The Hayley Williams Show is coming to a city near you. Currently, the Paramore musician is on her first-ever solo tour supporting her recent album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party. Today, she’s announcing dates for The Hayley Williams Show, which will showcase music from across the musician’s three solo albums. The press release also hints that there will be “some exciting surprises.”
COUCOU CHLOE started off the year with “Venom.” Now, the London-based artist has returned with “Candyland,” a hype-heavy and woozy nightmare of a single. The sound is terrifying, but so is the video: there’s clown masks, blurred out faces, and strobe-lighting that screams homemade slasher film than club. Self-produced and sonically unhinged, “Candyland” pushes COUCOU…
With the news of Alissa White-Gluz joining DragonForce, fans have gone wild on the internet with excitement, confusion for some, doubt for others, and generally high expectations for the new union. Here is a collection of some of our favorite reactions to the news from X.
I am personally fine with Alissa White-Gluz showing off her clean vocals on an Inhuman Rampage anniversary tour until Blue Medusa becomes a touring concern. As in, "Shut up and take my money Dragonforce" levels of fine.
Marc Hudsonの伸びのあるハイトーンと、Alissa White-Gluzのグロウルや重厚な表現力が合わさったら、今までのDragonForceにはなかった迫力が出そう。 特にサビのツインヴォーカルや、疾走パートでの掛け合いはかなり映えそうだと思う。 https://t.co/Ngq1eqQ6Ty
Alissa White Gluz is the new singer for Dragonforce, wtf is going on? I wonder if she’ll cover some old songs. I’d like to hear her version of Black Winter, Valley of the damned. Idk if she has the speed metal voice. 🧐 pic.twitter.com/a02a0jLCAQ
I wish being kinder to myself were something I could set an alarm for, something I could check off like a simple to-do list task. But it isn’t. It’s hard. It’s a process, something you work at slowly, tracking the progress the way you would work toward a personal best. Montréal-based artist Magi Merlin bottles…
Puerto Rican artist RaiNao has returned with her first single of the year. The sublime new track is called “GRIS.” Last year, RaiNao released a few singles, including “sofocón” and collabs “MiuMiu” and “Suerte.” She also featured on Bad Bunny’s DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS for the track “PERFuMITO NUEVO.” She hasn’t put out a larger project since…
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FALSE MESSIAH EXPANDS THE DARK CINEMATIC SAGA WITH “SHADOWS OF FAITH” AND NEW SINGLE “LAST SANCTUARY”
Fourth Single from Upcoming Album Seven — Out June 19 via Semetery Records
False Messiah returns with “ Last Sanctuary ,” the next chapter in their unfolding cinematic metal saga leading into the upcoming album Seven .
The world within Seven has already collapsed. Cities are hollow, systems are governed by surveillance and code, and humanity survives in scattered fragments. In this stage of the story, the “Seven” are no longer fighting the system. They are moving through it, unseen, carrying what remains.
“ Last Sanctuary ” shifts the focus from resistance to preservation. It is about what survives when everything else is gone: memory, breath, identity, and the fragile thread of continuity that refuses to die out.
At its core, the track explores a stark contrast. Code vs heartbeat. Control vs breath. System vs memory. While machines seek to track and erase, the sanctuary exists to protect what cannot be reduced or computed.
Musically, “ Last Sanctuary ” delivers a powerful blend of heavy guitar-driven foundations and soaring melodic intensity, wrapped in a cinematic and atmospheric soundscape. It draws influence from both classic and modern metal, while pushing the band’s signature storytelling even further.
This is not just another single. It is a signal from what remains.
Over the past fifteen years, multi-platinum Southern California outfit Young The Giant have flourished through distinct sonic eras, progressively solidifying themselves as one of the most consistent and influential rock bands of the 21st century. On their sixth full-length album and Fearless Records debut, Victory Garden (out now), Young the Giant reconnects with the core […]
YouTube has many dark sides, the comment section of every video for example, however, it’s also the undisputed launchpad for some of the best modern rock and metal acts. We are firmly in the fucking YouTube era, where skipping the sweaty, empty local club circuit in favor of uploading a well produced cover from your bedroom is actually a viable career strategy. Instead of waiting around for some label executive to notice them, these acts hijacked the algorithm, built massive audiences by putting heavy spins on established tracks, and then successfully bait and switched those viewers into listening to their own original anthems.
Here are six bands that mastered the pivot.
1. First to Eleven / Concrete Castles
Led by vocalist Audra Miller, First to Eleven figured out exactly how to game the system: take a massive pop song, inject it with heavy guitar riffs, and watch the subscriber count explode. But instead of being stuck as a human jukebox forever, they spun off an entirely new project called Concrete Castles. Now they drop original alt rock tracks that maintain the high-energy production of their covers without relying on someone else’s songwriting.
2. Against The Current
Before they were touring the world and collaborating with Riot Games for the League of Legends World Championship, Against The Current built their foundation on YouTube. Fronted by Chrissy Costanza, they initially exploded by dropping highly polished pop rock covers of everything from Bruno Mars to Kelly Clarkson, often collaborating with other huge creators. They leveraged that massive digital footprint to land a label deal with Fueled By Ramen, effortlessly transitioning their millions of cover hungry subscribers into a dedicated fanbase for their original pop punk and synth rock anthems.
3. Halocene
Halocene essentially built their own independent record label out of YouTube and Twitch. Fronted by Addie Nicole, they cranked out high quality covers and collaborated with every other rock creator on the platform. It wasn’t just for views; it was a calculated move to fund and push their own original hard rock and pop punk records, completely bypassing traditional industry gatekeepers in the process.
4. The Warning
The Villarreal sisters, Daniela, Paulina, and Alejandra, didn’t just go viral; they went viral as kids playing a surprisingly flawless cover of Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” Rather than peaking as a cute internet novelty, they used that massive early spotlight to fund their own studio releases. Now, they’re one of the hardest working original rock trios out there, proving that a viral cover can actually translate into global tours.
5. Sershen & Zaritskaya / NOAPOLOGY
Daria Zaritskaya and Sergey Sershen built their channel by giving 80s metal and classic rock a heavy, pristine facelift. Zaritskaya’s raw vocal power and their high fidelity production pulled in the audience, and they recently cashed in on that dedicated fanbase to launch NOAPOLOGY. It’s a modern metal project that takes the technical chops they proved on their covers and applies them straight into their own heavy material.
6. LILIAC
LILIAC marketed themselves as a vamp metal family band, building their initial momentum by playing Dio and Iron Maiden covers on the Santa Monica Pier and uploading the footage. They used the viral traction of playing classic heavy metal to pivot into their own original studio albums, proving that if you give metalheads a solid cover of a classic, they might just stick around to hear what you write yourself.
Over the past fifteen years, multi-platinum Southern California outfit Young The Giant have flourished through distinct sonic eras, progressively solidifying themselves as one of the most consistent and influential rock bands of the 21st century. On their sixth full-length album and Fearless Records debut, Victory Garden (out now), Young the Giant reconnects with the core […]