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Program for Wasteland, Wackinger Village and Welcome To The Jungle revealed: Featuring Alissa White-Gluz, Mille Petrozza, Thomas Nicholas Band, Live Podcasts, Metal Karate and more. Wacken Open Air 2026 is sold out! All 85.000 tickets for the 35th edition of the festival taking place from July 29 to August 1 have been sold. “We’re delighted to celebrate this anniversary […]

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#2 from “Nine”.

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Look at that fucking cover art. Look at it! The dog! The chains! The guy with the ski mask and baseball bat! The car! The font! The contrast! The many incomprehensible design decisions! It’s so ugly! So ugly, in fact, that it might double back around to being beautiful! In any case, it’s exactly how you want a new Pain Of Truth album to look.

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Berlin headbangers SPACE CHASER present the lyric visualiser ‘Blade Serpents‘ as the next advance track taken from their forthcoming full-length “Razorblade Bay“. The thrash metal maniacs’ fourth studio album has been slated for release on September 11, 2026. Pre-sale link: https://spkr.store/collections/space-chaser SPACE CHASER comment: “Good luck getting this hook out of your head”, quips frontman Leo Schacht teasingly. […]

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When Mongolian Hunnu Rock pioneers The HU first burst into the global heavy music consciousness, they were rightfully viewed as a beautiful, albeit niche, anomaly. Throat singing? Traditional horsehead fiddles? It was a mesmerising sonic cocktail, yet few could have predicted their meteoric transition from festival curiosity to genuine, stadium-ready rock royalty. Now, celebrating a […]

Italian progressive power metal band Noveria have released “The Viper’s Nest,” the second single from their upcoming fifth album, Becoming After, due on August 21 via Scarlet Records. Dark, aggressive and driven by themes of betrayal, resilience and revenge, “The Viper’s Nest” combines razor-sharp riffs, massive grooves and cinematic atmospheres. The song captures the moment […]

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Lithuanian progressive metal band BLACK SPIKES follows a dark path with the latest single from their upcoming album, Ydos (out August 28, 2026 via Napalm Records). ZELVAR portrays greed and thereby expands the record’s concept—an exploration of humanity’s vices. Featuring the only English lyrics on Ydos, the new song adds a special kind of accessibility […]

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania atmospheric metalcore quintet 156/Silence have released their latest offering, Swept From Under (Call of the Void) and the official music video. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming new full-length, From A Distance, out on September 4 via Pure Noise Records. Elaborating on the inspiration behind the track, the band shared: “The […]

NYC’s hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT have released the official video for Divided, taken from the band’s latest album Echoes in Eternity, released in 2025 via Reigning Phoenix Music. The music video arrives as AGNOSTIC FRONT prepare to embark on an epic summer tour across Europe. The second leg of their summer dates kicks off in […]

Album Review: Transformers – The Movie Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition

Reviewed by Rich Oliver

Forty years ago in 1986, The Transformers: The Movie was released following on from the successful animated TV series. Although not a success at the time, the animated movie has attained cult status in the intervening years and the cult status can also be pointed at the movie’s soundtrack. Very much a product of its time, the soundtrack mixed together songs by relatively unknown hard rock and heavy metal acts with synth driven soundtrack pieces done by the legendary Vince DiCola. It is the cult status of this soundtrack that sees it revisited forty years later bringing back some of the original artists together with a mix of metal artists who were influenced by or just simply adore the original soundtrack.

The re-recorded songs are performed by the band Knights Of Unicron which is made up of Matt Harvey, Ross Sewage and Gus Rios all of the deathgrind band Exhumed. This isn’t however an extreme metal reimagining of the soundtrack but a very faithful homage. Hard rock crooner Stan Bush returns to sing ‘The Touch’ and ‘Dare’ which he sang on the original soundtrack and Vince DiCola does a piano driven reimagining of the soundtrack piece ‘Death Of Optimus Prime’ but the rest of the tracks features a cornucopia of different singers from various metal bands. Francesco Cavalieri of Wind Rose does a grittier take of the mighty ‘Instruments Of Destruction’, the legendary Sebastian Bach formerly of Skid Row takes on ‘Nothin’s Gonna Stand In Our Way’, Brittney Slayes of Unleash The Archers unleashes a powerhouse version of ‘The Transformers (Theme)’ and Mark Osegueda of Death Angels does a furious rendition of ‘Hunger’. The other two soundtrack pieces on the album – ‘Escape’ and ‘Autobot/Decepticon Battle’ are given a metal makeover by Knights Of Unicron even bringing in some symphonic elements to the pieces.

“The Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition” is a fun and faithful homage to the 1986 soundtrack. Aside from a few minor differences from the original versions, it is maybe a bit too safe a re-recording but I don’t think it is meant to be anything other than a bunch of fans of the original soundtrack just having fun and performing this music they love. As a massive fan myself of the original soundtrack, this brought a massive smile to my face and knowing that there are guys from bands such as Exhumed, Death Angel, Unleash The Archers and Skid Row performing these legendary tunes is the cherry on the cake. This is a completely unessential but hugely fun reimagining of a cult soundtrack and if you are a fan of the original and a metalhead, this comes recommended.

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