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Listen to “Eleanor Rigby,” “Daytime Nightime Suffering” and more tracks that hint at his gloomier instincts.

Armored Saint today presents their video for “Every Man-Any Man.” The track comes off the band’s critically-lauded new full-length, Emotion Factory Reset, out now on Metal Blade Records.

“‘Any man has his price’ is a more familiar phrase and that’s the theme, but we didn’t want to call it that,” recalls vocalist John Bush on the track, “It was too obvious. We said, ‘How about we call the first part of the line ‘every man-any man’ and then stop there.’ The intro guitar part almost has this Andy Summers/Police vibe. Then [Joey Vera] goes into the cool bass groove. That’s vintage Joey; he’s such a grooving bass player, and it sounds super unique; you probably won’t hear a groove like that from too many metal bands.

“Combined with [drummer] Gonzo [Sandoval], sometimes the grooves that they combine on are essential to ARMORED SAINT’s sound and have been for years. When those two guys are locked in, it’s pretty awesome, because it’s like they could be playing in the Commodores. That’s the feeling that, I think, is the beauty of ARMORED SAINT; it takes it to another place that a lot of bands can’t go to in the metal world. That’s a perfect example of it.”

Adds Vera, “I liked the idea of having the verse, music, and chorus be the same music parts, but with different vocal parts. This idea was inspired by a song by the band The Police. I also wanted to add all the kitchen sink ingredients, so there are nods to Foo Fighters, Thin Lizzy, and it all ends with a crushing ARMORED SAINT riff.”

 

 

Emotion Factory Reset, ARMORED SAINT’s ninth studio album, is a resurrection of sorts, a tearing down and a rebuilding in eleven songs of diverse musicality and lyrical themes. Produced, as were the previous four albums, by bassist Joey Vera and mixed by Jay Ruston (Anthrax, Stone Sour), the record finds the quintet challenging themselves. Songs like “Close To The Bone,” “Hit A Moonshot,” and “Every Man-Any Man” have ARMORED SAINT honoring their past as one of the most respected and recognizable bands in heavy music while making forward-thinking music rooted in the present.

 

Emotion Factory Reset was recorded across several studios including 606 Studios, Secret Hand Studios, Skullseven Studios, Constantine Studios, and Bridge Recording, engineered by Oliver Roman, Bill Metoyer, Joey Vera, and Jason Constantine, and features cover art by DDKing.

 

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Post-metal visionaries The Ocean have announced their 12th studio album, Solaris, and shared its lead single, “Light Pollution.” A near-70-minute journey to the stars and back, Solaris is based on the late Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky‘s masterpiece of the same name, and is described as the most ambitious album of the band’s 25-year career.

From 2022 to 2025, The Ocean lost two-thirds of its members — the lineup that had made fan-favorite albums Phanerozoic I (2018), Phanerozoic II (2020), and Holocene (2023) gradually disbanded, culminating in a victorious final bow at Hellfest last year. Only founding guitarist, songwriter and lyricist Robin Staps, longtime bassist Mattias Hägerstrand, and new drummer Jordi Farré (also of Crippled Black Phoenix) remained. Rather than call it quits, they rebuilt: Emmanuel Jessua (Hypno5e) and Marco Gennaro joined on guitar, while vocalists Enrico Tiberi and Lane Shi (Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Otay:Onii) stepped in to replace Loïc Rossetti.

New vocalist Enrico Tiberi sings at the beginning of the song. Orbital motion is not only the gravitationally curved trajectory of a celestial body; in another context — alluding to early scenes in the film Solaris — orbital motion in water refers to the circular or elliptical paths water particles follow as waves pass through, transferring energy without moving the water itself forward.

“Light Pollution” begins with synth textures that connect seamlessly to its predecessor, Holocene, before gradually picking up momentum and culminating in a towering, slow-burning finale of orchestral grandeur, suffocating heaviness, and subdued rhythmic complexity. The song explores the pitfalls of 21st-century technology and humanity’s growing obsession with simulated reality.

Pre-order the album here.

Staps commented: “We’ve witnessed several communication revolutions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, but have we actually become any better at communicating? Has there really been forward movement, or has the motion been orbital — have we merely been treading water? Light pollution symbolizes the transparency of the postmodern age, permeating everything and everyone. Everything is constantly visible; we’ve lost the darkness to hide in, and with the relentless glare of communication, we’ve also lost our privacy.”

The music video for “Light Pollution” was directed by filmmaker Craig Murray (Mogwai, Converge) and combines the arrival of new vocalists Lane Shi and Enrico Tiberi with the song’s lyrical themes. Staps described Murray as “a one-man army — every detail of the film exists in his head before he starts to shoot, he’s got hand-drawn sketches of every single scene. He gets up at 6:30 to make molds, shoot and direct, and he’s still up at 2 a.m., gluing tentacles or smearing slime and sand over faces.”

For the recording of Solaris, the band expanded its creative circle with contributions from Thorsten Quaeschning of Tangerine Dream on modular synthesizers. Jens Bogren, who previously mixed the band’s landmark albums Pelagial, Phanerozoic I, and Phanerozoic II, once again handled mixing and mastering. The full album lineup also includes Orestis Zafiriou (keys), Simen Eifring (trombone), and Jiawei Zhang (vibraphone).

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Grave news.

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Earlier this year, Big Big Train released their 16th studio album ‘Woodcut’ to critical acclaim. ‘Woodcut’ is the band’s first concept album, a continuous narrative exploring creativity, sacrifice and the thin line between inspiration and madness and featuring a character called The Artist. Tour dates soon followed, and the band has now announced they will be performing the album in its entirety on the forthcoming tour, along with other classics. Big Big Train will also appear on the next Cruise to the Edge, April 2-8, 2027, from Miami.

“We are very pleased to announce that we will be playing our latest studio album Woodcut in full during our tour of the UK and Europe in September and October this year.

When we had finished recording Woodcut, we hoped that we would have the opportunity to play the whole album live. Now that a few months have passed since its release, the hugely positive response to Woodcut from fans and critics alike has convinced us to go ahead and play a Big Big Train album live from start to finish for the first time ever.

We have also commissioned Crystal Spotlight – who were responsible for the wonderful videos which accompanied the three singles from Woodcut (The Artist, The Sharpest Blade and Counting Stars) – to create films for the rest of the album. We expect that to screen these films at all of our UK shows except Birmingham and Glasgow. Over the summer we will announce which of our continental European shows will feature the films.

We will also be performing over an hour of other material on this tour from our back catalogue. We will be playing some of our best known songs as well as two or three lost classics, including material never previously played live.

If playing Woodcut in full is well received, we might just perform another BBT classic album in full on tour in the future…”

The full list of tour dates is here: www.bigbigtrain.com/live/

Sep 25: UK Milton Keynes The Stables
Sep 26: UK Birmingham The Asylum
Sep 27: UK Bath Komedia
Sep 28: UK Bru St Edmunds The Apex
Sep 30: BEL Verviers The Spirit Of 66
Oct 1: GER Aschaffenburg Colos-Saal
Oct 2: NED Zoetermeer Poppodium Boerderij
Oct 3: NED Uden De Pul
Oct 4: FRA TBA
Oct 6: SPA Madrid La Sala
Oct 7: SPA Barcelona Razzmatazz 2
Oct 9: ITA Schio Teatro Astra
Oct 10: ITA Fontaneto d’Agogna Phenomenon
Oct 11: SWI Prateln Z7
Oct 13: UK Manchester RNCM Theatre
Oct 14: UK Whitley Bay Playhouse
Oct 15: UK Glasgow Slay
Oct 17: UK London O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

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The Great American State Fair, a concert series concocted as part of Donald Trump’s Freedom 250 programming celebrating 250 years of the United States, has been an object lesson about American entertainers’ widespread desire to disassociate themselves from Trump. When the lineup first came out, it was amusing to see what amounted to an I Love The ’90s Tour with a few other nostalgia acts sprinkled in, the sorts of past-their-prime performers who tend to play actual state fairs. The implication was that the only people willing to perform at Trump’s soiree were washed-up opportunists desperate for a paycheck. Then even those folks started backing away.

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Police involvement.

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Grindcore vets Pig Destroyer had The Red Chord vocalist Guy Kozowyk join them onstage for a rendition of “Trojan Whore” during their May 30th set at the Roadrunner in Boston, MA. See below for fan-filmed footage. Pig Destroyer were celebrating 25 years of their acclaimed sophomore album “Prowler In The Yard” during that show. Further…

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Beth Orton is rolling out her new album The Ground Above in a satisfyingly symmetrical fashion. First came the opener “The Ground Above,” followed by “Waiting,” which falls right in the middle of the LP. Now, we get the majestic closer, “Otherside.” “I heard that the first birdsong of a new day is the sound…

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