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Sleeping With Sirens have shared a reprised version of the first song they ever wrote for the band, ‘I’m Coming Home (Big Gulps)’.

Following the release of their latest album ‘An Ending In Itself’ earlier this year, the band are taking a little trip down memory lane.

The first song they ever wrote and the first video ever posted to the band’s YouTube channel back in 2009, this version of ‘I’m Coming Home (Big Gulps)’ is the first time the track has ever been recorded in a professional studio.

With the original recording filmed in one take on a laptop, the song found new life this year when dedicated fans pushed the song to spontaneous virality on TikTok, 17 years on from its initial release.

Speaking on the fresh recording, Kellin Quinn has shared:

“Big Gulps was the very first Sleeping With Sirens song ever written, so it’s pretty amazing to see our fans digging through our old content on YouTube and watching it take off on TikTok. That said, the original recording was literally recorded on a MacBook back in 2009. So, I wanted to get back into the studio and properly rerecord a new acoustic version of the song. Thank you for being such incredible fans for so long and we hope you enjoy this new version of Big Gulps.”

Take a listen below.

And for a sweet blast of nostalgia, you can check out the original video below.

Sleeping With Sirens will be back over in the UK and Europe in early 2027,  bringing along Arm’s Length and Like Roses for the ride.

Check out the full list of dates below.

FEBRUARY

16 – PARIS Le Bataclan
17 – STRASBOURG La Laiterie (Great Hall)
18 – VILLEURBANNE CCO La Rayonne
20 – ZURICH Xtra
21 – MILAN Alcatraz
22 – MUNICH Tonhalle
23 – BERLIN Astra Kulturhaus
25 – HAMBURG Docks
26 – STUTTGART LKA- Longhorn
27 – COLOGNE Carlswerk Victoria
28 – TILBURG 013 Poppodium

MARCH

02 – BRISTOL The Prospect Building
03 – GLASGOW O2 Academy Glasgow
05 – MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
06 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
07 – LONDON O2 Academy Brixton

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Mastodon, Deafheaven & Alcest, Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL 16.09.26



The opening night of the Mastodon tour! If you don’t count the secret Atlanta warm up show that is, which got everyone even more excited for the tour given that Baroness’s main man John Baizley  would be joining Mastodon during the tail end of their set to play some of the older, classic material. How was it? In a word, amazing. Mastodon blew me away. I know everyone misses Brent, and I do too, but this band, in this form, is on an entirely other plain.

Let’s start with the French black/shoegaze band, Alcest (8), who went on first. I was super excited to see them for the first time and they did not disappoint. You get blasted by a wall of sound of guitars for 40 minutes, except for the minimal, very polite, interaction. The music filled up the whole room, heavy and beautiful, even if I don’t speak a lick of French. I think they gained some new fans on this day and I would love to see a headlining Alcest set. 

Deafheaven (7) was up next. I had seen them before at Welcome To Rockville but they got more time in the second slot on this night. I am stealing this from someone, but I love the “Warped Tour Black Metal” description of the band. The lead singer has a ton of passion, almost too much and a bit too “how you doin’ Orlando???” for my taste, but they were fun, energetic, heavy as hell, and the crowd was down for it, given the pits and the crowdsurfing. I preferred their Joy Division clone era, but that is me. I am never going to sit and listen to a Deafheaven record, but I would watch them on any bill they were on. 

Now, Mastodon (10). I got to see them playing a short festival set, but this was the first time in a long time as headliner. This was easily in the top 5 shows I have seen this decade. The energy, the crowd, the imagery on the screen, the stacked setlist, all of this. The band seemed like they were genuinely having a great time, and the crowd ate it up. Nick Johnston is not Brent, but he is a super talented, next level player who fits in perfectly with the other guys in the band. He is a super nice dude too, as I got to chat with him for a couple of minutes. He did everything he should, stepping into a tough role, and he nailed it. Troy sounded great, and the band was super tight. 

Elliot Minor will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a seven-date UK headline tour in March 2027, joined by special guests Madina Lake and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The run begins at the O2 Institute Birmingham on 19 March and ends at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town on 26 March. It will be the band’s biggest headline tour since their 2025 return.

O2 and artist presales begin at 10am BST on 23 September 2026. General sale opens at 10am BST on 25 September. For tickets, visit elliotminor.com.

“Coming back together for the reunion tour in 2025 was such an amazing and nostalgic experience for all of us,” vocalist Alex Davies said. “We genuinely didn’t know what to expect after so many years away, and it was unbelievably surreal to walk out each night and see so many people there, singing every word back at us.

“The response to the shows reminded us just how much our band and songs still mean to people. Some of these songs were actually written back in our school and college days before 2007, which is pretty crazy to think about, especially seeing people that age now discovering the band for the first time.

“We’ve also been spending time together writing and recording new music, and we’re incredibly excited to get that out there as part of our 20th anniversary alongside all the 2000s nostalgia.”

Madina Lake are also preparing a new EP to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, From Them, Through Us, To You, in 2027. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus guitarist Randy Winter has also confirmed that new music is on the way.

Elliot Minor 20th Anniversary UK Tour

Elliot Minor formed in 2007 and broke through with debut single Parallel Worlds, which reached No. 1 on the UK Independent Singles Chart. Their self-titled debut album reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart in 2008, followed by Solaris in 2009.

After going on hiatus in 2011, the band returned for special shows in 2014 and reunited again in 2025 for the sold-out Once In A Decade tour. They subsequently released How Does It Feel, their first new song in more than a decade, and appeared at Download Festival.

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Let’s just blow the lid right off this review from the start. When you absolutely, positively have to rip everything to shreds, only a band like Sweden’s Mutation will do. Debut Esoteric Order of Debauchery is one of the rudest, rippinest, downright ill-tempered records put to tape in recent memory, and it’s so loaded with killer riffs, irate vocals, and outright destruction as to be largely irresistible. Come for the violence, stay for the sneakily smart songwriting and delightfully audible bass guitar.

Stepping back just a second… Mutation plays death metal of the 80s variety, but with a bit of a black metal mindset. However, unlike much of the “black/death metal” of the world, Esoteric Order of Debauchery doesn’t seem to take itself too seriously, instead really leaning into what makes this stuff so damned fun: riffs, nasty vocals, maniacal solos, and drums that never, ever stop hammering away. Imagine much of the riff style of Altars of Madness meeting the mentality of Under the Sign of the Black Mark, the debut album confidence of Kill ‘em All, and the all-out annihilating fire of Scream Bloody Gore and you’ll get a pretty good idea of what Mutation is doing across these brisk 34 minutes. It’s raw, it’s rude, and it’s rollicking.

After a mood-setting intro, “Occultation of the Ephemeral Light” kicks things off while basically putting every one of Mutation’s tools right on the table: it’s death metal, sure, but it has that 80s black metal aesthetic to it a little; the drumming is downright bananas, blasting and hammering all over the place with the kind of cling and clang that sounds like it could fly apart at any given second; the bass is, yes, extremely audible, and complements the 6-string riffs wonderfully; and the vocals are a sort of mid-ranged half-screech that just exudes malevolent belligerence. Oh, and that floating, chorus-drenched riff that kicks in at about 1:30? So indebted to early Morbid Angel – and that evil vibe – that it would be plagiarism if everything else around it didn’t push the zonk dial to the max.

It’s a killer combination of influences and results in an overall vibe that feels fresh despite being indebted to music that is mostly decades old. The freshness is achieved both through the band’s obvious chemistry as a unit, but also through their ability to write really memorable passages and hot licks all over the place. For example, “Pestilent Whore” smartly features two solos, one more melodic and the other all chaotic Slayer action; the riffs of “Stygian Spheres” are blazing, only held in place by the foundation of the rhythm section; and “Metamorphosis” features a nice diversion into slower, Autopsy-influenced terrain, showing that Mutation can be mean at any tempo. And that’s the real kicker here: this stuff is mean. It’s a fun type of mean, sure, but it’s still designed to terrify the little old ladies at the church picnic.

And that about sums it up, really. This is one seriously rude slab of death metal made by a band that is already 100 percent confident in their abilities and personality as a unit. Esoteric Order of Debauchery isn’t just an album with a great title, it’s a statement of murderous intent. Get ripped.

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