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Swedish grindcore veterans GADGET are finally back, ready to make their mark once again with the highly anticipated new EP “Coerced”, set for release on vinyl on May 8, 2026 via De:Nihil Records. This mini-album marks a fresh chapter for the band, being the first proper release since 2016 and the debut with the revitalized lineup featuring Emilia Henriksson on vocals and Kristofer Jankarls on […]

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The Claypool Lennon Delirium have shared “Meat Machines,” the latest single from their upcoming album The Great Parrot-Ox and the Golden Egg of Empathy, out May 1st via ATO Records. Arriving alongside a new visualizer, the song finds Les Claypool and Sean Ono Lennon digging into some of the album’s biggest ideas – free will, technological control, and what remains essentially human in a world increasingly shaped by automation. The album is now available for pre-order here.

Driven by wiry psych-prog tension, ominous groove, and a creeping sense of unease, “Meat Machines” captures the Delirium at their most pointed and unsettling. Where earlier single “WAP (What a Predicament)” introduced the album with a warped meditation on A.I., morality, and what happens when empathy gets optimized out of existence, “Meat Machines” pushes further into the record’s central tension: whether human beings still have agency in a culture that seems increasingly ready to reduce life to function.

“Some people think humans are just biological machines,” shared singer / lyricist Lennon. “They think free will is a hallucination and we’re destined to be replaced by robots. Not only are they happy about this, but they’re actively trying to make it happen as fast as possible. Some of us think we still have a choice. We think there’s something special about living, breathing and feeling. We believe we can shape our own destiny, because we know we are more than just ‘Meat Machines.’”

The new visualizer also offers another glimpse into the album’s larger visual universe. Like the video for “The Golden Egg of Empathy (feat. Willow),” it draws from the richly illustrated companion comic created with longtime collaborator Rich Ragsdale, whose work has become a defining part of the project.

“Meat Machines” arrives from what is Delirium’s most fully realized project to date. Recorded at Claypool’s Rancho Relaxo studio in Sonoma County and Lennon’s studio The Farm in upstate New York, the album brings together expansive storytelling with the band’s signature mix of psychedelic-prog theatrics, absurdist humor, inventive musicianship, and off-center imagination.

As Lennon previously explained, the album is “a cautionary tale of what could be in store for humanity if we continue to favor machines over men.” Across the record, Claypool and Lennon build out a warped narrative world shaped by paperclip logic, spiritual collapse, and the struggle to hold onto feeling in the face of cold efficiency.

Available for pre-order on vinyl and CD, the physical edition expands the album’s mythology into a true companion piece: a 2-LP set in a tip-on gatefold jacket paired with a 24-page comic book, with each song mapped to its own illustrated chapter. What began as an idea for a feature-length animated film ultimately became a fully realized graphic narrative.

Following the album’s release, Claypool and Lennon will take this latest chapter on the road with Claypool Gold, a full-evening summer tour that brings together Primus, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, and Les Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade for one genre-bending night. The coast-to-coast run begins May 20th and finds the two collaborators sharing the stage in both the Delirium and Frog Brigade, giving audiences a chance to experience the new album while also seeing Sean and Les move through multiple corners of Claypool’s musical world in a single evening.

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Claypool Gold 2026 Tour

Wednesday, May 20 – Reno Events Center – Reno, NV
Friday, May 22 – Hayden Homes Amphitheater – Bend, OR
Saturday, May 23 – Marymoor Live – Redmond, WA
Monday, May 25 – KettleHouse Amphitheater – Bonner, MT
Tuesday, May 26 – The Lot at the Complex – Salt Lake City, UT
Thursday, May 28 – Starlight Amphitheatre – Kansas City, MO
Saturday, May 30 – The Factory – St. Louis, MO
Sunday, May 31 – Meadow Brook Amphitheatre – Rochester Hills, MI
Tuesday, June 2 – Jacobs Pavilion – Cleveland, OH
Wednesday, June 3 – Salt Shed – Chicago, IL
Friday, June 5 – The Caverns Outdoor Amphitheater – Pelham, TN
Saturday, June 6 – KEMBA Live! Outdoor – Columbus, OH
Tuesday, June 9 – Thompson’s Point – Portland, ME
Wednesday, June 10 – Leader Bank Pavilion – Boston, MA
Friday, June 12 – Saratoga Performing Arts Center – Saratoga Springs, NY
Saturday, June 13 – Stone Pony Summerstage – Asbury Park, NJ [SOLD OUT]
Sunday, June 14 – All Good Now Festival – Columbia, MD
Tuesday, June 16 – The AMP Ballantyne – Charlotte, NC
Wednesday, June 17 – Firefly Distillery – North Charleston, SC
Friday, June 19 – St. Augustine Amphitheatre – St. Augustine, FL
Saturday, June 20 – Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park – Atlanta, GA
Monday, June 22 – Walmart AMP – Rogers, AR
Tuesday, June 23 – ACL Live at Moody Theatre – Austin, TX
Thursday, June 25 – The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory – Irving, TX
Saturday, June 27 – Dillon Amphitheater – Dillon, CO [SOLD OUT]
Sunday, June 28 – Dillon Amphitheater – Dillon, CO
Tuesday, June 30 – Arizona Financial Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
Wednesday, July 1 – Gallagher Square – San Diego, CA
Friday, July 3 – Long Beach Amphitheater – Long Beach, CA
Saturday, July 4 – Meritage Resort & Spa – Napa, CA

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Portuguese Gothic Metal pioneers MOONSPELL have released a music video for the first single and title track of their upcoming studio album Far From God, offering a first glimpse into what promises to be one of the band’s most defining offerings to date. Far From God will be released on July 3, 2026 via Napalm Records. Born out of five years of creative […]

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“Wrath Unbound” is the latest single from Swedish death metal institution VOMITORY. The brutal new track comes by way of the band’s In Death Throes full-length, set for release on April 10th via Metal Blade Records. Comments drummer Tobias Gustafsson, “‘Wrath Unbound’ is inspired by dark powers and built for headbanging! This is probably the heaviest song on […]

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Portuguese Gothic Metal pioneers Moonspell have released a music video for the first single and title track of their upcoming studio album Far From God, offering a first glimpse into what promises to be one of the band’s most defining offerings to date. Far From God will be released on July 3 via Napalm Records.

Born out of five years of creative searching, doubt, and ultimate rediscovery, the album marks a powerful return for the band. Far from playing it safe, Moonspell delivers a work that feels like a rebirth: Darker, sharper, and emotionally unfiltered.

Rather than bending to modern trends, the band doubles down on identity and substance, presenting a bold and beautiful statement of gothic metal in its purest form: Dark, romantic, dramatic, and unapologetically heavy!

The first single, “Far From God,” sets the tone with burning intensity. A hymn to tragic vampiric love, the song revives the mystique and romantic darkness that once defined the genre, while layered keyboards subtly expand the atmosphere without softening its heaviness. Dense guitars, deep resonant vocals, and dramatic dynamic shifts evoke a timeless gothic aesthetic, restoring danger, and elegance to the narrative of the vampire.

Fernando Ribeiro comments on the track: “I lost my faith and hope in vampires for quite a few years. They became the clowns of Hollywood, the cheap Halloween shop customs, the old and disgraceful Princes from the East. Until the film director Robert Eggers brought us Nosferatu in 2024 and I was immediately attracted back to that tragic, romantic character who Bram Stoker immortalized in his letters. I wrote “Far from God” in just one breath and it’s our first song about vampiric love in ages. I confess I felt the urge of, together with Moonspell, saving the face of gothic metal which became hostage of semi-tuned operatic female vocalists, simpleton and crunchy guitar riffs; and of lyrical content that would make Dracula impale himself with a stake in his bloodless heart. This song is the essence of this album, its title, its video, its soul. And you can even feel the fire of daylight burning into yours and your lover’s skin.”

Thematically, Far From God moves through Baudelairian love, existential guilt, and redemption, Christ-like resurrections and the quiet nobility of creatures of the night. Vampires, werewolves, and sacred symbolism are not escapism here, but vehicles for genuine dark emotion: Solemn, romantic, and unfiltered. The album rejects artificial gloss in favor of fantasy grounded in sincerity, rediscovering the heart of gothic metal in its most authentic form.

“To create Far From God, we had to wait for the muse,” Ribeiro admits. “Again, she didn’t fail us and revealed herself in the most mysterious and beautiful ways to us. It took us five long years of hit and miss, of despairing to the point of thinking we didn’t have it anymore, and why should we at all create new music? But I’m glad we persisted. Far From God is a true crusade against the decline of the style in the past few years, a darkly crafted statement that Moonspell is here to stay and to claim our throne. No politics, no socials, no intervention, just sickly romantic love, vampires, werewolves so we can all die of beauty, in peace and elegance. Goth bless you.”

Moonspell‘s forthcoming magnum opus — produced with Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sólstafir, Ghost, among many others) — shines like a black diamond, luminous yet shadowed in texture and color, both musically and sonically. It reconnects with the darker spirit of the band’s classic era while sounding powerful and contemporary. Far From God is a gothic metal hallelujah. It’s not only a powerful reminder that Moonspell remains a defining force in the genre they helped shape, but an album that will truly save Gothic Metal from boredom and predictability.

Far From God will be available in the following formats:

• 2CD 24p Mediabook (t. Bonus CD: Demo Versions)
• 1CD Jewel Case
• 1-LP Gatefold Vinyl Black (ft. Lyric Sheet & Printed Innersleeve)
• 1-LP Gatefold Vinyl Solid Viola (ft. Lyric Sheet & Printed Innersleeve)
• 1-LP Gatefold Vinyl S053 Splattered Creme Black (ft. 24p Booklet + Printed Innersleeve)
• Wooden Boxset (ft. Mediabook 2-CD + A5 Band Photo + Flag + Cross Pendant + Handnumbered Certificate of Authenticity)
• 2CD 24p Mediabook + Shirt Bundle
• 1-LP Gatefold WHITE LABEL (ft. 12” 24p Booklet, Certificate [dated hand-numbered], Covercard)
• Digital Album
• 1-LP Gatefold Vinyl CIRC002 (ft. Lyric Sheet + Printed Innersleeve + Vertical Poster A3 Cover + Band Photo Postcard) – Bandshop exclusive

Pre-Order Far From God here.

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Skid Row bassist Rachel Bolan is releasing his debut solo album. Gargoyle Of The Garden State — credited under the Bolan banner — arrives 06/12 via earMUSIC.

The record was produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who helmed Skid Row‘s 2022 record The Gang’s All Here, and it comes loaded with guests: Skid Row bandmates Dave “Snake” Sabo, Scotti Hill, and Rob Hammersmith all appear, alongside Corey Taylor (Slipknot, Stone Sour), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), Danko Jones, Steve Conte (New York Dolls), and Damon Johnson (Brother Cane, Lynyrd Skynyrd).

Bolan is direct about what the record means to him. “‘Gargoyle Of The Garden State’ is not a project; it is every bit of my soul,” he says. “Like me, it knows when to be serious and also knows where the party is.”

The first single, “At War With Myself”, features Danko Jones and is out now alongside an official music video. Gargoyle Of The Garden State will be available on CD digipak, LP gatefold, digital, and download. Pre-order the album here.

The album is rooted in the New Jersey grit and storytelling attitude that defined his formative years, pairing punk energy with melodic hooks and a raw swagger that early listeners have already called quintessentially Garden State. Beyond the bass — his primary instrument for four decades — Bolan plays most of the instruments himself, shaping the record largely on his own terms.

Speaking on the Rockstrap podcast — hosted by comedian Don Jamieson and radio veteran Keith Roth — Bolan broke down exactly how the album came together: “It doesn’t sound like Skid Row. I’m doing most of the singing. I’ve got a few guests on there. Our buddy Steve Conte is singing a song. The first single Danko Jones is singing with me. And then there’s another song that Corey Taylor sang. So there’s that. Snake played a solo. Scotti played a solo. Damon Johnson played a bunch of solos. Nuno Bettencourt played a solo. Hammersmith played drums on the whole thing. It’s a whole bunch of buds on there, and it’s cool, man. I’m really happy with the way it turned out. Nick produced it. He produced the [last] Skid Row record, and every worth-a-shit Active Rock band that’s out there, he produced. He’s so great to work with because he is such a fan of music.”

Working one-on-one with Raskulinecz, rather than running everything through a full band, made the process notably different from a Skid Row session. “Stuff didn’t have to clear the committee’s vote and stuff and shit like that,” Bolan says. “So it was cool, man. And to see him excited about something that I wrote again, it was awesome, man. It was a really, really fun process.”

The album also features a cover, one that arrived almost by accident. Bolan heard an Oasis track on the radio, didn’t immediately clock who it was, and decided to make it his own. As he tells it: “I’m not gonna tell you [what it is]… I did it just for the hell of it because I heard it on the radio and I was, like, ‘Man, I didn’t know that was them.’ And so I was, like, ‘It’s a cool tune.’ And I was, like, ‘I’m gonna completely change this — not change the chord structure or lyrics or anything, but I’m gonna change the vibe of it.’ So I did it, expecting the band never to be heard from again, and then they were. And I’m, like, ‘Oh, okay.’”

That cover turns out to be “Rock And Roll Star”, a fitting choice for an album that treats music as both a lifelong vocation and a personal reckoning.

“It was incredible to work with so many of my talented friends,” Bolan adds. “An experience I wish everyone could have at least once.”

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Some footage from the sessions has been shared.

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“Wrath Unbound”, the newest single from Vomitory‘s upcoming full-length effort In Death Throes, has premiered online in the form of an official music video directed by Marcus Svensson.
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NYC thrash metal outfit Another Demon will officially re‑release their debut EP “As Above So Below” on April 18th, 2026, through Ragebreed Records, with global distribution handled by Earache Records. Originally unveiled independently, the EP now returns with expanded reach and renewed momentum as the band continues its rapid ascent through the East Coast metal ranks. Formed in 2023, Another Demon has quickly […]

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It was just a few years ago that Drayton Farley was recording songs in his bedroom. His new release, A Heavy Duty Heart, boldly announces that though they were recent those days are long in the rearview. Like his previous album, the project was produced by Sadler Vaden, guitarist for Jason Isbell and the 400 […]