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Posted on September 16th 2026, 3:03pm

The much talked-about Back To The Beginning concert movie, capturing Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s farewell show, has finally got an official release date.

Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning will get a global cinema release on October 28, for a limited time. Shot at Villa Park in Sabbath’s hometown of Birmingham on July 5, 2025 and directed by Ben Wainwright-Pearce, who was also responsible for Taylor Swift’ The Eras Tour concert movie, the film’s producers say it “definitively captures the triumphant final live performance from Ozzy Osbourne and the original Black Sabbath lineup.”

The Back To The Beginning show featured the first performance by the original Black Sabbath line-up of Ozzy, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward in 20 years. It also marked Ozzy’s last ever solo performance – the singer died just over two weeks later, on July 22.

“It was a closure for the band and it was a good way to go out, I think,” says Tony Iommi of the show, while Geezer Butler adds: “To me it was like pure love. It was just a wave of love. It’s the only way I can describe it really. I mean I could feel it as if it is like tangible.”

As well as sets from Ozzy and Sabbath, the Back To The Beginning bill also featured a Who‘s Who of rock and metal, including Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Slayer, Halestorm and more. Speaking to Metal Hammer recently, Sharon Osbourne said that footage of the other bands’ sets also appears in the film.

“Back To The Beginning came about because I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy,” says Sharon. “And he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans. That’s all he wanted to do. He wanted to say goodbye and thank you.”

“There’s never been anything like that that’s happened in the history of rock and roll,” adds Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who was musical director of the Back To The Beginning show and helped pull the bill together. “There’s never been a precedent for a show like this… [Black Sabbath] gets to play their final show basically in the Ground Zero of where they created heavy metal.”

Tickets for Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning go on sale Thursday September 24 at 3pm BST/7am PT/10am ET / 4pm CEST, and are available from backtothebeginning.com.

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The Georgia singer-songwriter Robert Lester Folsom released his private press album Music And Dreams into obscurity in 1976, but it eventually developed a cult following, especially once the Mexican Summer imprint Anthology Recordings reissued it in 2010, back when excavating unheard pop oddities was becoming all the rage within the indie sphere. Now Anthology is releasing a 50th anniversary edition of Music And Dreams, which accents a remaster of the original album with a wealth of demos and newly recorded Folsom covers by Beach House and Hannah Cohen. Folsom will tour in support of the reissue; tickets are available here.

The post Beach House Share Robert Lester Folsom Cover From New <em>Music And Dreams: 50th Anniversary Edition</em> appeared first on Stereogum.

Anxious have given us another taste of their latest era in the form of a new single packed with riffs and raw rock energy.

Following the band’s return with the explosive ‘Don’t Move’ earlier in the year, their latest single is titled ‘Secret Weapon’.

Speaking on the track, guitarist/co-vocalist Dante Melucci has shared:

“The ‘Secret Weapon’ is the business of music, the weaponization of the stats and current fads to decide who you are as an artist, and who you should strive to be. I’m seeing artists with this objectivity in their style, their songs, that to me just comes across as desperate; I don’t believe that something beautiful can be created in a lab.”

Take a listen below.

Anxious are currently out on the road across North America, playing shows alongside label mates Citizen.

Check out the full list of remaining dates below.

SEPTEMBER

17: LOS ANGELES, CA Hollywood Palladium
18: SAN FRANCISCO, CA The Regency Ballroom
19: SACRAMENTO, CA Wonder Ballroom
21: PORTLAND, OR Crystal Ballroom
22: SEATTLE, WA Showbox SoDo
24: SALT LAKE CITY, UT Grand at The Complex
26: DENVER, CO Ogden Theatre
27: TULSA, OK Mass Movement
28: ST. LOUIS, MO The Hawthorn
30: MINNEAPOLIS, MN Varsity Theater

OCTOBER

1: MILWAUKEE, WI The Rave
2: DETROIT, MI The Majestic Theatre
3: BLOOMINGTON, IN Best Day Ever

The post Anxious Unleash Delightfully Riffy Single ‘Secret Weapon’ appeared first on Rock Sound.

Posted on September 16th 2026, 3:00pm

(We present Daniel Barkasi’s enthusiastic review of a new album by the French black metal band Novae Militiae, which is set for release by Serpent Sun Records on September 18th.) When it comes to conversations about the top-tier creators of black metal, there are certainly plenty of names that get thrown out. You’ll hear Misþryming […]

The post NOVAE MILITIAE: “APOCRYPHON OF THE UNBORN LIGHT” appeared first on NO CLEAN SINGING.

Holy Holy – A Celebration Of Bowie, O2 Academy, Bristol, 11.09.26



Tonight was certainly a night of celebration, as the masses gathered to hear some of the finest songs from one of the finest artists, performed by those who helped craft them.

The lighting dimmed, and musicians entered the stage; tonight was a celebration of the late, great David Bowie. Featuring a Spider From Mars on drums in the form of Woody Woodmansey, esteemed producer Tony Visconti (Man Who Sold The World & More) and Heaven 17 vocalist Glenn Gregory, there was a lot of pedigree on stage, forming a supergroup who all ahd links to the great man, touring together for the last time as Holy Holy.

Opening with the anthemic Five Years, Gregory’s vocals felt perfectly suited; the audience absorbed the performance, and we were all hooked. The set list drifted through fan favourites such as the iconic Ziggy Stardust, Ashes To Ashes, Starman and Space Oddity?, all of which were performed with real emotion by Gregory and co, but there were other real gems here; getting to hear Moonage Daydream and Rock And Roll Suicide performed with such passion and dedication to the originals was a real treat.

The venue was packed, and Visconti occasionally regaled us all with anecdotes from working with Bowie or knowledge of certain songs, a real treat to add to a thoroughly enjoyable ride through these wonderful songs. There was also a really touching statement from Gregory prior to singing Life On Mars?, recalling Bowie’s last birthday and learning of his death, detailing how it impacted all of us, the band included. There was a real sincerity to the whole performance; this very much was the spirit of the evening, a real celebration of not only songs of brilliance, but of the brilliant mind and talent behind them.

The audience was engaged from first song til last, and with a brilliantly received encore featuring Where Are We Now? and the thrilling Rebel Rebel, those on stage were enjoying every second just as much as those in attendance.

If you are a fan of David Bowie’s music, from any era, Holy Holy were an absolute must see, and while this was the final tour, surely they can be lured out of hiding for special events!

It has been almost nine years since we lost Tom Petty, and it has been almost 50 since Petty and his Heartbreakers released their self-titled debut album. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers will have its half-century birthday this November, and Petty’s estate will celebrate the occasion with the release of Origins 1971-1978, a new box set that’ll include previously unreleased tracks from Petty’s earliest days.

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Guadalajara death metal bruisers Medical Negligence have spent the better part of a decade finding particularly unpleasant places to draw inspiration from. On latest single “Rey Chivo,” that trail leads to one of Mexico’s more horrifying true-crime stories.

Formed in 2016, the five-piece have independently released two full-lengths—2017’s Odium In Venas and 2020’s Evil—alongside a pair of EPs and a steady stream of singles, combining death metal, hardcore and goregrind into something appropriately blunt and violent. They’ve also logged hundreds of shows across Mexico, South America and the United States, sharing stages with Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Origin, Exhumed, Nile, Aborted and Brujeria along the way.

“Rey Chivo,” released July 3 through Arson Theory, takes its inspiration from a notorious 2012 case in Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, in which a five-year-old boy was blinded by family members during a religious ritual. Contemporary reports described participants praying in anticipation of an impending apocalypse.

“‘Rey Chivo’ is a song inspired by a real case that took place in Nezahualcóyotl, where a child had his eyes removed with a spoon by his own mother during a religious ritual,” vocalist Agustín Preciado explains. “The song captures and aims to convey the dark atmosphere surrounding the case, the child’s fear and desperation as well as the overwhelming power of the entity that manifested that night which we named ‘Rey Chivo’ (Goat King).”

The accompanying video, directed, produced and edited by Perla Vigueras, pushes Medical Negligence’s interpretation of the story further into horror territory. Vigueras also handled cinematography alongside Daniel Garcia, with Preciado writing the script. Santiago Rentería stars as the child, while René of Tepmter portrays the Devil.

Though “Rey Chivo” won’t appear on the band’s next release, guitarist Oscar Bitzer says it offers a hint of where Medical Negligence are headed.

“This single is not part of an upcoming release, but it sets the tone and offers a glimpse into the music we are currently recording in the studio which will be released in the near future.”

Medical Negligence are Agustín Preciado on vocals, Oscar Bitzer and Diego Cortes on guitars, David “Brujo” Martínez on bass and Fernando Rentería on drums.

Watch “Rey Chivo” below.

The post Video Premiere: Medical Negligence – “Rey Chivo” appeared first on Decibel Magazine.