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The hallowed ground that is the Edinburgh Corn Exchange got blessed by the presence of genre-bending rock artists Don Broco and their entourage of support acts, consisting of American hip-hop and prog-rock artist Ando San and British alternative rock band Unpeople. The Corn Exchange in Edinburgh has hosted plenty of massive live spectacles over the … Continue reading Gig Review: Don Broco / Unpeople / Ando San – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh (1st October 2026)

The long-awaited Scorpions biopic, Wind Of Change, will open in German theaters on January 28, 2027. No release dates have been announced for the rest of the world.

A fresh official trailer is available below. Production began in early 2025 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in London.

Dominic West (The Crown), Alexander Dreymon (The Last Kingdom), Ludwig Trepte (Generation War), Ed Speleers (You), David Kross (The Reader) and Luke Brandon Field (Interview With The Vampire, Jojo Rabbit) fill the lead roles. Alex Ranarivelo directed, and ESX Entertainment produced for FOX Entertainment Studios in association with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.

The film follows the longest-running and most successful lineup of Scorpions. Dreymon plays guitarist Rudolf Schenker, Trepte is Klaus Meine, Speleers takes on Matthias Jabs and Field handles drummer Herman Rarebell. The story centers on a band bound by a love of music that hoped to nudge the world toward change with heavy riffs and meaningful lyrics. Anchoring it all is the anthem “Wind Of Change,” which became the soundtrack to the end of the Cold War and a symbol of hope, peace and unity. With songs ranging from “Rock You Like A Hurricane” to “Still Loving You,” Scorpions helped close the gap between East and West. West portrays Doc McGhee, the band’s famed manager, while Kross plays Andrej, a friend of the band stuck on the other side of the Berlin Wall.

“It’s been an unbelievable journey developing this film and bringing it to life feels surreal,” says Ali Afshar, founder and president of ESX Entertainment. “Not only did the Scorpions‘ music help me get through tremendous difficulties as an Iranian immigrant in America in the early ’80s, but their message of love, peace and rock ‘n’ roll seems more relevant today than ever. This cast is an amazing ensemble of truly great talent. I can’t thank FOX Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment enough for their support and especially the band — Rudolf, Klaus and Matthias — for believing in us and trusting us to tell their life story.”

Scorpions has stayed relevant for more than five decades and has sold 110 million albums worldwide, making it one of Germany’s most successful musical exports. Hits like “Rock You Like A Hurricane” and “Wind Of Change” are still going strong, with the latter passing one billion streams. The band remains a regular on rock radio and streaming playlists and continues to tour the globe.

Afshar, Christina Moore and Daniel Aspromonte of ESX Entertainment produced Wind Of Change for FOX Entertainment Studios in association with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Mark Andrews wrote the script. FOX Entertainment Global holds worldwide distribution rights, minus U.S. and global transactional rights, which Warner Bros. Discovery Global Content Sales is overseeing.

ESX Entertainment operates from the Warner Bros. lot and has put out more than two dozen films since 2017. Its titles have landed in theaters and on HBO Max, Netflix, and Amazon, with several hitting No. 1 on those platforms.

Scorpions wrote “Wind Of Change” after playing the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival in Moscow, where the band shared a bill with hard rock acts like Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe. The inspiration came from seeing thousands of Russians cheer for a German band, first in 1988, when it became the first hard rock act to play in Russia, and again at the 1989 festival.

When the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989, the song became the soundtrack to images of East Germans walking through the Brandenburg Gate into the West for the first time.

In May 2020, an eight-part Spotify podcast also titled Wind Of Change floated a theory that the CIA had written the song as late Cold War propaganda. New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe hosted the series and said he started digging after a friend who once worked for the CIA passed along a secondhand story that the agency had written the song to encourage change throughout the Soviet Union.

Schenker is the only continuous member of Scorpions, although Meine has appeared on every studio album. Jabs has been aboard since 1978, while bassist Paweł Mąciwoda joined in 2003 and drummer Mikkey Dee in 2016.

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Rammstein has released the official performance video for “Sonne,” pulled from the upcoming concert film Rammstein – Live In Mexico City. The clip is available below.

The footage comes from 2022, the year the band finally brought its full stadium production to North America for the first and only time. Seven 747s and close to 210 crew members carried the pyro-heavy spectacle overseas for 12 open-air shows. The run started Aug. 21 in Montreal, torched seven U.S. stadiums along the way and wrapped with three nights at Mexico City’s 65,000-capacity Foro Sol on Oct. 1, 2 and 4.

Rammstein – Live In Mexico City captures those three nights, which drew nearly 200,000 fans, and serves as a record of the broader 2019 to 2024 stadium tour that packed football fields around the globe. Shot in 4K, the feature-length film puts the band’s trademark fire and adrenaline on the big screen. The setlist spans the catalog, with “Armee Der Tristen,” “Deutschland,” “Du Riechst So Gut,” “Sonne,” “Du Hast,” a rare “Te Quiero Puta!” and plenty more.

Paul Dugdale directed the film. His résumé includes projects with The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Elton John and Adele. Rammstein – Live In Mexico City opens in cinemas worldwide Nov. 4 for a limited run, and a live album follows on physical and digital formats Nov. 20.

Screening updates and sign-ups are available here.

Trafalgar Releasing is handling worldwide distribution, with the exception of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige and Luxembourg, where Filmwelt Distribution has the job. Nov. 4 is the release date in every market except two. France gets the film on Nov. 6 only, and Japan will see it on Nov. 5 and 18. Check the film’s website for further details.

The 2019 to 2024 tour lined up with the band’s seventh and eighth studio albums. The first was an untitled 2019 release that topped 14 international charts, including a U.S. Top 10 placement. The second was Zeit, which landed April 29, 2022, almost exactly three years after its predecessor.

Rammstein has spent more than 30 years in business and has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, along with a long list of high-octane tours. The Berlin sextet has kept the same lineup since forming in 1994: Till Lindemann on vocals, Paul Landers and Richard Z. Kruspe on guitar, Flake on keyboards, Oliver Riedel on bass and Christoph Schneider on drums. The band’s debut, Herzeleid, followed in 1995. Sehnsucht arrived in 1997 and made Rammsteinan international name, thanks partly to the Grammy-nominated single “Du Hast.” Mutter came out in 2001 and was supported by what became the band’s last U.S. tour for nearly a decade. Reise, Reise followed in 2004, preceded by the Grammy-nominated single “Mein Teil,” and Rosenrot came out in 2005.

The sixth album, Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, landed in 2009 and was the first since Mutter to bring North American touring along with it. On Dec. 11, 2010, Rammstein played its first U.S. show in 10 years, a one-off headline gig at Madison Square Garden in New York City that sold out in under 20 minutes. Extensive North American tours in 2011 and 2012 followed, and the band made its U.S. network television debut by performing “Du Hast” and “Feuer Frei!” on Jimmy Kimmel Live! On May 17, 2019, the untitled album arrived and gave Rammstein its first U.S. Top 10 appearance, peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard 200.

Trafalgar Releasing is a global leader in event cinema, using the big screen to gather fans in more than 15,000 cinemas across 132 countries. The company is a subsidiary of Trafalgar Entertainment and runs an international team covering production, acquisition, marketing and distribution of live and pre-recorded content. Its slate includes concerts, music documentaries, opera and theater from names like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, BTS, Metallica, Oasis, Coldplay, Billie Eilish and the Royal Opera House. Its most recent record-setter was international distribution of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, the highest-grossing concert film ever.

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Live Review: Anciients – The Deaf Institute, Manchester

3rd October 2026
Support: Thunder Horse
Words: Matthew Williams

A Saturday night out in Manchester was a great way to start the month of October, as I headed to The Deaf Institute to watch Canadian metallers Anciients. This was their first visit to the city, and a decent sized crowd had assembled in The Lodge section of the venue. 

However, before them we had the bonus of Texan rifflords Thunder Horse, who were in the UK touring separately. I interviewed frontman Steven Bishop three years ago when I first saw them down the road at Grand Central, and with their trademark slow, broody sound, they kick off with a new track called “Lost in Dust” which has a lovely bluesy style guitar from Bishop and Todd Connally. They rip into “New Normal”as the venomous three word sections from the singer punctuates the music before heads start moving when they play “Demon Speaks”.

With a hefty sound coming from the twelve string bass of Dave Crow, they play one of my favourite songs next, the epic “Let Them Bleed” which is flooded with great solos and the crowd hold up their phones and have a bit of a lightshow. We get a bit of double bass action from drummer Jason West during the raw and punchy “Chosen One” alongside more relaxed solos from Connally, ahead of another new song called “Drag Me Down” which is slow and weighty but gets heavier as it continues. “Thank you, Manchester,” says a smiling frontman as they play another classic song, the mighty and monstrous “Monolith” which wraps up their excellent set. 

Vancouver’s favourite sons Anciients were fairly new to me, but as the intro tape plays, the quartet walk through the crowd to get on stage and kick off their set with “Forbidden Sanctuary”. Vocalist/guitarist Kenny Cook urges us to make this “a night to remember” and they play their part in that with a storming set. The tempo changes combine with his vocal range, heads are banging instantly and it’s a big opening song, setting a high bar, but they go heavier next with “The Torch”.

The solos are flying from Cook and Brock MacInnes, as the complexity of the compositions are laid out before us in sections, with bassist Rory O`Brien and drummer Mike Hannay laying down the foundations of the rhythm. “Following the Voice” exposes the progressive nature of their emotional and moving songs whereas “Melt the Crown” feels cold and moody at the start yet sways gently with the rhythm before the heaviness kicks back in. The growling vocals are gargantuan, even with my ear plugs firmly in place, and the band has their hair flailing all over the place during the dark and destructive “Despoiled”.

A few times during one of the songs, certain sections of the drums reminded me of Alice In Chains, but with the last song approaching, Cook informs us that “this is our first time in Manchester” and thanks us, Thunder Horse and the sound lady for tonight. They end with “Buried in Sand” which has a primeval menacing quality to the tone, but what they do oh so well, is build the track up bit by bit with controlled solos. It takes your brain on an adventure, and gets progressively heavier to leave you, metaphorically speaking, battered and bruised, but what a way to end the night, as the crowd leave the venue with smiles on their faces after a great night of music.

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Co-written with Dave Erickson, the book looks back on Billy’s life and career

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There is something undeniably electric about stepping into Camden’s iconic Electric Ballroom when a tour of this calibre rolls into town. Marking the London stop of their colossal Angel Europe Tour, German tech-metal visionaries Unprocessed brought along a stacked bill that turned an ordinary Friday night into an absolute masterclass in modern heavy music. Kicking … Continue reading Gig Review: Unprocessed / Of Virtue / Daedric – Electric Ballroom, London (2nd October 2026)

Doechii, Phoebe Bridgers & Fontaines D.C. are among the headliners.

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Out November 9 via Fearless Records

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The band will perform five shows at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino

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Jose Mangin, Brian Posehn and more will be involved.

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