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Rock Is Not Dead 3 sprawls across Friday and Saturday at the Prince Bandroom in St Kilda this weekend, with twelve acts appearing from around the country.

Cassidy Paris headlines the first night, making her only Australian appearance of the year after overseas touring for most of 2026. Melbournians Riff Raiders are launching their new album Welcome to Mars, while Karly Jewel and Riverina-based Empires and Aces are fresh from the studio.

Saturday will be headlined by Wicked Smile, also just back from overseas, along with Audio Reign from Adelaide with their brand new album New Way to Live out just last week. Warbirds, The Dreadful Tides, Electric State, Kalotone, Parabelum and The Revolation round out the event, which kicks off mid-afternoon.

One and two-day passes are available now.

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Gold Coast alternative/hard rock band KALATONE are releasing the official music video for Nostalgia, a song from their debut EP Pathways that has been an important part of the band since the very beginning. The song is about the pull of the past and how memories can stay with us, even when we’re trying to […]

Mannequin Pussy has been one of my go to comfort bands since around 2017, so it was honestly a very humble honor to just be in attendance. Their music has gotten me through breakups, moments of figuring myself out, getting through the current state of the world, and some of the harder chapters of my life. Having first seen them back around that time in smaller venues like Johnny Brenda’s and Boot & Saddle (RIP) in Philly, there’s something really special about watching that same feeling and energy carry over to a way larger space. While the scale of the venue has changed… their intimacy, honesty, and advocacy behind their words haven’t.

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Ghost has confirmed the release of 2 Big To Rig (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), the accompanying audio release for the theatrical rock outfit’s second feature film. The Grammy winners will drop the soundtrack for streaming and download on Aug. 27 via Loma Vista Recordings, with a live performance of “Umbra” — featuring Papa V Perpetua and the nameless ghouls tearing through the cowbell-heavy penultimate cut from chart-topping album Skeletá — arriving first to whet appetites.

Filmed across two sold-out nights at Mexico City’s Palacio De Los Deportes in front of nearly 40,000 fans, 2 Big To Rig takes its name from Ghost wrapping its massive Skeletour world trek back in February 2026. The film was built to bring that touring experience to audiences in markets where the live show itself wasn’t a logistical option, and it also captures fans who had tickets to the first of three originally planned Mexico City dates — a run that shrank to two shows after opening night was scrapped due to illness.

2 Big To Rig plays as a tribute to everyone who’s taken part in the Ghost live experience, whether in the room or watching from afar. Screening in IMAX where available, the concert film is built for die-hards looking to relive the Skeletour run as much as it is for newcomers catching the spectacle cold. Papa V and his ghoul coven turn in career-best performances here, tearing through cuts spanning Ghost‘s six studio albums — including 2025 global chart-topper Skeletá — with staples “Satanized” and “Lachryma” sitting alongside non-album favorites “Mary On A Cross,” “Kiss The Go-Goat” and “The Future Is A Foreign Land.”

2 Big To Rig opens in cinemas and IMAX screens worldwide starting Wednesday, Aug. 26, for a limited run.

Screening details, showtimes, and sign-up information are available here.

Speaking with Metal Hammer recently, Ghost ringleader Tobias Forge opened up about the food poisoning that torpedoed the first of the three Mexico City shows slated for filming.

“We flew into Mexico City five days before, just to get acclimatized to the elevation and jet lag. Everything was dandy, and then came the show day. I woke up and felt weird. It takes about an hour to go from the hotel to the venue, and throughout that whole trip, I just slept. I thought I was just tired. When I came to the venue, I couldn’t stomach anything — everything was just flowing through me — and for every hour that went by, I was getting more and more drained. And then, all of a sudden, I started puking violently. Everything, just, ‘Out, out, out!’ Everyone’s getting super-nervous: not only is the show dependent on this, but we also have a film depending on this! Fuck!” Forge said.

Forge explained that being physically unable to stand ruled out any chance of performing that night.

“Even if you get me up onstage, I will not be able to sing,” he said. “Then you just have to do the rational thing: ‘Fuck this, we need to pull the plug.’ The rest of the evening, I was just lying on a stretcher with intravenous liquid going in. And then you have to handle the defeat and hope for people to understand.”

The band’s second and third Mexico City shows went ahead without issue, and the production team reworked its filming approach to build 2 Big To Rig around footage from those two nights instead.

“Luckily, Amir [Chamdin, 2 Big To Rig director] is a very controlled, very nice person,” Forge said. “He was like, ‘Just relax, we’ll figure it out,’ and the next day I felt better and ready to do it. So we had to deal with what we got, but obviously, it goes without saying: ‘We better not fuck up now!’ If you’re going to go up and do that thing, you need to nail it.”

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Black Sabbath guitar icon Tony Iommi has pulled back the curtain on the making of the “World Alone” music video, the lead single from his forthcoming solo record From The Dark.

“World Alone” made its first appearance on July 29 during a global streaming premiere staged in Iommi‘s home city of Birmingham, England — a short walk from the Black Sabbath Bridge, the canal-side landmark the city unveiled in 2019 as a tribute to the band.

The track itself is a full-throttle rocker, stacked with soaring guitar work and driven hard by the rhythm section, with Norwegian powerhouse vocalist Jorn Lande supplying the operatic muscle up top. Its accompanying video drops viewers into a bleak, retro-futuristic game world, where the central figure, The Believer, must fight through a twisted simulation just to survive.

Throughout From The Dark, Iommi is joined by Lande, who co-wrote every track on the record, along with bassist Becky Baldwin and drummer Karl Brazil. Iommi shares production duties with longtime right-hand man Mike Exeter, who also co-writes and engineers, and the finished record carries a big, modern sheen without losing any weight.

Iommi has described the sessions in simple terms, saying: “It’s an album we’ve really enjoyed making. We’re not trying to prove anything — it’s a great album, it rocks!”

Opener “Over The Violent Sun” sets the tone fast, built on a down-tuned riff that is unmistakably Iommi and paired with Lande‘s theatrical delivery — it is an immediate reminder of why this catalog still matters. “Black Times” keeps the pressure on before “World Alone” arrives as the record’s clear centerpiece, and fourth cut “Beyond The Dead” slows things down into something darker, its orchestration adding real menace to the riff underneath.

Lande‘s lyrics lean hard into dystopian territory and questions of mortality, a thread that runs through the whole album and comes to a head on “Stormwatcher,” which leans on sea imagery and the idea of chasing a way out. “Death Wake” picks up right where it leaves off, painting an equally bleak picture of life stripped of love and connection.

The album closes with two of its strongest statements: the all-out sprint of “Return Of The Arbalist” and the sprawling “Legacy,” a fitting capstone that pulls together every mood the record has touched on. Landing a year after Black Sabbath‘s farewell performance at 2025’s Back To The Beginning in Birmingham, From The Dark stands as proof Iommi still has plenty left to say, and it ranks among the year’s better rock releases.

A limited seven-inch pressing of “World Alone” is on the way September 4, backed with an instrumental version and packaged in a foil-stamped sleeve. The song is also being added to Gibson‘s guitar-learning app.

From The Dark will arrive in a handful of deluxe vinyl and CD configurations. The double LP comes in four colorways depending on retailer, cut at 45 rpm for maximum dynamic range and housed in a black gatefold sleeve die-cut with Tony‘s signature cross logo, revealing a detailed illustrated scene as the inner sleeve slides out. An Amazon-exclusive CD edition carries the same die-cut treatment, and a 32-page CD book edition adds two bonus cuts to the tracklist.

Lande has stood alongside Iommi before — the two performed together with surviving Heaven & Hell members Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice at a 2010 tribute to the late Ronnie James Dio during the High Voltage festival at London’s Victoria Park, a set that also brought out former Deep Purple vocalist and bassist Glenn Hughes.

From The Dark marks Iommi‘s third solo album, following 2000’s Iommi and 2005’s Fused.

Fused brought in former Deep Purple bassist and vocalist Glenn Hughes alongside drummer Kenny Aronoff, who also played on Iommi and spent years behind the kit for John Mellencamp.

Iommi pulled from a deep guest list, including Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl, plus Pantera‘s Philip Anselmo, Henry Rollins, System Of A Down‘s Serj Tankian, Skunk Anansie‘s Skin, Type O Negative‘s Peter Steele and The Cult‘s Ian Astbury.

Iommi remains one of the most important guitarists modern music has produced. As the founding member and chief songwriter of Black Sabbath, he is widely credited with laying the groundwork for heavy metal as a genre.

His résumé includes multiple Grammy wins, a spot in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and a string of academic honors in the U.K., including a doctorate from Coventry University, a Lord Mayor’s Award and the Freedom Of The City of Birmingham. In June 2026, he added an MBE to that list, one of the highest civilian honors Britain hands out.

An industrial accident in his youth cost Iommi the tips of two fingers, a setback that forced him to rethink his approach and ultimately led to the heavier, darker guitar tone that came to define Black Sabbath. The band, rounded out by Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, spent the 1970s releasing genre-defining records and became one of Britain’s most influential musical exports.

Iommi has kept working, touring and collaborating across six decades since. He spent years alongside the late Ronnie James Dio, built a respected solo catalog, and reunited with Black Sabbath‘s original lineup for 2013’s chart-topping 13 before closing things out with the The End farewell tour, which ran from 2016 to 2017 and drew 1.6 million fans worldwide.

More recently, Iommi‘s reach has extended well beyond music. In 2023 he partnered with the Birmingham Royal Ballet on Black Sabbath – The Ballet, a production built around his early material. Black Sabbath capped things off headlining 2025’s Back To The Beginning in Birmingham, a full-circle send-off that took place just weeks before Ozzy Osbourne‘s death.

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