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Check out “Das Ende Der Pflicht”, the newest single from Asenblut‘s forthcoming studio album Urgewalt, which comes out on September 18th.
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Finnish legends Amorphis have announced ‘Borderland Tour’ over Finland, scheduled to be executed in February, March and April 2027.
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Most fantasies of quitting preserve some faith in manners: a resignation letter, a slammed drawer, a final walk past reception. Mighty Crimes tears through that decorum with a workplace homicide and a car pointed toward open country. Yet escape does not clear the mind. The office recedes while the argument continues in the driver’s seat, where relief, panic, and self-justification take turns holding the wheel.

London post-punk band Blow Dry, the project conceived and led by Sydney-born frontwoman Genevieve Welsh, have shared their off-kilter video for Mighty Crimes. Released on July 28 and co-written with Jorge Elbrecht—whose credits include Japanese Breakfast, Sky Ferreira, and Angel Olsen—the song turns an under-the-breath workplace fantasy into fugitive comedy. Sick of corporate life, a woman kills her boss, runs for the horizon, and gradually loses command of her own explanation.

A spring-loaded bass line opens the track, with clipped guitar accents and post-punk jangles darting around percussion that carries the fleet, slightly camp momentum of a 1960s heist score. An eerie rising-and-falling figure, poised somewhere between an organ buzz and a guitar whine, keeps the floor tilted beneath Welsh’s theatrical delivery. Her voice purrs, quivers, yelps, and steadily pushes toward the edge as each repetition makes the character sound less convinced by her own defence.

Welsh explains:

“On the surface it’s a relatable laugh – ugh, I want to kill my boss – I mean, how many people have said that before?! But there are real emotions under the humour too: the freedom and release of throwing everything away and heading out into the unknown, tangled up with the anxiety of ‘what have I done,’ and then comes the self-talk you do to convince yourself that yes you were right to make the choices you’ve made… whether you actually were or not. Or at least, that’s the mental olympics my brain goes through.

It’s such a playful track combined with the Blow Dry dark humour – as soon as we recorded it I could see the imagery – a Thelma & Louise meets Tarantino meets Priscilla, Queen of the Desert getaway film, but set in the Australian outback. An off-kilter homage to my homeland.”

Speaking with Eliot Odgers for Still Listening Magazine, Welsh said that writing through a fictional character “let me detach and have more fun.” The small crew followed a similar instinct while filming in Western Australia: “No permissions, a rough plan, and the rest we were winging.”

Directed by Blair Gauld, with cinematography by Ryan Murphy and grading by Spike Luke Wright, the video carries the song’s office-crime premise into the red vastness surrounding Kalgoorlie. Welsh’s outlaw stands against burnt-orange earth and an immense blue sky, her white clothing and wind-tossed hair cutting across the Goldfields landscape.

The Coolgardie Caravan Park and Broad Arrow Tavern anchor the getaway in a specific corner of Western Australia. Meat pies, a Bunnings hat, skimpy-bar culture, and other slices of Australiana bring homesick affection and dry comedy to the flight. With only three people travelling and filming, the clip retains the looseness of its production: a desert crime picture assembled through roadside encounters, local generosity, and the willingness to see what might happen next.

Watch the video for Mighty Crimes below:

Blow Dry brings Welsh’s background in fashion and love of cinema into a theatrical strain of post-punk informed by punk rock, new wave, and gothic rock. The group’s recent single MR. BIG introduced its more confrontational side through an aggressive, dance-led performance video; Mighty Crimes widens the frame into character-driven film and black comedy. Alongside stylist Matt King, Welsh also runs Tainted Pleasure, a Blitz Club-inspired night held at The Social in London.

Mighty Crimes is out now. Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Bad Wolves are off Skillet’s autumn US tour, one week after being announced on it. In a video statement posted Tuesday, vocalist Sara “KILLBOY” Skinner said the band had been removed after Skillet’s fanbase went looking into her background and reached two conclusions about her. She addressed both directly, confirmed that only one of them is accurate — and then deliberately declined to say which one. Skillet have not publicly commented.

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Scott Penfold covers the Bad Wolves situation on today’s Metal Breakdown Daily — what KILLBOY actually said, what nobody has established yet, and why the way she handled it is the most interesting part of the whole thing. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and get it every weekday morning.

What she said

The timeline is short. On August 18, Bad Wolves were announced as part of Skillet’s autumn US run alongside Escape The Fate. On August 25 — seven days later — they announced they were off it.

KILLBOY’s account, in her own words in the video: she’d gathered everyone to say Bad Wolves would no longer be joining Skillet on the tour. She said Skillet’s camp didn’t want her to say anything, but that a statement had to be made, and that she’s never been someone who hides who she is — so rather than leave people to speculate, she’d tell them the truth.

Her version of what happened: Skillet announced them, and Skillet’s fans then did some fairly extensive research — research, she noted pointedly, that Skillet’s own booking agents and management hadn’t done. What those fans concluded was that she is trans and that she has an OnlyFans account.

Then the line that’s travelling: only one of those things is true. Have fun finding out. See you on the next tour.

She didn’t say which one. That was clearly the point.

Bad Wolves followed it up on their social channels with a message of support to their sex worker, trans and LGBTQ family.

What nobody has established

Worth being precise here, because a lot of coverage today won’t be.

Skillet have not commented. As of publication they’ve said nothing publicly about why Bad Wolves are no longer on the bill, and we have one side of that decision.

KILLBOY did not say Skillet removed them for a specific reason. Her account is that Skillet’s fans investigated her, and that the band came off the tour. She connected those two things; she didn’t put words in Skillet’s mouth about which finding drove it, or claim to know what was discussed internally.

And she deliberately didn’t confirm which accusation is accurate. So we’re not going to guess, and neither should anybody else. That withholding is the entire substance of what she did — the whole point was that strangers spent a week deciding who she is, and she declined to hand them a verdict.

If Skillet respond, that’s a genuinely bigger story than this one. Until then, this is what’s known.

Why the way she handled it works

Set aside where you land on any of it — the response itself is worth noting.

The standard playbook when a band gets pulled from a tour is a bland statement about scheduling conflicts and unforeseen circumstances. Everyone involved knows it’s fiction, the rumour mill runs anyway, and the artist ends up defined by whatever version travels fastest.

She did the opposite. She named the accusations herself, before anyone else could frame them, refused the premise that either would be shameful, and turned the ambiguity back on the people who’d been digging.

That’s a hard thing to pull off in ninety seconds, and she did it without sounding wounded or defensive.

Whether it costs Bad Wolves anything commercially is another question. Skillet are a substantial touring act with a large Christian rock audience, and that run was real exposure.

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Where Bad Wolves are right now

Some context, because this is a band who’ve had a genuinely turbulent decade.

Bad Wolves formed in Los Angeles in 2017 out of members with serious pedigrees, and broke enormous almost immediately with their cover of The Cranberries’ “Zombie” — a song that went multi-platinum and gave them a career-defining hit inside a year.

Original vocalist Tommy Vext left in 2021 after a long stretch of public controversy, and his legal troubles continued afterwards. Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz fronted the band for the Dear Monsters and Die About It era. KILLBOY is their third vocalist, and their first frontwoman.

The current core is John Boecklin, AJ Rebollo and Skinner.

She’s the second lineup change at that microphone in five years, and she’s now dealing with a level of scrutiny neither of her predecessors faced in quite this form — which says less about Bad Wolves than it does about where heavy music’s audience currently sits culturally.

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The tour itself

Skillet’s autumn US run continues with Escape The Fate still on the bill as far as anyone has announced.

Skillet have been a fixture of mainstream rock radio for two decades, with an openly Christian identity and a fanbase that reflects it. Their most recent material includes the singles “Scream” and “Lift Me Up” from the forthcoming After The Storm EP. Escape The Fate have been operating in the post-hardcore and metalcore space since 2004.

Bad Wolves, for their part, have plenty else on. If you’re mapping out the rest of the year’s live schedule, our 2026 tour and festival guide has the wider picture.

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TL;DR

• What happened: Bad Wolves announced on August 25 that they’ve been removed from Skillet’s autumn US tour, one week after being confirmed on the bill.
• What KILLBOY said: Skillet’s fanbase investigated her background and concluded she is trans and has an OnlyFans account. She confirmed only one of the two is true and deliberately declined to say which.
• What she also said: Skillet’s camp didn’t want her to comment, but she felt a statement had to be made rather than leave people to speculate.
• What Skillet have said: nothing publicly as of publication.
• What Bad Wolves added: a message of support to their sex worker, trans and LGBTQ community.
• The rest of the bill: Escape The Fate remain on the tour as announced.

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Italian tech-thrash/death metal mutants Miscreance sound like they were built in a lab from the best wrong parts of several different eras. On Reminiscence, the Northern Italian quartet take the old-school technical death metal blueprint—Death, Atheist, Coroner, Sadus, all the good stuff—and drag it through a prehistoric hallucination full of tribal percussion, psychic violence, alien ritual and fretboard abuse.

Out May 28 via Season of Mist, Reminiscence follows Miscreance’s 2022 full-length Convergence, but this is not simply another exercise in retro worship. Yes, the riffs splinter, twist and slash with late-’80s/early-’90s precision. Yes, the tempos turn on a dime. Yes, the band look and sound like people who have worn out more than one copy of Human and Unquestionable Presence. But Reminiscence also pushes deeper into concept and atmosphere, imagining a lost civilization that feels both ancient and impossibly futuristic.

“After meandering through the sands of time, we are finally unearthing our new album Reminiscence,” Miscreance tell Decibel. “Each of the nine songs on the album take a look into a forgotten past. Together, they merge into a mind-altering experience.

“Reminiscence is a concept album that tells the story of a lost civilization, suspended in time. Gifted with psychic powers and driven by an insatiable hunger for prey, this civilization once lived in symbiosis with nature, only for their age of splendor to give way to inexorable decline.

“While writing, we pushed ourselves toward a state of total neural unity, just as the lost tribe at the heart of our story once did. We became so deeply captivated by the concept that we decided to reinterpret the lost album as coherently and faithfully as possible, bringing its sound to life again through an array of tribal and unconventional instruments, unearthly time signatures and ritualistic chants.

“Lose yourself into the abyss and find your true self beyond the edge of reality!”

That perspective gets weird fast. Opener “Trait d’Union” doesn’t simply explode out of the gate; it lures the listener in with bouncing, ritualistic percussion before the band start cutting through dimensions. “Scalp Ceremony” folds bongos into its bloodthirsty thrash attack. Elsewhere, Miscreance thread strange tongues, telepathic dissection, jungle horror and celestial death through nine tracks of restless, technically ridiculous extreme metal.

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Before there was Tennessee, there was Stavanger. Before the highways, honky-tonks and imagined horizons of America, there was the Norwegian coastline—cold water, hard wind, immense mountains and a young girl searching for where she belonged. Maren Davidsen’s music exists in that distance between two worlds. A Norwegian singer-songwriter drawn to the emotional honesty of Americana, […]

In anticipation of their new full-length release The Legend Of The Six Kings, Italians Frozen Crown now stream a Raoul Noise-directed/edited music video for the new single “Who Wants To Burn In Heaven”.
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Way back in 2000, the White Stripes released their powerful, unhinged cover of the 1974 Dolly Parton classic “Jolene” as the B-side to their “Hello Operator” single. That song was a regular highlight of the White Stripes’ live sets, and they performed it hundreds of times — way more times, as it happens, than Parton herself ever did. Jack White stopped performing that song after the White Stripes broke up, and he never played it live as a solo artist until last night.

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Thunder God has been set as the official title of Crystal Eyes‘ ninth full-length offering. It will be set free on October 30th, 2026 through Massacre Records. Track listing and cover artwork can be seen below.
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