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Nickelback are back with a new single, “Rattle the Cage,” and news that their eleventh studio album, “Everything Under the Sun,” arrives October 30. The song features a guest guitar cameo from Mötley Crüe’s John 5, and marks the band’s first new music since 2022’s “Get Rollin’.”

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‘Rattle The Cage’ Introduces Nickelback’s Next Era

“Rattle the Cage” is a straightforward statement of intent — thunderous drumming from Daniel Adair, gritty guitar work, and Chad Kroeger’s unmistakable rasp driving a chorus built around the line “rattle the cage until it falls.” Kroeger described the track as a mission statement for the album’s whole approach: “This album has every side of the band on it.

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.” On the single specifically, he added: “Rattle The Cage felt like the perfect way to kick the door open. It has the energy we’ve been feeding off every night onstage and we can’t wait for people to hear it.”

John 5’s Nickelback Cameo Isn’t As Random As It Looks

A Mötley Crüe guitarist showing up on a Nickelback single might look like an odd pairing at first glance, but John 5 has built a career on exactly this kind of guest spot. Beyond his day job — he’s been Mötley Crüe’s guitarist since stepping in for Mick Mars in 2022 and becoming a full member the following year — John 5 has racked up an almost absurd list of recent collaborations, including guitar work for Dolly Parton, Sebastian Bach, Tommy Lee’s solo project, and the late Peter Criss.

Add in his prior decades-long runs with Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie, plus his own catalog of eleven instrumental solo albums, and “Rattle the Cage” is really just the latest entry in one of the busiest guest-guitarist résumés in rock right now.

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‘Everything Under the Sun’ — What We Know

Nickelback’s eleventh album follows 2022’s “Get Rollin’,” which — worth noting for context the band’s critics tend to skip — still debuted at No. 2 across Current Rock, Alternative, Hard Music, and Digital Album charts, hit the UK Top 10, and topped the chart outright in Switzerland. “Everything Under the Sun” arrives via Virgin Music Group, a shift from “Get Rollin’”‘s home at BMG — worth watching as the album cycle develops. The 12-track record is led by “Rattle the Cage” and includes songs titled “Bones for the Crows,” “Chasin’ Famous,” and “Technicolor Steamboat.” Pre-orders are live now, with the album due October 30.

“Everything Under the Sun” track listing:

1. “Rattle the Cage” (with John 5)
2. “Bones for the Crows”
3. “I Already Know”
4. “Leave Me Behind”
5. “If I Don’t Go”
6. “Make Me Love You”
7. “Chasin’ Famous”
8. “Simple Song”
9. “Technicolor Steamboat”
10. “Lift Somebody Up”
11. “Bottled Dreams”
12. “Last Night Was Fun”

About That Metal Community Skepticism…

Let’s address it directly, because pretending Nickelback doesn’t draw eye-rolls in hard rock and metal circles would be dishonest. Chad Kroeger has told the story himself of Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul defending Nickelback to skeptical metalheads back in the day, telling doubters to actually watch the band play before writing them off. Two members of Pantera — a band with about as much credibility in this genre as exists — vouching for Nickelback isn’t nothing. Add in the fact that “Everything Under the Sun” is arriving with a guest spot from a guy currently touring arenas with Mötley Crüe, and the Venn diagram between “Nickelback fan” and “hard rock fan” is a lot rounder than internet discourse suggests.

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TL;DR

• Nickelback announced their eleventh studio album, “Everything Under the Sun,” out October 30
• New single “Rattle the Cage” features a guest cameo from Mötley Crüe guitarist John 5
• It’s the band’s first new music since 2022’s “Get Rollin’”
• The album appears to be arriving via Virgin Music Group, a shift from Get Rollin’s BMG release
• The 12-track album includes “Bones for the Crows,” “Chasin’ Famous,” and “Technicolor Steamboat”
• Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul were longtime, vocal Nickelback defenders in the metal community

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Nickelback are back once more with a new album that looks to embody everything that has defined them over the last 25 years.

Titled ‘Everything Under The Sun’, it will be released on October 30 via Virgin Music Group, and serves as the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Get Rollin”.

Vocalist Chad Kroeger had this to say about what the record represents, stating, “This album has every side of the band on it. 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.”

The artwork looks like this:

And the tracklisting like this:

1. Rattle the Cage (with John 5)
2. Bones for the Crows
3. I Already Know
4. Leave Me Behind
5. If I Don’t Go
6. Make Me Love You
7. Chasin’ Famous
8. Simple Song
9. Technicolor Steamboat
10. Lift Somebody Up
11. Bottled Dreams
12. Last Night Was Fun

The sentiment of what Chad has to say about the record is also reflected in the latest taste of it, ‘Rattle The Cage’. A riff-heavy, arena-made singalong of an anthem, it also features a contribution from John 5.

He had this to add:

“‘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.

You can also hear ‘Bones For The Crows’ right now too:

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Over the past week, the LA act Twin Temple have gotten a whole lot more famous. The duo, comprised of married couple Alexandra and Zachary James, have a kitschy take on early-’60s pop music, which they combine with lyrics about Satanic blood orgies. After being booked to open a pair of shows on outlaw country star Charley Crockett’s current Age Of The Ram tour, Crockett dropped the duo from those shows over their Satanic imagery. Jack White stepped in, inviting Twin Temple to open for him at the Hollywood Palladium, and the duo gratefully accepted. This whole episode got a whole lot of ink, so it’s really not surprising that Twin Temple have chosen this moment to announce a new album. It’s what Satan would want.

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A seven-minute-long alt-country dirge, let’s go. “Portal To The Past” is the newest single from Lily Seabird’s highly anticipated upcoming album, Lightspheres On Their Way. Seabird’s previous tracks — the non-album loosie “Demon In Me” and lead single “Election Day” — both made our lists of the best songs of the week, and “Portal To The Past” could keep that streak going.

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Swedish singer-songwriter Jesper Lindell talks about the moment his tour van’s brake pads flew off just as they pulled into a venue, his years working as a mailman before music took over full-time, and why streaming alone doesn’t sustain artists outside the mainstream.

Edison’s Children, the collaboration between Hollywood SFX technician Eric Blackwood, Rick Armstrong (son of the first man, Neil Armstrong) and Pete Trewavas (bassist from prog legends Marillion & Transatlantic) return with their fifth album, A Light In Ethereal Night, to be released on September 4th, 2026.

The album is the second instalment in a trilogy which began in 2011 with In The Last Waking Moments. That record told the story of a man distraught after experiencing something he could neither explain nor prove, left suspended between two incendiary possibilities: was his “alien abduction” real, or was he descending into madness? The 15-minute Epic “The Awakening” ended without resolution. A Light In Ethereal Night picks up the story exactly where it left off.

On this podcast, Pete, Eric, and Rick talk about the making of the new album, the concept, and more.

Check out the podcast on these services:
Apple • Spotify • Amazon • PodBean • YouTube

A Light In Ethereal Night releases on September 4th on Random Disturbance Records and will be available on CD, 180g vinyl (remastered for enhanced bass by Rush/Porcupine Tree’s Andy Van Dette) & streaming services.

Track List
Side 1 – The 31
From Out Of The Ether
The Day After
Pathogen
Side 2 Interlaced
Threnody Parts I-II of X

Pre-Orders can be placed at:

https://edisonschildren.com/
https://edisonschildren.bandcamp.com/
https://thebandwagonusa.com/collections/edisons-children
https://www.thebandwagon.eu/

Edison’s Children are:
Eric Blackwood – Lead vocals, lead synth guitar
Rick Armstrong – Rhythm guitar, keyboards
Pete Trewavas – Lead bass guitar, Backing vocals

Guest Appearances:
Henry Rogers – Drums
Dan Hogarth-Guest – Drums (The Day After)
Robin Boult – Guitar (The Day After)

Produced by Edison’s Children
Mixed by Steve Hardy / Mastered by Andy Van Dette (Engine Room)
Music and lyrics by Pete Trewavas, Eric Blackwood, Rick Armstrong
Artwork by Wendy Darling Blackwood

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PinkPantheress is about to make her feature acting debut in high-profile fashion. The influential UK hitmaker, born Victoria Beverley Walker, has been cast in the new secret film project from Daniels, Deadline reports.

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Iron Maiden has entered into a major partnership with Pophouse Entertainment, the Swedish investment firm behind ABBA Voyage and KISS’s upcoming avatar show, which has acquired a stake in the band’s publishing and master music rights along with the name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights tied to the band and their mascot, Eddie. The deal, structured over the past year between Pophouse and Maiden co-manager Andy Taylor, is aimed at helping the 50-year-old band pursue new creative ventures while bringing its catalog to new audiences.

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What Pophouse Actually Bought

The deal covers three specific categories of rights: publishing, master recordings, and NIL — the same three-pronged structure Pophouse has used in every major artist deal it’s made. Pophouse CEO Jessica Koravos framed the investment around Maiden’s catalog depth: “Iron Maiden is a band whose remarkable longevity and rich catalogue open up countless creative possibilities. With Pophouse’s partnership, the band now has the investment and creative firepower to keep evolving for decades to come.” Pophouse managing partner Johan Lagerlöf went further, calling Maiden “one of the most powerful franchises in music history” and pointing to the band’s ability to “attract new audiences, decade after decade.”

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If the name Pophouse doesn’t ring a bell, its work almost certainly does. Founded in Stockholm in 2014 by ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus and EQT founder Conni Jonsson, Pophouse is the founding investor behind ABBA Voyage — the avatar-powered concert residency that’s drawn more than 3 million visitors since 2022 and generated £104 million in a single year.

That success bankrolled a much bigger ambition: in 2024, Pophouse acquired KISS’s songs, brand, and IP in a deal reported at over $300 million, with an avatar-based Las Vegas show currently slated for 2028. The company’s portfolio has since grown to include Cyndi Lauper, Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, and, as of this past March, a majority stake in Tina Turner’s music interests. Iron Maiden is Pophouse’s first hard rock and heavy metal deal of this scale, and notably its first involving a band whose members are all still actively touring together.

What This Means For Eddie

The partnership’s first tangible result already happened: at Iron Maiden’s Eddfest at Knebworth House earlier this month, Pophouse and the band unveiled “The Infinite Dreams Museum Experience,” an immersive exhibit built around the band’s 50th-anniversary book and centered on Eddie’s evolution across five decades. It’s part of what the announcement describes as a broader “Maidenville” concept expanding the live show through interactive, Eddie-themed attractions.

Beyond the museum, the partnership includes filming Maiden’s ongoing “Run For Your Lives” world tour for a cinematic project, plus longer-term plans for expanded fan experiences and what the companies are calling “a digital universe centered around Eddie.” Worth noting: unlike the KISS deal, which is explicitly building toward an avatar show featuring the band members themselves performing indefinitely, nothing in this announcement confirms an Iron Maiden avatar show is coming — the digital plans described so far center on Eddie as a character and IP, not on recreating the band.

Phantom Music’s Dave Shack, Maiden’s co-manager, described Eddie’s expanding universe as encompassing “horror, gaming, or comic books,” alongside the band’s existing mobile game, drinks business, and merchandising operations — and credited Pophouse with quickly mobilizing a backup film crew at Eddfest after a power failure threatened to derail filming of the band’s Paris concert.

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Rod Smallwood: ‘Eddie Will Rule, OK!!’

Longtime Maiden manager Rod Smallwood, who’s steered the band’s business since the beginning, was characteristically direct about what the deal unlocks: “I am very excited about our relationship with Pophouse and the ability we now have to pursue, facilitate, and finance our many plans and dreams quicker than we ever hoped.” He was equally clear that this isn’t a retirement-adjacent cash-out: “The interest in the band has never been bigger and this strategic partnership… has already had results with the progress on ‘The Infinite Dreams’ museum and the filming of the current show. The fans can be assured there is a great deal more to come for MAIDEN, and Eddie will rule, OK!!”

The numbers behind that confidence are hard to argue with: over 100 million records sold, 17 studio albums, more than 2,500 concerts across 64 countries, a Grammy and Brit Award, and — as of this year — a Royal Mail stamp set putting Maiden alongside the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd. The band’s 2026 Rock Hall induction and ongoing 50th-anniversary “Run For Your Lives” tour make this a genuinely full-circle year for the band, and the Pophouse deal signals that Maiden’s camp sees it as the beginning of the next chapter, not a victory lap.

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TL;DR

• Iron Maiden has partnered with Pophouse Entertainment, acquiring a stake in the band’s publishing, master rights, and NIL rights tied to Eddie
• Pophouse is the company behind ABBA Voyage and KISS’s upcoming avatar show, with a growing portfolio including Cyndi Lauper, Avicii, and Tina Turner
• The first result of the deal is “The Infinite Dreams Museum Experience,” unveiled at Eddfest at Knebworth House
• Plans include filming Maiden’s “Run For Your Lives” tour for a cinematic project and building a “digital universe” around Eddie
• No Iron Maiden avatar show has been confirmed, unlike Pophouse’s KISS deal
• Manager Rod Smallwood says the deal lets the band “pursue, facilitate, and finance” plans faster than before

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