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Yeah Yeah Noh return with new release

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The group are part of the SharpTone Records roster.

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Filmed in Los Angeles earlier this month.

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Having already dropped two singles and their accompanying videos, Suicide Silence now unveils “Reminders of Hell.” The ferocious new track arrives alongside a drum playthrough video, showcasing the remarkable skill, precision, and intensity of drummer Ernie Iniguez.

“Graceless is a crusher, ‘Make Your Exit’ is a bouncer, and now it’s time to go into the depths for ‘Reminders of Hell’. This track is a little more multidimensional and is sure to get you banging your head. Check out our own Ernie Iniguez ripping through it on the drum play through we just dropped”, says the band.

Graceless will be available here, in the following formats:

• Standard CD Jewelcase
• black LP
• Ltd. pearlescent sunrise LP (300x) EMP / UK indie stores
• Ltd. iridescent pearl horizon LP (400x) available from Impericon & Suicide Silence
• Translucent Tan LP (US version)
• Ltd. Caramel Cream LP (US version) (500x) available from US indie retailers
• Ltd. Orange Smoke LP (US version) (300x) available from Metal Injection
• Ltd. Mineral LP (US version) (300x) available from Revolver
• Ltd. Gold Black Ice LP (US version) (400x) available from Suicide Silence
• Digital album

Deathcore didn’t invent itself. The crushing combination of classic death metal ferocity with hardcore-punk spirit was created in garages and grimy venues. It was celebrated on message boards, in comment sections, and in sweaty, anarchic spaces where hardcore kids and death metal obsessives gathered. As the burgeoning subgenre formed, teenage metalheads dared one another to get heavier.

Suicide Silence made their logo synonymous with the most volatile and definitive stomp of the postmodern sound. Since their first rumblings in California’s Inland Empire in the early 21st Century, the band’s fusion of sonic violence, punk confrontation, and unapologetic nü-metal bounce put a fresh face on extreme metal.

Suicide Silence remains stubbornly communal. They have always written best with bodies in a room, amps cranked, and friendly arguments evolving into arrangements. That collective instinct gives Graceless its strange comfort amid the chaos. It is vicious, ugly, physical, immediate, and fully inhabited by a band that survived every argument about what it was supposed to be.

As Garza puts it, the goal was to “just get out of the way and serve that band logo. When we choose to do that, great things follow. We’re back to doing it exactly as we did it when we were kids: just playing heavy shit and doing it from the heart.”

Deathcore was once a word thrown at them as a limit. Today, it’s a flag planted in the dirt. Twenty-four years after their first noise from SoCal, Suicide Silence stands in rare company: survivors who never mistook endurance for safety, craftsmen more than capable of making instinct sound like impact. Graceless is the circle closing, hard, with newly sharpened teeth, hungry for future conquest.

The next chapter begins with the North American “Reminders of Hell” headline tour, featuring support from Emmure, AngelMaker, and Synestia.

NOV 6 Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium
NOV 7 Mesa, AZ – The Nile Theater
NOV 9 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Midtown
NOV 10 Dallas, TX – South Side Music Hall
NOV 11 San Antonio, TX – The Rock Box
NOV 13 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
NOV 15 Greenville, SC – Radio Room
NOV 17 Greensboro, NC – The Pyrle
NOV 18 Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
NOV 20 Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of The Living Arts
NOV 21 Worcester, MA – Palladium
NOV 22 Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn Monarch
NOV 24 Montréal, Canada – Club Soda
NOV 25 Toronto, Canada – The Concert Hall
NOV 27 New Kensington, PA – Preserving
NOV 28 Cleveland, OH – Globe Iro
NOV 29 Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall
DEC 1 Chicago, IL – House of Blues Chicago
DEC 2 Maplewood, MN – Myth Live
DEC 4 Denver, CO – Summit Music Hall
DEC 5 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
DEC 6 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
DEC 8 Seattle, WA – The Showbox
DEC 9 Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
DEC 10 Sacramento, CA – Ace Of Spades
DEC 11 Reno, NV – Cargo Concert Hall
DEC 12 San Jose, CA – The Ritz
DEC 13 Los Angeles, CA – 1720

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Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival is back to lay its stake as The Pinnacle of Rock Festivals in America with its biggest event yet, May 13-16, 2027 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. 2026 brought a record-breaking 184,000 music fans and festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents is ramping up the bands and experiences […]

They hope to join up on the second half of that run with Havok, Slackjaw and Xoth.

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The two outfits have previously collaborated.

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A 10 year old drummer named Alex plays Raining Blood on drums in the video below, and he’s been playing for a little over two years. His father sent it to us last week after hearing Dave Lombardo on The Loaded Radio Podcast, because Lombardo is one of two heroes on Alex’s bedroom wall; the other is Jeff Hanneman.

Alex was born in Berlin in January 2016 to Bulgarian parents, sat down at a kit for the first time in June 2024, and had Metallica’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ down inside a month. Then he started on Slayer. Watch the clip first. Then read about the drumsticks in the display case.

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Two Years From First Lesson To Raining Blood

Alex started drumming in June 2024, learned his first complete song, Metallica’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls,’ in July 2024, moved on to slower Slayer songs, and by this fall was playing Raining Blood, which most drummers twice his age won’t attempt.

The timeline is the story. Most kids who pick up sticks at eight spend a year on rudiments and pop songs. Alex’s father, a software engineer who has ‘listened to Slayer and thrash metal all my life,’ says he ‘did all my best to show him the way,’ and the way ran straight through Lars Ulrich’s most famous intro and into Lombardo’s catalog. Since 2025 Alex has had a weekly lesson at a local music school alongside regular public school; the rock and pop songs they teach there, his father says, ‘seem to be too easy for him.’ He also works through Drumeo lessons at home.

Two weeks ago the school’s drum teacher asked him to be the drummer in the music school’s band. They have a concert in November. They’re playing Queen. Alex will play Queen, and then presumably go home and play Reign In Blood.

The Room

Alex’s bedroom walls are covered in Slayer posters, plus two more: Gene Hoglan and Danny Carey.

That’s a specific education. Lombardo and Hanneman are the heroes; Hoglan, the drummer on Death’s Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic and Dark Angel’s Darkness Descends, is the technique; Carey, of Tool, is where you end up when you’ve learned everything the other three can teach. He’s also, his father says, showing interest in newer bands, Slipknot first among them, which for a kid born in 2016 counts as classic rock.

The current project is a Gene Hoglan piece called ‘I Love AC/DC,’ a drum showcase that is, in his father’s words, ‘very hard.’ Alex is ‘catching the speed, but he is still not that physically strong to keep the tempo during the whole song.’ There’s a deal on the table: when he can play it start to finish, he gets a pet. His father expects to be buying one this winter.

The Night Gene Hoglan Gave Him His Sticks

At a Death To All show in Leipzig this summer, Alex met the band at a VIP session, showed Gene Hoglan a video of himself attempting Death’s ‘Crystal Mountain,’ and after the show Hoglan walked over and handed him the drumsticks he’d just played with.

Alex has been to Metallica and Iron Maiden in Berlin with his father. He has not seen Slayer; his father has, several times, and says only, ‘c’est la vie.’ But the Death To All show, the touring celebration of Chuck Schuldiner’s band with Hoglan, Steve DiGiorgio and Bobby Koelble, is the one that changed something.

His father bought VIP tickets. At the meet-and-greet, the band signed CDs, his father did the talking (Alex is still learning English), and then he pulled out his phone and showed Hoglan a video that has never been posted anywhere: Alex, in pajamas, playing ‘Crystal Mountain’ after listening to it a few times. Hoglan and DiGiorgio were, in his father’s words, ‘surprised,’ both by the playing and by the pajamas.

Then the show. His father pushed him to the barricade, dead center. When it was over, Gene Hoglan, who had played a full Death set in front of a few thousand people, came to the front of the stage and gave the ten-year-old his sticks. Koelble followed and gave him his pick. Alex cried. His father has that on video too, and it is staying in the family.

The sticks are in a jersey display case on the bedroom wall now, next to a framed photo with the band. There are other sticks in the case, bought at the merch table before the show, and drumheads. The ones on the right are Hoglan’s. Everything else is context.

Why We’re Running This

Loaded Radio gets emails. This one arrived because a father in Germany listened to a conversation about Reign In Blood turning forty and thought of his son, who was in the next room playing it.

That’s the whole reason the Lombardo interview exists, and it’s the whole reason this site does. The music on these pages is forty, fifty years old in places, made by men who are now in their sixties and seventies, and the question underneath every ranking and every news story is whether it’s being handed on. Here’s one answer, in a bedroom in Berlin, with a Hanneman poster over the kit. Death metal’s founders would recognize the pajamas.

His father asked us to include something he tells Alex and his sister, and we’re ending on it because nothing we’d write is better: ‘Stay in Wonderland. Chase your dreams, find your place in life, do what you love to do and what your heart tells you. Then you will be happy. Do not let life find a place for you; otherwise, you will be unhappy and miserable all your life.’

Alex: when you’ve got ‘I Love AC/DC’ down, send it. We’ll run that one too. And enjoy the pet.

TL;DR

• Alex, 10, born in Berlin to Bulgarian parents, started drumming in June 2024 and plays Slayer’s Raining Blood in the video above; his first full song, a month in, was Metallica’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls.’
• His heroes are Dave Lombardo and Jeff Hanneman; his walls are Slayer posters plus Gene Hoglan and Danny Carey. He’s currently learning Hoglan’s ‘I Love AC/DC,’ with a pet promised when he can play it through.
• At a Death To All show in Leipzig this summer, he showed Gene Hoglan a video of himself playing ‘Crystal Mountain’ in pajamas; after the show Hoglan gave him his sticks and Bobby Koelble gave him his pick. They’re in a display case on his wall.
• His father sent the video after hearing our Dave Lombardo interview. Alex’s music school band plays its first concert in November.

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Southern California’s Dayseeker, Rory Rodriguez (vocals), Ramone Valerio (bass), and Zac Mayfield (drums), are thrilled to announce the expanded edition of their watershed, 2025-released magnum opus Creature In the Black Night.

Creature In the Black Night Redux, it arrives February 26 via Spinefarm and features several tracks remixed by The Midnight, as well as live versions and a My Chemical Romance cover. Pre-order it here.

There will also be two color versions of the double LP and a double CD, in addition to the digital stream, which can be pre-ordered here.

“This was such an honor to collaborate with The Midnight and transform these songs in a way people have never heard before,” offers Rodriguez about the overall release. “The MCR cover of ‘Ghost of You’ is so nostalgic for all of us in the band as well and we really tried to recreate that song in our own band’s sound and image.”

To coincide with the announcement of the deluxe version, Dayseeker have shared the “Shapeshift”, featuring The Midnight, remix.

“I used to jam a mellow version of ‘Shapeshift’ on my piano and send it to The Midnight and getting to hear them transform it into an ’80s synthwave version just completely blew us away. It’s a complete reinvention of the song and we feel like people will love it,” says Rodriguez.

“We’ve always felt a deep connection to the metal community. For years, I’ve been wanting to create a genre called ‘metalwave,’ and this is the first step in that direction. Dayseeker plus The Midnight just felt like the perfect fit,” states The Midnight/Tim McEwan.

The album version of the song is currently at rock radio, and was the No. 1 most added track when it dropped. It also follows their massively successful single, “Crawl Back to My Coffin,” which marked the band’s first No. 1 at the format.

Dayseeker will return to the road on the second leg of Motionless in White‘s The Sweat and Blood Tour. They will serve as direct support. The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Divine will also appear. This leg fittingly kicks off the night before Halloween in Worcester and runs through November 20 in Pittsburgh.

Dayseeker on tour with Motionless In White, The Devil Wears Prada, and Dark Divine:

10/30 — Worcester, MA — DCU Center
10/31 — Philadelphia, PA — Xfinity Mobile Arena
11/3 — Raleigh, NC — Lenovo Center
11/4 — Savannah, GA — VyStar Pavilion
11/5 — Orlando, FL — Kia Center
11/7 — Nashville, TN — The Truth
11/8 — Peoria, IL — Peoria Civic Center Arena
11/10 — Minneapolis, MN — Target Center
11/11 — Omaha, NE — CHI Health Center
11/13 — Milwaukee, WI — Fiserv Forum
11/15 — Albany, NY — MVP Arena
11/18 — Portland, ME — Cross Insurance Arena
11/19 — Newark, NJ — Prudential Center
11/20 — Pittsburgh, PA — PPG Paints Arena

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