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Slipknot confirm Sid Wilson’s departure in deleted social media post
The brief message said Wilson is “no longer” associated with the band -
NH Albums of the Summer ’26
Hi folks. In case you didn’t notice, we took June and July off of our usual monthly roundup series. We did review a few things (No Cure, Fuming Mouth, Nothingness) and we’d highly recommend you check those albums out if you haven’t yet. But in the meantime a bunch of great shit has come out, and so we’ve rounded up a bevy of summer buttkickers that you might have missed. No time to waste, let’s get to it.
Lammoth – Onward
Atmospheric blackgaze/chiptune from the US
This album makes me smile in a way that few albums do these days. An ode to the most dependable yet unsung and overlooked member of Tolkien’s fellowship, Bill the pony, Onward’s charm is evident as soon as you clap eyes on the cozy cover art. The music, though? It’s the real allure, like a warm black metal hug. A dreamy, sentimental blend of atmospheric blackgaze, warm synth, and electronic elements that will charm the socks right off of you. Achingly wistful lines soar, hazy walls of reverbed progressions wash, cutesy little bursts of chiptune bubble over. I found it astonishingly moving; sole member Robert Sanford has captured the sweetness, the unspoken connection, the melancholy and yearning that our animals can bring to our lives through theirs. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
– Kep
Vulgarity – Beckoned Beyond
Metalcore from the US
Possibly the nastiest, gnarliest and maybe even just best metalcore album I’ve heard this year, Beckoned Beyond rips from the word go and doesn’t really stop for the duration of its scorching 27-minute runtime. It leans heavy on the death and black metal influences and comes with riffs for days on top of the expected and generous helping of mosh. Feels like it could’ve come out of Belgium circa 1999 or be playing in the background of one of those medieval paintings of the end of the world. It sustains itself really well too, with a menacing little breather at the end of the first half, a couple of massive highlights in “Futile Divinations” and “Malice Calculation” in the second, and a reflective moody acoustic moment saved for the very end.
– Ellis
Snorlax – Toxic Current
Blackened death metal from Australia
I’m a well-established Brendan Auld fanboy and there’s plenty of evidence of that fact. Snorlax has always been my favorite of his projects, filthy solo blackened death that feeds my grimy little soul. That being said, I thought 2023’s The Necrotrophic Abyss was weaker than the 2020 debut II, so you can imagine how glad I was to find that Toxic Current is an absolute rager. This record oscillates between inescapable mires of utter blasting vileness and groove-drenched mountains of riff and bone. It’s well-balanced compositionally, immaculately mixed, and remarkably tight from a songwriting standpoint, clocking in at 31 minutes across 12 breathtakingly packed tracks. Eyes on the horizon for the upcoming Descent record, which is sure to fuck just as hard.
– Kep
Quicksand – Bring on the Psychics
Post-hardcore from the US
Yo does Quicksand just become everyone who likes hardcore’s favourite band eventually? Think I’m on that arc for sure right now and like pretty much everyone else I agree that their post-reunion stuff (which now outnumbers their classic original run) is literally all great. Bring on the Psychics might well be the band’s tightest album to date; it’s a little shorter than 2021’s Distant Populations for starters, but also feels very firmly in touch with the band’s OG hardcore sensibilities, which, of course, have never really been in doubt. I found it interesting that how in listening to this record I could hear perhaps more clearly than ever the way this band’s classic efforts must surely have influenced some of the biggest and best in hardcore today like Higher Power and Turnstile. All bangers from Schreifels and co.— shock!
– Ellis
Cadaver Putrefacto – Eterno sepulcro
Death metal from Argentina
Do you desire the sort of old school death metal that unabashedly worships the bands you love but does it well enough to not pale in comparison? Argentina’s Cadaver Putrefacto are here for you. Here on their third album they deliver a damn impressive collection of pulverizing riffs and roars, with the influence of Cannibal Corpse being the most obvious: “Frenética evisceración” in particular could all but pass as Corpsegrinder and crew’s work. The tracklist is pure gold too; death metal is the only language you have to know to understand that tracks like “Los ojos del decapitado” and “Grotesca abducción” are gonna be fucking old school rippers. Simply put, it’s a beast of an album that will satisfy any OSDM fan, and that’s a statement I’ll guarantee.
– Kep
Apostle – A Splinter in the Infinite Noumenon
Avant-garde black metal from the US
Apostle, out of Atlanta, aren’t in the Metal Archives—a wild thing to be sure, because they’ve been releasing music since 2018 that’s unquestionably metal—but don’t let that make you think they’re not worth hearing. This album is cacophonous and overwhelmingly dense at times, dissonant black windstorms and chaotically swirling noise, but at others it’s unexpectedly melodic and haunting, and it can be crushingly heavy too. It strikes that delightful balance between visceral, cathartic, and cerebral; nothing feels less than carefully crafted, but it’s all claustrophobic and horrific, vortices of pure cleansing fire. Frankly, I’m baffled that I hadn’t come across this band before (this is their fifth! album) and I’m surprised this record hasn’t gotten more buzz. Listen to it!
– Kep
Current Solace – With Love Comes Loss
Metalcore from the US
Yeah ngl this one feels like it was made for me. Overt and unapologetic but not obnoxious Christian metalcore that sounds like it could’ve come out sometime in the mid-00s. Think Misery Signals or peak Underoath or more recently I Promised the World—all angel statues and crucifixes and sepia and dudes in black t-shirts synchronised headbanging in the middle of nowhere, all in 240p of course. As a Christian I resonate strongly with the lyrics and even just some of the track titles, but I imagine almost anyone could find something to connect with in its themes of grief and redemption and a search for meaning, and if I’m wrong just wait till they drop a breakdown or launch into one of those tear-stained clean vocal parts and tell me it doesn’t hit for you.
– Ellis
Into Darkness – Route to the Other Side
Death metal from Italy
Goddamn does some relentless, astonished harsh-toned death metal riffage just hit the spot sometimes. Italy’s Into Darkness, who recorded this album as a three-piece, play cosmic death metal in the literal sense, which means that they play highly aggressive, prog-tinged death metal in the old school style while screaming literal facts about space and planets and shit like that. The lyrics aren’t particularly decipherable in real time, but their delivery is: the guitars are saw-toothed and MEAN, the riffs are appropriately serpentine at times and satisfyingly direct at others, while vocalist (and guitarist and bassist) Doomed Warrior shreds her larynx to bits in a powerful turn. It’s really great stuff all around, and if you like OSDM that isn’t afraid to engage your brain then you’ll want to check it out. This is the band’s debut LP, too, so hopefully there will be plenty more stuff to come.
– Kep
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NH Albums of the Summer ’26
Hi folks. In case you didn’t notice, we took June and July off of our usual monthly roundup series. We did review a few things (No Cure, Fuming Mouth, Nothingness) and we’d highly recommend you check those albums out if you haven’t yet. But in the meantime a bunch of great shit has come out, and so we’ve rounded up a bevy of summer buttkickers that you might have missed. No time to waste, let’s get to it.
Lammoth – Onward
Atmospheric blackgaze/chiptune from the US
This album makes me smile in a way that few albums do these days. An ode to the most dependable yet unsung and overlooked member of Tolkien’s fellowship, Bill the pony, Onward’s charm is evident as soon as you clap eyes on the cozy cover art. The music, though? It’s the real allure, like a warm black metal hug. A dreamy, sentimental blend of atmospheric blackgaze, warm synth, and electronic elements that will charm the socks right off of you. Achingly wistful lines soar, hazy walls of reverbed progressions wash, cutesy little bursts of chiptune bubble over. I found it astonishingly moving; sole member Robert Sanford has captured the sweetness, the unspoken connection, the melancholy and yearning that our animals can bring to our lives through theirs. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
– Kep
Vulgarity – Beckoned Beyond
Metalcore from the US
Possibly the nastiest, gnarliest and maybe even just best metalcore album I’ve heard this year, Beckoned Beyond rips from the word go and doesn’t really stop for the duration of its scorching 27-minute runtime. It leans heavy on the death and black metal influences and comes with riffs for days on top of the expected and generous helping of mosh. Feels like it could’ve come out of Belgium circa 1999 or be playing in the background of one of those medieval paintings of the end of the world. It sustains itself really well too, with a menacing little breather at the end of the first half, a couple of massive highlights in “Futile Divinations” and “Malice Calculation” in the second, and a reflective moody acoustic moment saved for the very end.
– Ellis
Snorlax – Toxic Current
Blackened death metal from Australia
I’m a well-established Brendan Auld fanboy and there’s plenty of evidence of that fact. Snorlax has always been my favorite of his projects, filthy solo blackened death that feeds my grimy little soul. That being said, I thought 2023’s The Necrotrophic Abyss was weaker than the 2020 debut II, so you can imagine how glad I was to find that Toxic Current is an absolute rager. This record oscillates between inescapable mires of utter blasting vileness and groove-drenched mountains of riff and bone. It’s well-balanced compositionally, immaculately mixed, and remarkably tight from a songwriting standpoint, clocking in at 31 minutes across 12 breathtakingly packed tracks. Eyes on the horizon for the upcoming Descent record, which is sure to fuck just as hard.
– Kep
Quicksand – Bring on the Psychics
Post-hardcore from the US
Yo does Quicksand just become everyone who likes hardcore’s favourite band eventually? Think I’m on that arc for sure right now and like pretty much everyone else I agree that their post-reunion stuff (which now outnumbers their classic original run) is literally all great. Bring on the Psychics might well be the band’s tightest album to date; it’s a little shorter than 2021’s Distant Populations for starters, but also feels very firmly in touch with the band’s OG hardcore sensibilities, which, of course, have never really been in doubt. I found it interesting that how in listening to this record I could hear perhaps more clearly than ever the way this band’s classic efforts must surely have influenced some of the biggest and best in hardcore today like Higher Power and Turnstile. All bangers from Schreifels and co.— shock!
– Ellis
Cadaver Putrefacto – Eterno sepulcro
Death metal from Argentina
Do you desire the sort of old school death metal that unabashedly worships the bands you love but does it well enough to not pale in comparison? Argentina’s Cadaver Putrefacto are here for you. Here on their third album they deliver a damn impressive collection of pulverizing riffs and roars, with the influence of Cannibal Corpse being the most obvious: “Frenética evisceración” in particular could all but pass as Corpsegrinder and crew’s work. The tracklist is pure gold too; death metal is the only language you have to know to understand that tracks like “Los ojos del decapitado” and “Grotesca abducción” are gonna be fucking old school rippers. Simply put, it’s a beast of an album that will satisfy any OSDM fan, and that’s a statement I’ll guarantee.
– Kep
Apostle – A Splinter in the Infinite Noumenon
Avant-garde black metal from the US
Apostle, out of Atlanta, aren’t in the Metal Archives—a wild thing to be sure, because they’ve been releasing music since 2018 that’s unquestionably metal—but don’t let that make you think they’re not worth hearing. This album is cacophonous and overwhelmingly dense at times, dissonant black windstorms and chaotically swirling noise, but at others it’s unexpectedly melodic and haunting, and it can be crushingly heavy too. It strikes that delightful balance between visceral, cathartic, and cerebral; nothing feels less than carefully crafted, but it’s all claustrophobic and horrific, vortices of pure cleansing fire. Frankly, I’m baffled that I hadn’t come across this band before (this is their fifth! album) and I’m surprised this record hasn’t gotten more buzz. Listen to it!
– Kep
Current Solace – With Love Comes Loss
Metalcore from the US
Yeah ngl this one feels like it was made for me. Overt and unapologetic but not obnoxious Christian metalcore that sounds like it could’ve come out sometime in the mid-00s. Think Misery Signals or peak Underoath or more recently I Promised the World—all angel statues and crucifixes and sepia and dudes in black t-shirts synchronised headbanging in the middle of nowhere, all in 240p of course. As a Christian I resonate strongly with the lyrics and even just some of the track titles, but I imagine almost anyone could find something to connect with in its themes of grief and redemption and a search for meaning, and if I’m wrong just wait till they drop a breakdown or launch into one of those tear-stained clean vocal parts and tell me it doesn’t hit for you.
– Ellis
Into Darkness – Route to the Other Side
Death metal from Italy
Goddamn does some relentless, astonished harsh-toned death metal riffage just hit the spot sometimes. Italy’s Into Darkness, who recorded this album as a three-piece, play cosmic death metal in the literal sense, which means that they play highly aggressive, prog-tinged death metal in the old school style while screaming literal facts about space and planets and shit like that. The lyrics aren’t particularly decipherable in real time, but their delivery is: the guitars are saw-toothed and MEAN, the riffs are appropriately serpentine at times and satisfyingly direct at others, while vocalist (and guitarist and bassist) Doomed Warrior shreds her larynx to bits in a powerful turn. It’s really great stuff all around, and if you like OSDM that isn’t afraid to engage your brain then you’ll want to check it out. This is the band’s debut LP, too, so hopefully there will be plenty more stuff to come.
– Kep
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Angine de Poitrine’s “Fabienk” gets new remix from Deadmau5
The remix arrives as the duo continues their sold-out U.S. tour -
Slipknot Just Announced And Then Deleted A Post Confirming The Firing Of Sid Wilson
It would seem the rumors were true.
The post Slipknot Just Announced And Then Deleted A Post Confirming The Firing Of Sid Wilson appeared first on Theprp.com.
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Night Ranger release remastered “When You Close Your Eyes (2026)”
Taken from the band’s upcoming ‘Best Of’ album, due out August 28 via Frontiers Music Srl -
Slipknot Officially Confirm Split With Sid Wilson in Statement
Slipknot have formally issued a statement on their split with longtime member Sid Wilson after rumors spread in late July. Continue reading… -
NICKELBACK Announces First Virgin Music Group Release With Explosive Behind-The-Scenes Footage For “Rattle The Cage”
Nickelback just pulled back the curtain, sharing behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the music video for “Rattle The Cage,” the lead single off the band’s upcoming album, Everything Under The Sun. The record drops Oct. 30, 2026 through Virgin Music Group. With a guest spot from John 5, “Rattle The Cage” gives fans their first real glimpse of where the band is headed next.
Everything Under The Sun marks Nickelback‘s first new album since 2022’s Get Rollin’, and it lands at a point where the band’s momentum is arguably as strong as it’s been in years. Coming off the acclaimed documentary Hate To Love: Nickelback and the Get Rollin’ world tour, which stands as the fastest-selling and highest-attended run of the band’s career, Nickelback keeps stacking wins onto an already massive legacy.
The title fits. Everything Under The Sun runs through the full range of what’s made Nickelback one of rock’s biggest bands, mixing arena-sized anthems with more reflective songwriting, sticky melodies, big guitars and the chemistry the band has carried for over three decades.
“Rattle The Cage” leads the charge as the album’s explosive opening statement. Heavy, fast and loud, the track bottles up the energy that fills the room every night when Nickelback takes the stage in front of packed arenas. Pounding riffs and big hooks drive it forward, capturing exactly the kind of communal chaos the band’s live shows are known for.
“This album has every side of the band on it,” says frontman Chad Kroeger. “There are songs that hit as hard as anything we’ve ever done, songs that take chances, and songs that remind us why we’ve been doing this together for so long. ‘Rattle The Cage’ felt like the perfect way to kick the door open, it has the energy we’ve been feeding off every night on stage, and we can’t wait for people to hear it.”
Nickelback got its start in Hanna, Alberta, and has since become one of the defining rock bands of the 21st century. Ever since Silver Side Up and its breakout hit “How You Remind Me” put the band on the map globally, Nickelback has racked up Grammy Award nominations, American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, JUNO Awards, and international recognition.
Nearly 60 million albums sold, billions of streams and more than 50 million monthly listeners later, Nickelbackremains one of the most-streamed and commercially successful rock bands on the planet. The band’s catalog keeps finding new fans through streaming while still packing arenas with longtime followers.
That reach only grew over the past few years. The Netflix documentary Hate To Love: Nickelback turned into a genuine phenomenon, spending weeks on the platform’s Global Top 10 and giving fans a rare inside look at the band’s history. Around the same time, the Get Rollin’ world tour broke attendance records and cemented Nickelback‘s standing as one of rock’s top live draws.
Everything Under The Sun builds directly on that momentum while pushing the band forward. It stands as both a victory lap and proof that Nickelback‘s creative engine hasn’t slowed down.
The album also marks Nickelback‘s first release under Virgin Music Group, which bills itself as the world’s leading partner for independent labels, artists and entrepreneurs. Virgin Music Group president of North America, Jacqueline Saturn, weighed in on the new partnership: “Nickelback have built one of the most remarkable careers in music, and it’s a huge honor for everyone at Virgin Music Group to work alongside a band with such an enduring legacy and global impact. We’re thrilled to partner with them as they begin this exciting new chapter and can’t wait for fans to experience ‘Everything Under The Sun’.”
More than 30 years in, Nickelback keeps finding ways to grow while holding onto the sound that built its name in the first place. Everything Under The Sun makes the case that the band’s story is far from finished.
Everything Under The Sun is available to pre-order here.
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Slipknot Confirm Sid Wilson Fired After 28 Years
Slipknot have finally confirmed turntablist #0 is out of the band after 28 years. Two weeks ago, TMZ reported that the metal group’s original DJ, Sid Wilson, was notified that he’d been “permanently kicked out.” Now the pink slip appears official.
The post Slipknot Confirm Sid Wilson Fired After 28 Years appeared first on Stereogum.