — Essen, Germany — Turock
Aug. 3 — Aschaffenburg, Germany — Colos-Saal
Aug. 4 — München, Germany — Backstage
Aug. 5 — Jaromer, Czech Republic — Brutal Assault Festival
Aug. 6 — Frankfurt, Germany — Das Bett
Aug. 7 — Kortrijk, Belgium — Alcatraz Metal Festival
A synovial cyst is a fluid-filled sac that develops between joints in the spine, most commonly in the lumbar region of the lower back. Windstein had previously been required to perform seated during Crowbar’s co-headline U.S. run with Eyehategod, indicating the condition had been an intermittent issue prior to this cancellation.
Crowbar’s most recent album, Zero And Below, was released in April 2022 via MNRK Heavy. Produced, mixed and mastered by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording And Production in Metairie, Louisiana, the record was described as the band’s most doom-driven effort since the 1998 landmark Odd Fellows Rest. The band’s current lineup features Windstein alongside guitarist Matt Brunson, drummer Tommy Buckley and returning bassist Pat Bruders (Down, ex-Goatwhore). Crowbar was founded in New Orleans in 1990 by Windstein and drummer Jimmy Bower (Down, Eyehategod); Windstein remains the sole original member across twelve studio albums.
Saxon guitarist Brian Tatler has confirmed that the band’s upcoming 25th studio album will be titled Gods of Thunder. Tatler revealed the album name to Neil Jones of TotalRock at the recent Maid Of Stone festival at Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom.
The announcement came alongside the first leg of Saxon’s “Gods of Thunder” world tour, covering the U.K. and Ireland. In connection with the tour, Saxon will revive its legendary 30-foot mechanized Eagle — originally built in the early 1980s — for all U.K. and Ireland shows, with the exception of Cardiff due to venue restrictions. Byford said: “We wanted to make the Gods Of Thunder U.K. and Ireland tour extra special. And what better way than to fly our beloved Saxon Eagle again… Get ready for take-off!”
The Eagle was constructed by Midlands-based company LSD using airport runway landing lights, debuting during pre-tour rehearsals as Saxon prepared to tour their 1981 album Denim and Leather. It subsequently loomed over the band’s massive arena shows throughout the decade and inspired the title of their acclaimed 1982 live album The Eagle Has Landed, which peaked at No. 5 on the U.K. Albums Chart.
Gods of Thunder was mixed by longtime Saxon collaborator Andy Sneap — who also serves as touring guitarist for Judas Priest — a detail confirmed in January 2026. Gods of Thunder follows Hell, Fire and Damnation, which was released in January 2024 via Silver Lining Music and was likewise produced and mixed by Sneap and Byford.
Byford’s path to completing the album included navigating a significant health challenge. After undergoing surgery for bowel cancer in early 2025 — which required the cancellation of 10 summer shows — Byford completed a short course of chemotherapy and announced in October 2025 that he had finished treatment. The cancer diagnosis followed a 2024 procedure to treat atrial flutter and a September 2019 heart attack that required emergency triple bypass surgery.
Tatler joined Saxon’s live and recording lineup in mid-2023 to fill in for longtime guitarist Paul Quinn, who stepped back from touring in early 2023. Tatler continues as a member of Diamond Head; Quinn remains the other surviving original member of Saxon alongside Byford. Saxon were formed in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and have sold approximately 23 million albums across a career that includes hard rock classics “Denim and Leather,” “Princess Of The Night,” “Wheels Of Steel” and “Power And Glory.”
Cloven Hoof have set September 25, 2026 as the release date for their tenth studio album, Never A Prophet In Your Own Land, through High Roller Records. The first taste of the record arrives with the lyric video for the single “Iron Mask”.
The upcoming album brings together different sides of Cloven Hoof‘s sound, mixing mid-paced material, faster tracks, epic arrangements and classic heavy metal anthems. Frontman Harry“The Tyrant” Conklin of Jag Panzer, who has led the band’s vocals for the past three and a half years, once again delivers a standout performance.
Bassist Lee Payne credits the singer for raising the bar, saying: “The praise is all Harry‘s. We are indeed fortunate to have such a brilliant vocalist and frontman in the band.”
Payne also explained that the new release follows its own path instead of revisiting the approach of the previous record.
“Never A Prophet In Your Own Land is not in fact a direct continuation of [2024’s] HeathenCross. Heathen Cross had its own darkly heavy and brooding atmosphere. Never A Prophet In Your Own Land resembles A Sultan’s Ransom more closely, yet this resemblance was not contrived or planned. It just turned out that way.”
Speaking about the writing process behind Never A Prophet In Your Own Land, Payne emphasized the band’s current creative momentum.
“We wanted to make this album as rich and varied as we could, to show how far the band has progressed musically.
We are in a golden place right now, and the whole record-writing process happens organically.
This album has everything you could wish for in the heavy metal genre. It shows our versatility in a way that A Sultan’s Ransom did eclectically. But it takes this versatility one step further in the most satisfying album we have ever done.”
One of the enduring names to emerge from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Cloven Hoof trace their roots back to 1979, when they first performed under the name Nightstalker. Two years later they adopted the Cloven Hoof name, with the original lineup of vocalist David Potter, guitarist Steve Rounds, drummer Kevin Poutney, and bassist Lee Payne performing under the stage identities “Earth”, “Fire”, “Water” and “Air”.
After recording demo versions of songs including “Return Of The Passover” and “Nightstalker”, the band issued the EP The Opening Ritual in 1982 through Elemental Music. Their first full-length, Cloven Hoof, followed in 1984, with Fighting Back arriving in 1986, Dominator in 1988 and A Sultan’s Ransom in 1989.
Following a break during the 1990s, Cloven Hoof returned in 2006 with Eye Of The Sun. The band added Resist Or Serve in 2014 before releasing Who Mourns For The Morning Star? in 2017, both through High Roller Records. That album opened the door to the group’s first North American tour. Since then, Cloven Hoof have expanded their catalog with Age Of Steel in 2020 via Pure Steel Records, Time Assassins in 2022 through FM Revolver, and Heathen Cross in 2024 on High Roller Records.
Two years ago, Payne spoke highly of Conklin‘s arrival in the lineup, stating: “Harry Conklin is a world-class vocalist. He is super dedicated and highly professional, and we knew he would fit in the band seamlessly. Harry is an astounding singer. He is so versatile. He can sing high, low, and always with power and passion. He knows how to live and sell a song. Harry is like an actor telling a story. No one interprets my lyrics like Mr. Conklin. I can’t praise him enough.”
Rush is in talks to stage a residency at the Las Vegas Sphere, according to a report in The Sun’s Bizarre column. The Canadian progressive rock legends have reportedly been negotiating with Sphere management “for a while,” with sources suggesting a deal could be finalized within weeks.
A source told The Sun: “Rush has an enormous audience across North America. Even though they are Canadian, their music and success have been huge in the U.S. Their hits, history and live performances make them an attractive proposition. Talks have been secretly going on for a while, but the word is that contracts could be locked down in the next couple of weeks.”
The report follows a claim made by veteran rock radio host Eddie Trunk on his SiriusXM program, as reported by the Rush Is A Band fan site, that a Sphere residency for Rush was a “done deal” consisting of between 16 and 18 performances in 2027.
Rush’s “Fifty Something” tour features the revamped lineup of classic members Geddy Lee (vocals, bass) and Alex Lifeson (guitar), joined by German drummer Anika Nilles — who toured with the late Jeff Beck in 2022 — and keyboardist Loren Gold, known as a touring member of The Who and Chicago. The band plays two sets a night drawn from a pool of nearly 40 Rush classics, with the setlist conceived as a tribute to the late drummer Neil Peart.
The 2026 leg of “Fifty Something,” covering Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, initially sold out its 22 dates immediately, prompting additional shows. The tour now totals 58 shows across 24 cities, with more than half a million tickets sold. In February 2026, Rush announced further legs covering South America and Europe in early 2027 — the first European dates since 2013 and the first South American appearances in 17 years.
The Las Vegas Sphere is a 17,600-capacity immersive entertainment venue that opened in September 2023. The venue features the world’s highest-resolution LED display, wrapping up and over the audience, as well as the Sphere Immersive Sound system, powered by HOLOPLOT, which delivers concert-grade audio to every position in the house. Previous rock residencies at the Sphere have included U2, Phish, Dead & Company and The Eagles; Metallica completed a run of performances there earlier this year.
British blues-rock artist Joanne Shaw Taylor returns today with “Bad Boy,” the latest single from her forthcoming studio album The Trouble With Love, due October 23rd via Journeyman Records. A swaggering, emotionally charged rocker, the song explores the magnetic pull of relationships that are as destructive as they are impossible to resist, pairing Joanne’s unmistakable guitar work with one of her boldest lyrical performances to date.
“Bad Boy” captures the emotional whiplash of a relationship that’s impossible to walk away from until one day it isn’t. Joanne balances vulnerability with defiance as the song follows its narrator from heartbreak and frustration toward hard-won confidence, transforming a toxic romance into an empowering declaration of independence.
“Sometimes love is thrilling and destructive at the same time,” Joanne shares. “I wrote this song about those intense, complicated relationships.”
That emotional tension runs throughout the song. Lines like “Babe I’ve played the fool, but I won’t again” and “I came dressed to kill” reveal a narrator who has stopped waiting for someone else to change and instead takes control of her own story. Rather than dwelling on regret, “Bad Boy” becomes an anthem of resilience, confidence, and reclaiming your own power after a relationship has run its course.
“Bad Boy” continues the steady unveiling of The Trouble With Love, Joanne’s highly anticipated new studio album produced by Kevin Shirley. On the album, Joanne dives headfirst into the beautiful chaos of the human heart, blending blues, rock, soul, and Americana while exploring love in all its forms: the reckless kind that sweeps you off your feet, the quiet kind that steadies you, the kind that breaks you open, and the kind that puts you back together.
The new single follows a string of acclaimed releases that have each revealed a different chapter of the album’s emotional journey. The title track, “The Trouble With Love,” featuring JoeBonamassa, explored the intoxicating highs and lows of romance, while “What Good Is My Love?” featuring Orianthi confronted the ache of love that isn’t returned. “Hell Or High Water” delivered a defiant message of perseverance and self-belief, “This Is Who I Am” reflected on acceptance and self-worth, and “Tired Of Being Right” chronicled the painful realization that sometimes love alone isn’t enough to save a relationship. Together, the songs point toward Joanne’s most emotionally expansive and musically adventurous album to date.
Produced by Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, The Black Crowes, Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa), The Trouble With Love builds on the artistic evolution that began with Black & Gold. Rather than telling a single story, the new album examines love from every angle through songs that move effortlessly between blues-rock, soul, Americana, and classic rock, making it Joanne’s most complete songwriting statement yet.
The release arrives as Joanne continues another busy year on the road. She is currently touring across the United States throughout the summer before launching her Fall 2026 tour across the Southwest, Mountain West, Pacific Northwest, and California. Known for her commanding stage presence, fiery guitar work, and emotionally immersive performances, Joanne continues to captivate audiences with a live show that blends new material from The Trouble With Love with fan favourites from across her acclaimed catalog. For more information and tickets, visit here.
Marilyn Manson has released “Front Toward Enemy,” the second single from his forthcoming fourteenth studio album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2. co-produced and co-written with longtime collaborator Tyler Bates, the album is due August 14 via Nuclear Blast Records — days before the start of Manson’s late-summer co-headline tour with Rob Zombie.
“Front Toward Enemy” follows “Exit Wound,” the album’s first single, which arrived in June 2026.
Manson’s current touring band features guitarist Nick Annis — previously known for his work with Dorothy and Kesha — alongside bassist Tim Skold, who first played with Manson’s group between 2002 and 2008 before returning. Piggy D., originally the band’s bassist, has moved into a co-lead guitar role alongside Annis.
One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 arrives as the follow-up to its predecessor, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1, which was released in November 2024 via Nuclear Blast. Standout tracks from that record included “Sacrilegious,” “Raise The Red Flag” and “As Sick As The Secrets Within,” the latter of which marked Manson’s first release under his deal with the German label. Both chapters were recorded and produced with Bates.
Manson returned to the stage on August 2, 2024 at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania — his first live performance since before the pandemic — as part of Five Finger Death Punch’s summer arena tour. Before that, he had not played live since the conclusion of his fall 2019 headlining tour. His previous co-headline run with Rob Zombie, the “Twins of Evil: Hell Never Dies” tour, wrapped on August 18, 2019.
Over the past several years, Manson — born Brian Warner — has been named in a series of civil lawsuits alleging sexual, emotional and physical abuse. Most notably, actress Evan Rachel Wood publicly identified him as her alleged abuser in 2021. Manson has denied all allegations, countersued several accusers, and a number of the lawsuits against him have been dismissed by courts.
Legendary bassist Billy Sheehan has confirmed that Talas — the classic Buffalo, New York band he fronted from the 1970s into the mid-1980s — will play live shows in 2027 with James Naro on lead vocals. James is the son of the late Phil Naro, who sang on the band’s 2022 reunion album 1985 before his death in May 2021 at the age of 63. Sheehan announced a July 10 appearance on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk.”
Sheehan said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “When we did the 1985 record with Talas, which was everything that was going on with us in 1985 when I left to join David Lee Roth, all those songs, we went back and did them all right, and a singer, Phil Naro, came out and just nailed it. He got up to the mic and knocked it out of the park.
“We didn’t know how ill he was at the time. Now we know even how much greater he was to have stepped up to the mic and done what he did in the condition he was in, and sadly we lost him soon after that record.
“And I’m really, really pleased to announce that his son, James, who has got an amazing voice, much like his dad, has decided to do some shows with Talas. So we’re gonna go out with that lineup, and James is gonna sing. I already had him sing a couple of our songs just to see if it fit, and he sent me his voice, and he’s the spitting image of his dad. Wonderful, sweet kid, on top of it.
“So, we’re very excited. The beginning of next year we’re gonna go out and do some shows as Talas with Phil’s son at lead vocals, and we’re so, so happy about it. He’s such a wonderful young man, and we’re gonna have a blast.”
1985 was released in September 2022 via Metal Blade Records. The album featured Sheehan, Phil Naro, drummer Mark Miller and guitarist Kire Najdovski, collecting material the band had written in the mid-1980s around the time Sheehan departed to join David Lee Roth’s band. Phil’s death from tongue cancer in May 2021 — not long after the album was recorded — gave the project a deeply elegiac quality. The 2022 album also followed a 2017 reunion Talas staged for the “Bands At Barnard” charity event in Greece, after which the band played only sporadic dates.
After his Talas tenure, Phil Naro paired his powerful voice with a number of recording projects involving Kiss co-founder Peter Criss and Canadian rockers Coney Hatch. He also co-wrote several tracks with Rascals founding guitarist Gene Cornish and co-wrote three songs for Canadian artist Lee Aaron’s 1989 album Bodyrock.
Sheehan went on to form Mr. Big in 1989, achieving a Billboard No. 1 single in the U.S. and 14 other countries with “To Be With You” from the band’s second album, Lean Into It.
