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Ghost Hounds have released their new single, “Something Wicked,” the latest preview of the band’s upcoming album, Justified, due out August 21, 2026, via Maple House Records.

Built around soaring vocals, driving guitars and Southern rock influences, “Something Wicked” showcases another side of the band’s roots-rock sound.

Discussing the new song, vocalist SAVNT stated, “‘Something Wicked’ is a story about the ‘end of days,’ and a true anthemic Southern rock song that begs the question, ‘Are these the times the old folks warned us about?’” He stated, adding, “I remember Thomas bringing ‘Something Wicked’ to Tyler and me. I could almost feel his excitement as he walked over to us with pages of lyrics. He started playing a riff on the guitar, and Tyler caught onto it almost immediately. As soon as Tyler and Thomas got into a groove, I was able to find the melody of the words on that paper within the phrases of their guitars. Organically, the song came to life, and in a way, it showed us what it wanted to be. At one point, Thomas told Tyler to keep playing as he ran over to the music stand and crossed off certain words and added in new ones, and by the end of that session, we knew we had something special.”

The band also announced a run of live dates, including an August 19 performance at Mercury Lounge in New York, with additional shows scheduled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Dewey Beach, Delaware. More dates are expected to be announced.

Justified features a collection of songs centered on themes of betrayal, revenge, hope and redemption while blending rock, soul, country and blues-rock. The album includes the previously released title track, “Justified,” along with “Sinner’s Prayer,” “Chasing Yesterday,” “Here No More,” “War Inside” and “Pale Horse.” It also features covers of The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” Freddie King’s “Going Down” and the gospel standard “Amazing Grace.”

Ghost Hounds feature vocalist SAVNT alongside founder, producer and guitarist Thomas Tull, guitarist Tyler Chiarelli, fiddle player Kristin Weber, keyboardist Joe Munroe, bassist Bennett Miller and drummer Sydney Driver.

“The way Thomas writes, he knows what the guy in his song had for breakfast that morning. He’s really building a character,” SAVNT says.

The band has continued to expand its profile in recent years with appearances at the Grand Ole Opry, The Kelly Clarkson Show and AmericanaFest. Ghost Hounds have also opened for The Rolling Stones, ZZ Top, Bob Seger and Garth Brooks, while their song “Last Train to Nowhere” was featured in the television series Special Ops: Lioness.

Their upcoming album follows a string of releases that includes Roses Are Black, A Little Calamity, You Broke Me, First Last Time, and 2025’s Almost Home, which featured guest appearances from Lainey Wilson and Patty Griffin.

“We are so proud of Justified. We were able to draw from so many of our influences and put forth a record that we feel really sounds like a culmination of all the parts becoming the whole,” lead guitarist Tyler Chiarelli says. “At the center of that is SAVNT. His vocals were able to traverse so much ground, and it was so amazing to witness him find new dimensions of his voice in the process. From blues to country to rock, he brought all of the songs to life.”

“We don’t really care about rules or genres. When we write, record, or perform, the songs could be country, Americana, soul, or blues-rock,” SAVNT says. “It’s all of our influences, mixed together. And there’s nothing better than that.”

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On Friday 17th July, Scotland Rocks Radio held their iconic “Forged in Scotland” live show at the Banshee Labyrinth. The lineup for the night mostly steered towards heavy stoner rock by Fuz Caldrin, Buzzards of Babylon, and headliners Earl of Hell. Rob Taylor, SRR’s host, first introduced Fuz Caldrin, a band from West Lothian self-described … Continue reading Gig Review: Earl of Hell / Buzzards of Babylon / Fuz Caldrin – Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh (17th July 2026)

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It’s that time of year again where we talk to as many bands as we can who are raring to blow you away at Catton Park! Stoke-on-Trent metalcore unit Return to Solace will be bringing their energetic, chaotic blend of pop-punk and deathcore influences to the Stowford Press New Blood Stage on Sunday at Bloodstock … Continue reading Road To Bloodstock 2026: Return To Solace

Steve Cropper & The Midnight Hour have released “Tandoori Chicken,” the latest single from their upcoming album Watching The Tide, due out August 28 via Provogue / Artone Label Group.

The instrumental track opens Watching The Tide and serves as a funky introduction to the album while also paying tribute to Booker T. & The M.G.’s 1962 classic “Green Onions.” The release follows the previously issued singles “Ticket First” and “Until Now.”

Named after the guitarist’s iconic co-write “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Watching The Tide features Cropper collaborating with songwriter and producer Jon Tiven and Midnight Hour vocalist Roger C. Reale. The album was recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio C with a lineup that includes Ana Grosh on vocals, Nioshi Jackson on drums, engineer Eddie Gore on keyboards and percussion, along with guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Billy Gibbons, Brian May and Ronnie Wood.

Tiven explained how “Tandoori Chicken” came together after an Indian lunch with Cropper.

“About a month before Steve passed, we went out for an Indian lunch. Steve really loaded up on this tandoori chicken. We had this one kicking around as a song, but we never really thought the lyrics were very good. So then I started thinking, ‘Well, if I put a sitar on it, maybe it’ll hold together as an instrumental’, because Steve is playing some amazing guitar on it. Then I said, ‘Steve, is it okay if we call it Tandoori Chicken?’ A big smile came to his face, and he goes, ‘That’s my favourite’. And y’know, he’s got a lot of history with food-oriented song titles. So it was a nice way to tie it all together.”

The new single follows “Until Now,” which features Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood on slide guitar. Tiven recalled how quickly Wood agreed to contribute.

“Ronnie Wood got back to me about 10 minutes after I sent off my email: ‘Oh, this looks like a lot of fun. I’ll jump in.’”

The album’s first single, “Ticket First,” also features a guest appearance from Eric Clapton. Tiven reflected on the recording session and Clapton’s contribution.

“I told Eric, ‘Man, you just turned that song inside-out – I think we’re gonna have to give you a writer’s credit,” recalls Tiven of the legendary British guitarist’s transcendent solo. “And Eric said, ‘Well, anything to get my name next to Steve Cropper’s…’”

TRACK LISTING

1. Tandoori Chicken
2. Ticket First (feat. Eric Clapton)
3. My Angels Are Calling (feat. Brian May & Billy F. Gibbons)
4. Until Now (feat. Ron Wood)
5. Blood From A Stone
6. Here & Gone (feat. Ana Grosh)
7. It’s Gonna Get Worse
8. Down & Out
9. Stand Right Here (feat. Billy F. Gibbons & Ana Grosh)
10. Tipoff To The Ripoff
11. House Of Cards
12. Tandoori Chicken Part 2

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There is a particular kind of dread that black metal used to trade in as its common currency, something malevolent was pressing against the other side of the speaker cone, and Faustian have that dread in spades, and on their second full-length Parable Of The Sewer, they wield it like a blade held to the … Continue reading Album Review: Faustian – Parable Of The Sewer

Screencapped comments said to be from Worsnop outline his current role in the band.

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Sleep Token’s third album, 2023’s Take Me Back To Eden, has been officially certified platinum by the RIAA — and it arrives with a footnote that says more about the band than the plaque does. It’s the first platinum album in the long history of Spinefarm Records, the label that has been putting out heavy music since 1990. The masked, anonymous London collective also picked up a gold certification for The Summoning on the same day, capping a record that has now passed two billion global streams.

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A faceless band from London just handed a decades-old metal label its first ever platinum record — Scott Penfold unpacks the Sleep Token platinum milestone and what it says about where heavy music is heading on tomorrow’s Metal Breakdown Daily. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the broadcast now.

The Numbers Behind The Plaque

Take Me Back To Eden was released on May 19, 2023 via Spinefarm, closing out the trilogy Sleep Token built on the label alongside 2019’s Sundowning and 2021’s This Place Will Become Your Tomb. Those three records established the whole apparatus — the mystique, the lore, the fanbase that treats a release like scripture — and Eden is where it detonated.

Two billion global streams later, the RIAA has made it official. The Summoning, the track that became the band’s crossover moment and the entry point for a huge slice of the current fanbase, is now certified gold alongside it.

For Spinefarm, a label with a catalogue stretching back more than three decades of heavy music, this is the first release to reach platinum status. That’s a genuinely remarkable line item — and it belongs to a band whose members have never shown their faces.

Certification Is A Lagging Indicator, And This Proves It

Here’s the thing worth sitting with. Take Me Back To Eden came out over three years ago. In the time since, Sleep Token have gone from a cult concern to arena headliners with two sold-out U.S. tours, released a chart-topping follow-up, and picked up Grammy nominations. The platinum plaque is arriving well after the cultural moment it’s measuring.

That’s how RIAA certification works in heavy music. Sales and streaming thresholds accumulate quietly while the band’s actual trajectory moves at a completely different speed, and a certification announcement is often the first time the industry formally acknowledges something the audience settled two years earlier. Anyone who watched the Sleep Token phenomenon build in real time knew Eden had crossed over long before a certification body said so.

Which makes today’s news less a surprise and more a receipt.

Also Recommended – Every Sleep Token Album Ranked Worst To Best (One Clearly Stands Above The Rest)

What Sleep Token Have Done Since

The band’s fourth album, Even In Arcadia, landed May 9, 2025 via RCA Records, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and stayed on the chart for 36 consecutive weeks. It was certified gold by the RIAA in January 2026.

It also delivered the band’s first Grammy nominations at the 68th Grammy Awards — Best Metal Performance for Emergence and Best Rock Song for Caramel. Drummer II picked up his first Grammy outright for his featured performance on Yungblud’s Changes (Live From Villa Park).

The Even In Arcadia campaign was backed by Sleep Token’s first-ever sold-out U.S. arena tour, a run that would have seemed absurd to predict when Sundowning came out in 2019.

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Anonymity At Platinum Scale

None of this should work. Sleep Token formed in London in 2016 and perform entirely in cloaks and masks. Only two members — singer and multi-instrumentalist Vessel and drummer II — are credited with playing or writing anything across all four albums. The band barely does press. There is no frontman doing morning radio, no viral interview clips, no personality-driven promo cycle.

And they just gave a three-decade-old metal label its first platinum album.

That’s the part worth chewing on. In an era where artist identity is supposedly the whole product, the biggest crossover success modern heavy music has produced belongs to a group nobody can identify. If you want the full backstory on the lore, the masks, and how the Cult of Sleep actually functions, our complete Sleep Token breakdown goes deep on all of it.

Check Out – Sleep Token Lore Explained: What The Band Actually Reveals — And What It Doesn’t

TL;DR

• Sleep Token’s Take Me Back To Eden has been certified platinum by the RIAA
• It is the first platinum album in Spinefarm Records’ history
• The single The Summoning was certified gold at the same time
• The album was released May 19, 2023 and has surpassed two billion global streams
• Follow-up Even In Arcadia hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2025, spent 36 consecutive weeks on the chart, and went gold in January 2026
• The band earned their first Grammy nominations for Emergence and Caramel, while drummer II won a Grammy for his feature on a Yungblud track

FAQ

A faceless band just handed a 35-year-old metal label its first platinum record — say what you want about Sleep Token, that is a genuinely historic thing to pull off. Where does Take Me Back To Eden rank for you against Even In Arcadia? Let us know in the comments, and follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.

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M. Shawn Crahan, aka Slipknot percussionist and founding father Clown, has launched an intriguing new side project, O’ Day Monster, sharing the AI-created video for debut single Un Life.

At present, there are no more details about the project, but Crahan explains its origins by stating, “I wanted to create the spaceship I could drive with my words.”

As with previous Crahan side projects, O’ Day Monster share precious little musical DNA with Slipknot.

The 56-year-old Iowa-born musician’s latest musical venture has emerged in tandem with the launch of a new one-stop online portal, theclown.com, featuring links to Crahan’s various side-projects, his podcast The Electric Theater, and his whiskey brand lipknot No. 9 Iowa Whiskey.

In an introduction to the website posted in a section labelled Thoughts, Crahan explains why he has launched the site, and says, “I can’t wait to go down this wormhole and share thoughts with you about vision and one’s self, concentrated on output.”

His introduction in full reads:

“Welcome everyone, to the new home of all my artistic endeavors. If you’ve been following me for a while, you know it’s been a challenge to get the .com to a place where I feel I can contemplate, and present, all my creative memories caught with one brush – or several brushes combined. And yes, sometimes there’s no brush that can express the deep inner self.

“It’s been difficult for me to share all these expressions of mine, mainly because of time. With that said, I believe I’m at a crossing where my heart is telling me to share the life I have lived. It’s been an incredible journey so far, and I need to utilize some time and get busy now, to reveal all that has been hidden behind the curtain. Forms and brushes, like fingerpainting when I was young.

“My mother and I shared the love of writing; she encouraged me to write exactly how I truly felt. And to revise, revise, revise so the work could be it’s truest self. Then there’s painting, drawing, performing, directing, producing, single frames, moving frames, Polaroids, scans, 3-D animation, AI images, coding, level creation for video games, recording my songs in Pro Tools, using plugins to expand my experience, exploring gear, connecting dots, and my newest path – modular synths controlled voltage, frequency, vibration and circuitry. There’s much, much more to find and explore in the lane known as my life. It’s time to grab it all, and move it to it’s new home, here at the .com.

“This is where you get the unedited me. The no-filtered me. The no-paraphrasing me; you’ll get no lies from me. Just the racing thoughts of imagination that make their way to some sort of canvas or canvases, time-stamped and put here, in it’s resting place.

“As always, it’s going to be a great while before it’ll all be up, if indeed it can be put up. It takes a lot of work, but that’s what’s next – the time to explore all this together. I can’t wait to go down this wormhole and share thoughts with you about vision and one’s self, concentrated on output.

“I was told once I was like a Renaissance artist, meaning I would do a little bit of all of it, and that’s exactly what I’ve done with my life. Make the love I have for art be the introduction to creating further interests. This has been my personal hobby to create, calculate, and then demand output. You can use all methods, old and new. I’ve come to learn to utilize fear and misunderstanding to dig so deep within my own ability to conjure the scratch. To dream about shedding a tear because of the depth of the subconscious, and the ultimate need to then bring it to life – to feed the knowledge and hopefully set forth a possible understanding that brings lives together, or apart.

“One last thing before I am done here. Check out my new project called O’ Day Monster on the feature page here. I’ve entered a time in my life where I wanted to create something I could conduct and drive, with words. I wanted to create the spaceship I could drive with my words. I’ve always wanted to have someone sing my words with the conviction that the subject matter demanded. Many close friends and I came together to help bring the battle of “me against me” to life. This has been my suffering, and salvation, my entire life. You know, the “I’m my own worst enemy” kind of situation. I am very blessed to have several friends who believe in me, the music, and my words enough to bring all this new color to life to taste and smell. To hold and connect with.

“Either way, the choice is yours. I just know I’ve never had a choice – in the end, it just simply is me. And I want it to find those to whom it speaks, those who take something from it. I hope you enjoy this world I’ve created. Maybe the feeling you get when you arrive is an internal feeling. One that feels like you’ve been here before. Familiarity would be nice. So explore, and hopefully I’ll see you somewhere here beneath all the shadows.

“To all that helped bring my art, my vision, and my scratch to life: Thank you with all my heart. I hope you all enjoy what we have put together for you. It’s not much yet, but it will keep expanding outwards – until it is no more.

“Until then, ‘Enjoy, thank you, and live your life’.”

Watch the video for Un Life below.