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Nonpoint has rolled out a lyric video for its new single “Is It”, a track set to hit all major streaming platforms on May 8. The song marks the first taste of the band’s next full-length release, The Last Word, due out in late summer 2026.

Working alongside its independent label 361 Degrees Records LLC, Nonpoint is treating “Is It” as a clear starting point for what comes next. Instead of a standard release cycle, the band introduced the track through a hand-drawn animated lyric video, giving it a raw visual edge that lines up with the song’s tone while offering an early glimpse into The Last Word.

Frontman Elias Soriano framed the bigger picture behind the release: “In a world that sometimes wants to put a timestamp on creativity, The Last Word is our way of saying we’re just getting started. We’re pushing back against expectation and pushing forward into our own next chapter.”

On the meaning behind “Is It”, Elias Soriano pointed to a more personal angle: “‘Is It’ is that internal conflict where you question getting too involved? Did I push too hard? Did I ask too much? It’s that feeling of wondering if doing what you thought was right actually meant hurting the people around you.”

He also broke down the concept behind the album artwork, tying it directly into the band’s current mindset: “This album cover tells a piece of our story. After years of making music, we feel more aligned than ever — musically, visually, and creatively. We’re writing some of the strongest material of our career, our live shows are as powerful as they’ve ever been, and the band feels focused and energized. The pencil on the cover represents what it’s like to be handed one last tool and expected to fit everything you have left to say into it. Not because the ideas are gone, but because longevity often comes with assumptions and limits. The Last Word isn’t about accepting an ending. It’s about challenging that narrative. If this is the pencil we’re being handed, we’re going to use it — and make sure the words written with it still matter.”

Nonpoint has already started bringing new material to the stage. The band performed “Is It” and “Red Yeti” live during its April 25 headlining show at Ritz Ybor in Tampa, Florida. “Red Yeti” features a guest spot from Sumo Cyco vocalist Skye Sweetnam. The show kicked off Nonpoint’s The Outta Control Tour, with support from Soil and Sumo Cyco.

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Maltese black metal entity SAĦĦAR has announced the release of its new full-length album, “Migja ta Mohh Mignun”, set to arrive on June 12th, 2026 via Time To Kill Records. Following the project’s recent signing with the label, the album marks a significant step forward in SAĦĦAR’s artistic evolution, further refining a sound rooted in isolation, heritage and a deeply personal vision. […]

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A dimension without coordinates. A record without invitation. “Defies almost all conventions and is not comparable to anything.” — CVLT Nation EMPTINESS, the Belgian extreme music apparition founded in Brussels in 1998, will release their seventh full-length album, Nowhere Speaks, through Season of Mist. The record spans ten tracks and opens not with an introduction but with […]

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Featuring Lucien Greaves (Co-founder of the Satanic Temple), Luke Henshaw, Justin Pearson and Dave Lombardo New full-length album coming Fall 2026 “eerie, tribal, gothic, post-punk, ceremonial doomy industrial soundscapes”Decibel Magazine Relapse Records is proud to announce the signing of SATANIC PLANET, in collaboration with Three One G Records. The official partnership ushers in the next chapter of Satanic […]

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Nedra Talley, a member of the classic early-’60s girl group the Ronettes, has passed away. In a Facebook post on Sunday, Talley’s daughter said that she died at home in bed earlier that morning. The Ronettes’ Instagram also shared the news. Talley, who changed her name to Nedra Tally-Ross after marrying her late husband Scott Ross in 1967, was the last surviving member of the original Ronettes. (Estelle Bennett died in 2009, while group leader Ronnie Spector passed in 2022.) No cause of death has been reported. Talley was 80.

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Today, Swedish blackthrashers Bewitched stream the entirety of their surprise comeback album, Diabolical Death Mass, at the New Wave of Old School Thrash Metal YouTube channel. Released this past Friday via Osmose Productions, hear Bewitched‘s Diabolical Death Mass in its entirety HERE. Swedish black / thrash metal veterans Bewitched are back. Forged in fire back in 1995, three decades of chaos now culminate in Diabolical Death Mass. Their […]

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Posted on April 27th 2026, 4:10p.m.

Nominative determinism is overrated. It’s been three years since Hurry released their last album, Don’t Look Back, which means now the timing is just about right for a new one from the Philly power-pop band. That record, Zoned Out, will arrive in July via longtime label home Lame-O. Ian Farmer of Modern Baseball and Slaughter…

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(written by Islander) From the standpoint of a listener the idea of a band like Norway-based Defect Designer taking their music to a higher level is a bewildering concept — because their music has been so continuously bewildering. They have used death metal as a laboratory for experimentation, with results that are eccentric, subversive, unpredictable, […]

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