Entering sharp new sonic terrain as they approach the release of their eighth studio album, emo-metalcore icons Sleeping With Sirens have stunned fans with a surprise drop of a brand new single Paralyzed, releasing the fresh track ahead of their upcoming new record An Ending In Itself, due out on June 12 via Rise Records.

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Showcasing a powerful expansion on their trademark sound, Paralyzed finds Sleeping With Sirens leaning into their heavier roots without sacrificing their trademark modernity and flair. Fresh on the heels of previous single Forever/Always, Paralyzed showcases the band’s most crushing new entry to date from their forthcoming album, with caustic and palpitating verses, soaring choruses, and throwback alternative and metal nods that reflect an amalgamation of shared influences, as frontman Kellin Quinn elaborates, “Paralyzed is one of the heaviest songs on the new record. We had a blast making it and really leaned into the bands that shaped and inspired us growing up – artists like Thrice, The Used, and Haste The Day. It’s aggressive, emotional, and captures a side of us we’ve always loved exploring.”

Produced by Will Yip (Turnstile, Circa Survive, Movements), Paralyzed offers a towering peek further into what lies in wait on album #8 for Sleeping With Sirens, with the new record set act as both a homecoming and a reckoning for the band, reviving the restless spirit of their classic sound with the nuanced experience of recent years, and also marking their first album to be released with Rise Records since 2013’s Feel. Described by Kellin as both a culmination and a continuation, An Ending In Itself will also complete the recent emotional and thematic arc of How It Feels to Be Lost and Complete Collapse while reconnecting with the spirit that first propelled the band forward, capturing lightning in a bottle, Sleeping Sirens-style, like never before across the space of twelve tracks.

“It feels like a final chapter to the last couple of records,” Kellin shares “But it also has a lot of our second record, Let’s Cheers to This, in it. That energy where we weren’t trying to fit in anywhere and we just made the record we wanted to make. A lot of what this record is about is not giving up hope,” adds Kellin, “and finding faith in the middle of hardships.”

Poised at the crossroads of post hardcore, pop and alternative rock, Sleeping With Sirens have spent fifteen years sharpening their signature sound, constantly stupefying airwaves and fans alongside releasing seven studio albums, one EP and one live album. With thousands of shows under their belts, Sleeping With Sirens have also become infamous for their future-forward perspective, as well as for their magnetic live performances and a deep connection with their audience that has catapulted the quintet into a generational global fixture.

A band now in command of gold and platinum certifications, chart success, millions of streams, sold out shows and a long-term commitment to trusting their intuition along the way, Sleeping With Sirens ultimately offer catharsis against the uncertainties of life, rallying with moments of calm and chaos armed with the urgency of punk, melodic ambition and vulnerability. Whether helping to define the early mid-2000s Warped Tour era or redefining new creative frontiers to this very day with long-time fans and an entire new surge of younger audiences in tow, Sleeping With Sirens are truly an immersive force to be reckoned with; and their most recent sonic outings further elevate the pursuit for meaning in a world gone mad.

The brand new release of surprise single Paralyzed is a resounding declaration of sonically transcending the past, present and future in a way only a band like Sleeping With Sirens can. A haymaker coated with raw emotion and oscillating dynamics, part confessional portal and instantly daring to become a fan-favourite, Paralyzed is another home-run primer ahead of the hotly-anticipated release of An Ending In Itself.

Paralyzed is out now.
An Ending In Itself is due out June 12.

Exclusive colored vinyl with signed inserts, and a zine CD featuring 24 pages of behind-the-scenes photos and handwritten lyrics are available to pre-order now here.

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San Vito Ryder’s Room Two Five sounds as if somebody checked into a cheap motel with a guitar, a cracked nerve, and enough unpaid emotional rent to keep the front desk suspicious until sunrise. Ryder, a London-based alternative artist raised between London and Cork, has been calling his zone “Black Drip Blues,” which is the sort of phrase you either roll your eyes at or accept because, frankly, what else do you call this stuff? It is rock ’n’ roll with the curtains drawn, post-punk boiled down to bare wire, gothic tension with a hangover and a faded, failing key card.

Ryder takes a grand idea –  isolation turning into theatre – and keeps it mean, lean, and slightly absurd. There is a little Nick Cave in the theatrical stink, a little Birthday Party in the bad wiring, a little Smashing Pumpkins in the guitar abrasion, and maybe a little Nirvana in the cockroach skittering over the bathroom sink.

“The song came from thinking about the strange rituals people create when they’re isolated for too long,” he says. “In Room Two Five, the motel room becomes a stage where boredom, paranoia and self-invention all start bleeding together.”

That is the setup, and the track follows through with a pleasing lack of polite behaviour. Produced by Kristian Bell of The Wytches at The Hit Dungeon in Peterborough, Room Two Five has a dry, nasty kick, like a busted AC unit rattling beneath a window that looks out over a construction site. The guitars arrive with a burnt-chrome scrape, while Ryder’s raw, rough voice rides hard over the top.

The video, directed by Simon Hedges, strips the scene down further. Shot in black and white, it places Ryder in a sparse room, seated in a cane chair, performing straight into the camera with manic intensity.  The monochrome look makes the performance feel blunt and almost embarrassingly direct, as if the clip has decided decoration would only get in the way of the twitch. Ryder stares, sings, and works the frame as though he is hosting a cabaret for one person – which could very well be himself after three days without proper sleep.

Room Two Five sharpens Ryder’s speakeasy punk pose into something more convincing: a song about artificial intimacy that has the good sense to sound slightly unwell. It turns a motel room into a cheap little chapel for boredom, delusion, and self-invention. Amen, check-out is at eleven.

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Catch San Vito Ryder on tour throughout the UK, including the Y Not? Festival.

Tour Dates:

• June 10 — Old Blue Last — London (Single Release Show)
• July 25 — The Washington — Sheffield (Tramlines Fringe)
• July 31–August 2 — Y Not? Festival
• August 28 — Farm Fest
• September 4 — The Peer Hat — Manchester
• October 29 — Dead Wax — Norwich
• November 7 — Hallamshire Hotel — Sheffield

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To promote their upcoming studio album Souls Of The Fallen, due on June 26th, power metal ensemble Prime Creation present a video clip for the third and last single “Ashes Of Trust”.
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Alter Bridge have announced the second leg of their ‘What Lies Within’ tour across the United States. The 18-city trek will go through in November and December with Canadian rock outfit Big Wreck and Tim Montana as support.
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Melbourne has spoken! Killswitch Engage’s first Forum show is now sold out and we’re adding a second night. Monday, November 9 @ The Forum.

Tickets for the second Forum, Melbourne show are ON SALE NOW!
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Legends of modern heavy music, Killswitch Engage return to Australia and New Zealand in 2026, bringing more than two decades of genre-defining metal to the stage with their biggest Antipodean headline shows yet, joined by special guests, British heavyweights, Sylosis.

The Western Massachusetts metallers helped redraw the map for modern metal in the early 2000’s, fusing blistering European‑inspired guitar work, East Coast hardcore energy and emotionally charged, uplifting lyrics into a sound that changed the game for a generation of bands and fans.

Across a landmark career, Killswitch Engage have earned three Grammy nominations for Best Metal Performance, multiple gold and platinum records, billions of streams and forged a reputation as one of the most powerful live acts in heavy music. From classic albums like Alive Or Just Breathing, The End of Heartache and As Daylight Dies through to chart‑topping releases Disarm the Descent, Incarnate and 2019’s Atonement, they’ve consistently raised the bar while packing out venues and festival main stages around the world.

Fresh from celebrating 25 years as a band and the release of their latest album This Consequence, which featured blockbuster single “I Believe,” the biggest radio hit of their career, Killswitch Engage are set to deliver a career‑spanning set for their Australian and
New Zealand fans.

Expect a night that runs from era‑defining anthems to new favourites, all delivered with the intensity and heart that has seen them share stages with everyone from Iron Maiden and Slayer to My Chemical Romance, Mastodon, Slipknot and Parkway Drive.

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Australian pop icons Bachelor Girl take a sparkling walk on the country side with a reimagined take on their 1998 single Blown Away out today, teaming up with fellow Aussie icons Tommy Emmanuel CGP and Ella Hooper to bring this new version to life. The fourth single released from their 1998 debut studio album Waiting for the Day, Blown Away reaches stunning new heights in its reimagined form decades later, also offering another glimpse into the duo’s forthcoming redux album which will showcase an epic array of acclaimed household names bringing their prowess to reimagined Bachelor Girl favourites.

Expanding on the original’s classic 90s-soaked ruminating verses, euphoric choruses and soaring melodies, Blown Away’s 2026 glow-up dazzles with twangs, shuffling percussion and acoustic guitar, injecting Americana flavours while also colliding four of the country’s most renowned musicians. Guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel and Ella Hooper (Killing Heidi) join forces with Bachelor Girl’s Tania Doko and James Roche to breathe brilliant new life into long-time fan favourite track.

“We’ve gone a lil’ bit country/Americana on this third release of our ‘Artist Sessions’,” shares Bachelor Girl’s Tania Doko of the reworked Blown Away. “James and I wanted to extend the collaboration to two artists we’ve shared a long musical history with… this time all the way from Nashville to Violet Town. We just couldn’t resist calling in James’ ol ‘boss’ he thrived with on tour back in the 90s – one of the world’s guitar greats, Tommy Emmanuel, along with fellow 90s effervescent front woman who’s gone a LOT Americana herself – Ella Hooper. The original Blown Away is a crowd favourite live, and now this new version of great friends/artists quite simply makes my soul ‘YEEHAW!’”

Since teaching himself to play as a toddler, Tommy Emmanuel’s first language has been the guitar. Now over sixty years into his career, Tommy remains a global household name, revered as an international master of the solo acoustic guitar, with a GRAMMY Award win in his wake, a staggering back catalogue and a reputation as one of the most versatile and accomplished guitar players on the planet. Still a globe-trotting touring phenomenon, Tommy routinely enamours with his technical wizardry and signature solo guitar playing style, building a sonic universe time and time again armed with a solitary guitar; and the delight for Bachelor Girl to have Tommy on board lending some acoustic prowess for this reimagining of Blown Away is equally echoed by Tommy, enthusing, “What an adventure to play on “Blown Away”, with my friends BG and Ella Hooper. What a cool move to mix acoustic guitar with such a slammin’ powerhouse track! Thanks for having me on there. I am so honoured.”

Award-winning entertainer Ella Hooper is no stranger performing and wowing airwaves and crowds with her captivating vocals and creative finesse. Blazing a trail at an early age as the frontwoman for Killing Heidi, Hooper ticked off chart-topping hits, sold out tours and a #1 debut album, while also becoming the youngest-ever recipient of APRA’s Songwriter of the Year. A seasoned creative across multiple genres, Ella’s songwriting also spans folk, alt-rock, country and Americana, making her addition alongside the country vibes on Bachelor Girl’s reworked Blown Away the perfect fit; and on a song Ella herself has long adored, as she reveals, “it’s not every day you get to be on a track with a fave formative band and an iconic powerhouse! Blown Away has always been my favourite Bachies song live too, I would arrive right when they were playing this song in their set at the never ending Red Hot Summer tour we were on together and it would set me up for the whole evening, I think it’s a real ‘let’s go girls’ kick the door down track, and I can’t believe how they’ve reworked it for me and Tommy to add our slightly country flavours to.. what an honour and a hoot!”

Slated for an August release, Waiting For The Day: Artist Sessions is a complete reinterpretation of the double Platinum Bachelor Girl album that captivated the world back in 1998. Featuring tracks like Buses and Trains, Treat Me Good and Lucky Me, the album set the tone for the band’s legacy and ongoing success. And in 2026, Bachelor Girl will gift fans a completely reimagined version of the album that put them on the map, joined by some of the country’s finest. “We (somewhat audaciously!) began to ask some of our favourite Aussie artists and friends if they would lend their voices and/or instrument to our bucket list project,” beams Tania Doko. “What started with one, became 15 artists on this 15 track Redux album, and we could not be more chuffed they enthusiastically said yes.”

Bachelor Girl has also announced their Waiting For The Day Redux tour which will kick off in their home state playing at The Vine Hotel in Bendigo on Friday July 31, before moving through Yackandandah, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Frankston and finishing off in Sydney at The Factory Theatre on October 18. Tickets are on sale now from www.bachelorgirl.com.

Tania Doko and James Roche of Bachelor Girl have proven their enduring, beloved status in Aussie music culture. Their debut Buses and Trains earned James APRA Song of the Year in 1999 and remains one of the most played Australian compositions since its release. The iconic hit also made waves in Asia, Scandinavia, Europe and the US, including a signing by legendary A&R Clive Davis, Arista records. Their critically acclaimed ARIA winning Waiting for the Day album spawned another four releases still on rotation today, including Treat Me Good, Lucky Me, Blown Away and Permission to Shine. With a catalogue defined by exceptional songwriting and soaring vocals, the duo continue to captivate audiences, recently touring alongside legendary acts including Simple Minds, Icehouse and The Corrs.

Blown Away featuring Tommy Emmanuel and Ella Hooper is out today.
Waiting For The Day: Artist Sessions is set for release in August.

Stream: BLOWN AWAY FEAT. TOMMY EMMANUEL & ELLA HOOPER

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