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Melodic hard rockers Mystery Moon have today released their new single ‘Dreamland (Garden Of Eden‘. ‘Dreamland (Garden Of Eden)‘ is the second single from Mystery Moon‘s second album ‘Way Beyond‘ (release date on Pride & Joy Music: September 18tth, 2026. Pre-save the album – here Mystery Moon are back with their second album, ‘Way Beyond‘, making […]

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Sheffield’s own soul-swaggering, electrifying power trio, Lightning Threads, have released the video for the new single Devil Inside Me. A raucous breakout from bitter times, the track oozes filthy guitar riffs, fuzz-led solos, and vocal hooks covered in grit. Think vintage valve amps cranked within an inch of their life and overdriven vocals that harken back to that ’70s sound. 

The track comes with an accompanying film. “We wanted to look back at those early psychedelic music videos of the mid to late ’60s,” the band said. “We repurposed footage captured by Andy Boyd at Witney Music Festival 2026, which has ended up being one of the highlight gigs of the year for us so far.”

Devil Inside Me is taken from the album Trinkets, which is out now. From their inception in 2019 through the launch of their debut record Off That Lonely Road, Trinkets makes another step up in class for Lightning Threads.

With Tom Jane on guitar and lead vocals, slinging riffs and licks, Sam Burgum on bass and vocals, locking down the low-end groove with Hugh Butler on drums and keys, the trio look an exciting addition to Blue Nation on their headline run from September. 

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Mercyful Fate have announced their first live performance in more than three years. The Danish heavy metal band will play Leyendas Del Rock festival in Villena, Alicante, Spain, which runs August 11–14, 2027. It’s their first booked show since Summer Breeze in Brazil in April 2024.

The current lineup is King Diamond on vocals, Hank Shermann and Mike Wead on guitars, Bjarne T. Holm on drums and Becky Baldwin on bass. The band remain at work on their first studio album since 1999’s “9,” having debuted a song from it — “The Jackal Of Salzburg” — live in June 2022. No release date has been announced.

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On the face of it, this is a small story. One festival slot, in Spain, twelve months from now.

Stay with me, because it’s the most encouraging thing to come out of this band in two years.

The Announcement

Mercyful Fate confirmed it on Thursday with a post that ran to about a dozen words: España, they’ll be playing Leyendas Del Rock 2027, see you next August, stay heavy.

The festival takes place August 11–14, 2027 in Villena, Alicante.

That’s their first booked performance since Summer Breeze in Brazil in April 2024 — a gap of well over three years by the time they walk on stage.

The lineup remains King Diamond, Hank Shermann, Mike Wead, Bjarne T. Holm and Becky Baldwin.

The Album That Has Been Coming Since 2020

Here’s why a single festival booking is worth your attention.

Mercyful Fate’s last studio album was “9,” released in 1999. If the next one lands in 2027, that’s a twenty-eight-year gap between records.

It has been genuinely close for years. They played a new song, “The Jackal Of Salzburg,” live in Germany in June 2022 and again at Psycho Las Vegas. Four years ago. That song still has no home.

And when you line up what’s actually been said about it, something odd emerges.

The Timeline Runs Backwards

We’ve been tracking this album since 2023, and going back through our own coverage produces a genuinely strange sequence.

July 2023 — King Diamond described the new material as very back to basics, saying Hank Shermann was writing very much like the old days and that both the Mercyful Fate and King Diamond albums would be finished by the time they went back out on tour.

January 2024 — Becky Baldwin was confirmed as a permanent member, saying she couldn’t wait to join the recording of the new album.

February 2024 — This is the big one. King Diamond told us “The Jackal Of Salzburg” was almost finished. He was recording vocals at that moment. Baldwin would do one more delicate bass pass, and — his words — that would be the final thing.

April 2024 — The band returned to the live stage in Santiago, Chile with the full production.

January 2025 — And then this. Baldwin told The Metal Voice the album was “in the kind of demoing process at the moment”. Instrumentally mostly there, with the next step being King’s work on it.

Read those last two again.

February 2024: almost finished, vocals being recorded, one final bass pass to go.

January 2025: in the demoing process.

That is a project moving in the wrong direction, and nobody has really flagged it.

What Probably Explains It

We’re speculating here, and we’ll say so plainly. But there’s a reasonable read.

King Diamond has his own solo album, “The Institute,” which has been ahead of Mercyful Fate in the queue since the “Masquerade Of Madness” single arrived in 2019. Baldwin’s January 2025 comments spelled out the running order: the King Diamond record first, then a European tour, and then it’s Mercyful Fate time.

Both bands share a frontman, a bassist and a great deal of the same production team. Nothing moves in parallel. The Mercyful Fate album isn’t stalled so much as queued.

Which is exactly why this festival date matters. A band that books a stage for August 2027 is a band with a plan for what happens before August 2027.

The Other Reason The Clock Matters

King Diamond turned 70 in June.

He remains one of the most theatrical performers in heavy music and shows no sign of stopping, but there’s a reason fans get twitchy about a twenty-eight-year gap. Bjarne T. Holm has been drumming with him since the eighties. Hank Shermann started this band with him in Copenhagen in 1981.

The people who made Melissa in 1983 and Don’t Break The Oath in 1984 — two of the most important records first-wave black metal ever produced, and the reason Metallica put a Mercyful Fate medley on Garage Inc. — have a finite number of albums left in them.

Everyone involved knows it. That’s not morbid, it’s just arithmetic.

If you want more of the strange corners of this man’s career, our thirteen King Diamond facts covers plenty the headlines skip.

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And A Nice Footnote On The Bass Player

Becky Baldwin is having a remarkable couple of years.

The Birmingham-based musician joined Mercyful Fate permanently in January 2024 after filling in for Joey Vera on the autumn 2022 North American tour — which was the band’s first headlining run on that continent in over two decades. She stepped into a chair previously held by the late Timi Hansen, who died in November 2019.

She’s also the bassist Tony Iommi hired for From The Dark, his first solo album in twenty-one years, arriving October 23.

Playing bass for King Diamond and Tony Iommi in the same eighteen months is about as good a run as a bass player can have.

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So Should You Care About One Spanish Festival?

Yes — not for the gig, for what it implies.

For over three years this band has been a rumour with a discography. No shows, no album, no dates, just periodic updates that have quietly gone backwards.

A booking is a commitment. It means rehearsals, a production, a schedule and a reason to finish what’s on the workbench.

August 2027 in Villena. And hopefully something to play from before then.

TL;DR

• The news: Mercyful Fate will play Leyendas Del Rock in Villena, Alicante, Spain, August 11–14, 2027
• The gap: their first booked show since Summer Breeze in Brazil, April 2024 — over three years
• Current lineup: King Diamond (vocals), Hank Shermann and Mike Wead (guitars), Bjarne T. Holm (drums), Becky Baldwin (bass)
• The album: still unreleased. Their last was “9” in 1999, meaning a potential 28-year gap
• The teaser: “The Jackal Of Salzburg” was played live in Germany in June 2022 and remains unreleased
• The odd timeline: King Diamond said the track was almost finished in February 2024; Becky Baldwin described the album as being in the demoing process in January 2025
• The likely reason: King Diamond’s solo album “The Institute” has been ahead of it in the queue since 2019, and both bands share personnel
• Also of note: Baldwin is the bassist on Tony Iommi’s From The Dark, out October 23, 2026

FAQ

Twenty-seven years since “9,” four years since they played a song from the new one live, and now a festival date twelve months out. Are you making the trip to Spain — and do you think the album beats them there? Let us know in the comments.

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AC/DC is bringing its PWR/UP Pop Up experience along for the ride when the “PWR/UP” tour rolls through Canada in 2026, giving fans a free, open-to-all hangout spot in every city on the run.

As the tour hits Canadian soil for what’s being billed as its closing chapter, the traveling pop-up will set up shop at each stop, offering fans somewhere to gather, get PWRD/UP and soak in the atmosphere surrounding one of rock’s most enduring live acts.

The “PWR/UP” tour takes its name from AC/DC‘s 2020 record Pwr/Up, which topped the charts in 21 countries. The trek kicked off with the band’s comeback performance at Power Trip in California back in 2023 and has since packed out stadiums on four continents. As the tour winds down, Canadian fans get their own shot at the pre-show buildup courtesy of the pop-up.

Each stop will come loaded with exclusive merch, AC/DC-themed grub and drinks, tour props, custom visuals, photo setups, ticket giveaways, “PWR/UP” preview events and a shot at winning a guitar signed by Angus Young.

Location specifics, hours, food menus, giveaways, preview event details, and merch drops will be posted here as each city approaches.

Fans can expect a curated lineup of pop-up-exclusive gear, including apparel, accessories, posters and limited-run collectibles made specifically for the tour.

Each city will also get first crack at a limited run of that stop’s event shirt and poster, available at the pop-up a full day before they hit the stadium or go up for sale online.

No two stops will look alike. Every pop-up takes on the personality of its host city and venue while still tying back to the tour as a whole.

Venue selection wasn’t random, either. Each location was picked because it’s already a hub for local fans and music culture, letting every city put its own spin on the setup. Custom food and drink menus built around the band will turn these spots into proper pre-show meeting points, with some cities getting specialty items and collectible cups.

A handful of locations will also host live sets from local School Of Rock house bands, plus broadcasts with area radio partners, adding some hometown flavor to the festivities.

Every city gets its own “PWR/UP” preview event, a first-look gathering for press, media, partners and a small group of lucky fans ahead of the public opening.

Fans can sign up here for a shot at getting in. A random draw picks 100 fans per city to join press and other guests early, and those winners walk away with a free gift made just for the preview.

Each location will feature a mock stage setup where fans can snap photos with a replica of Young‘s guitar and enter on-site for a shot at the real thing, a guitar that will travel to every pop-up before landing in Philadelphia to be signed by Young himself and handed off to one lucky winner who entered in person.

Some cities will layer in additional promotions through radio partners, venues, social media, email and local fan communities.

The pop-up will greet fans the day before each show and again on show day itself, hitting every Canadian city on the tour route. Here’s where and when:

08/08-09: Edmonton, AB — Starlite
08/12-13: Vancouver, BC — Commodore Ballroom
09/11-12: Montreal, QC — Foufounes Électriques
09/15-16: Toronto, ON — Steam Whistle
09/19-20: Winnipeg, MB — The Pyramid

Fans should check here regularly for updated locations, hours, menus, merch info, giveaways, preview event news and city-specific announcements.

The AC/DC PWR/UP Pop Up is a limited-time fan destination built for each tour stop and overseen by the band’s longtime merch partner, Perryscope Productions. It’s designed as a one-stop shop for everything AC/DC: exclusive gear, rare collectibles, themed food and drink, photo ops, tour memorabilia, music, local venue history, preview events, giveaways and the general buzz of the “PWR/UP” tour, wherever it lands.

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Robin Trower will release his new studio album, Shine, on September 25 via Provogue / Artone Label Group. The legendary British guitarist has also released the album’s first single, “Live Your Time.”

The 81-year-old guitarist continues a prolific stretch that has produced eight studio albums over the past decade. Trower says his drive to continue creating new music remains unchanged.

“I think you’ve either got to keep pushing – or give up.”

Trower recorded Shine at Studio 91 in Newbury before moving to engineer Sam Winfield’s new facility, The Pines, to complete the album. Trower produced the record and handled guitar and bass, with drummer Chris Taggart and longtime vocalist Richard Watts rounding out the studio lineup.

“The strength of his vocals, the beauty of his vocal tone – he’s so musical,” Trower says of Watts. “I usually write with Richard in mind. I can hear it all in my head.”

The album finds Trower addressing the current state of the world while maintaining an optimistic outlook.

“I agree with people that it’s a very dark time. But I don’t want to make gloomy music. I think that most of these songs are positive.”

The first single, “Live Your Time,” features a soul-funk-influenced riff and Trower’s signature guitar tone.

“The opening riff of Live Your Time is one of the best things I’ve ever come up with,” he says. ” It’s always very loud in the studio, and that’s how you get the tone, by cranking the amp. That’s another song where I’m saying, ‘Calm down, it’s all going to work out. Just get the most out of your life.’”

Shine follows Trower’s 2025 album Come And Find Me and moves his solo catalog closer to 30 releases. His career stretches back to the 1960s and includes his tenure with Procol Harum, his landmark 1974 album Bridge Of Sighs and collaborations with artists including Jack Bruce, Bryan Ferry and Maxi Priest.

Trower says maintaining the quality of his recent work remains a priority.

“I think, over the past few years, I have set quite a high standard. Now I’m determined to keep that going. To still have the energy to work, that is a real blessing.”

Along with the new album, Trower will return to the road with a run of UK dates from August 31 through September 5, followed by a U.S. tour from September 15 through October 14.

“It’s great to get that energy back off an audience,” Trower says, “but I just love recording too. It’s always fun, you know? Playing guitar: that’s what I do, and that’s what I love.”

For Trower, the steady flow of musical ideas continues to fuel his creativity more than six decades into his career.

“Really, if I have a gift,” he concludes, “it’s probably that I come up with ideas. Ideas for songs, ideas for lead work. Certainly, that’s what keeps me going. It’s just so exciting to see something blossoming into a new song.”

TRACK LISTING

The Missing Piece
Shine
Love By Any Other Name
Live Your Time
Faith
Driving On Through
Truth
The Race
Without You
It’s Not Time

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Argentina based Melodic Rock group Neon Rider have today released their first single ‘Higher‘ from their upcoming album ‘Keepers Of The Flames‘ (out: October 23rd, 2026) via Pride & Joy Music. Neon Rider is an AOR / Melodic Hard Rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed in 2020 by guitarists Hernan Cattaneo and Marcos Nieva […]

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DEVIL’S ISLAND featuring Xenith

Welcome to this weeks edition of Devil’s Island! Every week we maroon a band or artist on the island and see what they get up to, how they cope with being all alone on a small island in the middle of the ocean. It’s not your average desert island and we’ll see just how each person copes with the extreme conditions.

This week when we arrived at Devil’s Island we find Xenith sat on the beach. The island is far from their home, so how did they end up here and how did they cope with life on Devil’s Island?

Find out now…

Welcome to The Razors’e Edge and our somewhat lovely, warm desert island. Don’t worry about it’s name I’m sure it’s not as bad as that would suggest.

You’re marooned here on this island, but before you ended up shipwrecked you chose one album that you couldn’t live without. Which album did you each chose and why?

Billy: Blackwater Park by Opeth. It just got a bit of everything and riffs for absolute days.
Casey: Peace sells…but who’s buying. I would have chosen Rust but Peace is so good because it’s got the clean tones, the dips, the peaks and the valleys and all that.
Jamo: It got to be Stop at nothing by Dying Fetus, it’s just so heavy.
Karim: Seventh son of a seventh son, it’s my favourite album ever and it’s so perfect. 

Just behind that palm tree is a shack for each of you to sleep in, with enough space for you to put up a poster on the wall of one album cover. What album cover do you each chose and why?

Billy: Because it’s got such a unique feel and vibe I’d say Witchtanic Hellucinations by Acid Witch.
Jamo: If we’re talking solely for the artwork I’m saying Into the pandemonium by Celtic Frost.
Casey: I’m saying integrity> by JME. Another good one would be mugshot by Pete & Baz.
Karim: Nargaroth Seven Tears Are Flowing to the River single artwork, just cause it’s so black metal.

There’s also a bar on this here island. But alas each of you only get to choose one drink for the entirety of your stay. What’s your tipple of choice?

Billy: Probably vodka lemonade, pretty much the only drink I’ll have.
Jamo: Irn-bru, gotta represent for the homies in Scotland.
Casey: Random drama, it’s a drink at Yes Bar, its so nice. It’s like apple juice and rum it’s so good.
Karim: Water, I go through like 4 litres a day, I’d need water.

Your suitcases were lost when your ship sank, but you each managed to salvage one item of band merch. What’s the merch and for what band?

Billy: My Warning hoodie. I got it at Damnation last year so it has a lot of sentimentality.
Jamo: My Destruktor shirt.Everything else is superfluous to me.
Casey: Probably my Cavalera long sleeve because I got that when I saw him.
Karim: Opeth Sorceress T-shirt because it’s just such good artwork.

You’re sat on the island thinking “I’m stuck here on this island with my bandmates for eternity”… who would you rather have been shipwrecked with?

Jamo: Nobody else. There’s no one else I know better.
Casey: I’d probably just choose to be alone if it wasn’t with the band.
Billy: Yeah I can’t really think of anyone else I’d choose.
Karim: Probably like Chuck Shuldnier, I’d invite him to the island.

There’s a walkman in your pocket, on the tape inside is the recording of the one live show that stands out for you. It could be any show, from any band, anywhere in the world. What show is on that walkman?

Casey: Freddie Gibbs at academy 3 in 2019.
Jamo: Carcass, Nails, Exodus, Kreator. Carcass were definitely my favourite of the night though.  
Billy: Unto Others at the star and garter in like 2022? Hands down one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
Karim: I’d say Kiss because it was my first concert, but Iron Maiden last year were deffo the best band I’ve seen.

You’re getting desperate, you decide the only course of action is to put a message in a bottle and hope someone finds it. Your message could be to any member of any band, but should be the most suitable for a rescue attempt. Who is it?

Billy: On the nose answer but Stewart Copeland from The Police, for obvious reasons.
Jamo: I’m gonna say Keanu Reeves because he’s in that band, he’s so chill and he’d help me out. Either him or Paul McCartney because he’s got the yellow submarine, he’d well find it with his yellow submarine.
Casey: Eamon from the chats, cause at least if he can’t save me, he’d bring some beers n that probably.
Karim: Taylor Swift because she’s got like a million jets.

You’ve been stuck here a while and food supplies are running low. There’s only one thing for it… which fellow band member gets sacrificed to help the others survive?

N/A, we’re fishing.

Karim: I don’t like fish so I’ll survive on coconuts.

Finally, when the ship sank you each managed to save one person from the wreckage. That person is the one musician that has influenced your career the most, shaped your way of thinking and your outlook on life. Who did you save?

Billy: Mikael Åkerfeldt all the way.
Jamo: It’d probably be Justin Chancellor.
Casey: Dave Mustaine.
Karim: Gene Hoglan, he is peak.

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