In a couple of weeks Jessie Ware will drop her new album Superbloom. The UK pop singer has been leading up to the release with singles like “I Could Get Used To This” and “Ride,” and today she’s graciously given us another sample with “Automatic.” The first voice you hear on “Automatic,” however, isn’t Ware’s. Actor…
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Ne-Yo is not clued in to what’s going on at Pacific Music Group — the Pan-Asian music company that was founded by him, Sonu Nigam, MC Jin, and Jonathan Serbin. While walking through an airport, paparazzi asked the R&B trailblazer what he thought of the new AI artist TaTa that PMG recently signed. “My label signed an AI artist?” he asked, looking bewildered. “If that happened, clearly somebody over there is working without my knowledge. I was not aware of that.”
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Double the deathcore.
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Behold, collector nerds! Our friends at Mom’s Basement Records and I Buy Records are reissuing The Jasons’ long out of print 2019 album Blood in the Streets. Dying Scene stoked to bring you an exclusive first look at all 5 color variants (6 if you count black wax) you’ll be able to grab the record on tomorrow at noon eastern on the Mom’s Basement webstore. Our European friends can get their copies from the I Buy Records store.
Check ’em out below and set a reminder to get your order in tomorrow at 12 o’clock on the dot (or 9am if you’re on the west coast, or 11am if you’re in the central time zone, or maybe even some other time if you live elsewhere in the world). Jasons records always sell out fast and I doubt this reissue will be any exception.
Ryan Graham plays guitar in the Albany pop-punk band State Champs and in the LA-based all-star side project Pile Of Love, and he also puts out solo music under the name Speak Low. Earlier this week, he shared the new single “One Good Look,” a spindly acoustic song about the kind of unspoken distance that can creep into a relationship. In the Guadalupe Bustos-directed video, Graham shaves his head on camera. Check it out below.
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It’s their second PNW stop to be revealed for this August.
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Lex Legion is a new band featuring four members from King Diamond’s classic era, delivering a debut album built on old-school heavy metal instincts but written with total creative freedom in 2026.
The timing here isn’t random. Classic metal DNA is quietly resurging, but very few projects are doing it without sounding recycled. That’s exactly the lane Lex Legion are stepping into—and they know it.
This didn’t come together because of nostalgia.
It happened because the right people finally decided to write music the way they used to—without second-guessing it.
Mikkey Dee, Andy La Rocque, Pete Blakk, and Hal Patino have decades of history tied together through King Diamond’s most defining era. That chemistry doesn’t need rebuilding.
It just needed a reason to resurface.
Bringing in Nils K. Rue wasn’t a safe choice—it was the right one.
Trying to recreate King Diamond vocally would’ve killed this instantly. Instead, Rue brings:
That decision alone separates Lex Legion from the usual legacy-project trap.
This isn’t marketed as a throwback. It’s built like one.
The band leaned into:
Andy La Rocque made it clear—this was written the way they thought in the ’80s.
Not copied. Revisited.
There’s a difference, and you’ll hear it immediately.
The first single doesn’t waste time building atmosphere.
It opens with purpose:
This is a statement track, not a teaser.
It answers the only question that matters early:
yes, this band actually sounds like it should exist.
The second single shifts gears without losing control.
“Gypsy Tears” leans into:
But it still hits.
That balance is where Lex Legion either wins long-term—or fades quickly. Right now, it leans toward the former.
You’re not just looking at names—you’re looking at a foundation:
This is the same core that helped define albums like Them and Conspiracy.
That’s not nostalgia. That’s credibility.
Modern metal has leaned heavily into:
Lex Legion are doing the opposite.
They’re building:
And most importantly—songs that move.
Andy La Rocque didn’t sugarcoat it:
there’s a hole in modern metal for this sound.
He’s right.
There’s no safe landing here.
If this hits:
If it misses:
Mikkey Dee summed it up in the most honest way possible:
“We wrote what we wanted. If you like it, great. If you don’t… that’s fine too.”
That mindset is exactly why this has a real shot.
So where do you stand—does this feel like a true return to form for classic heavy metal, or just another legacy experiment?
Mikkey Dee, Andy La Rocque, Pete Blakk, Hal Patino, and vocalist Nils K. Rue.
June 2026 via MNRK Music Group.
“Sleep Eternally,” releasing March 31.
Classic heavy metal rooted in ’80s songwriting with modern clarity and execution.
Yes, touring is expected to begin in 2027.
Lex Legion is a heavy metal band formed in 2026 featuring four members from King Diamond’s classic late ’80s lineup alongside Pagan’s Mind vocalist Nils K. Rue. Built on decades of collaboration, the band focuses on melody-driven, tightly structured metal that revisits traditional songwriting with modern execution.
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For a band that’s been doing this for 50 years, Judas Priest shoes very little sign of slowing down. I mean, just listen to Invincible Shield and tell me they don’t absolutely kill it. Well, according to guitarist Richie Faulkner, they’re still moving full-speed ahead working on their 21st album.
Faulkner let the update slip while appearing on The Metal Voice to chat about the band, the upcoming documentary, and more.
“We’ve started recording it. Yeah, we were in the studio for a month in February laying the foundation. I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that, but I’ve said it.”
Whoops. Well, the cat’s out of the bag now, so here we are. Twenty-one albums is impressive, to say the least, but again — this is Judas Priest we’re talking about.
Speaking of the documentary, Faulkner said The Ballad of Judas Priest is a must-watch for fans.
“Well, it’s really well put together, and it goes through the story, obviously, of where they started and what they went through and everything like that and talks to different people about Priest’s influence on them. And there’s a great bit in it where they go back to, I think it’s a working man’s club in Aston [United Kingdom] or somewhere like that, where they played their first show, and Ian’s [Hill, Priest bassist] in there and he’s sitting down, and it’s still there. And he’s in the club, and you can see the stage where they performed and everything. It’s still there, man. And it’s great, as a fan, to see that stuff. I haven’t seen that stuff before. So it’s really good. When it comes out, you should definitely check it out.”
The Judas Priest documentary is co-directed by Sam Dunn and Tom Morello and will make its North American debut at the annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto, which will be running from April 23 to May 3.
Though the film debuted earlier this year at the 76th Berlinale – Berlin International Film Festival, this will be the first time North American audiences will get to catch the story of Judas Priest’s rise to metal godhood over the last 50+ years.
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