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Norwegian black metal cult act MORTEM have released their new album, Mørketid, via Peaceville. Alongside the album’s release, the band have also unveiled a new video for the title track, created by Matthew Vickerstaff. The album has already received strong praise from the press. Sonic Seducer described it as “a genuine black metal masterpiece,” while […]

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Long-standing Japanese metal pioneers SIGH will release their new studio album, Goh-Ka, on September 4 via Peaceville. Described as an epic new chapter from one of Japan’s most distinctive metal acts, Goh-Ka is considered a natural evolution from the band’s compositionally and dynamically accomplished Shiki album, while also taking an even more diverse leap forward. […]

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Mark this date on your calendars, it will be the moment the music scene welcomes the new record from CULTUS SANGUINE, the Italian band that has carved out a prominent place in the Metal and Gothic scene with a sound that is unique, unmistakable, and emotionally intense and full of pathos.Titled “Tears Painted Sky”, the new album […]

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Brutal death metal foursome, Vulgar Mephitis, have joined the Willowtip roster! The band is set to release From Dust, their debut full-length album, on September 11. The album’s first single, “Martyr,” is available now on all digital platforms. Check it out at: youtu.be/O73QmwCZ-IA On From Dust, Vulgar Mephitis follows their 3-track, 2022 self-titled debut EP with a compositionally varied approach that disorients with violent tempo […]

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Czech black metal pioneers INFERNO have unveiled a new video for “With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed”, taken from their upcoming ninth full-length album, The Anthropic Sophisms. The new record sees INFERNO pushing their sound further into strange and unsettling dimensions, where deep-space black metal, industrial brutalism, malevolent motorik rhythms, crackling […]

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Polish blackened death metal band Mind Affliction will release their new album, No Future, No Light, on August 21 via Via Nocturna. The record marks the band’s first full-length release in ten years and promises a darker, more aggressive chapter in their career. Formed in Kraków in 2009, Mind Affliction have built their sound around […]

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Queensrÿche vocalist Todd La Torre has opened up about the band’s work on the follow-up to 2022’s Digital Noise Alliance, revealing that the next album will revisit a concept rooted in the band’s 1983 debut EP and carry a distinctly old-school sonic character.

In a new interview with Marko Syrjala and Arto Lehtinen of Metal-Rules, La Torre described the current state of the sessions: “I have a ton of songs at home that the guys have worked on and written — a lot of really good demo stuff. I’ve already put vocals down on a couple of songs, but I have a lot of material staring me in the face, waiting for me to write lyrics and melodies. The problem is that we play so much”

“Even when we leave Europe, I go home for two days, then I’m out for four days in the States. Then I’m home for another two days, and after that I’m gone all through July. So I only get a little break in August when I can really try to work on stuff, because you need your ears to decompress. You also have things at home to take care of. But yeah, we’re writing a new record,” he added.

On conceptual direction, La Torre confirmed the album will not continue from where Digital Noise Alliance left off: “This is going to touch on a subject that Queensrÿche hasn’t talked about since the very first record. This album is going to be based around a concept that happens on the first album but is never talked about again in Queensrÿche’s history. So it has nothing to do with ‘Operation: Mindcrime.’ This is a whole different thing. Musically, I’d say everything I’m hearing sounds much more old school — more like the EP, Warning and Rage for Order, maybe with a little newer flavor — but it definitely sounds like classic Queensrÿche.”

Regarding the album’s structural approach, La Torre described a non-linear storytelling method more akin to film than traditional concept records: “Writing a concept album where every song leads directly into the next one isn’t really what I’m interested in. It’s more like when you watch a movie. Sometimes the beginning starts where the ending is, and then they add pieces throughout the story in different parts of the movie until it all comes together. You could literally move one song over here, and another song over there, and it still works.”

He suggested the thematic scope may extend beyond a single release: “There’s no way you can tell everything in one album. If this were the last record the band ever wrote, there would still be storytelling there — and maybe that could be enough. But it would always be open to evolving further. It won’t be just a beginning, a middle, and an end. It’s a story that can go on and on.”

Guitarist Michael Wilton addressed the timeline separately, telling Finland’s Kasarin Lapset: “In between our rigorous touring schedule, we’ve managed to get a lot of really great demos recorded. At some point we’re gonna not tour as much and really concentrate on the album — but the band will determine when it’s finished.” He told Mark Strigl in February that the band is “pushing the envelope,” retaining “the progressive element, the melodic element, the heavy metal element,” and targeting somewhere between 15 and 20 songs before narrowing the record down.

The album will again be produced by Zeuss, who previously worked with Queensrÿche on 2015’s Condition Hüman, 2019’s The Verdict, and Digital Noise Alliance. Drummer Casey Grillo continues to handle live and recording duties in the continued absence of original drummer Scott Rockenfield, who stepped away from touring in early 2017. Guitarist Mike Stone, who rejoined in 2021, contributes second guitar and solos.

Queensrÿche is Todd La Torre (vocals), Michael Wilton (guitars), Mike Stone (guitars), Eddie Jackson (bass), and Casey Grillo (drums).

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Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson has drawn a parallel between life on the road and military service, reflecting on the personal cost of decades of touring and the dislocation from family it entails.

Speaking with the Pad Wives Unfiltered podcast during appearances ahead of the U.K.’s Armed Forces Day on June 27, the 67-year-old said: “I have three grown-up kids now, who, mercifully, have all ended up as fantastic individuals. And I’d love to say it was all down to me — but for half of their [lives] I was not there, because I was on tour. Part of me will always regret that. But it’s a price you pay — and we’re closer now than we ever were. So I think that would be my biggest regret — the dislocation from what most people perceive to be a normal life.”

That reflection then prompted Dickinson to question whether a conventional life offers any real advantage: “Having a normal life — I’m not sure you’re any better off — because that’s full of so many uncertainties. At least in the military, if you have a problem, generally somebody’s always got your back.”

On the significance of Armed Forces Day, Dickinson said: “The armed forces operate largely unseen. So it seems distant — and these things are distant because we keep them distant, to protect this country. Armed Forces Day opens the book. I think they do a great job and I think they deserve a day where the great British public can meet them.”

Dickinson, an experienced pilot, was made an honorary group captain of the Royal Air Force in 2020. Iron Maiden is currently in the midst of the “Run For Your Lives” world tour. The band is set to headline Eddfest — their 50th anniversary celebration at Knebworth — on July 11, where they will also complete filming for their forthcoming cinematic tour documentary after a power outage cut their June 22 Paris concert short.

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Temple Fang and REZN will be joining them at the UK stops.

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US prog rock outfit The Mars Volta have announced Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business, their first official live album since 2005’s Scabdates, for digital release on Sept. 4 and physical release on Oct. 16. The band has also shared a new single, “Cue the Sun/Alba del Orate.”

The album is the result of an interactive fan campaign that gave supporters direct access to live recordings from the band’s 2025 tour. The campaign featured audio previews from multiple live recordings alongside a fan-vote mechanism that allowed supporters to determine which specific performances would make the final cut.

Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business will be available across three configurations. Physical collectors can choose between a Special Edition CD Digipak or a Limited Edition 2LP vinyl set, both releasing Oct. 16. The Sept. 4 digital release will be enhanced with Dolby Atmos spatial audio.

Formed in El Paso, Texas, in 2001 by vocalist Cédric Bixler-Zavala and guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López — both formerly of post-hardcore act At the Drive-In — The Mars Volta released their debut full-length, De-Loused in the Comatorium, in 2003, going on to release five more studio albums before disbanding in 2012. The band reunited in 2022 with the self-titled album The Mars Volta. Scabdates, their only previous official live release, documented the band’s 2004–2005 touring cycle.

Pre-order links for Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business are available here.

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