(written by Islander) If you heard the Bringers of Disease debut EP Gospel Of Pestilence it’s unlikely you’ve easily forgotten the experience, even though it was released 15 years ago. But maybe you never came across it. In that case, what should quickly seize your attention for the band’s debut album Sulphur are the people […]
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Wayne Moss, the legendary and prolific Nashville session guitarist who played on classic records like Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene,” has passed away. Moss died on Monday, and Roy Orbison’s Instagram page broke the news. (Incidentally, Orbison would’ve turned 90 today.) No cause of death has been reported. Moss was 88.
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Thirty-three years ago in 1993, Porcupine Tree performed their debut gig at The Nag’s Head in High Wycombe. A year prior, Steven Wilson’s experimental double album On the Sunday of Life laid the groundwork for the band’s sound. Now, in 2026, Voyage 35, led by former Porcupine Tree members Colin Edwin and John Wesley, invites fans on a nostalgia trip back to those heady days. On this podcast, Colin and John discuss the origins of the project, what Steven Wilson thinks, and what else is in store.
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“There is so much love for the early Porcupine Tree material, and many people have expressed a desire to hear it again,” Colin Edwin told Louder Sound. “As the band evolved, much of this music fell by the wayside. It feels right to revisit it now with a fresh approach and new musical talent.”
John, who joined the band’s touring lineup in later years, shares that enthusiasm: “I’ve always been intrigued by the band’s early period. I’m really looking forward to playing these songs live and seeing where we can take them.”
While Porcupine Tree famously spearheaded a progressive rock revival with 2002’s In Absentia, the decade of incredible music that preceded it remains a fan favourite—much of which was never performed live. Those lucky enough to witness the band’s formative years remember a sense of languid experimentalism and spaced-out improvisation, all enhanced by the immersive projections of the Fruit Salad Lightshow.
Reunited with that original visual magic, Voyage 35 will head out on a short tour of Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK in September 2026. Fans can also look forward to some very special guests at the London show.
Tour Dates:
Fri 4 Sep Revislate, Italy Campo Sportivo
Tue 8 Sep Aschaffenburg, Germany Colos-Saal
Thu 10 Sep Utrecht, Netherlands TivoliVredenburg
Fri 11 Sep Uden, Netherlands De Pul
Sat 12 Sep Zoetermeer, Netherlands Boerderij
Tue 15 Sep Bristol, UK O2 Academy Bristol
Wed 16 Sep London, UK O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Thu 17 Sep Manchester, UK O2 Ritz
Fri 18 Sep Newcastle, UK The Grove
Sat 19 Sep Glasgow, UK The Classic Grand
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Airborne have announced their new self-titled album in a truly original manner. See below the band’s heartfelt letter to Lemmy, sharing their journey through the making of this album and paying homage to their mentor and friend.
The announcement is accompanied by the album’s first single, “Alive After Death (Last Plane Out).” The track’s new music video is also out now. Check it out below.
Pre-order the album here.
Dear Lemmy,
Well, mate, it’s been a long time since we’ve said “g’day” or shared a stage together. We’ve never forgotten one of the things you said to us, which was: “No matter what, stay true to yourselves. Don’t worry about all the other bullshit in the music industry. Make music that your roadies will like. Because they’ve heard your shit more than anyone else, if they like it, everyone will love it.”
Mate, we did it.
Six years ago, we shut the roller doors to everyone and got to work writing songs for this record, spending many, many hours, many, many days, weeks, months, and years writing and writing, throwing things out, starting again, and always sifting for gold. After about five years of this, we felt that we had a solid bunch of Rock’ n’Roll songs happening. Then, Mutt Lange and Bryan Adams brought in their big guns, and a couple of those songs we wrote with them have made the record. We wrote a lot with Bryan, and he was incredibly inspiring, and we learned a lot from him – a true rock ‘n’ roll gentleman. At that point, a long-time mate of ours, Vick Wright, flew out to Australia, and we wrote and wrote and wrote some more with him. He’s a rock ‘n’ roll street poet, and he taught us a lot as well. We ended up with some really good rockers with him.
We sent everything to Brian Howes, and he said we have a solid record now, and he was pumped to work his magic. Dante from Spinefarm, who has been a real champion all along the way on this record, gave us the green light to make Airbourne.
We shipped out a ton of gear from our Manchester compound and from all over the world, loaded it into a semi-tonne truck, and drove it up the Eastern guts of Australia from Melbourne to Music Farm Studios, hidden in a jungle on the surf coast of Australia. This place is surrounded by snakes, Sydney funnel-web spiders, rats, and cane toads—plenty of stuff that can kill ya. We know you would have loved it there because that which doesn’t kill you only makes you louder!
We coped with hurricane weather, flash flooding rains, and palm trees that were torn out of the ground. One of them almost killed Streety, our bass player. That was a very near miss. The tape machine was a fucker. It wouldn’t stop blowing up, but she sounded great, so she was worth dealing with and waiting on.
Every day we would wake up, jump over a brown snake or python, feed the pigs, say “g’day” to the goats, watch the one male rooster with a harem of hens swooning around him whilst he’s strutting around the place like he was King Dick. Who knew that fowl could be so inspiring?
We’d make our way down the hill to the studio, jumping over “old mate,” the resident snake that lived at the front doors of the studio. When we entered the studio, we’d make some heart-starting coffees, put some pies in the pie warmer, VB’s on ice, then Brian Howes, Mike Fraser, and Karl Dicaire would show up. A few cigarettes, laughs, and caffeine later, we’d talk some bullshit, and then we’d get rocking. For about 12-16 hours, we would go. Time ceased to exist for us, and it was the best fun we’ve ever had making an album.
The last batch of songs we wrote with Brian around the Studio Kitchen table, often whilst hurricanes had killed the power. While they were smashing the Studio together, we brought this album home. The main console was the original Neve desk from Albert Studios 1 here in Australia (AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, The Angels, Billy Thorpe, and more). There’s an unmistakable raw Oz rock tone in this desk, and you’d love it.
We didn’t finish the record in time, as we had to go back out on tour, which actually worked out really well because lyrics that weren’t written in that studio needed to come from being on the road, and that’s exactly what happened with the song “Alive After Death.” We came back after the tour to our Melbourne studio home, down in St Kilda, the famous Hothouse Studios, where we recorded our first EP. We’ve always had a love affair with Hothouse—it has the Neve console from Albert’s Studio 2, so it was gutsy to go back there and finish this record off.
Craig Harnath, who we’ve been mates with forever, joined the team, and after another tour, another few months, and trips down to Hothouse, we finally finished the record. Zakk Cervini joined the team and mixed up a Rock’ n’ Roll storm of a record. He’s a real weapon! Ted Jensen—aka “the great one”— gave Zakk’s atomic mixes a real supercharged spit and polish and brought it all home with his classic trademark Sterling master print that only he can do.
So, we finally ripped off the Band-Aid and mustered up the balls to play it to the roadies…. And guess what? They love this one! Thank fuck! Only took us 20 years! Thanks again for all of your words back then, mate. We’ve never forgotten them, and we wouldn’t be here without ya. We’ll always keep you “Alive After Death.”
Rock on, Lem.
Much Love,
Joel O’Keeffe
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Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter has long been the high-priest of alternative metal’s heavy-handed riffs and even heavier cannabis consumption. To celebrate 4/20 this year, Kiesel Guitars has officially unveiled “The Dope Guitar”—a custom, one-of-a-kind instrument designed specifically for Carpenter that literally puts the green in the gear.
This isn’t just a paint job; the guitar features actual, master-grade cannabis buds and leaves suspended in resin within the body and knobs. Combining eight strings of destruction with a custom-app-controlled LED lighting system, Carpenter’s latest headless Vader is a vivid fusion of his signature tone and his most legendary lifestyle habit.
The “Dope” guitar is a masterwork from the Kiesel Custom Shop, built on the Vader headless template that Carpenter has favored in recent years. The instrument’s body is crafted from Roasted Swamp Ash with a Mastergrade Buckeye Burl top, but the centerpiece is a custom route filled with purple holographic metal flake and genuine, freshly cut cannabis buds and leaves.
Beyond the aesthetics, the guitar is a technical powerhouse featuring:
Stephen Carpenter’s affinity for the plant is no secret to the metal community. The guitarist has famously survived multiple rounds in B-Real’s “The Smokebox,” the legendary series where the Cypress Hill rapper attempts to “smoke out” guests inside a sealed, hazy vehicle. While many guests struggle to keep up, Carpenter has consistently held his own, cementing his reputation as one of rock’s most dedicated enthusiasts.
“Stef’s new Vader takes dope to a whole new level,” Kiesel stated during the reveal. The project joins the ranks of Kiesel’s other experimental themed instruments, like the “Sushi” guitar, proving that if Carpenter can dream it—or smoke it—Kiesel can build it.
While the “Dope” guitar is currently a custom piece, fans can catch Carpenter wielding his 7 and 8-string Kiesel and ESP models as Deftones continue their 2026 global takeover. The band is set to hit Australia and New Zealand this May, with massive headline shows at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney and the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, before heading to Japan and Europe later this summer.
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Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter celebrated 4/20 with the unveiling of a custom Kiesel “Dope” guitar featuring real cannabis buds and leaves inlaid in the body. The 8-string headless Vader also boasts app-controlled LEDs and custom “nug” knobs, marking a wild collaboration between the alternative metal icon and Kiesel’s custom shop.
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‘Your Favorite Toy ‘, the titular first single of Foo Fighters’ 12th full-length studio album, has been released.
The first new FF music of 2026, ‘Your Favorite Toy’ is nothing short of an insidious earworm. Jagged guitar shards and sinister keyboard stabs bob and weave atop a relentless rhythmic pulse, as Dave Grohl unleashes a newfound sardonic vocal tone on infectious choruses:
Get back
Hear that, boy?
Someone threw away your favorite toy for good
For good
A perfect first taste and representation of the album of the same name, ‘Your Favorite Toy’ sounds like nothing else in the band’s monolithic discography, while instantly and unmistakably identifiable as Foo Fighters.
Dave Grohl commented, “’Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”
Preceded by its title track and last year’s incendiary ‘Asking For A Friend,’ Your Favorite Toy will be released April 24th via Roswell Records/Columbia Records. Recorded at home, the album was co-produced by Foo Fighters and Oliver Roman, engineered by Oliver Roman and mixed by Mark “Spike” Stent, and consists of the following songs:
Caught In The Echo
Of All People
Window
Your Favorite Toy
If You Only Knew
Spit Shine
Unconditional
Child Actor
Amen, Caveman
Asking For A Friend
Your Favorite Toy’s release heralds Foo Fighters’ massive Take Cover world tour, which kicks off June 10th at Unity Arena in Oslo, following a pair of US festival headlines at Welcome to Rockville and Bottlerock. The band will return to the UK for two dates at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on June 25th and 27th.
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“Wild ‘N’ Loud” is DEMONESSA at full power ready to take on the world!
All the songs on this album are an embodiment of the ‘80s heavy metal we all know and love. While every song on the album is brand new, they also have a familiar feel that fits right into any playlist, like they’ve always been there.
There are 12 songs, racking up to almost one hour of straight hard-rocking future classics, which really makes it like an all-you-can-eat buffet for heavy metal fans, there’s something for pretty much everyone in there. From arena filling anthems to speeding tickets guaranteeing high-speed hits and emotional ballads, the album covers the full spectrum of classic heavy metal.
Track-listing:
Till Death Do Us Part
High Voltage Renegade
M.A.D.
Wild ‘N’ Loud
Queen of Pain
Livin’ Out of Spite
Slowly Losing My Mind
In Decay
In the Depths of Hell You’ll Burn
We Rule the Night
I Stand Alone
A Knife to a Gunfight
Link to ‘High Voltage Renegade’ lyric video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dL0QxrRv3Q
The band shared:
“This track was chosen for a lyric video due to the high energy it delivers and the clear strong visual potential to match the outlawish lyrics. The video was created by MVS Visual, known for his work with various artists, most notably Manowar, making him an obvious choice for the project.”
To celebrate the release of the album there are several gigs coming up in Finland that are part of a so-called “Worldwide ‘N’ Loud Tour”, which kicks off on 8th of May in Boothill bar in Helsinki. Following that, there will be some shows in Tampere and Hämeenlinna as well and obviously many more to come, all the necessary information can be found on the band’s social media.
More on Demonessa:
Demonessa is a heavy metal band from Tampere, Finland, carving its path with pure power and attitude. Formed in 2019, the band combines the explosive force of 80’s heavy metal with the spectacle of glam metal creating an experience that must be witnessed live.
Line-up:
Senja – Vocals
John Creweholm – Guitars
Hugo M. Raze – Guitars
Peet von Rowanskerry – Bass
Jones “Pugnax Vehemens” Tervas – Drums
More band information:
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Demonessa
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1VE0mtJfuhaipbhSp71OVt
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/demonessa/1752566908
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587941337019
Bandcamp: https://demonessa.bandcamp.com/
Source: Tarja Virmakari PR
Death metal mofos from the Empire State, Undeath, are done recording their fourth full-length studio effort. And though we won’t know much about it for a while longer, the soon-to-be-announced release will be their first on Relapse Records after signing with the label.
According to the band, the new album was produced by Colin Marson at Menegroth / The Thousand Caves Studio in Pennsylvania. That’s pretty much all we know at this point.
As for the band’s signing with Relapse Records, Undeath frontman Alexander Sason said the decision to join the label was something each member was excited about.
“It’s time to unveil the next chapter for Undeath: We’re honored to announce that we’ve signed to Relapse Records. Relapse is a label every member of this band has admired and respected since we were young metalheads obsessing over Necrophagist and Dying Fetus, and for our band to now be a part of that amazing history (and such a badass roster full of bands we love) feels like a dream actualized.
“Our fourth album is recorded and in the chamber. We’ll have more details on that a little later, but for now just know that our fastest, darkest and most straight up evil record to date is on the way, and Relapse putting it out just feels right.”
All of this news comes just before Undeath get set out to hit the road for a major North American tour with Archspire. That run will go from April 24 to June 7, with tickets available today. You can find the full list of tour dates below.
UNDEATH LIVE:
North America w/ Archspire, Crown Magnetar & Mutilation Barbeque
04/24 – Calgary, AB @ The Palace Theatre
04/25 – Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall
04/26 – Saskatoon, SK @ Coors Event Centre
04/27 – Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre
04/30 – Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre
05/01 – Montreal, QC @ Theatre Beanfield
05/02 – Quebec City, QC @ Salle Montaigne
05/03 – Worcester, MA @ Palladium Upstairs
05/05 – Reading, PA @ Reverb
05/06 – New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
05/07 – Baltimore, MD @ Baltimore Soundstage
05/08 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground
05/09 – Richmond, VA @ The Canal Club
05/11 – Orlando, FL @ The Abbey
05/12 – Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
05/13 – Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
05/15 – Austin, TX @ Come and Take It Live
05/16 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
05/17 – Dallas, TX @ The Studio At The Bomb Factory
05/18 – Tulsa, OK @ The Vanguard
05/20 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
05/21 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
05/22 – Chicago, IL @ House Of Blues
05/23 – Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
05/24 – Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
05/27 – Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep
05/29 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
05/30 – Mesa, AZ @ The Nile Theater
05/31 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco
06/02 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Trading Post
06/04 – Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
06/05 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
06/06 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
06/07 – Kamloops, BC @ The Blue Grotto Nightclub (Undeath Headline)
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Reviewed by Gareth Pugh
Anubis although a new name to me, formed in 2019 as a creative outlet for Devin Reiche, allowing him to fully embrace his passion as a heavy metal vocalist, and step beyond his role as bassist in thrash band Hatchet. Joined early on by bassist Will Buckley, the band released a series of EPs and standalone singles, steadily building momentum both online and throughout Southern California’s metal scene. That growing reputation culminated in Anubis signing with M-Theory Audio and releasing their full-length debut ‘Dark Paradise’ in 2024. Despite frequent lineup changes over the years, the band’s forward momentum has never slowed, with Anubis continuing to write, record, and perform relentlessly. The current incarnation of Anubis features Ulises Hernandez (Novareign, Judicator) on guitar, David Velez (Witherfall) on drums, new vocalist Hanna Preston, and the returning Justin Escamilla (Tower Guard) on guitar, thus solidifying a lineup poised to carry the band into its next era.
Having not heard the band’s previous output and seeing the dizzying amount of past material (6 EPs and 8 singles), I decided to forgo a catch up and dive straight into the new album – “Anthromorphicide” as the album’s title literally translates to “the death of the human form, a word meaning transformation, or evolution” signifying a new beginning. Starting with the energetic ‘Nuclear Dawn’, immediately obvious is the speed and heaviness and yet the prominent feature is how melodic the music and vocals are.
The band can definitely play; ‘Celestial’ is ridiculously fast, with super rapid drumming, pulsing basslines, and intricate guitar work. Things continue at this outrageous pace on ‘The Anarcist’ and it’s only when we get to the fourth track, the epic ‘ The Fire Inside’ that we get some respite from the speed, it’s an ambitious track but a bit too grandiose and overblown for this writer’s taste, but kudos to the band for trying different styles. The speed returns with the furious title-track, with its relentless driving verses and stuttering start/stop chorus, before ending with some blistering solos. ‘Faded Angel’ is the heaviest track here with some Death metal influences creeping in, especially in the vocals, but there is still a very strong sense of melody. ‘Ancient at Birth’ starts as a big, bombastic, theatrical number, where ‘Battalion’ finishes the album with a thrashier feel, and is a great end stop to the proceedings.
Overall, this album was quite the surprise, and certainly entertaining, this wouldn’t be a genre I’d normally listen to, but I’m glad I have, as it’s been an enjoyable ride. The band isn’t afraid to add different elements into the mix to create a unique sound for themselves, although I do feel that some of the faster songs are too similar in pace, so as a whole the album does become a little bit samey, although I’m nit-picking here. Another issue is that I think they have under used Hanna’s vocals, as when they sing together, they provide some great contrast to Devin’s. Hanna did join when the majority of the album was completed though, so perhaps that is understandable and is also very exciting for the future. If you like the pomp of power metal but with a bit more metallic thrash grit, or even vice versa, than this is an album well worth checking out.
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