After nearly five years since their last LP, doomed heavy metallers Khemmis triumphantly remerge with Khemmis, and Decibel has our own exclusive edition on Red and Black Marble colored vinyllimited to just 200 copies courtesy of the folks at Nuclear Blast Records.
This single LP gatefold features a gorgeous 12-page booklet, delivering a worthy package for Khemmis’ fifth full-length record. A grand spiritual celebration of heavy metal, Khemmis continues Decibel’s long love affair with the incomparable rocky-mountain riff brigade.
But unlike our appreciation for the band Khemmis, our 200 copies of record Khemmis won’t last for long, so pre-order yours now!
Khemmis track list:
1 Invocation of the Dreamer
2 Corpsebloom Garden
3 Grief’s Reverie
4 Beneath the Scythe
5 Gilded Chambers
6 Tomb of Roses
7 Carrion King
8 Benediction Tones
NOTE: THIS IS A PREORDER. ITEM IS DUE TO BE RELEASED ON OR AROUND JUNE 12, 2026. ALL ITEMS ORDERED TOGETHER WILL BE CHARGED AT THE TIME OF THE ORDER AND WILL SHIP TOGETHER WHEN EVERYTHING IS IN STOCK.
Swedish progressive metal masterminds EVERGREY share another single off their new album, Architects Of A New Weave, out June 5 via Napalm Records. Full of regret, “The World Is On Fire” stages personal emotions as global pain, the apology reverberating, resonating. Enormous, cinematic melodies pull the listener upward, driven by riffs with genuine weight and bite, while vocals dripping with raw, unflinching truth give voice to a deep, aching sense of longing.
That longing finds its most intimate expression in the dead of night — when you pull your loved one close, just to feel them breathe — and are confronted with a devastating realization: the promise of a safe tomorrow is a lie you can no longer keep. “The World Is On Fire” comes with an official music video and also marks the official introduction of guitarist Stephen Platt (Scar Symmetry), who had already been touring with EVERGREY as a live guitarist in 2025. He now officially joins as a full-time band member.
EVERGREY about the new guitar player:
“We played a lot of shows with Stephen Platt already, he’s an incredibly lovely human being on top of being a brilliant guitar player, we couldn’t be happier to have him join us for real!”
Stephen Platt reflects:
“I’m so happy to become the new guitarist of EVERGREY. I’ve been a fan of the band for a long time now and am extremely honored to have been asked by this group of incredible musicians and people. Looking forward to seeing what the future holds!”
Tom S. Englund about the new single “The World Is On Fire”:
“‘The World Is On Fire’ was one of those rare songs that reached inside me and articulated feelings I hadn’t even fully recognized yet. Once again, our timing, just as with the song ‘Save Us’ is both haunting and profound. To me, this isn’t just a lament — it’s an uprising. It’s a defiant stand against the forces that thrive on chaos, fear, and silence. They want us scared, quiet, and compliant. But all we want is to raise free-spirited, free-thinking, and independent children who can help build a better world — for us, for them, and for everyone. The devastating lack of compassion and humanity is at the root of everything we see around us. This song isn’t passive acceptance or mere description of our broken reality. It’s us boldly painting a picture of the world we refuse to accept.”
EVERGREY’s new full-length, Architects Of A New Weave, will be released just days before the band takes the stage as special guest to the undisputed kings of heavy metal, Iron Maiden, for two shows on their Run For Your Lives World Tour. This is the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed: a plunge into thinning air, burning worlds, and lingering guilt—only to break free with fierce momentum. The album refuses to wallow. It ascends—fast, heavy, and cinematic. But it refuses to hide in the dark. It rises: Quick, fierce, and utterly transformative.
1 Welcome To The Pattern
2 The Shadow Self
3 Architects Of The New Weave
4 The World Is On Fire
5 Heaven
6 The Script
7 Leaving The Emptiness
8 Longing
9 A Burning Flame
10 Call Off Your Lions
11 Chains Of Shame
12 The Prophecy
Final Score by Ro-Thoro is a killer rap treat that keeps things direct and unapologetic. Built on a hard-hitting, no-frills beat, the track delivers a steady, confident flow that never loses focus. There’s a raw, grounded energy throughout, driven by a clear “it is what it is” attitude that adds to its authenticity. No unnecessary embellishments, just sharp delivery and consistent momentum. It’s the kind of track that doesn’t try to impress with excess—it hits, sticks, and leaves its mark through sheer presence and straightforward execution.
Melrose Avenue have continued to move into uncharted and untethered waters with their new single.
Titled ‘Bad Guy’, it finds the band flexing their metalcore-leaning muscles in some style. Brimming with sporadic synths, rollicking drums and riffs that could chatter rock, it sees the quintet taking the ante up a couple more notches once again. An unpredictable turn that also feels incredibly welcome, it’s as much a release of frustration as a sign that there is nothing Melrose Avenue won’t attempt to master.
Vocalist Vlado Saric had this to say about what the track means to him, explaining, “There’s been this shadow that’s been hanging over me for years, and ‘Bad Guy’ was finally my way of confronting it. It comes from that raw place of betrayal – when someone you trust turns on you and paints you as the villain just to lift themselves up. This song is me owning that narrative and calling it out for what it really is.”
It serves as the follow-up to ‘TASTE’, which found the band in sensual and savage waters. Here it is:
The band will be in Europe over the Summer, including a stop-off at Download Festival.
Here are all of the dates.
JUNE
08 – RUBIGEN Mühle Hunziken 10 – LEIPZIG Naumann’s 11 – HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ Rock For People Festival 12 – NICKELSDORF Nova Rock Festival 13 – DONINGTON Download Festival 14 – BRIGHTON Chalk 16 – STUTTGART Kulturquartier 17 – MILAN Legend Club 18 – NATZ Alpen Flair Festival 21 – KRAKÓW Hype Park 23 – STOCKHOLM Kollektivet Live (Broken Summer Pre-Party) 25 – HANNOVER MusikZentrum 26 – YSSELSTEYN Jera On Air Festival 27 – HELSINKI Tuska Festival
Tori Amos puts on a famously intense live show, and she’s got a deep catalog of songs to play. Next month, Amos will release her new album In Times Of Dragons. On Wednesday night, she started a tour of the UK, where she lives now and where she’s always been hugely popular, with a show at Sheffield City Hall. There, she played “Witness,” a song from her 2005 album The Beekeeper, for the first time in 21 years.
Swedish progressive metal masterminds Evergrey have shared another single from their new album, Architects Of A New Weave, out June 5, 2026, via Napalm Records.
Full of regret, “The World Is On Fire” stages personal emotions as global pain, the apology reverberating, resonating. Enormous, cinematic melodies pull the listener upward, driven by riffs with genuine weight and bite, while vocals dripping with raw, unflinching truth give voice to a deep, aching sense of longing.
That longing finds its most intimate expression in the dead of night – when you pull your loved one close, just to feel them breathe – and are confronted with a devastating realization: the promise of a safe tomorrow is a lie you can no longer keep.
“The World Is On Fire” comes with an official music video and also marks the official introduction of guitarist Stephen Platt (Scar Symmetry), who had already been touring with Evergreyas a live guitarist in 2025. He now officially joins as a full-time band member.
Evergrey comment: “We played a lot of shows with Stephen Platt already, he’s an incredibly lovely human being on top of being a brilliant guitar player, we couldn’t be happier to have him join us for real!”
Stephen Platt reflects: “I’m so happy to become the new guitarist of Evergrey. I’ve been a fan of the band for a long time now and am extremely honored to have been asked by this group of incredible musicians and people. Looking forward to seeing what the future holds!”
Tom S. Englund about the new single ‘The World Is On Fire’: “‘The World Is On Fire’ was one of those rare songs that reached inside me and articulated feelings I hadn’t even fully recognized yet. Once again, our timing, just as with the song ‘Save Us’ is both haunting and profound. To me, this isn’t just a lament—it’s an uprising. It’s a defiant stand against the forces that thrive on chaos, fear, and silence. They want us scared, quiet, and compliant. But all we want is to raise free-spirited, free-thinking, and independent children who can help build a better world—for us, for them, and for everyone. The devastating lack of compassion and humanity is at the root of everything we see around us. This song isn’t passive acceptance or mere description of our broken reality. It’s us boldly painting a picture of the world we refuse to accept.”
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Architects Of A New Weave, will be released just days before the band takes the stage as special guest to the undisputed kings of heavy metal, Iron Maiden, for two shows on their Run For Your Lives World Tour. This is the wake-up call you didn’t know you needed: A plunge into thinning air, burning worlds, and lingering guilt—only to break free with fierce momentum. The album refuses to wallow. It ascends—fast, heavy, and cinematic. But it refuses to hide in the dark. It rises: Quick, fierce, and utterly transformative.
Dive into Architects Of A New Weave’s standout tracks like “The World is on Fire”, “Leaving The Emptiness”, “Heaven”, and “The Prophecy”, and the breathtaking title anthem “Architects Of The New Weave”. Their choruses break through like sunlight piercing storm clouds: enormous, cinematic melodies that pull you upward, riffs with genuine weight and bite, and vocals dripping with raw, unflinching truth. In one breath, you’re shouldering buried longing; in the next, you’re weightless, fearless, endless. Scars transform into badges of survival, fractures fuel reinvention. In the second half of the album, fellow Gothenburg icon Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, TheHalo Effect, Grand Cadaver, Cemetery Skyline) joins Tom S. Englund in vocal duties for “A Burning Flame”, the voices of the two scene legends intertwined compellingly. Architects Of A New Weave was produced by Tom S. Englund and Vikram Shankar, with a stellar mix by Adam “Nolly” Getgood.
Among other exclusive formats, Architects Of A New Weave comes with a bonus album, containing bonus tracks “Heights” and “One Heart”, as well as an album mix of the previously released standalone single “Oxygen!” (2025). Additionally, it features a demo version of “Longing”, instrumental tracks of “Leaving The Emptiness”, both new songs, as well as a live version of “Falling From The Sun”, the hit single off the previous record, Theories of Emptiness (2024) and continuation of “Ominous” off of A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament) (2022).
Architects Of A New Weave is available for pre-order here, and will be available in the following formats:
Ever since we started our sister site, rockingfoodie.com, I have wanted to do more rock songs about food. It’s just a natural thing. Even when I’m interviewing the Rockers, I find myself being guided to ask where their favorite restaurants are. It was fun asking Ted Nugent that. Don’t miss that interview. One of the funniest reactions came from Greg T Walker of Blackfoot, who told me he couldn’t find grits in New York. Nope, we have home fries here. Nonetheless, I thought this would be a fun one to do. Songs about sugar, or should I say songs with
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Next to The Beatles, there is no doubt that Queen could be considered the most loved band in UK music history, their Greatest Hits collection alone being the highest-selling UK album ever, and the outfit is rightly revered for their genre-straddling output and incredible live shows.
It was not always that way, though, and their birth was not one lauded by the critics. Their 1973 self-titled debut was not just dismissed but torn apart in the press at the time. Whilst doubtless this criticism stung, the band were made of tougher stuff and with a growing army of fans behind them, the band headed back into the studio to create their sophomore album, Queen II.
It was make-or-break time for the quartet, and they went in with a ferocious spirit, determined to do things their way and push envelopes that had only been hinted at before.
Fast forward fifty-two years, and a select group of competition winners, friends, family and various press representatives are gathered in the lower part of the West End’s highly upmarket Soho Hotel, ready to listen to the playback of the newly remastered version of Queen’s second album.
Following a welcome selection of drinks and canapés, the assembled throng is ushered into the small, cinema-like set up of the listening room, and the star of the evening, Sir Brian May, is introduced, already having wandered around the space, warmly greeting loved ones and colleagues.
Tall, dressed in a dark suit and eminently likeable, it is impossible not to be drawn into his charismatic orbit, his smile and care for all those in the room genuine.
“I feel like I know everyone in the room,” he states, and whilst he is surely one of the most recognisable musicians on the planet, this thoughtfulness brings smiles and appreciation all round.
Turning to a table at the front of the auditorium, he picks up one of the original magnetic tapes that the album was recorded on, explaining the process and how much work it was prior to the wonders of digital techniques.
Following an unboxing of the stunning new edition and the playing of two brief selections of what treasures the set holds, along with a number of anecdotes, the guitarist took his set amongst those there and suggested that rather than watch the visuals created for the playback, everyone wishing to should close their eyes to focus on the music itself.
Much-loved now, hearing the whole album once again from start to finish in its new form was a revelation. The clarity is truly stunning, and you feel you are actually in the studio when it was recorded. Everything sounds bigger, bolder and brighter than ever.
Whilst the instrumentation and arrangements glisten with a new weight and sharpness, it is the vocals that hit the hardest, especially those of Freddie Mercury, the loss of such an incredible talent heartbreaking afresh.
Certainly, as the last notes of Seven Seas Of Rhye fade, there is a hushed silence for a pause before the audience breaks into an utterly deserved wave of applause.
Visibly affected, a very moved May sits there still for a moment, eventually stating that he had not heard the album like that in a very long time. To see him so genuinely emotional just adds to the whole experience, and when he says that Freddie would have loved it, it is impossible not to get a little choked up.
Extending the evening further, the guitarist walks back out to the front to take questions about the album and the whole experience. Full of highs and lows, you can fully appreciate just how proud he is of the new mix and why it was such a pivotal album for Queen, the outfit truly starting to morph into the world-beating giants they became.
Touching on his complicated relationship with Roger Taylor and sadness at John Deacon’s distance from the band these days, there is a perpetual sense of care and appreciation of his fellow travellers and the magic that the four of them created together.
Reiterating something that he told Jon Bon Jovi as a key quality for bands, “stick together” seems something as vital and relevant for Queen and their fans to this very day. Given the strength of their material and such a world-beating legacy, that relationship is set to last for decades to come.
A rock icon, global superstar and one of the warmest and most professional people you could hope to meet, he hung around long into the evening, happily having photos and signing albums.
He may have played in front of millions, but for this one evening, this small gathering was treated to something very special indeed. A landmark album, an incredible band and a legacy that will never be forgotten.
Long live Queen.
The Queen II 2026 Remaster/Remix features a 2026 mix by Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae, and Kris Fredriksson, and is available as a 5CD+2LP box set, 2CD deluxe edition, vinyl, and picture disc. It includes White Side and Black Side sessions, plus rarities, and demos.
Photo: Jacob Blinkentaff For Dale Watson, music started at home, not on a stage. It came from the next room, early in the morning, when his father picked up a guitar. “I would wake up to my dad playing,” Watson says. That introduction opened the door to a lifetime of listening. Records spun by George […]
