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Italian technical death metal outfit Miscreance, alongside Season of Mist, are now streaming the band’s upcoming sophomore album, Reminiscence, ahead of its release this Friday, August 28th. Reminiscence track listi: Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

In recent years Greg Freeman has emerged as a prolific and beloved force in underground rock. The roots rocker is already following up last year’s great Burnover with All Set The Bone, a new album he recorded with the esteemed producer John Congleton. Lead single “Indu” was quite pleasing, and so is the new one out today.

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The Mountain Music Festival, a three-day classic rock event, returned to the Gatlinburg Convention Center, located in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, on August 21 through 23.

The three-day festival featured over 25 artists on three stages, including Rick Springfield, Ratt’s Stephen Pearcy and Warren DeMartini, 38 Special, Night Ranger, Sebastian Bach, Lynch Mob, Warrant, John Waite, Lita Ford, Jackyl, Vixen and more. Due to doctor’s orders, co-headliner Bret Michaels was forced to cancel.

The event also included an array of interactive events and activities (including photo opportunities with select bands, and access to the Rock N’ Roll Marketplace, Rock N’ Roll Art Gallery, and Outdoor Patio Experience). Photographer Joe Schaeffer was on-hand to capture some of the highlights of this year’s Mountain Music Festival.

Instrumental outfit Polyphia have announced their fifth full-length album, BE NOT AFRAID, which will arrive on October 23rd through Rise Records. The band have also unveiled a new single, “POWER IN THE BLOOD,” accompanied by a music video directed by Caleb Young and filmed at the São Francisco da Penitência Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Remove the voice from an album and its character can change completely. For DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, that absence has opened another route into the introspective world of Innern. The German progressive black metal quartet will release Innern (Instrumental) digitally on September 12, 2026 via Season of Mist, marking the first anniversary of the original […]

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When Elvis Presley wanted to record the song, Parton made the hard-nosed decision to protect her ownership of her work.

That record will be out in November.

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Polyphia have announced the details of their new album ‘Be Not Afraid’, the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Remember That You Will Die’.

The record will be released on October 23 via Rise Records.

Guitarist Tim Henson had this to say about what the pursuit of the record was:

“Instead of going wide on Be Not Afraid, we went as deep as we could. There are so many layers to pull back. Every time you listen to it, you’ll notice something new. Thematically, it’s by far the most meaningful record we’ve ever made.

Whilst guitarist Scott LePage added:

“We physically can’t make the same album twice. We have a yearning to evolve. It was so much fun to write this one together too – the writing sessions for past Polyphia records typically looked like us gathering our ideas separately first and bringing them to each other second, so we took a different approach with Be Not Afraid by treating the sessions like an opportunity to create with everybody in the room first before getting into the separate writing. It was a much more communal approach that led to us having so much fun making it that the fun itself was the magic being captured.”

The artwork is astonishing and looks like this:

It will include the previously unleashed ‘Can You Feel It’, as well as the fresh ‘Power In The Blood’.

The latter is a stunning piece of work, to say the least. Classically Polyphia in the way it blends sporadic riffing with trap beats and rhythmic shifts, whilst managing to push the ante even further with bristling bass drops and technically astonishing bouts of exploration.

Have a listen for yourself.

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Helheim is not merely a destination on ISKALD’s forthcoming album. It is an inward journey shaped by isolation, doubt and psychological collapse. The Norwegian melodic black metal veterans have released the second official teaser for Curse of the Mind, their sixth full-length album and first concept record. The album arrives on September 25, 2026 via […]

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Tim Curry, the prolific British actor and singer, has passed away. TMZ reports that Curry passed away last night at home in Los Angeles. Curry remains most famous for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult-beloved 1975 musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show and for playing comic-relief villains in a long string of movie roles. He also excelled in tons of stage-musical roles, and he had a run as a pop artist in the late ’70s and early ’80s. No cause of death has been reported, but Curry suffered a number of health problems later in life, including a 2012 stroke that left him unable to walk. He was 80.

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