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HIs new album arrives next week.

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A new Lumon?

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The lead single features Daedric’s Kristyn Hope.

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There’s a certain kind of New York record that feels like it came up under busted lighting and sharp instincts, the kind that understands the city as a mix of cut-rate epiphanies, failed love affairs, and someone dancing past their limit in a room with a leaking ceiling. Darling Black, aka Dylan Hundley, belongs to that tradition with a smart, dirty smile: her debut LP Darling Black carries the downtown clatter of post-punk, early electronica, electroclash, goth pulse, and industrial throb into something personal enough to feel lived in and loose enough to keep moving.

Hundley has already done time in the cultural trenches as the lead singer of Lulu Lewis, host of Radar on The Vinyl District, and curator of Salon Lulu, a roving New York art-and-music congregation haunting the Lower East Side. If her name sounds familiar, you must be a fan of cult favourite film  Metropolitan. You can hear all of that traffic, and Hundley’s boundless creativity, in this delightfully strange, hypnotic record. It has the ears of somebody who has spent years around artists, weirdos, lifers, and glam casualties. As Darling Black, Dylan previously released the EP It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This in 2020 and several singles on the road to this album, and the full-length finally feels like the moment when all those impulses lock together and start throwing elbows.

8th and Alvarado is billed as urban dance punk, and that tag fits because the thing struts in wearing city dust and nightclub lipstick. It has that clipped, caffeinated forward motion that makes you want to spill your drink while pointing at the speakers. The Champagne remix by Youth opens it up for a bigger dancefloor without sanding off its bite, taking the original’s raw motor and giving it enough air to ricochet across a festival field. Same trouble, larger room.

Across the album, Hundley moves through goth, dance, electronic, industrial, minimal machine music, and full-on synthpop with the kind of appetite that suggests she likes records as events, not polite little mood parcels. The covers help tell the story: the John Cale penned/Bauhaus classic Rosegarden Funeral of Sores and Yoko Ono’s Walking On Thin Ice are not picked for prestige; they feel chosen because they belong to the same crooked family tree. Elsewhere, you can catch echoes of Kraftwerk, Polyrock, Ladytron, Fad Gadget, The Normal, and Talking Heads, especially in Dial, where rhythmic repetition gets worked like a nervous tic until it turns sexy.

The songs on Darling Black run through these spectrums and also offer a commentary on today’s world, and that range gets summed up best by Hundley herself: “I have always been drawn to the dynamic elements that live in the spectrums between joy and rage, light and dark, dancing and crying,” she says. “I enjoy exploring this range in my writing and as a performer. It is simply where my instincts take me. Not everything that is beautiful is all that, nor is all horror.”

That swing is the whole show, and it’s a hell of a ride.

Listen to Darling Black below and order the album here. Check out the Champagne remix by Youth here!

Darling Black will be heading to London and Berlin in April, making appearances with Youth and Lene Lovich. Catch her live!

• April 17, 2026 — Christabel’s, London, UK (Hosted by Youth)
• April 24–25, 2026 — Wild at Heart, Berlin, DE (Supporting Lene Lovich)

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• Instagram
• Bandcamp
• Website

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ARLINGTON, TX — When you talk about the history of heavy metal, there is a distinct “before” and “after” marked by the rise of Pantera. While the 1990s saw many legacy acts faltering under the weight of the grunge movement, the Texas foursome—Phil Anselmo, Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, and Rex Brown—didn’t just survive; they redefined the genre.

By stripping away the spandex of their 1980s “glam” origins and introducing the world to “Groove Metal,” Pantera became the bridge between the thrash of the 80s and the extreme sounds of the modern era. Today, we are settling the debate once and for all: This is the definitive Loaded Radio ranking of every major-label Pantera album.

TL;DR

This is the definitive Loaded Radio Pantera albums ranked listing of the five records that declared war on the music industry. From the 1990 re-birth of Cowboys from Hell to the final, heavy sting of Reinventing the Steel, we break down the riffs, the rage, and the technical genius of Dimebag Darrell. While Far Beyond Driven made history at #1, we crown the game-changing Vulgar Display of Power as the ultimate champion. Scroll down to see if your favorite made the cut and join the conversation in our fan poll.

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The Legend of the “Texas Groove”

For an entire generation, Pantera was a declaration of independence from a softening metal scene. Having analyzed Dimebag’s revolutionary use of solid-state Randall amplifiers and the “step on the cat” Whammy pedal effect, it’s clear why this band remains untouchable. They didn’t just play loud; they played with a rhythmic “swing” that made extreme metal danceable without losing an ounce of its lethality.

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The Ranking: The Five Pillars of Groove

5. Reinventing the Steel (2000)

The final chapter. Reinventing the Steel was a conscious attempt to strip back the experimental, dark fury of the late 90s and return to “beer-soaked” basics. Tracks like “Revolution Is My Name” and “Goddamn Electric” (featuring a guest solo from Kerry King) are top-tier anthems.

However, compared to the three records that preceded it, the album feels more like a solid victory lap than a revolution. It captures a band returning to their roots while simultaneously reaching the end of their rope—but what a rope it was. It remains a mandatory listen for anyone who claims to love the riff.

4. The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)

The most fractured, terrifying, and arguably “pure” record in the catalog. Recorded while Phil Anselmo was in a dark place in New Orleans, physically and mentally separated from the band in Texas, this is the sound of a unit tearing itself apart.

Yet, out of that chaos came “Floods,” featuring what many (including the Loaded Radio staff) consider to be Dimebag Darrell’s single greatest guitar solo. It’s ugly, raw, and features some of the most visceral vocal performances in history. It is a masterpiece of nihilism.

3. Cowboys from Hell (1990)

The re-birth. This is where the spandex was burned and the “Groove” was born. While you can still hear the thrash-metal DNA of the late 80s, the title track and the soul-crushing breakdown of “Domination” signaled that the “Power Metal” era was officially dead.

With Terry Date at the helm, Pantera redrew the map of heavy metal. It was the moment the world realized that Dimebag Darrell wasn’t just another guitarist—he was the heir apparent to Eddie Van Halen.

2. Far Beyond Driven (1994)

The album that changed the music industry’s rules forever. How a record this extreme, featuring the sonic assault of “Strength Beyond Strength” and the seething “I’m Broken,” debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 remains one of metal’s greatest achievements.

It is the peak of Pantera’s technical and physical power. From the rhythmic stomp of “5 Minutes Alone” to the haunting cover of Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan,” this album proved that Pantera could be the heaviest band on earth and the most popular band on earth at the exact same time.

1. Vulgar Display of Power (1992)

The definitive artifact. This isn’t just an album; it’s the gold standard of 90s metal. Every riff on “Walk,” “Mouth for War,” and “A New Level” is a masterclass in tension and release.

Phil Anselmo’s vocals reached a perfect equilibrium of street-level grit and raw, unfiltered fury. It is the single most important groove metal record ever made. It remains the undisputed #1 for a reason: from the production to the performance, it is flawless. It didn’t just influence the scene; it created a new one.

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Is it another story in the track listing this time around?

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MONTREAL, QC — Fresh off their historic Juno Award win for the acclaimed comeback album Shadow Work, Canadian deathcore pioneers Despised Icon have announced they are taking the throne overseas. The band will join forces with deathcore titans Carnifex and New York death metal institution Suffocation for the ‘Death Dominion Tour’—a triple co-headlining run set to pulverize Europe and the UK this fall.

A Victory Lap for Despised Icon

The tour marks a triumphant return for Despised Icon, whose first album in six years, Shadow Work, has revitalized the genre and earned them top honors in their home country. Pairing their technical precision with the blackened deathcore of Carnifex and the legendary, genre-defining brutality of Suffocation makes this one of the most anticipated extreme metal packages of 2026.

Joining the “Big Three” on all dates will be Louisville, KY’s own rising death metal stars, Gates To Hell, ensuring a relentless assault from start to finish.

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The ‘Death Dominion’ Invasion Dates

The 20-city trek kicks off in Munich on October 29 and carves a path through the UK and Mainland Europe before wrapping up in Karlsruhe, Germany.

UK & European Tour Dates:

• 10/29 Munich, GER – Backstage
• 10/31 Haarlem, NET – Patronaat
• 11/03 London, UK – Electric Brixton
• 11/05 Manchester, UK – Academy 2
• 11/07 Bristol, UK – Electric Bristol
• 11/11 Milan, ITA – Legend
• 11/18 Berlin, GER – Columbia Theater (Full itinerary available below)

Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 17. Fans are encouraged to act fast, as triple co-headlining lineups of this caliber historically sell out mid-sized venues rapidly. Grab yours at this location.

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TL;DR

Canadian deathcore leaders Despised Icon (fresh off their Juno Award win) are joining forces with Carnifex and Suffocation for the triple co-headlining ‘Death Dominion’ tour. The 20-date trek kicks off October 29 in Munich and hits major cities across the UK and Europe with support from Gates To Hell. Tickets go on sale this Friday, April 17.

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Way back in 2003, Owen Ashworth, who now records as Advanced Base, released his album Twinkle Echo under his former moniker Casiotone For The Painfully Alone. That album contained a short, sweet track called “Hey Eleanor.” Wednesday, Claire Rousay released a cover of that song. According to her note on Bandcamp, she threw it together…

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