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The pop star Chris Brown received an eight-month suspended prison sentence on Monday over a 2023 episode in which he repeatedly hit a man in the head with a tequila bottle in a London nightclub.

(written by Islander) Last year Transcending Obscurity Records released the second album created by the Floridian death metal band Haxprocess, Beyond What Eyes Can See. In advance of its release we wrote: “The album is enormously and exuberantly creative, and an enormously ambitious undertaking, and we can understand why T.O. labels it ‘epic’, not merely […]

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Japan, ihr habt uns begeistert! Zwei Tage, jede Menge Heavy Metal und rund 11.000 Fans: Die erste Ausgabe von Full Metal Japan powered by Wacken brachte am 24. und 25. Oktober 2026 die PIA ARENA MM in Yokohama zum Beben: Wenn Wacken auf Japan trifft, wird es laut. 

So viel war klar. Aber was uns in Yokohama erwartete, übertraf unsere Erwartungen. Zwei Tage lang kamen Metalheads zusammen, um die Musik zu feiern, die uns verbindet.

LEGENDEN, RIFFS UND BESONDERE MOMENTE

Auch musikalisch hatte Full Metal Japan einiges zu bieten. Bei Michael Schenkers Auftritt übernahm Ronnie Romero den Gesang für „Assault Attack“, während ANGRA mit Edu Falaschi und Kiko Loureiro für einen besonderen Moment auf der Bühne sorgten.

Doch nicht nur vor der Bühne war die Stimmung bestens. Ein schönes Beispiel dafür, dass Metal keine Sprachbarrieren kennt

BIG IN JAPAN. LOW ON GERMAN BEER.

Dass die japanischen Metalheads ordentlich feiern können, war uns natürlich klar. Dass sie aber auch deutsches Bier dermaßen zu schätzen wissen, hat uns dann doch überrascht. Denn irgendwann hieß es tatsächlich: German Beer – SOLD OUT!

Offenbar kommt nicht nur unser Metal in Japan bestens an!

Nach dieser Premiere sind wir uns sicher: Full Metal Japan hat eine Zukunft. Und wir freuen uns darauf, diese Geschichte gemeinsam mit euch weiterzuschreiben.

Ein wenig Geduld ist allerdings gefragt. Frühestens im März 2028 könnte die nächste Ausgabe stattfinden. Weitere Informationen folgen, sobald die Planungen konkreter werden.

Bis dahin bleibt uns nur eines zu sagen:

ARIGATO GOZAIMASU, JAPAN! Danke an die rund 11.000 Metalheads, alle Bands, Crews und unsere Partner, die diese erste Ausgabe möglich gemacht haben. Wir nehmen jede Menge Erinnerungen mit nach Hause – und freuen uns auf ein Wiedersehen!

Der Beitrag Fulll Metal Japan: 11.000 Metalheads feiern eine gelungene Premiere! erschien zuerst auf Live, laut, legendär!.

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Steven Wilson is set to release his new studio album, Requiem For A Village, on November 6th via Fiction Records. Today, he has shared the new single “A Basket of Bees” with a new performance video.

“Once again yours truthfully, The Mink, and Rustle gathered in the village hall today for music making, our attempts to depart this place strangely thwarted. Look out for a guest appearance from Ms Shelby Logan Warne, caretaker of the hall and headmistress of the village school. Watch the bees for signs. They buzz buzz buzz in perfect circles. They hum between your knees. But these are old superstitions, and we are modern people, are we not?!

Several old Pan Book of Horror paperbacks are cunningly placed in the room. Try to identify how many, and which numbers in the series they are. You’ll never do it! There’s a lot to remember in the song we’re going to play today, complicated with several instrument changes for me, but mistakes are all part of the magic.

The instruments are reassuringly untuned, so here we go! Hang on to your kite…”

Scottish actor David Tennant provides the narration on the new album, and is joined by former XTC man Andy Partridge, who has written the narration and some of the lyrics, multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine, drummer Russell Holzman (on the tracks Requiem For A Village, Now Departing, A Basket Of Bees and Wheel) and vocalist Katherine Priddy (Murmuration).

Tracklisting
Swirl In A Lark’s Eye
Requiem For A Village
The Same River Twice
Now Departing
Hireath
On Chapel Slope
Murmuration
Curcus Fingerprint
A Basket Of Bees
Great Green Map
Wheel
The Old God Is Buried

The album will be available on CD, Blu-ray, 140g double black vinyl and oxblood-colored double vinyl. A deluxe box set will feature two CDs and a Blu-ray packaged with a 96-page hardback book. Limited signed CDs will also be available through Amazon, while HMV will offer a CD edition with exclusive packaging.

Pre-order now at https://stevenwilson.lnk.to/Requiem-for-a-Village

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Ren has shared a new piece of music titled ‘The Music Business’ where he isn’t pulling any punches on his experiences within the music industry.

An acoustic-led ditty that is as catchy as it is cutting, Ren goes through every aspect of his journey and the communications he has had with people within music, those who have no concern about the art and only with the profit that is there to be made, and how he absolutely hates it all.

It’s a summation of so many of the reasons that he makes art the way that he does now. Why he is so fiercely independent, why he works with people who are aligned with him and why he will always call out the shit that he sees in hopes of helping those in a similar position.

It’s going to make some people very angry, and that is the point.

Here we go:

It’s the first new music from Ren since the release of ‘ASYLUM’, his collaborative album with Chris Webby.

Here is how that project came to life, from front to back:

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