Finnish melodic death metal force SIGYN have released their sophomore full-length album “From Nation To Chaos”, which is out today via Noble Demon! Following the strong momentum of their acclaimed 2023 debut “Dehumanized”, which secured a place in Kaaoszine’s Top 10 Albums of the Year, SIGYN return with a powerful new chapter that further cements their place among Finland’s most promising melodic death […]

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This is the day that fans of RAVAGED BY THE YETI have eagerly been waiting for: these brutal death metal maniacs unleash that beast of an album “Snowbound Horror” as deviously planned on July 10, 2026.  Pre-sale link: https://spkr.store/collections/ravaged-by-the-yeti RAVAGED BY THE YETI comment: “What we have here, is the perfect soundtrack to being torn apart by a rabid yeti”, mastermind Rogga Johansson quips. “This is groovy, […]

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Anthrax has released the official Joel Harlow-directed music video for “The Edge Of Perfection,” the second single from the band’s long-awaited twelfth studio album, “Cursum Perficio,” due September 18 via Megaforce in the U.S. and Nuclear Blast in Europe. It’s the thrash legends’ first full-length in ten years — since 2016’s “For All Kings,” which debuted in the Billboard 200 Top 10 — and guitarist Scott Ian isn’t being shy about how he feels about the new track: in a recent interview with Full Metal Jackie’s nationally syndicated radio show, he called it “the greatest Anthrax song in the history of Anthrax.”

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Scott gives his honest take on whether “The Edge Of Perfection” can actually live up to Scott Ian’s own bar — and what a ten-year gap between albums really does to a Big Four band’s sound. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play to stream it live.

Scott Ian’s Bold Claim, In His Own Words

Scott Ian doesn’t hedge when he talks about “The Edge Of Perfection.” Speaking with Full Metal Jackie, the guitarist said flatly: “We have not written anything this great in our career. And to do that all these years in makes it all the more special.” That’s a heavy claim from a band with a catalog that includes “Among The Living” and “Persistence Of Time,” and it sets a high bar for a record that’s already carrying the weight of a decade-long wait.

The Song Is About His Family — And Staying Happy

What makes the claim land differently is what Ian says the song is actually about. Rather than the band’s usual thrash subject matter, “The Edge Of Perfection” was written about Ian’s family and the ongoing effort to live up to the title itself. “I think that I’ve never had any real other goal in my life except to be happy. And I am,” he told Full Metal Jackie — a strikingly personal statement from a founding member of one of the “Big Four” of thrash, a lineup Loaded Radio has ranked among the genre’s most important acts.

Charlie Benante’s Riff Predates The Pandemic

The music itself has an even longer history than the lyric. Drummer Charlie Benante told Metal Hammer magazine back in August 2024 that he’d written the music for “The Edge Of Perfection” “way before COVID,” and that it stuck with him for years — “the melody and the chords, but also the aggression.” That timeline tracks with everything else about this album cycle: Anthrax has been sitting on serious material for a long time, refining it rather than rushing it out.

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What ‘Cursum Perficio’ Means — And When It Arrives

The album title itself is doing some heavy lifting. “Cursum Perficio” is Latin for “My journey has come to an end,” “My journey is over,” or “I complete my journey” — a fitting title for a band closing out its longest gap between studio albums. Loaded Radio previously covered the album’s mixing-complete milestone, and the road from that point to an actual September 18 street date has clearly been used to sharpen, not pad, the tracklist.

“Cursum Perficio” isn’t Anthrax’s first swing of this era, either — the band kicked things off back in May with lead single “It’s For The Kids,” which gave fans their first real preview of where the record was headed. “The Edge Of Perfection” is the deeper cut, the one that seems to matter most to the band members themselves.

For a group that’s spent 45 years balancing aggression with genuine songwriting, a decade of silence followed by a guitarist calling a new song the best of his career isn’t a small thing to say out loud. Whether “The Edge Of Perfection” holds up to that claim once the full album lands in September is the conversation the whole thrash scene will be having this fall.

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TL;DR

• Anthrax released the official Joel Harlow-directed video for new single “The Edge Of Perfection”
• The song comes from “Cursum Perficio,” the band’s 12th album and first in 10 years, out September 18
• Scott Ian called it “the greatest Anthrax song in the history of Anthrax” on Full Metal Jackie’s radio show
• Ian says the song is about his family and his lifelong goal of simply being happy
• Charlie Benante wrote the music years ago, before the COVID pandemic, and it stuck with him
• “Cursum Perficio” is Latin for “my journey is over” or “I complete my journey”

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Today, July 10th, sees the release of All That Remains, the fourth album from Norway’s proud and defiant champions of heavy metal, Sinsid! To celebrate this momentous event the band have unveiled a stunning new video to accompany the album’s title track. The video was created by Norwegian cinematographer and director Thomas Skattkjær Mortveit aka Shady Shades who has previously worked with Einherjer and Evig […]

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DEVIL’S ISLAND featuring Neverskin

Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil’s Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It’s not your average desert island and we’ll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.

This week when we arrived at Devil’s Island we find Neverskin sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil’s Island?

Find out now…

Welcome to The Razors’e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don’t worry about it’s name I’m sure it’s not as bad as that would suggest.

You’re marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn’t live without. Which album did you each chose and why?

So, if I read this correctly, we are both marooned here together? Well, happy to have some company then. Nice to meet you, I am Clint, singer of the band Neverskin! Thankfully the ship went down slowly so I could think about what to take, and although there are so many great bands I could have grabbed, I decided to grab the greatest hits from Bob Marley. I think I will need some positive vibes to get through the whole “stranded on a deserted island” thing, so I grabbed some happy tunes.

There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?

Good question. I think I would go for something that reminds me of creativity, but also of life back home. It needs to give off some sort of hope or calmness. I think I will go for the cover of Linkin Park’s Meteora. I’m intrigued by the artistry and the color scheme of the image, and the music, to me, was also fairly evolutionary for the band itself.

There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?

Man, there’s a big difference between the “creative party” response and the “I want to survive this situation” response!

Survivor Clint would choose water. Staying hydrated and avoiding the dehydration that comes with alcohol seems like the wisest, and admittedly most boring, choice. But Party Clint would definitely go for a blond or a wheat beer, like a Hoegaarden, Wieckse Witte, or something similar. You gotta keep the spirits up somehow, right?

Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?

Seeing as I no longer have any band merch, I veto your question and will answer it as follows: I would definitely save my new GameKings 25th anniversary hoodie. It’s super comfy and rare, so that’s the one I’m saving.

You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?

My wife. I need someone to annoy me and tell me off, just to keep me grounded. Plus, she’s the best cook, so that would have some major advantages, and get your minds out of the gutter, guys, come on!

There’s a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?

A live concert I was at when they played the Melkweg, Amsterdam, when I was a teenager: Taproot. Apart from the fact that I really like their music, that live show holds core memories for me, for us. Seeing Stephen Richards rock out, jumping off the stage and the balcony, was legendary. Plus, the fact that I was actually there gives it extra weight in my memories and my connection to the music.

You’re getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?

I guess I would send a message in a bottle to The Police. If you don’t know why, then the joke was either bad, or I’m just getting too old!

You’ve been stuck here a while and food supplies are running low. There’s only one thing for it… which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?

Pfff, easy: any of them, as long as it isn’t me! On the other hand, Remy is a bit small, so I don’t know how long that would sustain me—it’s a tricky dilemma. Also, it’s quite interesting that there’s a bar on this island. If there’s a bartender, he’s definitely the first to go. Sorry, mate…

Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?

For me personally, I would have saved Daniel Johns, formerly of Silverchair. The music they made, and his vocals in particular, inspired me to start singing and showed me exactly what I wanted to convey through my voice: raw emotion combined with creativity. I never tried to be him or sing exactly like him (that’s impossible anyway!), but he helped me find my own voice and my own path.

Thanks for your time. We hope you get back to dry land before you’re next due out on tour!

I think we’ll be fine. If not, remember us for our music and our absolute sarcastic, dark humor!

If you do decide to mourn us properly and honor us by listening to and spreading our tunes, here’s where you’ll find them: https://linktr.ee/neverskin

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