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The CD version will feature an exclusive bonus track.

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A few years ago, we learned that Madison Square Garden was using facial recognition technology to kick out legal adversaries. Now, it looks like the famous New York arena is also using it for other, more dubious purposes. Who could’ve guessed this would happen! The news comes from Wired, who reported back in April that the security staff for Knicks owner Jim Dolan allegedly tracked a trans woman’s movements with the surveillance technology, monitoring her over a two-year period. Now, a new report says the technology also flags LGBTQIA celebrities.

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This is the third album from French black metal band Mourir. Following on from 2020’s Animal Bouffe Animal and 2022’s Disgrâce, Nous, le Venin contains 41 minutes of new, ferociously grim material from Mourir. If you haven’t encountered Mourir before, then steel yourself before entering their threatening world. Stylistically Mourir take influences old and new into their … Continue reading “Mourir – Nous, le Venin (Review)”

Amazon Music has announced it will exclusively livestream the return of the Vans Warped Tour, broadcasting globally from the festival’s Long Beach, California stop at the Shoreline Waterfront on Saturday, July 25 and Sunday, July 26. Fans can tune in via the Amazon Music app, the Amazon Music channels on Twitch and Prime Video, and the Amazon Live channel on Fire TV and Samsung TV Plus.

The livestream will feature performances from a lineup spanning punk, alternative, emo, hardcore, ska and rock, including Bowling for Soup, Glassjaw, Hawthorne Heights, Hoobastank, Reel Big Fish, Silverstein, Simple Plan, The Story So Far, Underoath and many more. From an exclusive Amazon Music backstage set, the broadcast will be hosted by rock musician and media personality Lilith Czar (a.k.a. Juliet Simms), SiriusXM host Caity Babs and Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides, who will interview artists and preview performances throughout the weekend.

Produced in partnership with Insomniac, the two-day festival will present over 100 artists across rock, pop punk, alternative, emo, hip-hop, ska and beyond, alongside appearances from world-class skateboarders and elite action-sports athletes. The 2026 edition builds on the tour’s established legacy while embracing a broader, more global future for one of music and skate culture’s most enduring live platforms.

Originally conceived by founder Kevin Lyman in 1995 as an eclectic alternative rock festival with a focus on punk, the Vans Warped Tour grew to become the largest traveling music festival in the United States and the longest-running touring festival in North America. Over its 30-year history it served as a platform for established and emerging artists alike, with past performers including Blink-182, No Doubt, Sublime, Beck, Katy Perry, NOFX, Limp Bizkit, Black Eyed Peas, Green Day and many others, before the touring edition came to a close in 2019. An official 2026 Vans Warped Tour playlist is available now on Amazon Music.

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This is the debut album from US hardcore band No Cure. No Cure play a merciless form of metallic hardcore, laced with elements of death metal that provide extra kick. On It Is Going to Get Dark the band spend 34 minutes showing exactly what they can do, delivering a collection of energetic bruisers that … Continue reading “No Cure – It Is Going to Get Dark (Review)”

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Atlanta progressive metallers Mastodon have shared a 35-minute video in which they reflect on their relationship with co-founding guitarist/vocalist Brent Hinds, who departed the band in March 2025 and passed away in a motorcycle accident five months later. The video arrives as Mastodon emerges from a European summer run and prepares to continue as a three-piece with touring guitarist Nick Johnston.

In a statement accompanying the video, the band wrote: “Hello Everyone. We just wrapped up Europe and every country we hit showed up and gave us everything! Truly a summer we’ll never forget! We can’t thank you enough for rockin’ with us! As we enter a new chapter of Mastodon, we want to do this the right way and talk about Brent. We’ve all seen the clips, headlines, and speculations, but we haven’t told our story in our own words about our 25-year relationship.”

“It isn’t easy to talk about Brent; he was our family, someone we all loved wholeheartedly. He was a wild man, our wild man, and that came with some challenges. Both things are true, and we aren’t interested in chasing one truth over the other. Losing him has meant sitting with a type of grief we never expected. No more hugs, no more high fives, no more disagreements, no more making up. That part has been hard; it’s real. We put this conversation out there so you can hear it directly from us; you all deserve that. Thank you for the past 25 years of showing up for us and Brent.”

Hinds was reportedly riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle on August 20, 2025, when he was struck by an SUV turning left and failing to yield at the intersection of Memorial Drive SE and Boulevard SE in Atlanta. He was found unresponsive by officers who responded to the crash around 11:35 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene. A crash report later determined that Hinds was at fault, with investigators calculating his speed at between 63 and 68 mph — approximately twice the posted limit — based on video of the intersection.

In March 2025, Mastodon revealed that the band and Hinds had “mutually decided to part ways” after “25 monumental years together.” Hinds later claimed he had been ejected from the band and called his former bandmates “horrible humans” in a social media post. Since 2000, Hinds had served as lead guitarist and vocalist alongside bassist/singer Troy Sanders, drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher. The band’s lineup had remained unchanged for 25 years, spanning eight studio albums from 2002’s Remission through 2021’s Hushed and Grim.

Hinds was involved with several projects outside of Mastodon, including Giraffe Tongue Orchestra — alongside members of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Alice in Chains — as well as Legend of the Seagullmen and the long-running project Fiend Without a Face. He had a solo European tour scheduled for November and December 2025, billed as “An Evening With Brent Hinds.”

Canadian guitarist Nick Johnston, who has six solo records and has worked with Polyphia, Guthrie Govan and Periphery, stepped in for Hinds for the band’s spring 2025 tour and will reportedly appear on Mastodon’s upcoming ninth studio album. Last month, the band released the new song “Your Ghost Again” — produced by Patrik Berger (Taylor Swift, Robyn) and Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou — as the first single from the forthcoming LP, describing it as a tribute to Hinds. The album is due later this year.

Mastodon has placed nine albums on the Billboard 200 and earned six Grammy Award nominations, winning Best Metal Performance for “Sultan’s Curse” in 2018.

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Sentient Ruin has announced the debut release from Southern California-based one-man project Horns of Abomination. The project will unleash its first-ever self-titled demo tape on July 24, 2026, available worldwide digitally and as a limited-edition cassette. A first glimpse into the release has premiered exclusively via No Clean Singing, which debuted the demo’s self-titled opening […]

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Long-running German thrash outfit EXUMER will release their new full-length, Death Mask Messiah, on August 28th through Metal Blade Records. Death Mask Messiah, which marks the band’s first new studio output in seven years, further cements EXUMER‘s legacy as a dauntless thrash metal institution. A logical and compelling progression from the German legend’s three previous albums, the 11 ferocious […]

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