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Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill has announced his retirement from live performance after revealing the extent of the arthritis and injury problems that have affected his ability to play. Davey Rimmer, known for his work with Uriah Heep and Elegant Weapons, will take his place in the band.

In a personal statement issued on 9 October 2026, Hill explained that he had long believed he would continue performing until his playing began to suffer. He now feels that point has arrived. “Hello everyone, for a long time now, when asked ‘how long can you continue,’ I’ve always answered until my performances suffer. I hate to say it, but that time has come.”

Hill said he has been dealing with arthritis for several years, describing the condition as advanced in his left shoulder and right hand, established in his right shoulder and present in both knees. “I’ve been fighting this with painkilling pills, gels, and recently with cortisone injections in my shoulder and hand,” Hill said.

Although he was able to record bass lines for the band’s new album, there were concerns about whether he could complete the recent European tour. Rimmer learned the setlist as a precaution and stepped in for the London concert after Hill snapped a tendon in his left shoulder during the Brussels show, two days earlier.

Hill explained that the injury left him unable to lift his arm far enough to reach the neck of his bass. He praised Rimmer for delivering an incredible performance at short notice.

Specialists have told Hill that surgery may not be necessary, but he said there is no guarantee that his shoulder and arm will regain enough strength to complete a full stage show.

“In view of all this, and the fact that I’ve neglected my family life for fifty-seven years, I’ve decided to retire and spend the remaining years making up for it, and doing things with them before it involves one of ’em pushing me around in a wheelchair. 

After 57 years devoted to music, Hill said he now wants to spend more time with his family.

Hill gave his full support to his successor, describing Davey Rimmer as a great bassist and a genuinely nice person who will fit the job perfectly.

“There’s not a day goes by where I don’t give thanks for the incredible journey I’ve lived through, and it just remains for me to say that I love you all, and thank you for the life you’ve let me live. X”

In the announcement accompanying Hill’s statement, Judas Priest said he had been the band’s backbone for many years, wished him well in retirement and welcomed Rimmer into the Priest family.

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Opening up an inimitable world for heavy music, multi-cultural alternative metal quintet ANKOR — vocalist Jessie Williams (Bristol, UK), drummer Eleni Nota (Athens, Greece), guitarists David Romeu and Fito Martinez, and bassist Julio López (Catalonia, Spain) — proudly present their new album, I SEE RED, out November 20 via UNFD. Pre-order the album here.

To herald its release, they just unleashed a brand new single and music video entitled “ITACHI · blood moon.”

Watch the video here. 

“ITACHI · blood moon” hints at the scope of ANKOR’s immersive vision. Ominous guitar brings dimension to a hypnotic rhythm. Meannwhile, haunting vocal transmissions echo over a pounding beat, giving way to a corrosively catchy chorus, “Drown me in poison, I’ll stay where it hurts.” It concludes with a chilling invitation, “Make me your nightmare, let me haunt your sleep.” The accompanying visual projects this image on screen through striking vignettes and arresting storytelling.

Fall into ANKOR’s dark embrace and see RED with them…

About their forthcoming album, Jessie Williams said, “I See Red is a journey through pain, power, sacrifice, betrayal, loss and obsession. Each song tells the story of someone who was shaped by the world around them and by the choices they made when everything they believed in began to fall apart. Some sought peace. Some sought power. Some sacrificed everything for the people they loved. Others let hatred consume what was left of them. But none of them were born monsters. The world made them. And sometimes, when pain becomes the only thing you know, becoming the monster is easier than becoming the victim. Six names. Six paths. One color. I See Red.”

Adding another layer to the project, each song on I SEE RED evokes the lore of prominent villains in the Naruto manga and anime series.

The album will also include their 2026 single, “DANZO · lying ghost” featuring MAH of Japanese rock powerhouse SiM. Since releasing in March, the track continues to gain traction with over 498.4k Spotify streams while the music video has tallied 255.7k views. It also received plugs from Distorted Sound Magazine, That Eric Alper, and Louder who named it among “The 12 Best New Metal Songs You Need To Hear This Week,” going on to rave “it’s a vibrant showcase of how unique the band are.” The latter praised, “Heavy guitars and modern metalcore production collide with the band’s fascination with Asian pop culture, while the song’s central character gives its aggression a clear narrative target.”

In other news, ANKOR will be supporting Amaranthe on their forthcoming Nordic tour. Rolling through cities across Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Latvia, the trek kicks off on October 15 before ending on November 7. Shortly after, ANKOR will venture to Europe for a co-headline tour alongside Self Deception and Lauren Babic. The run begins on November 27 in Cologne, Germany followed by performances across France, the UK, Austria, Denmark, and more. The tour concludes on December 19 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Check out the full list of tour dates below.

Stay tuned for more music and news from ANKOR coming soon.

Welcome to their world.

I SEE RED TRACK LISTING:
“The world shall know pain”
“MADARA · endless dream”
“ITACHI · blood moon”
“KAGUYA · paper halo”
“NAGATO · purples eyes”
“OBITO · dead letter”
“DANZO · lying ghost (ft. MAH from SiM)”

NORDIC TOUR – SUPPORTING AMARANTHE:
10/15 — Huskvarna, SE
10/16 — Lund, SE
10/17 — Göteborg, SE
10/18 — Örebro, SE
10/20 — Karlstad, SE
10/22 — Stavanger, NO
10/23 — Bergen, NO
10/24 — Trondheim, NO
10/25 — Oslo, NO
10/27 — Falun, SE
10/28 — Umeå, SE
10/30 — Seinäjoki, FI
10/31 — Tampere, FI
11/1 — Jyväskylä, FI
11/3 — Rīga, LV
11/4 — Vilnius, LT
11/6 — Turku, FI
11/7 — Lahti, FI

EU/UK CO-HEADLINE TOUR WITH SELF DECEPTION & LAUREN BABIC:
11/27 — Cologne, DE
11/28 — Hamburg, DE
11/29 — Utrecht, NL
12/1 — Kortrijk, BE
12/2 — Paris, FR
12/4 — Manchester, UK
12/5 — London, UK
12/6 — Birmingham, UK
12/8 — Aschaffenburg, DE
12/9 — Aarau, CH
12/11 — Karlsruhe, DE
12/12 — Vienna, AT
12/13 — Munich, DE
12/15 — Hannover, DE
12/16 — Berlin, DE
12/17 — Aarhus, DK
12/18 — Copenhagen, DK
12/19 — Stockholm, SE

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Old Flag, New Grievances “Don’t Tread On Me” goes way back. It’s the line under the coiled rattlesnake

Calva Louise have once again defied expectations and crafted something wholly unique with their new track ‘La Promesa’.

Part flamenco classic, part period piece, part deathcore crusher, it is bonkers, brilliant and boundless as it comes. A forward-thinking, chaotic, stunningly crafted piece of modern heaviness that refuses to be labelled and thrives within the ambiguity.

Vocalist Jess Allanic explains the meaning behind the song, centred around the feeling of invisible forces pushing you forwards:

“Although some of those forces can be positive, others can become empty promises rooted in obsessions and delusions. Eventually blurring the lines between doing the right thing, accepting a more challenging path or choosing to ignore the consequences of your own actions because it’s the easy way out.”

And she further builds on why the song is sung in Spanish, and why that was so vital:

“As Spanish is my native language, it feels more natural for me to accurately convey the abstract emotions that we are experiencing. Also as the song is heavily inspired by Venezuelan Joropo (also known as Música Llanera) Spanish was subconsciously the only way for me to sing this melody, letting the natural flow of the writing process take total control. That being said, some French lines are sung by our bass player Alizon, as a nod to our multicultural background, and also adding another perspective to the character’s point of view.”

And those characters are portrayed in a video pulled from another time, which was written, directed, and SFX’d by Jess.

The band had this to say about it:

“The video for La Promesa was like our previous videos made by ourselves and our friends and it expands on the story of one of the characters of Edge Of The Abyss. Although the video is a diy endeavour, we feel we keep continuing to progress in our abilities, always trying to increase the production value.”

Enough chat, let’s get stuck in:

Calva Louise are currently out on the road with Creeper, and here are the dates you can catch them at:

OCTOBER

9 – LONDON O2 Forum Kentish Town
10 – MANCHESTER Academy
11 – GLASGOW SWG3 Galvanisers

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Hill joined Judas Priest three years before Rob Halford and four before Glenn Tipton. Continue reading…

Hill joined Judas Priest three years before Rob Halford and four before Glenn Tipton. Continue reading…

In the ever-evolving music scene, where artists and bands often lean toward modern, genre-pushing music that can feel

Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today leads with the Def Leppard tour 2027 announcement: 45 North American arenas from March 2 to July 2 with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts, five of them in Canada, and a dollar from every ticket going to City of Hope, the cancer centre treating guitarist Vivian Campbell, who revealed in August that his Hodgkin lymphoma has returned.

Also today: Los Angeles declares Friday, November 13 Billy Idol Day, with a free City Hall acoustic set from Idol and Steve Stevens the day before their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, and Deafheaven surprise-release At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb, a three-song EP Kerry McCoy calls ‘the heaviest thing we’ve ever released’.

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Scott Penfold opens today’s Metal Breakdown Daily with the Def Leppard 2027 dates, the five Canadian stops and what a dollar a ticket means for Vivian Campbell, then Billy Idol Day in Los Angeles, Deafheaven’s surprise EP, and a Take on why heavy is back and why it isn’t nostalgia. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.

Def Leppard: 45 Arenas, Five In Canada, And A Dollar A Ticket For Vivian Campbell’s Hospital

Def Leppard’s 2027 North American tour runs 45 arena dates from March 2 at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania to July 2 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts on the bill and one dollar from every ticket going to City of Hope.

The Canadian stops are Montreal’s Bell Centre on March 5, Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on March 9, Quebec City’s Centre Vidéotron on March 11, then Vancouver’s Rogers Arena on May 14 and Edmonton’s Rogers Place on May 16. Madison Square Garden is June 23 and the Hollywood Bowl is May 1. Presales open Monday, October 12 at 10am and the general on-sale is Friday, October 16 through Ticketmaster. The band’s statement is two sentences: ‘2027 just keeps getting better!’ and ‘This is going to be one for the ages!’

The dollar is the story. City of Hope is where Vivian Campbell was treated for Hodgkin lymphoma after his 2013 diagnosis. ‘In the winter of 2023, I got really scared about what was happening and the pace at which it was happening,’ he said in August; the treatment there ‘was my only hope to survive.’ Last year he was reported in remission. ‘Unfortunately, it didn’t stick,’ he said. ‘So the cancer has returned.’ He’s continuing treatment, and he’s listed for the tour.

Campbell has been fighting this longer than most fans realise, across the same years he was rebuilding his relationship with the Dio legacy and playing every Leppard date he could. Forty-five shows with a returning diagnosis is either reckless or the most Vivian Campbell thing imaginable, and anyone who’s spent time around touring musicians knows which. The road is the medicine. For a band whose 1980s run still anchors any list of the decade’s essential records, this is the tour where the ticket price buys something more than a seat.

Billy Idol: Los Angeles Declares November 13 Billy Idol Day, The Day Before His Rock Hall Induction

The City of Los Angeles will proclaim Friday, November 13, 2026 Billy Idol Day, with Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez presenting the decree to Idol and Steve Stevens at a council session, followed by a free acoustic performance on the City Hall steps; the pair are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the next night.

The set happens at City Hall Park in downtown LA, with surprise guests promised and no start time given yet. Twenty-four hours later, November 14, Idol and Stevens join the Class of 2026 at the Peacock Theater a few blocks away, with the ceremony airing in December on ABC and Disney+. After years on the list of acts the Hall kept passing over, the timing reads like a city making a point.

The year earned it. Dream Into It, his first album in over a decade, reached number seven on the US Top Albums chart and number four on the rock chart, with Avril Lavigne, Joan Jett and Alison Mosshart on it. The documentary Billy Idol Should Be Dead is on Hulu. He and Stevens took the Lifetime Achievement Award at the American Music Awards and he performed on that broadcast for the first time in his career. He’s a special guest at Aerosmith’s Hollywood Bowl show on October 29, and Rebel Yell gets an all-analogue One Step pressing on November 20.

There’s a version of Billy Idol’s story where he’s a punchline, the sneer and the fist and the motorcycle, and the documentary title tells you he knows it. Instead he’s seventy, sober, charting, and getting a day named after him by the city that watched him nearly die in it. Plenty of his hair-metal-era peers never got that second act. That’s not a comeback. That’s winning.

Deafheaven: Surprise EP At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb Is ‘The Heaviest Thing We’ve Ever Released’

Deafheaven surprise-released a three-song EP, At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb, with ‘Hunter’, ‘Three Princes’ and ‘Sorry Laid The Hearth’, after guitarist Kerry McCoy described it as ‘the heaviest thing we’ve ever released’ and ‘definitely the closest thing to black metal we’ve ever done’.

The title comes from Robert Del Tredici’s photo book about the people and places that built America’s nuclear arsenal, and the EP sits in the gap between a bomb’s consequences and the ordinary work that makes one. ‘Hunter’ arrives with a short film shot with Nico Poalillo, and the band had already road-tested the song in Chicago earlier this month; the EP had quietly been on sale at shows before it hit streaming overnight. McCoy’s quotes came in an interview with Binaural last month.

Context matters here. Deafheaven spent a decade being told they were the band that made black metal safe for people who didn’t like black metal, then made Infinite Granite in 2021 with barely a scream on it, then came back with Lonely People With Power in March 2025 and sounded like they’d never left. Eighteen months later, ‘heaviest ever’ from them isn’t a press-release reflex. From a band with their history inside the black metal lineage, it’s a decision.

The Take: Heavy Is Back, And It Isn’t Nostalgia

The bands going heavy this autumn aren’t chasing a trend, because there isn’t one; they’re choosing it, and chosen heavy is where the good records come from.

Look at the week. Trivium announce an album built on Kurosawa and 1970s Japanese horror and call it the record they’d been dying to make. Bring Me The Horizon re-record their deathcore debut because the singer never liked how it sounded. Whitechapel went back to the pit in the spring. And now Deafheaven, the band the purists spent ten years sneering at, put out a surprise EP and the first word out of the guitarist’s mouth is ‘heaviest’.

The counter-argument is fair and it’s old: every band says this. ‘Our heaviest yet’ has been on press releases since the Black Album, and it usually means the drums are louder. But there’s a difference between a band that was always heavy saying it and a band that left, got praised for leaving, and came back anyway. Infinite Granite reviewed better than most of Deafheaven’s catalogue. They didn’t need to return to this. They did because it’s what they wanted to play, and in a touring economy this strained, nobody makes a ten-minute black metal song about nuclear weapons for the money.

Yesterday’s post argued Black Sabbath got their ending right by leaving it alone. The flip side is this: the bands with decades left are deciding what they actually sound like, and more of them than not are landing on heavy. TikTok isn’t asking for it. That’s the point. When a band picks heavy instead of defaulting to it, that’s when you get records that last. Three songs. Go find out.

TL;DR

• Def Leppard’s 2027 North American tour: 45 arenas, March 2 (Allentown) to July 2 (Indianapolis), with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts; Canadian dates in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Vancouver and Edmonton; presale Monday, on-sale Friday October 16; one dollar per ticket to City of Hope, where Vivian Campbell is being treated after his cancer returned.
• Los Angeles proclaims November 13 Billy Idol Day, with a free City Hall acoustic set from Idol and Steve Stevens, the day before their Rock Hall induction on November 14.
• Deafheaven surprise-released the three-song At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb EP; Kerry McCoy calls it ‘the heaviest thing we’ve ever released’.
• The Take: heavy is back across the scene this autumn, and it’s a choice, not a trend.

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“The Winepress,” the second single from Rosetta‘s final album, Temporal Lapse, is streaming right now. Previously, the post-metal band had shared the song “The Native Hue of Resolution” and announced that this would be their final album. Over six years in the making, the record drops on November 27th via Pelagic Records.
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