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Last month, Sylosis released their career-defining record The New Flesh. The album is a towering testament to destructive riffing, incisive melody and refined brute force. The band’s seventh full-length offering is a powerful showcase for the state of Sylosis in 2026: lethal, uncompromising, and avowedly metal as all hell. Now they have released the live […]

Maxton Hunter’s Dhara Drone unfolds like a slow horizon, expansive and deeply immersive, where time feels stretched and softened at the edges. Rooted in a glowing D major tonal space, the piece blends gentle field recordings with the aching beauty of Joe Harvey-Whyte’s pedal steel, creating a fluid dialogue between earth and atmosphere. There is no urgency here, only gradual transformation, as textures drift, overlap, and dissolve into one another.

The result is quietly transportive, a meditative passage that invites stillness while subtly reshaping your sense of space and presence.

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Lucie Antunes’ Parkour is pure motion translated into sound, a restless, pulse-driven composition that never stands still. Built on hypnotic arpeggios and tightly wound percussion, the track evolves like a body in constant movement, shifting, accelerating, recalibrating. There is a cinematic tension running throughout, a sense of urgency that feels both mechanical and instinctive. Dark electronic textures flicker in and out, adding depth and a subtle retro-futuristic glow.

Parkour surges forward, capturing the thrill of momentum and the beauty of controlled chaos in a finely tuned sonic rush.

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Portrayal of Guilt have toured the world over, creating their own musical eco-system and released three seminal full-length albums that have seen the Austin trio consecutively reinvent themselves. They’ve done it in a manner that avoided compromise, welcomed free experimentation and avoided labels outside of “menacing,” “compelling” and “must hear.” …Beginning of the End, their […]

Beloved Ohio emo veterans Hawthorne Heights have announced local supports for their return to Australia next month to celebrate 20 years of their seminal album If Only You Were Lonely. Alternative rockers Heaven//Alone will open festivities in Perth, before passing the baton to post-hardcore band Tapestry, who will warm crowds in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and […]

Las Vegas post-hardcore heavyweights Escape The Fate will make their long overdue return to Australia this June, bringing with them US metalcore mainstays The Word Alive – taking in every capital city and a couple of regional ones too. Australia has always held Escape The Fate close to their hearts with the bands fanbase being […]

The brother of the actor Jon Voight, he wrote songs for Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin, Anne Murray and, with “Angel of the Morning,” Juice Newton.

Captain Kirk and the Metal God are working on a cover of Judas Priest’s classic You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

William Shatner is 95 years old and apparently still has something to prove. The actor-turned-recording-artist has enlisted Rob Halford — Judas Priest‘s Metal God — to appear on a reimagined version of “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’”, one of heavy metal’s most untouchable anthems. The pairing is as unlikely as it is genuinely intriguing: Shatner‘s trademark spoken-word delivery set against Halford‘s full-power vocal assault.

“I’ve always been drawn to the energy and storytelling of heavy metal,” Shatner said. “Working with Rob on this track brings that intensity to life in a way that feels both timeless and entirely new.”

Halford matched the energy in his own statement, leaning directly into the song’s lyrics to frame the collaboration: “One life I’m gonna live it up! William Shatner is boldly doing that more than ever, and I am honored to reinforce this message with him — ‘taking flight, I said I’ll never get enough!’”

The track is part of a full heavy metal album currently in production, with more guest appearances and a release date still to be announced. Cleopatra Records founder Brian Perera is on board as label head and has made clear where this project is headed: “I’m honored to be a part of another chapter in William Shatner‘s musical journey, and celebrating as he goes louder, harder, and heavier than ever.”

This isn’t Shatner‘s only foray into metal right now. He’s also set to appear on “Prophet Of Fall-Out”, the forthcoming single from former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland‘s project Nuclear Messiah, which arrives ahead of their full-length Black Flame at the end of April.

Further details on Shatner‘s album — collaborators, title, release window — are expected soon.

William Shatner has cultivated a career spanning over 70 years as an award-winning actor, director, producer, writer, recording artist, and horseman. He is one of Hollywood’s most recognizable figures and a major philanthropist.

In 1966, Shatner originated the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the television series Star Trek. The series spawned a feature film franchise where Shatner returned as Captain Kirk in seven of the “Star Trek” movies, one of which he directed.

Shatner played the title role in the hit television series T.J. Hooker before hosting television’s first reality-based series, Rescue 911.

He won Emmys and his first Golden Globe for his portrayal of eccentric lawyer Denny Crane on both The Practice and Boston Legal. He received four more Emmy nominations as well as other Golden Globe and SAG Award nods.

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Last month, Angelo De Augustine announced his new album Angel In Plainclothes and released “Mirror Mirror.” Today, the LA-based singer-songwriter is back with a beautifully serene single called “Empty Shell.” “It was the first song written of the batch that would make up the album,” he says. “I don’t know how to talk about a…

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