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– October 27th, 2026 –

“Gone With The Devil” Full-Length Out Now!

Watch/Stream YOTH IRIA’s “Dare to Rebel” HERE

Hellenic black metal outfit YOTH IRIA presents their new video for “Dare to Rebel.” The track appears on the band’s stellar third album, Gone With The Devil, out now on Metal Blade Records. Watch the video HERE.

Watch the band’s previously released videos for “Harut, Government, Fallen” HERE, “The Blind Eye Of Antichrist” HERE, and “Blessed Be He Who Enters” HERE.

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YOTH IRIA has just announced a European tour with Thulcandra and Vorga for March of next year. Full dates below.

In the Light of Darkness European Tour 2027:
Thulcandra, Yoth Iria, Vorga
12.03 – Erfurt, DE – From Hell
13.03 – Prague, CZ – Futurum
14.03 – Vienna, AT – Viper Room
15.03 – Warsaw, PL – Mechanik
16.03 – Berlin, DE – Cassiopeia
17.03 – Copenhagen, DK – Stengade
18.03 – Hamburg, DE – Bahnhof St. Pauli
19.03 – Hoogeveen, NL – Het Podium
20.03 – Dortmund, DE – Junkyard
21.03 – Selb, DE – Rock Club Nordbayern
22.03 – Mörlenbach, DE – Weiher – Live Music Hall
23.03 – Kassel, DE – Goldgrube
24.03 – Kortrijk, BE – DVG Club
25.03 – Paris, FR – Backstage By The Mill
26.03 – Namur, BE – The Belvédère
27.03 – Aarburg, CH – Musigburg
28.03 – Munich, DE – Dark Easter Metal Meeting

Other YOTH IRIA shows:
30.10.26 – Dubai, AE – Oak Live Bar
31.10.26 – Patras, GR – Lesxi
18.12.26 – Athen, GR – Gargarin 205 (support for Old Man’s Child)
08.03.27 – Stockholm, SE – Extreme Metal Sounds Festival

YOTH IRIA‘s Gone With The Devil is available on CD (jewel case – US / digipak – EU) and digital formats as well as vinyl in the following color variants:

Red Electric Blue Melt (US)
180g Black (EU)
Oxblood Black Merged (EU – Ltd. 500)
Oxblood Blue Silver Merged (EU – Ltd. 250)
Gold Black Splatter (EU – Ltd. 250)

Preview/purchase the record at: metalblade.com/yothiria

“Gone With The Devil… both transcends scene boundaries and defines them anew. Big songs, big choruses (and choirs), big riffs and ambition all break from the band’s blackened cocoon, giving way to a much bigger, broader sound — deathly verses, clean choruses, melodic grandiosity…” – Decibel Magazine

“It is melodically bombastic, epically narrative. and goth-doomily dramatic.” – Sweden Rock Mag

“The music brings a compelling mix of aggression, melody, and grandiose worldbuilding into existence. It carries an epic streak and an inherent power, as well as atmosphere that’s thick and generously built.” – Wonderbox Metal

“Every ounce of Gone With The Devil sounds like a spirited battle against oppressive structures (be it political, societal, artistic), and Hellenic force YOTH IRIA are holding aloft the torches for the march… The music… gives a sense of personal power and ambition reminding that your heart is alive, as is your mind, and there is no reason to give up for anyone or anything.” – Meat Mead Metal, Pick of the Week

“…highly addictive.” – Deaf Forever

“Gone With The Devil is a Hellenic black metal feast – an album that seizes me with its impressive melodies, occult atmosphere, sonic power, and depth, refusing to let go. Fans should absolutely take a closer look at YOTH IRIA – an unexpectedly fabulous band.” – Break Out Germany

“Within the music, one hears and feels sentiments of intense rebellion, sincere adoration for the Fallen Angel, surges of pure heroism (‘The End Of The Known Civilization’), and sweeping melodies that often sound like a sonic reflection of a true Greek tragedy…” – Rock Tribune Benelux

“In terms of the landmark album that YOTH IRIA were seeking, it is reasonable to say that they have achieved it.” – Metal Talk

ABOUT THE BAND:
YOTH IRIA‘s trajectory has been on a steep ascent since crafty 2021 debut As The Flame Withers and 2024′s hypnotic Blazing Inferno, but there has audibly been a concerted determination to develop and expand in sinister new directions. “The creative workflow was similar to Blazing Inferno, yet we deliberately pushed ourselves to bring new elements into our music. We kept the immediacy of Blazing Inferno, the psychedelia of As The Flame Withers, and all the characteristics people expect from Hellenic black metal, while adding fresh sounds and atmospheres never before heard from YOTH IRIA.”

Predominantly stately tempos ensure the dark riffs, memorable melodies and flamboyant leads have space to breathe their fire, so that the blastbeats, when they come, devastate even more utterly. Flecks of Mediterranean folk and gothic cadences further expand the band’s sonic palate, while there are countless melodies so atavistically simple and primally satisfying they could be a thousand years old.

There’s a thrilling balance of ancient and modern, good and evil, harmony and dissonance on Gone With The Devil advancing YOTH IRIA as a hungry contender for extreme metal’s big leagues – an ever-improving unit with a glorious future. Appropriately, however, Gone With The Devil is best summed up with a line already coined by the band to describe their ongoing body of work: “Every note tells a story of rebirth, tradition, and the relentless pursuit of musical transcendence.”

The daemonic avatar YOTH IRIA was first explicitly summoned on Rotting Christ‘s legendary debut Thy Mighty Contract in 1993. Bassist/lyricist Jim Mutilator formed that band as Black Church in 1984, before also becoming a founding member of cult Athenian BM heroes Varathron for their first five years. Renewing the otherworldly atmospheres and occult ravishment for a new era, YOTH IRIA functions almost as the third panel in an apocalyptic triptych of Hellenic black metal excellence.

YOTH IRIA:
HE – vocals
Jim Mutilator – bass
Nikolas Perlepe – guitar
Naberius – guitar
Bill “Vongaar” Stavrianidis – drums

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Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams, the stars of director Taika Waititi’s new film Klara and the Sun, have been undertaking an extensive promotional campaign for the film in the UK, presumably to help distract potential cinema goers from some of the appalling reviews the film has received.

As part of their media chores during a recent visit to London, Ortega and Adams were filmed played a game called Agree to Disagree for LADBible, sharing their deeply held convictions on what we’re informed are The Internet’s Biggest Debates, including topics such as ‘Would you survive a zombie apocalypse?’, ‘Should good singers do karaoke?’ and ‘Can you admit when you’re wrong?’

As part of this fascinating discussion, the Hollywood duo were asked for their thoughts on the ethics of wearing band T-shirts, or more specifically, a debate dear to the hearts of tiresome, tedious gatekeeping men worldwide, whether an individual should be allowed to wearing band T-shirts if they don’t know the band in question.

Ortega, who in previous promotional interviews has referenced bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Deftones, discussed her love of experimental US hip hop duo Death Grips, and revealed the influence of punk icon Siouxsie Sioux on horror icon Wednesday Addams, has obviously been subjected to some attention on this subject before, as she tells Adams, “What I don’t agree with is when someone tries to do the, ‘Name three songs’ [question]. It’s like, why do you care? Why do you care that much?”

Ortega also factors in some purely practical reasons as to why one might be wearing a band T-shirt, pointing out that someone’s choice of apparel on any given day could be dictated by random acts of chance, such as the possibility of being forced to change outfits if “a bird did its business on you” or “someone threw a drink at you”. And you thought living in Hollywood doesn’t throw up real world problems? More fool you.

Amy Adams, meanwhile, says that she understands that fans of musical artists “kind of feel proprietorship” when it comes to wearing T-shirts, but cites an example from her own life as to why this kind of gatekeeping can actually harm bands.

“It’s interesting,” she says, “because my daughter really liked band T-shirts when she was younger, and didn’t know the bands, but it introduced her to the bands, because she was like, ‘Who’s this? Who’s that?’ Sshe’s now very into the bands of the T-shirt she wore when she was like nine.”

Ultimately, the pair are in agreement on the matter, offering the shared opinion, “Just let the person wear the T-shirt”.

So that’s that settled then. Thanks everyone. NEXT!

Watch the duo’s discussion below.

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Bruce Dickinson’s tour 2027 schedule is out: 31 European shows under the name PsychoGod, split between a summer leg of headline dates and festivals from June 14 in Belfast to mid-July, and a November–December arena-and-theater run with Evergrey supporting that ends December 10 at L’Olympia in Paris.

Tickets go on sale Friday, October 30. There are no North American dates; Dickinson’s only US shows of 2027 are with Iron Maiden in April and May. The tour follows a new solo album, his eighth, recorded live at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 and due next year, and the announcement came with a line aimed squarely at the week’s other big story: ‘A.I. can only copy, it can only pretend.’

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The PsychoGod Tour: Two Legs, 31 Shows, One Continent

The summer leg runs June 14 to July 11, 2027, mixing headline rooms in Belfast, Dublin, Milan, Zurich, Zagreb, Belgrade, Sofia, Istanbul and Luxembourg with festival sets at Rock Imperium, Rockharz and Masters Of Rock; the winter leg runs November 10 to December 10 across Poland, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France, with Evergrey opening every night.

Press materials promise ‘a whole range of new material, alongside fan favourites and deep cuts spanning his entire solo career,’ which with seven albums behind him and an eighth on the way is a long menu. The live band is the one that played 71 shows across three continents on the Mandrake Project tour in 2025: Chris Declercq and Philip Näslund on guitars, Tanya O’Callaghan on bass, Mistheria on keys and Dave Moreno on drums. Roy Z, who co-wrote and produced The Mandrake Project, isn’t in the touring lineup.

Festival dates show the full event window; Dickinson’s set day within each will be confirmed by the festivals. General on-sale is Friday, October 30; check brucedickinson.com for presale access and local times. The three festivals are all in our 2027 festival guide.

No US Dates, But Iron Maiden Cover April And May

Dickinson’s solo tour skips North America entirely; American fans get him with Iron Maiden instead, on the final leg of the Run For Your Lives 50th-anniversary tour, 16 shows from Tacoma on April 14 to Boardwalk Rock in Ocean City, Maryland on May 16, 2027.

That leg is the end of the Maiden tour that began in 2025, and it closes with two festival headline slots: Sonic Temple in Columbus on May 14 and Boardwalk Rock two days later. The band had said its 2026 dates would be its last until at least 2028; the North American run was added anyway. Every Iron Maiden date on the continent is on its own page. It also means Dickinson will go from the last Maiden show in mid-May to the first PsychoGod show in Belfast four weeks later, at 68, which is the kind of schedule he has said he has no intention of slowing.

A solo American leg in 2028 is a reasonable guess, given that the Mandrake Project tour did North America in the spring of its album year and this one has no US dates at all; nothing has been announced.

The New Album: 16 Songs, Three Weeks, ‘100 Percent Live’

Dickinson’s eighth solo album, the follow-up to 2024’s The Mandrake Project, was recorded mostly in January and February 2026 at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California, produced and mixed by Brendan Duffey, with Sepultura’s Andreas Kisser on percussion and a collaboration with Dickinson’s son Austin; it’s due in 2027, with no title or date yet.

The method is the story. Dickinson told Rolling Stone the band cut it ‘all 100 percent live,’ calling it ‘like the anti-A.I. generation,’ and has said elsewhere that they tracked 16 songs in three weeks. Kisser posted from Studio 606 in February confirming his part. Dickinson has described the record, in an interview with VSX, as heavy as [expletive]. Steve Harris, who doesn’t hand out compliments on solo records, reportedly called it some of the best material he’d heard from him.

The Mandrake Project, released in March 2024 on BMG, was Dickinson’s first solo album in nineteen years and was co-written and produced by Roy Z, who played guitar and bass on much of it. Whether Roy Z is on the new one hasn’t been said; the live band that made the Mandrake tour is the band that made this record, and that band is now the point. For where the solo catalog sits next to the day job, the Iron Maiden albums ranked is the comparison, and the Dickinson facts list has the fencing, the flying and the brewery for anyone new.

‘It Can Never Be In Love, And It Can Never Play’

Dickinson’s statement in the tour announcement is a direct shot at AI-generated music: ‘What we do is real and that’s so important right now. A real drummer, a real bass player, real guitarists, real keyboards – A.I. can only copy, it can only pretend. It can never be in love, and it can never play. This band? They can really play!’

The timing is hard to miss. The line arrives two days after Jack Osbourne said the backlash to the AI Ozzy avatar ‘was my own fault’ and a day before the Back To The Beginning film opens, in a week when the biggest conversation in heavy music is what, exactly, a dead legend’s estate owns. Dickinson isn’t talking about Ozzy, and he’d probably bristle at the comparison. But a 68-year-old singer booking 31 shows and recording an album live in a room is making an argument with his schedule, and the statement just says it out loud.

It also fits the band he’s touring with. Nicko McBrain, Maiden’s drummer of four decades, retired from the road this month; Dickinson’s response to the end of an era appears to be more road, not less. Whether that’s stubbornness or the right answer is a question for the comments. The first two Maiden albums were made by people who’d have said the same thing about drum machines.

TL;DR

• Bruce Dickinson’s PsychoGod tour 2027 is 31 European shows: a summer leg June 14 (Belfast) to July 11 (Masters Of Rock), with headline dates and three festivals, and a winter leg November 10 (Warsaw) to December 10 (Paris, L’Olympia) with Evergrey supporting. Tickets on sale Friday, October 30.
• No North American dates. Dickinson’s US shows in 2027 are Iron Maiden’s final Run For Your Lives leg, April 14 to May 16, ending at Sonic Temple and Boardwalk Rock.
• The tour follows his eighth solo album, due 2027: recorded live at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in early 2026, produced by Brendan Duffey, with Andreas Kisser of Sepultura on percussion and a collaboration with his son Austin. No title or date yet.
• The live band is the Mandrake Project touring lineup: Chris Declercq, Philip Näslund, Tanya O’Callaghan, Mistheria and Dave Moreno. Roy Z is not touring.
• Dickinson on the announcement: ‘A.I. can only copy, it can only pretend. It can never be in love, and it can never play.’

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Converging at the intersection of deathrock and hardcore, the Northeast quintet Final Gasp have developed a sound they can call their own. While this year’s standout New Day Symptoms LP showcase of their songwriting evolution, it doesn’t tell the whole story. With the help of the Decibel Flexi Series, “Aftermath,” an exclusive track from the New Day Symptoms recording session, is now available to everyone’s earholes, completing Final Gasp’s somber recoding picture for 2026.

Stream it below, then make sure to snag your copy of the November issue of Decibel, which includes this exclusive piece of floppy vinyl. If you think these will be around forever, don’t hold your breath!

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The American Breed was one of the most exciting pop-rock groups to come out of Chicago during the 1960s, combining soulful vocals, punchy horns, and the kind of melodies that sounded great coming out of an AM radio. The band grew out of Gary and the Knight Lites, a group led by singer and guitarist Gary Loizzo. After signing with Acta Records in 1967, they became the American Breed and quickly established themselves as a group that could blend rock, pop, and rhythm and blues into a sound of their own. The band’s first major success came in 1967 with

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Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today it leads with System Of A Down, who announced a fourth and final Rose Bowl show on Monday night, June 12, 2027 with Gojira opening, after the first three nights sold out inside a week: four stadium dates in Pasadena for a band that hasn’t released an album since 2005.

Then Meshuggah, whose 40th-anniversary North American run, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, will carry Testament and Blood Incantation, with tickets on sale Friday and the full routing imminent. And Disturbed, who said a year ago that they needed a long break and have now booked twelve arena shows across Australia, New Zealand and Asia for April and May 2027.

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System Of A Down Add A Fourth And Final Rose Bowl Show

System Of A Down will play four nights at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in June 2027: June 5 and 6 with Pierce The Veil and June 10 and 12 with Gojira, the fourth date announced Monday night as “the final show” the band will play at the venue this year, with tickets on sale Tuesday, October 27 at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET.

The run came together in eight days. On October 19 the band announced a single Rose Bowl show, billed as their lone US date of 2027. On October 23 a second night was added with Pierce The Veil, followed within hours by a third with Gojira. On October 26, with all three sold out, came the fourth. The Rose Bowl holds roughly 90,000 for a concert, which puts the run somewhere north of 350,000 tickets in one metropolitan area.

For a band with five studio albums, the last of them Hypnotize in November 2005, and two standalone singles since (2020’s “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” released for Armenia), it’s a demonstration of demand nobody else in nu-metal or anywhere near it can match. The openers split the audience neatly: Pierce The Veil for the generation that found the band through streaming, and Gojira, Grammy winners who played the Paris Olympics opening ceremony from the windows of the Conciergerie, for everyone who was there for Toxicity. Whether all of this is the case for a sixth album or the case against one is The Take.

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Meshuggah’s Forty-Year Anomaly Tour: Testament And Blood Incantation Confirmed

Meshuggah’s 40th-anniversary North American tour, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, will feature Testament as direct support and Blood Incantation opening, with general on-sale Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. ET; the first date to surface is February 16, 2027 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, with the full routing expected imminently.

The tour leaked before it was announced: a Reddit post surfaced the Detroit listing and the bill, and by Monday night the promoters had confirmed the outline. Alongside Detroit, two festival stops were already public: Sonic Temple in Columbus on May 13 and Milwaukee Metal Fest on May 14, both of which also carry Testament. Meshuggah formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1987; their most recent album is Immutable (2022), and the band has been teasing something for the anniversary without saying what.

The bill is the draw. Testament released Para Bellum last year and are on nearly every 2027 US festival poster. Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere (2024) was the most-debated death metal album of its year and earned them a run of dates opening for Tool. Meshuggah, meanwhile, built the rhythmic language that djent was named after and have spent four decades declining the credit. Three bands, three different arguments about what extreme metal is for, one ticket. The Detroit show will not last the weekend.

Disturbed Take The Sickness To Australia, New Zealand And Asia

Disturbed will play twelve arena shows across New Zealand, Australia and Asia from April 22 to May 25, 2027, each with two sets, one built around their five-times-Platinum debut The Sickness and one of greatest hits; the Australia and New Zealand fan presale is Wednesday, October 28 at 12 p.m. local time, with general on-sale Friday, October 30 at 1 p.m. local.

Asia presale and on-sale times vary by venue; the band’s site has the details. The format matches the North American and European legs of The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, which opened in Nampa, Idaho in February 2025 and closed in Europe that autumn with Megadeth supporting. When that run ended, guitarist Dan Donegan said on Instagram Live that the band would “take quite a bit of time off next year,” adding, “We just feel like we could use a break,” and David Draiman wrote on X that “we all need a nice long break.” Their 2026 has been quiet accordingly.

The Sickness was released March 7, 2000 and has now been toured as an anniversary for longer than it was promoted as a new record. A band that has rarely played Southeast Asia taking its biggest album to Bangkok and Manila is a good use of the year off. The open question is the other one: Divisive is four years old, and bassist John Moyer has said there’s “no shortage” of new music coming. Two sets of old songs in Tokyo is a great night. A new record is what the next decade needs.

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The Take: Four Rose Bowls Are The Argument Against A Sixth System Of A Down Album

The thing selling 350,000 tickets in one city is a closed catalog, five albums frozen at the moment they mattered most, and System Of A Down figured out twenty years ago that the best way to protect those songs was to stop writing new ones.

Every fan in that stadium is buying Toxicity, Chop Suey and Aerials exactly as they remember them, and System can deliver that because nothing has been added to dilute it. Scarcity is the product. No other band in heavy music could do this: Metallica would need a new record to justify four nights, Tool would need a reason, and neither would sell out in a week. System did it on a catalog that closed in 2005, and the market has agreed with them every time they’ve tested it since.

The counter-argument is the one fans make, and it’s fair. Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian are two of the most distinctive writers the genre has produced, both are still working, and the reason there’s no album is a long-documented disagreement over who writes it. The 2020 singles proved the four of them can still make something when there’s a reason to. Three hundred and fifty thousand people in one city is a reason.

But consider what a new record does to this. It gets compared to Toxicity, it loses, and the next stadium run becomes a reunion tour with an asterisk instead of a canon without one. Every legacy band that broke the seal learned the same thing: the new album doesn’t get played live, and it doesn’t get forgiven. System Of A Down are the one band who never gave anybody the chance to be disappointed. Four Rose Bowls says that was the right call. Make the fourth one count. Don’t make a sixth album.

TL;DR

• System Of A Down will play four nights at the Rose Bowl in June 2027: June 5 and 6 with Pierce The Veil, June 10 and 12 with Gojira. The first three sold out within a week; the fourth, billed as the final one, goes on sale October 27 at 12 p.m. PT. The band’s last album was Hypnotize (2005).
• Meshuggah’s 40th-anniversary North American tour, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, features Testament and Blood Incantation; general on-sale is Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. ET. Detroit’s Masonic Temple (February 16) is the first date out, with Sonic Temple (May 13) and Milwaukee Metal Fest (May 14) already confirmed.
• Disturbed play twelve arenas in New Zealand, Australia and Asia from April 22 to May 25, 2027, two sets a night built around The Sickness; AU/NZ presale October 28, general on-sale October 30.
• The Take: four sold-out Rose Bowls on a catalog that closed in 2005 are the argument against a new System Of A Down album, not for one.

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