Copenhagen quartet LADY returns with “Down to the Water,” an electrifying power single that puts their refined, high-energy take on modern rock ’n’ roll front and center. Driven by a punk-fueled momentum, a locked-in rhythm section, and an irresistible cowbell groove that pays homage to classic rock tradition, the four-piece delivers a hook that sticks with you long after the final chord. Standing in striking contrast to the track’s explosive sonic energy, the lyrics dive into introspective themes of addiction and the sheer willpower needed to reinvent yourself, crafting a dark, compelling rock anthem that hits hard both musically and emotionally.
The band commented on the song: “Down to the Water is about the internal struggles that people face — such as addiction and the battle with one’s inner demons. It is about rediscovering yourself and letting go of the weight that has drained you. Who are you without the things that have both defined and damaged you?”
The song features infectuous guitar riffs and an explosive chorus, very catchy and energetic (love the vibes). I find the song very dynamic and very enjoyable from start to finish, with a great sound and a fantastic solo section as well. Give it a go by clicking on the Spotify player below and follow LADY if you like what you hear.
Chrysalis Records continue with the rolling series of UFO albums in the remastered and expanded format with a live show. The latest being the band’s 1982 album Mechanix. The release date is 4 December 2026. There’ll be double CD and a triple vinyl versions. Here’s the media release blurb which I received with the detail. […]
The six-piece Italian Metal veterans Frozen Crown return with their sixth album, and the clue is in the title, The Legend Of The Six Kings. That’s six band members, sixth album, and ‘six’ in the title. Six six six, and we all know what that means. Who says Heavy Metal is not deep?
Frozen Crown – The Legend Of The Six Kings. This is Metal with a definite European slant, and is all the better because of it.
The album kicks off with Lightning In The Sky, and a turbocharged symphony of drums and guitars announces the album’s start, accompanied by Giada Etro’s insistent vocal attack. This song is fast and relentless, not stopping for a microsecond, with super-shred guitaring and perpetual drumming overlaid with orchestral-like singing. This is Metal with a definite European slant, and is all the better because of it.
Variety then kicks in with Who Wants To Burn In Heaven, which is a much deeper, doomier song than the first. It has slower, chugging riffs. Giada’s voice soars above the chanting backing vocals, and the rhythm section keeps everything galloping along.
If you imagine Nightwish without any of the symphonic accompaniment and with a darker, more sinister feel, you are there with Frozen Crown. Three guitarists in this band really adds something, giving everything a really full, addictive sound.
Reborn has a softer, more melodic feel to it, with full-throated chorusing and a relentless, unstoppable energy. It confirms a conversation I was having earlier this week, that Heavy Metal does not need to be heavy to still be, well, heavy. This song absolutely is not the loudest, fastest or heaviest on the album, but it still pushes all of the right buttons. It it just good, addictive, foot-tapping Heavy Metal.
Hard on the heels of Reborn is The One, a definite chest beating anthem, turning the speed right up and all about tub-thumping loyalty to the kings of darkness. It is in no way an original theme, either in Heavy Metal or storytelling, but Frozen Crown make it work through their sheer energy and slick production. You have heard this before, but it still feels like you are tuning in for the first time.
And within Frozen Crown’s tightly controlled mission statement, Iris is probably as close you will ever get to a ballad. Well, it is not even a power ballad, but definitely a Power Metal ballad. The lyrics are heart-breakingly tragic, the soul crying out for understanding. You will never hear a love song sung with drums like this anywhere else.
The band take an absolutely different and individual take on a musical form within Metal that, for me, has never really sat too well with the rest of it. But yeah, Frozen Crown’s take on the ballad really works.
It does not take long at all, less than four minutes actually, for things to speed up with Winter Hearts, treble-laced gallop riffs and supersonic drumming, anthemic singing, and for the first time on the album, some growling backing vocals.
As with all of the songs on this album, there just is not time to breathe when you are listening to Frozen Crown. It is full throttle all the way, and then some more again. You simply cannot imagine this band taking it easy for a single second. Everything is done at warp speed.
The dilithium crystal warp speed continues with River Of Time, complete with melodic Speed Metal and Himalayan vocals. Strip away the nitro drumming and chugging guitars, and you are left with a soulful love song, screaming out its words of profound discovery. Nothing replaces that one single moment of chemistry, a moment celebrated in this three and a half minutes of urgent, insistent Heavy Metal.
Next up is Through The Fire, a song that is only just three minutes long. The last time you had songs that were in and out this quickly, there were mop-top scousers topping the charts, but a lot has changed since then, namely Italian Power Metal. There are more mystical lyrics and afterburning guitaring that simply leaves you unable to pause for frightened breath.
Melodic Metal makes a return with To The Stars, a slower, or maybe less fast song occupying much more traditional Metal territory. This song lends a more diverse tone to the album, or maybe the band are simply utterly exhausted by this point from the shattering pace of the earlier songs.
Either way, this is a great song, sedate and ambitious. The production throughout this album is slick and polished, which makes it a lot more accessible than you might otherwise think. And in terms of spreading the Metal word among the masses, that is definitely a good thing.
The Legend Of The Six Kings ends with the title track, and the only one that goes beyond four minutes. This one mixes Giada’s chiming vocals with Frederico’s growling, threatening presence, and all mixed in with lots of melodic metal chorusing. This song has also got a nice, sedate verse-type guitar solo, with lots of tempo changes throughout. This is a roiling, mystical, anthemic song.
Listening to this album makes you feel like you have done a forty-minute workout with an Olympic sprinter. The pace is so frenetic throughout. With the exception of the final, title track, none of these songs goes beyond four minutes.
This band do not mess around. They get in fast, deliver their message, then leave your mind frazzled and then storm on to the next. The Legend Of The Six Kings comes at you like a V8 interceptor on nitrous oxide, rampages over your senses and then leaves you stunned and breathless on the dust-track tarmac.
And if you like your Power Metal, then you will love Frozen Crown.
The Legend Of The Six Kings is due for release on 2 October 2026 via Napalm Records. For more details and pre-orders, visit lnk.to/FC-TheLegendoftheSixKings/napalmrecords. Catch the band with Beast In Black at O2 Forum Kentish Town on26 October 2026.
Beast In Black have released Fear The Beast, the title track from their forthcoming fourth album, alongside a cinematic new video. The Finnish Heavy
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Beast In Black have released Fear The Beast, the title track from their forthcoming fourth album, alongside a cinematic new video. The Finnish Heavy Metal force return with new music after a festival summer and a North American tour with Helloween. The single arrives before the band heads to Asia for shows in Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai and Beijing, followed by its extensive Resurrection Tour across Europe.
WARGASM have unveiled another explosive single via their new label home at Hopeless Records.
After announcing their signing to the legendary label with the pulsating swagger of ‘Get Down’, the duo’s latest single ‘Swallow’ is another bold and boisterous introduction to their latest era.
Clocking in at just over three minutes, it’s an intensely unapologetic blitz of gritty electronics, blistering riffs and snarling attitude. Basically, it’s got a little bit of everything that makes WARGASM so great.
Speaking about ‘Swallow’, the band have shared:
“From the immortal teaches of Peaches: ‘fuck the pain away’. This is our soundtrack to mistakes and love in this hell of a century. You can feel good when you’re being bad. Human touch just to feel something. This is Spit.’s hot cousin. This is Swallow.”
The band are currently playing shows across the US as support for Scene Queen.
Here are all the dates you can still catch them:
SEPTEMBER
23 – LAWRENCE Granada Theatre 25 – HOUSTON Scout Bar 26 – SAN ANTONIO Paper Tiger 27 – DALLAS The Echo Lounge & Music Hall 29 – MESA The Nile Theater
OCTOBER
01 – SAN DIEGO House of Blues 03 – LOS ANGELES The Regent Theater 04 – LAS VEGAS 24 Oxford 07 – ENGLEWOOD Gothic Theatre 09 – CHICAGO House of Blues 10 – INDIANAPOLIS Deluxe at Old National Centre 11 – GRAND RAPIDS The Intersection 13 – CUDAHY X-Ray Arcade 14 – DETROIT Saint Andrew’s Hall 16 – NEW YORK Racket NYC 17 – PHILADELPHIA Brooklyn Bowl 18 – WORCESTER Palladium Upstairs 20 – CHARLOTTE Music Farm 23 – ST. PETERSBURG Jannus Live 24 – FORT LAUDERDALE Revolution Live 25 – ORLANDO House of Blues
Anaxia: Maska (Veyl) DL | LP Out now Anaxia is the new band from Rich Oddie of Orphx and Alex Pi of Pi Electronics. On Maska, a debut album distantly devised during the pandemic lockdown, a verisimilitude of liveness and physical contact pumps and pulsates throughout every inch of grit and groove of the album. […]
Enter Shikari have announced a pair of intimate shows ahead of their upcoming UK & Europe arena tour.
With the band set to dominate an arena run in November, they’ll be easing back in with a couple of shows in Oxford and Leicester.
Playing Oxford’s O2 Academy on October 21 and Leicester’s O2 Academy on October 22, support at both shows will come from London’s Sunday Best.
Presales are already underway for both shows, with general sale coming soon.
If you’re not lucky enough to live near one of those spots though, you can still catch Enter Shikari in November, albeit in some much bigger rooms.
With support coming from Holding Absence and The Callous Daoboys, check out the full list of dates below.
NOVEMBER
13: NOTTINGHAM Motorpoint Arena 14: CARDIFF Utilita Arena 15: HULL Connexin Live 18: GLASGOW Hydro 19: MANCHESTER Co-op Live 20: LONDON Alexandra Palace 21: LONDON Alexandra Palace
RØRY‘s second album ‘BLOODLETTING’ has landed at No.8 in the UK Album Chart.
Photo credit: Derek Bremner
Released independently, the album has also hit the top spot in the Rock & Metal Album Chart.
Following a week spent travelling around the UK playing in record stores to promote the album, it marks RØRY’s highest album chart position to date.
With physical sales of the album accounting for a jaw-dropping 97.2% of the album sales, it’s an incredible feat that highlights not only RØRY’s huge impact on the scene, but the power of independence and the value of physical media.
Speaking about the news, RØRY has shared:
“I can’t believe BLOODLETTING is #8 in the chart. I want to dedicate this to Miles Kent, and everyone we’ve loved and lost too soon. And of course to the #37Club, you did this. And I am eternally grateful.”
RØRY is also on the cover of the latest issue of Rock Sound.
Featuring a photograph deemed too inappropriate for the social media algorithm, we can only present it to you online in this custom-made, sealed-off packaging. The only way you will see the cover is by opening it up and looking inside…
Inside the magazine, confronting grief, mortality and the darkness that lingers even after your wildest dreams come true, RØRY takes us through the fantastical story of ‘BLOODLETTING’.
You can get yours alongside a limited edition signed poster, with just 200 available, right now from SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV
Northlane have given us another taste of their upcoming album ‘Anemoia’, and it’s an abslutely crushing one.
Photo credit: Kane Hibbard
With the band’s latest full-length set to be released on October 30, their blistering new single is titled ‘Crucified’.
It follows previously released tracks ‘Evian’ and the bludgeoning ‘CUT_it’, this time taking things in the direction of pure, unfiltered aggression.
Speaking about the single, frontman Marcus Bridge has shared:
“‘Crucified’ is about the collapse of civil discourse – the way every disagreement now defaults to attack, every conversation becomes a battleground, every difference of opinion ends with someone playing the victim. Not only touching on politics, it’s about the regression of communication as a whole: arguments online, wars, general difference of opinion. If you’re offside, misaligned / we won’t rest tonight / till you’re fucking crucified. The instinct to go for the throat rather than hear someone out has seeped into every corner of life.”
Take a listen.
The band’s full-length follow-up to 2022’s ground-breaking ‘Obsidian’ was executive-produced by none other than Jordan Fish.
Exploring how the world of trance music can cross streams with heavy music, it finds Northlane twisting their electronic metal instincts into a whole load of new and exciting shapes.
Check out the artwork and tracklisting for ‘Anemoia’ below.
1) Pierce The Sky 2) NEED2FEEL 3) Crucified 4) Deathwish 5) Evian 6) CUT_it 7) S∈GA 8) The Otherside 9) Start Again 10) Anemoia (Feat. Dayseeker)
The band are also set to make their way around the UK and Europe later this year as support for Dayseeker.
