12 years after their debut record, English-Portuguese atmospheric rock duo Sleeping Pulse is now ready to release the new one. Dubbed Dreams & Limitations, it will be set free on June 5th 2026 via Prophecy Productions. It was mixed by Peter Junge and mastered by Martin Sheer.
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âFING LAMEâ: EXODUS Legend Gary Holt Blasts Rock Hall Over Metal Snubs
The “Big Four” have spoken, and they aren’t holding back. In a blistering new interview released today, Exodus and Slayer guitar titan Gary Holt has taken a flamethrower to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, calling the institution “f***ing lame” and “stupid” for its long-standing refusal to prioritize heavy metal pioneers.
Despite the news earlier this week that Iron Maiden has finally been inducted into the Class of 2026 after 20 years of eligibility, Holt says the damage to the Hall’s credibility is already done.
Gary Holt: “Itâs a Popularity Contest”
Speaking with The Mistress Carrie Podcast (Episode #303), Holt was asked if the induction of a band like Iron Maiden is necessary to give the genre the respect it deserves. His response was vintage Holt.
“I personally couldn’t give a shit, ’cause the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is f***ing lame,” Holt said. “The obvious ones get in, and if you had, like, three Motown hits, you’re pretty much guaranteed of getting in. Iron Maiden‘s still selling out stadiums, and isn’t in [until now]. Thin Lizzy pioneered twin guitar rock harmonies… they probably will never get in.”
Holt continued his rant by highlighting the genre-bending nature of the Hallâs recent inductees. “Missy Elliott is in. F***ing N.W.A.’s in… and Thin Lizzy‘s not in there. Judas Priest got in through a back door. Motörhead should be in there. It’s a popularity contest.”
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Kerry King: “Forty Years Isn’t Enough?”
Holtâs sentiments echo those of his Slayer bandmate Kerry King, who questioned the Hall’s logic in an interview earlier this year.
“We’ve never even been on the nomination list, so I don’t know what they’re waiting for,” King previously told Billboard Brasil. “How many more decades do we have to play? Forty years isn’t enough, I guess. I don’t know. We’ll see.”
While King admitted the museum memorabilia is “way cooler than I ever imagined,” he remained skeptical of the “faulty” election process that ignores bands that literally “ripped the world a new f***ing asshole.”
OUR PERSPECTIVE: Why the Rock Hall is a Joke
Letâs call this what it is: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is a corporate mausoleum run by people who wouldn’t know a Riff from a Raff. Gary Holt is 100% right. You canât claim to be a “Hall of Fame” for Rock & Roll while leaving Motörhead and Thin Lizzy out in the cold. Itâs an elitist club that treats Heavy Metal like the red-headed stepchild of the music industry. They finally let Iron Maiden in this year, but only after two decades of fans screaming at them. It wasn’t an “honor”; it was a surrender.
Metal doesn’t need a trophy in Cleveland to be valid. We have the mosh pits, the stadium tours, and the most loyal fanbase on the planet. If the Rock Hall wants to be relevant, they should stop chasing pop trends and start respecting the legends who actually built the “Rock” they claim to represent. Until then? In the words of Gary Holt: Itâs fing lame.
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Gary Holt of Exodus/Slayer has slammed the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “f***ing lame” and “stupid” in a brand-new podcast interview. Despite Iron Maiden finally getting the nod for 2026, Holt points to the continued exclusion of Thin Lizzy and Motörhead as proof that the Hall is a “popularity contest” that doesn’t respect the roots of heavy music.
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Korn Show Their Appreciation To San Diego Padres Pitcher Mason Miller For Using âBlindâ As His Walk-Up Music
A rather large kare package.
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Impure Wilhelmina – Put Out New Song
Impure Wilhelmina have launched a Steven Blatter-directed music video for “Blanche RĂ©alitĂ©”, the second preview tune off their next full-length effort Le Sanglot.
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Los Angeles Gothic Rock Ensemble Guilty Strangers Unveil German Expressionist Video for âFeast of Snakesâ
Addiction, like glamour, thrives on repetition, on pose, on the fatal seduction of watching yourself become something more theatrical than free. Desire, meanwhile, is rarely straightforward; it advances with the grave poise of something already half-promised to ruin. That tension animates Feast of Snakes, the latest from Los Angeles group Guilty Strangers, a song and video that understands compulsion as ritualized surrender.
Musically, Feast of Snakes moves with the stately ache of a ballad. The guitar comes in strange, needling phrases, like a damaged transmission slicing through velvet, while the arrangement suggests the brittle intelligence of Malaria! and leaves ample room for a vocal performance of commanding force – in the vein of The Shroud meets Pat Benatar. Christine Lynise sings as both participant and observer, caught within the spell even as she seems to trace its inner workings in real time. Around her, the harmonies open with dangerous beauty, softening the songâs edges just enough to make its injuries feel strangely inviting.
That sensibility carries seamlessly into the video, directed by Jessica Moncrief, which stages the songâs ideas with a severe silver-nitrate elegance. Shot in black and white, and drawing from the warped visual language of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the clip transforms German Expressionism into a psychological chamber of slanted spaces, moral distortion, and stylized dread. Compulsion becomes dĂ©cor; appetite takes on structure. Moncrief achieves a rare union of form and meaning, with cinematography that is eerie, sensuous, and exacting, finding menace in angles, textures, and fixed gazes. Expressionist sets, silent-film imagery, and the bandâs deathrock and no wave instincts converge in a world where every surface appears faintly implicated.
The band describes the concept with unusual precision: âWe wanted the video to feel like a place your mind goes when the craving gets louder than your own voice, something distorted, controlled, and impossible to escape,” they say. “Drawing from the warped world of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, we treated addiction not as chaos, but as a kind of ritual. Beautiful, repetitive, and quietly consuming. Itâs not about losing control all at once, itâs about realizing youâve been surrendering it piece by piece.â That notion gives the work its true force. What unfolds here is a pageant of gradual consent, the slow conversion of self into pattern, of thought into trance.
Watch the video for Feast of Snakes below:
Feast of Snakes is dark, certainly, but darkness is only part of its appeal. More crucial is the discipline of its seduction, the way both song and video render surrender as something aesthetic, ceremonial, and faintly alluring. Guilty Strangers and Moncrief have made something poised and poisonous, and all the more unsettling for how elegantly it moves.
Listen to Feast of Snakes below and order Revenant, out now via Transylvanian Recordings, here.
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Bloodbather Return For Farewell Album âANAYNGSTTAâ, Release Two Music Videos
While Bloodbather called it quits back in 2024, their time in the proverbial ground didn’t last long. The deathcore band are preparing to release their comeback album “ANAYNGSTTA” on April 24th. However, given that this record is also being touted as the band’s final album, it would appearance Salem Vex‘s resurrection of the group will…
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The Devil Wears Prada – To Tour Europe Later This Year
Metalcore representatives The Devil Wears Prada have announce a headlining European tour, scheduled to be executed in October. Joining them on the road are going to be Novelists 156/Silence and Oversize.
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Los Angeles Duo Black Hall Cast a Dark Spell Across the Desert in Video for âHypocriteâ
Love makes puppets out of proud people every day. Hypocrite, from Los Angeles darkwave duo Black Hall, rolls in like trouble with its collar up, all cool chrome nerves and bad intentions, and the new video for the song gives that trouble a highway, a heat haze, and a face you canât quite trust. It’s a pop song that carries poison in its pocket. Tanner Dean and Errol Kern have built a machine for romantic ruin here, and in the new clip, they drive it straight into the open desert.
The song has a taut, Motorik shove, with Deanâs drums landing in clean, regular blows, as if some stern little factory in his chest has taken over the job of feeling. The synth line slices across the arrangement with a lean, mean glamour, while the bass keeps tugging everything forward like a hand at the small of your back. Dean sings with a bruised, bitter calm that makes the accusation sting harder. He sounds less like a man pleading his case than somebody standing in the ashes, kicking through whatâs left and naming each burned thing one by one. Romance can rot with style.
The video keeps the frame split between stark black-and-white desert travel and color-soaked Lynchian visions of a mystery woman who seems to hover over the action like a curse, a fantasy, or maybe the boss of both. The van moves through the barren expanse like a hearse for old illusions, while those flashes of her world arrive lush, charged, and dangerous.
You start wondering whether she is a memory, a mirage, or a magician, whether the route was ever theirs to choose. The suggestion of black magick works because the song already deals in betrayal, projection, and the ugly little lies people tell while staring straight into somebody elseâs face.
Watch the video for Hypocrite below:
Black Hall pulls off a stylish, sly piece of pop melodrama with gasoline in its blood. Hypocrite struts, smolders, and side-eyes its own damage, then leaves you out on that endless road, wondering who cast the spell first.
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Shadowborne Reveal New Single âHigh And Lowâ Ahead of Debut Album
Swedish power metal band Shadowborne has released their first single, “High And Low.” The female-fronted group is known for a sound that is both heavy and cinematic, built on a foundation of massive riffs and strong melodic hooks. Their music shifts between high-energy battle hymns and darker, more atmospheric tracks, creating a balance of intensity and melody.
The song is the first look at the band’s debut album, “Heaven’s Falling,” which will be released on June 19 through Scarlet Records. Lyrically, the band uses fantasy as a way to explore themes of power, identity, and survival, focusing on the human emotions behind epic stories. The project features production by Kristoffer Göbel and Christoffer Borg, with official music videos directed by Patric Ullaeus.
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