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‘Banana Man’ Has a Message for End It Over Concert Attack
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BILLY MORRISON Shares Title Track Single For Upcoming Album “Hollow”
Billy Morrison takes a deep dive into his psyche with “Hollow,” the title track of the British guitarist, singer, and songwriter’s album of the same name out on August 7 via TLG|ZOID distributed by Virgin Music Group. The sonically explosive and lyrically gripping single is released today (June 12) along with an artful and eye-popping lyric video that traces Morrison‘s previously unhinged life.
“The title track to my new album was inspired by the life that I led when I was homeless and addicted to heroin,” says Morrison. “Begging for money on the streets and being the guy that people crossed the street from, I would watch people’s faces as they walked towards me, gradually realizing they had to walk past me and being disgusted at how dirty I was, or that I was begging for change. That leaves an indelible mark on your soul and the song is about slowly crawling out of that hollow life.”
Morrison is now lighting up the rock charts with Hollow’s first single, “Becoming” (feat. Sully Erna of Godsmack & GRAMMY Award winner Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme). Revolver dove into the track headfirst with an extensive feature interview, going on to note that “Morrison and Fuel member Brett Scallions co-wrote the song before sending it over to Erna, who delivers an impassioned and raspy set of lines. Bettencourt rises to the occasion and rips pure hellfire on his guest solo.”
Throughout an illustrious career, Billy Morrison has played live in front of millions of fans, collaborated with every A-list rockstar under the sun (even notching a #1 single with the late Ozzy Osbourne), sold his paintings in galleries on multiple continents, and logged hundreds of hours on-air as a radio host for SiriusXM. And yet—some folks wonder, “Who the F%@K is Billy Morrison?” Which is the title of a new short film that answers the question. Directed and edited by Mike Savage, it tells his story through punchy editing, candid footage, and new interviews with Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, B-Real of Cypress Hill, Nuno Bettencourt of Extreme, mixer/engineer/producer Barry Pointer, and Morrison himself. You can now watch the six-minute documentary here.
Two years ago, Billy Morrison released The Morrison Project via TLG|ZOID distributed by Virgin Music Group. It marked his third solo album (and first since 2015) and produced the #1 Active Rock Song (Mediabase) in America: “Crack Cocaine” featuring Ozzy Osbourne and Steve Stevens and co-written by all three artists. A deluxe edition of the album followed in 2025, and bonus track, “Gods Of Rock and Roll (Orchestral)”—another seismic collaboration with Osbourne and Stevens—landed in the Active Rock Top Ten (Mediabase).
Hollow will follow the success of The Morrison Project format with 12 songs, half sung by Morrison and half sung by a handful of Morrison‘s friends. Guests include Dexter Holland, Marilyn Manson, Chuck D, B Real, Duff McKagan, Steve Stevens, DMC, and the above-mentioned Sully Erna and Nuno Bettencourt, among others. “Forgive Me,” “The Tailor,” “No Suspects,” “Another Day,” “Leave No Trace,” and “Becoming” are among the song titles.
Billy Morrison is a British guitarist, singer, and songwriter, widely known as Billy Idol’s rhythm guitar player for the past 17 years alongside lead guitarist Steve Stevens. He is also a solo recording artist in his right having released three albums including the successful and acclaimed The Morrison Project in 2024. His fourth solo album, Hollow, will arrive in August 2026. Morrison is also a former member of The Cult and Circus Diablo and currently also performs with the superstar cover band known as The Royal Machines. In addition, Morrison is a contemporary fine artist whose Warhol-inspired work has been shown at top galleries. He also has a regular show, “Influenced,” on SiriusXM’s Ozzy’s Boneyard (ch. 38), where he delves deep into the dynamic relationship between art and music.
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Turnstile’s Set At Tonight’s ‘Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival’ To Be Livestreamed
Find out when and where.
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Marilyn Manson Announces New Album One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2, Unveils “Exit Wound” Music Video – @thebeast
Marilyn Manson Announces New Album One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , Unveils “Exit Wound” Music Video
Shock rock icon Marilyn Manson has officially announced his highly anticipated new album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , set for release on August 14 via Nuclear Blast Records. The upcoming release serves as the next chapter in Manson’s creative resurgence and continues the dark, immersive world introduced on 2024’s One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 .
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To celebrate the announcement, Manson has unleashed the album’s first single and music video, “Exit Wound,” offering fans an intense glimpse into the record’s haunting atmosphere and sonic direction. Co-produced and co-written alongside longtime collaborator Tyler Bates, the track blends crushing industrial elements, cinematic textures, and unsettling melodic tension, further expanding the sound that defined the first chapter.
The new album arrives just days before Manson embarks on a major late-summer co-headlining tour with fellow shock rock legend Rob Zombie, making 2026 a landmark year for fans of dark and theatrical heavy music.
One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 Track Listing
Unalive
Don’t Answer The Door
Front Toward Enemy
All The Vilest Things
None of the Suns
Lucifer’s Teardrop
The Arsonist
Exit Wound
Enantiomorph
Manson’s current touring lineup features guitarist Nick Annis, bassist Tim Skold, and guitarist Piggy D., creating a formidable live band that has helped bring the new material to audiences worldwide.
The announcement follows the success of One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1 , released in November 2024 through Nuclear Blast Records. That album marked Manson’s return to the spotlight with standout tracks including “Sacrilegious,” “Raise The Red Flag,” and “As Sick As The Secrets Within,” earning praise from fans and critics alike.
Since returning to the stage in 2024, Manson has maintained a busy touring schedule while steadily building anticipation for the next phase of his musical evolution. With the release of “Exit Wound” and the unveiling of One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 , fans now have their first taste of what promises to be another dark, ambitious, and uncompromising chapter in the Marilyn Manson legacy.
Watch the new music video for “Exit Wound” and prepare for the arrival of One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 on August 14.
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FORTRESS FESTIVAL 2026 – MAY 30-31, SCARBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND – DAY 2
(Here is Daniel Barkasi’s extensive report on the second day of Fortress Festival 2026 in England, accompanied by his great own photos. Go here to see his article on Day One of the festival.) Sunday, Day 2 Intro Survive the first day, we did. To say that we were raring to go for day two, […]
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Without Warning Releases “BREED” Single and Music Video Featuring Chris Harms
Finnish industrial metalcore band Without Warning has released a new single and accompanying music video for “BREED,” featuring guest vocals by Chris Harms of Lord Of The Lost. The track leans into a heavy, aggressive sound built on mechanical textures and chaotic sections, contrasting the band’s harsh instrumentation with the clean singing and raw screams provided by Harms. Thematically, the song explores concepts of human instinct and primal aggression.
Operating out of Finland, the group blends modern metalcore with dark electronic and industrial elements. Fronted by vocalist Michaela Tuomenoksa, Without Warning builds their specific style by combining heavy rhythmic foundations with atmospheric, mechanical undertones to create a dark cinematic environment.
“BREED” serves as the final preview of the band’s upcoming debut full-length album, which is scheduled for release later this year. The forthcoming record will continue to expand upon the group’s conceptual narratives surrounding technology, power, and human contradiction. The new single and its music video are currently available to stream across all major digital platforms.
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Morrissey Says Political Activists Have Been Posing As Him Online, Including One Linked To Former Smiths Bandmate
While Morrissey is still popular enough to headline festivals in America, his career suffered in the past few years, largely thanks to evidence of his fucked-up political ties, such as the time that he wore a button supporting the right-wing extremist group For Britain while performing on The Tonight Show in 2019. Last year, though, Morrissey claimed that he was the victim of a “decades-long campaign of fraud, disinformation, and defamation” that aimed to tie him to far-right politics. Now, Morrissey claims that he has identified nine people who have posed as him online, including one with ties to one of Morrissey’s former bandmates in the Smiths.
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Black Spikes Launch “MOTINA” Music Video
Which translates to mother.
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Five For Friday: June 12, 2026
Greetings, Decibel readers!
This week’s new releases bring a lot of though-provoking songs to the weekend. In particular, there’s two masters of weaving doom into their styles and creating remarkable and memorable sonic passages. There’s also the latest from a 2000s mathcore heavyweight and one of the best melodic black metal bands in the game. But if you want something with no frills and all kills, scroll to the bottom.
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Fires in the Distance – Circadian Promise
It feels odd to characterize Fires in the Distance as simply a “melodic death metal band” or an “extreme doom metal band,” as the CT-based powerhouse is so much more than that. Although the band’s sound bears notable echoes of Draconian-style melancholy, Amorphis-style exploration, and the gloomy determination of early Katatonia and Empyrium, they’ve taken all of this in to construct something truly their own. Circadian Promise embodies a true sense of possibility for metal like this — epic and cinematic, but never overblown or self-indulgent. The blending of harsh and clean vocals follows the natural profile of each song, the sweep picking hits at just the right moments, and the songs build and descend in a way that gives the listener a feeling of being on a long and introspective voyage. I suggest we follow Fires in the Distance and see where they might take us next.
Stream: Apple Music
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Genghis Tron – Signal Fire
Imagine if Trent Reznor or Al Jorgensen got really into mathcore, and you’d have a pretty good idea of what this album sounds like. Genghis Tron‘s latest shows the band, characteristically, going off in many directions, from post-punk to industrial and many other odd places in-between. But one constant is the engaging songwriting and strong riff work. And don’t worry, the band still rages out on songs like “Born Prey.”
Stream: Apple Music
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Khemmis – Khemmis
One of the masters of modern doom-laden heavy metal, Khemmis will always be a giant Decibel favorite. And to be honest, I might like this album the most out of anything I’ve heard from the band. The songwriting, especially the vocal melodies and swirling guitars, just pops off on this self-titled triumph.
Stream: Apple Music
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Stormkeep – The Nocturnes of Iswylm
I wonder if any of the guys from Stormkeep ever have nightmares where they’re about to play a gig and then, to their horror, realize they accidentally packed the Wayfarer frontier gear instead. Anyway, I’m a giant fan of this project and am glad we get another righteous offering of mid-90s blue-cover black metal (and much else besides) to enjoy for all time.
Stream: Apple Music
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Tombal – Grave of the Damned
But nevermind all that. Maybe you just want to listen to some death metal. Here is some really good, HM-2-style death metal straight from the crypts. Yes, this style has been done to pieces many times over, but there’s a good reason it keeps reassembling and reanimating itself. All the proof you need is in these four tracks.
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The Psychology of Beautiful Darkness: Why We Find Comfort in Melancholy
The Psychology of Beautiful Darkness: Why We Find Comfort in Melancholy
Modern culture often treats sadness as a condition that must be corrected immediately. Yet Gothic literature, noir cinema, melancholic music, and dark aesthetics continue attracting millions of people precisely because they create emotional spaces where grief, loneliness, memory, and introspection can exist without apology.
The attraction to darkness is not necessarily a fascination with suffering itself. In many cases, people connect with melancholic art because it feels emotionally honest. Gothic atmosphere, noir imagery, and reflective music acknowledge emotional complexity instead of simplifying human experience into permanent optimism.
Gothic woman in candlelight surrounded by books, skulls, and moonlit darkness representing melancholy and emotional introspection.
Across literature, music, fashion, and cinema, darkness frequently becomes a symbolic language for emotional depth. Shadows, candlelight, silence, rain, ruins, nocturnal streets, and melancholic melodies externalize internal psychological states that are otherwise difficult to describe directly.
Rather than encouraging emotional collapse, dark aesthetics often transform painful emotions into structured artistic experiences that feel understandable, controlled, and meaningful.
Why Melancholy Feels Emotionally Honest
One reason melancholic art resonates so deeply is because sadness often feels psychologically truthful. Human life contains grief, uncertainty, mortality, regret, loneliness, and emotional contradiction. Gothic literature and noir storytelling acknowledge those realities openly instead of hiding them behind constant reassurance.
Edgar Allan Poe understood this tension with unusual precision. In The Raven, mourning becomes an obsessive psychological rhythm rather than a simple narrative about loss. The repetition of “Nevermore” traps the narrator inside unresolved grief, transforming emotional suffering into atmosphere itself. Similarly, Annabel Lee treats memory and mourning as inseparable emotional forces that survive beyond death.
Poe’s work continues resonating because readers often recognize emotional states inside his stories that ordinary social language struggles to articulate clearly.
The Brain, Music, and Emotional Atmosphere
Psychologists studying “aesthetic sadness” have repeatedly observed that people often experience melancholic art differently from real-life suffering. Research by scholars such as Winfried Menninghaus and his collaborators explored why sadness inside music, literature, and cinema can produce emotional pleasure rather than distress. Their work suggests that artistic melancholy creates psychological distance, allowing difficult emotions to be explored safely within aesthetic structure.
Atmosphere plays a major role in this process. Dim lighting, candlelight, rain, silence, reverberation, and slow musical pacing encourage introspection by reducing sensory overload. Dark aesthetics frequently slow emotional perception itself. Instead of overwhelming attention through speed and stimulation, Gothic atmosphere encourages reflection and emotional immersion.
Darkwave and Gothic music demonstrate this effect clearly. Bands such as Bauhaus, Cocteau Twins, Clan of Xymox, and The Sisters of Mercy relied heavily on repetition, spacious production, restrained vocals, drum-machine rhythms, and reverberating guitar textures. These sonic environments sustain emotional tension gradually instead of forcing immediate catharsis.
Songs like Bela Lugosi’s Dead or Marian feel immersive because they create psychological space rather than emotional resolution. Silence, repetition, and atmosphere become part of the emotional architecture itself.
Why Beauty and Darkness Often Merge
Across Gothic art, beauty rarely exists independently from fragility, decay, mortality, or longing. Candlelight becomes visually powerful because darkness surrounds it. Ruins feel emotionally beautiful because they preserve traces of vanished lives. Melancholy intensifies emotional perception rather than diminishing it.
This relationship between sadness and beauty appears repeatedly throughout Romanticism, Symbolism, Gothic literature, and noir cinema. Charles Baudelaire and Edgar Allan Poe rejected the idea that art should function primarily as moral reassurance. Both writers treated emotional contradiction as aesthetically meaningful.
Modern Gothic fashion operates similarly. Black clothing, Victorian silhouettes, lace, silver jewelry, pale makeup, and nocturnal imagery function as emotional symbolism rather than decoration alone. Clothing becomes atmosphere made visible.
The Comfort of Solitude and Shadow
Dark aesthetics also create emotional permission for solitude. Contemporary culture often associates silence and isolation with social failure. Gothic culture frequently reverses that idea entirely by treating solitude as reflective rather than shameful.
Noir cinema visualizes this psychology constantly. Characters drift through rain-soaked streets, dim apartments, empty diners, abandoned train stations, and late-night city landscapes that mirror emotional interiority. These environments communicate loneliness visually without reducing it to weakness.
Many people experience such imagery as calming because darkness reduces social performance. Silence softens overstimulation. Shadows create privacy. Atmospheric spaces allow emotional complexity to exist without immediate judgment or explanation.
This emotional relationship helps explain why candlelit rooms, rainy weather, nighttime walks, abandoned architecture, cemeteries, and melancholic music often feel emotionally comforting instead of frightening.
Why Gothic Culture Still Feels Modern
Modern life frequently rewards emotional speed, productivity, visibility, and constant stimulation. Gothic culture moves in the opposite direction by valuing ambiguity, introspection, atmosphere, symbolism, and psychological depth.
Dark aesthetics continue surviving across generations because they provide emotional language for experiences that mainstream culture often simplifies or suppresses entirely. Gothic literature, noir cinema, melancholic music, and atmospheric fashion all create symbolic spaces where grief, desire, alienation, beauty, memory, and mortality can coexist without contradiction.
Beautiful darkness does not celebrate suffering itself. Instead, it transforms difficult emotional states into artistic experiences that feel recognizable, reflective, and emotionally meaningful.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Why do people feel comfort inside melancholic art?
Melancholic art often feels emotionally honest because it allows grief, reflection, loneliness, memory, and emotional complexity to exist without forced positivity or immediate resolution.
What is aesthetic sadness?
Aesthetic sadness refers to the emotional experience of enjoying sadness within artistic environments such as music, literature, cinema, or visual art where difficult emotions can be explored safely through symbolic structure.
Why does Gothic culture remain psychologically appealing?
Gothic culture explores mortality, beauty, memory, isolation, emotional contradiction, and psychological depth through atmosphere and symbolism that many people find emotionally recognizable.
Can dark aesthetics improve emotional reflection?
Dark aesthetics can encourage emotional reflection by creating calm, introspective environments that reduce overstimulation and allow difficult emotions to be processed symbolically through art and atmosphere.
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