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W.A.S.P. announces ten European shows  as part of the “1984 To Headless” 2026 Tour paying tribute to their 1st four albums… Live!  Selected hits from W.A.S.P.’s 1st four albums promise to create a true Rock ‘N Roll spectacle complete with a live stage show bringing those albums alive for the 1st… and only time. 

They now have a two night residency booked at the B.E.C. Arena.

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Colonel Claypool’s Fearless Flying Frog Brigade will release Return Of The Live Frogs: Volume 1 on May 22nd, a new live collection capturing the band’s long-awaited return and ever-evolving onstage chemistry. Featuring four extended performances – each stretching between seven and twelve minutes – the release offers a raw, immersive snapshot of a group that has always thrived in the moment, where structure gives way to exploration and no two performances land quite the same way twice.

The tracklist includes “Up On the Roof,” “Phantom Patriot,” “D’s Diner,” and “Cosmic Highway,” each reimagined through the band’s loose, improvisational lens. Built on deep grooves, shifting arrangements, and the interplay between a cast of longtime collaborators, the recordings highlight what has made the Frog Brigade such a cult favorite for more than two decades: a sense that anything can happen at any time, and often does.

Originally formed by Claypool in 2000 as a creative outlet during a transitional period for Primus, the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade quickly became one of his most beloved and freewheeling projects – a place where new material, deep cuts, and left-field covers could coexist alongside extended improvisation and genre-hopping experimentation. Early tours, marquee festival appearances, and the release of Live Frogs Set 1 & 2 and the studio album Purple Onion helped establish the band as a singular live force, bridging the gap between the jam, prog, and alt-rock worlds.

After more than 20 years away from full-scale touring, the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade returned to the stage with a lineup that once again includes longtime members Skerik on horns and Mike Dillon on percussion, alongside Sean Ono Lennon on guitar, Harry Waters on keys, and Paulo Baldi on drums. That lineup remains central to the band’s current incarnation, bringing together players with deep history and an instinctive feel for the project’s open-ended approach.

Return Of The Live Frogs: Volume 1 arrives just as Claypool and Lennon prepare to hit the road for the Claypool Gold Tour, a full-evening run that brings together three distinct projects – Primus, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, and the Fearless Flying Frog Brigade – into one fluid, genre-spanning live experience. Each night, the Frog Brigade set offers a different window into Claypool’s catalog and creative world, with a focus on extended arrangements, improvisation, and the kind of musical risk-taking that has always defined the project.

The tour begins May 20th and runs coast-to-coast through early July, giving audiences a rare chance to see Claypool and Lennon move between multiple bands and approaches in a single evening, from the tightly constructed narratives of the Delirium to the wide-open terrain of the Frog Brigade. For dates and to purchase tickets click here.

With Return Of The Live Frogs: Volume 1, that spirit is captured in its purest form: a band in motion, playing without a net, and leaning fully into the unpredictability that has always been at the heart of the Frog Brigade.

Pre-order Return Of The Live Frogs: Volume 1 here.

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Without any prior announcement or teaser, Enter Shikari surprised fans by releasing their new album “Lose Your Self” on April 10. Now the band is following up with the official music video for “Find Out The Hard Way…” Directed by Jasper Visuals, the video premieres today, April 15, at 9:00 p.m. CEST: https://youtu.be/iYC-vjBSGXE?si=qf0e_TH9eILX9W2L Singer Rou… Continue Reading →

Producers Ryan Hemsworth and Giraffage got together to form the duo Bodysync in 2021, and their album Nutty came out two years ago. Last year, they dropped the one-off single “Surf.” On Instagram, Bodysync say that they’ve got a new EP on the way and that we should “TAKE A WALK TODAY,” which is good…

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“..Poisonous spiders are NO BUENO”

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Hot off the release of driving new single Lest We Fall and a run of successful shows with Heaven Shall Burn and The Black Dahlia Murder, melodic death metal mavens The Halo Effect have announced their 2027 European Tour.The Swedish five-piece, whose members defined the often-imitated Gothenburg sound in the 1990s, will headline across the… Continue Reading →

In a recent conversation with Dream Theater Argentina, Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci opened up about the band’s ongoing “An Evening With Dream Theater” run. The tour features the group performing their latest album, Parasomnia, in full, along with the complete seven-part composition “A Change Of Seasons”, marking the first time they’ve revisited the piece in full since Mike Portnoy’s return in October 2023. The setlist also pulls in deeper cuts and longtime fan favorites from across the catalog.

Reflecting on how things have gone so far, Petrucci said (as transcribed by blabbermouth.net): “Yeah, well, we started the Parasomnia leg after the summer in the U.S., in the fall. And it’s been great. It’s been a lot of fun doing something different and creating a visual world of Parasomnia. We really try to make it so that the fans that come to the shows are really transported into the world of Parasomnia. And it’s been a blast being able to play it in its entirety. And it’s cool. I mean, it might be a little self-indulgent [laughs] — it’s a whole new album — but, to us, [it’s been a lot of] fun.”

He also pointed to the audience response as a major highlight. Petrucci noted that the reaction from Dream Theater fans has “been fantastic. It’s been great. We just played Friday night in Mexico City to a big, big arena crowd there, and we opened that show with the Parasomnia album,” John said. “And it’s essentially all new music, and the fan reaction was incredible. It was over the top. It was just as if we were playing deep cuts. So, very satisfying. Yeah. Very, very cool feeling.”

Looking ahead, Dream Theater have confirmed that their April 22, 2026 performance at Movistar Arena in Santiago, Chile will be recorded and filmed for a future Blu-ray release. When asked if that changes his preparation, Petrucci kept it straightforward: “Well, really, the best thing is if it doesn’t shift at all. You have to sort of approach it like… First of all, every show, we try to put everything into it, put our best, have our best performance. For me, the best mentality is it’s just another show. Don’t get too worked up about it. Don’t get too anxious about it. That’s the best approach. Because otherwise, yeah, you can kind of drive yourself a little crazy.”

He added that past filmed performances have come with some unfortunate timing on the health front. Petrucci commented: “Something keeps happening to me, which is a bit annoying, that I keep getting the worst-timed illness right before we film. Yeah, it happened to me many times. I’ll never forget the ‘Score’ DVD from Radio City [Music Hall], I was sick as a dog. And then the Paris Blu-ray [‘Quarantième: Live À Paris’], I got something horrible a couple of days before. I was on stage with a fever, but… I don’t know why that [always happen]. [But] it’s, like, the show must go on, right? So hopefully for Chile I will be okay.”

Parasomnia, released on February 7, 2025 through InsideOut Music, was produced by Petrucci, engineered by James “Jimmy T” Meslin, and mixed by Andy Sneap, with artwork once again handled by Hugh Syme. The album runs eight tracks across 71 minutes and was recorded at the band’s DTHQ studio in Long Island, New York.

It follows 2021’s A View From The Top Of The World, which landed in the top 10 across Billboard’s Top Hard Rock Albums, Top Rock Albums, and Independent Albums charts. Much of Parasomnia leans into extended compositions, with six tracks passing the seven-minute mark, and the closing piece “The Shadow Man Incident” stretching close to 20 minutes.

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Whenever I hear a bassline that I like, I just kind of freeze and tune everything else out. A great bassline can stop me in my tracks. That’s what happened when I hit play on Spacemoth’s new single “Do We Exist?” The weirdly funky little bounce of a bassline is the first thing that we…

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Crank those decibels, baby!

Many a hard rock icon seemed destined to underground cult status due to the changing musical tides of the early 90s, with the likes of Slaughter and Blue Murder being among the more prominent examples of bands that were a little late to the party and swimming against the wave crashing out of the Pacific Northwest.

Early 90s AOR upstarts Hardline seemed another entry into this club of bands that had all the right moves but hit the field in the wrong decade, featuring the talents of famed Journey guitarist Neal Schon and Bad English bassist Todd Jensen alongside the project’s masterminds vocalist Johnny Gioeli and brother/guitarist Joey Gioeli, not to mention a signature formula and melodic splendor that would have conquered the mainstream were it to have come to light a few years earlier. But perseverance can conquer even the most overwhelming of adversaries, and following a brilliant run with Frontiers Records, this elder hard rock staple has unleashed their heaviest entry yet under the SPV/Steamhammer banner in Shout!

Much of Hardline’s present vitality owes to the keyboard chops and production expertise of Alessandro Del Vecchio, who has refocused their signature 80s AOR sound into something more modern and in harmony with the power and pizzazz common to most of Frontiers’ ever-expanding roster. One can’t help but note that while Johnny Gioeli’s raspy roar remains a dead-ringer for his work with Axel Rudi Pell, yet the music surrounding him has taken on a character that is far less tied to the aforementioned project’s retro production tendencies, despite still being steeped in 80s stylings.

The tight display put on by the rhythm section, consisting of drummer Marco Di Salvia (an occasional fellow traveler of Del Vecchio’s) and bassist Anna Portalupi, plays an equally vital part in shaping this album into a towering golem of sound. But the variable that puts this entry in a distinct and more metallic place compared to their prior outings with Frontiers Records is the guitar work of Blaze and Doro axe-slinger Luca Princiotta, laying down riffs that are at least as heavy as anything in Pell’s extensive catalog.

Though definitely a sizable step into new sonic territory for the Hardline brand, Shout! is an album that plays to the same compact, concise formula that has been the rule since the 1992 debut, Double Eclipse, emphasizing infectious hooks with a straightforward approach. Obligatory up-tempo bangers like “Rise Up” and “I’m Leaning On It’ tap into that 80s magic something fierce and find Gioeli’s sleazy snarl in comfortable territory, with Princiotta’s flashy riff work tilting things dangerously close to mid-80s Ozzy Osbourne territory.

Likewise, though the opening title entry “Shout!” commences with the usual cinematic largess that Del Vecchio likes to adorn his productions with, the heavy punch of the guitars that drives things along carries an uncanny Jake E. Lee-like character rather than the more rhythmically static approach typical of a Magnus Karlsson or Aldo Lonobile in a format like this. Even when things get heavy enough to rival Judas Priest, like on the pummeling foray “Welcome To The Thunder”, the synchronicity established between Luca’s busy guitars and the dense atmospheric backdrop caters perfectly to Gioeli’s signature wails.

Naturally, this isn’t an album based solely on impact-based aggression, but it’s uncanny how even the more stylistically mixed offerings of this opus find themselves back in that same sonic place at key points. The more anthem-based rocking approach of “It Owns You” and “Candy Love” splits the difference equally between keyboard-steeped AOR and 80s Sunset Strip-inspired sleaze rock, functioning as de facto throwbacks to the early days of the Hardline name, but are also tailored in such a way as to fit perfectly into the heavier aesthetic of the rest of this album.

The more melancholic and piano-driven semi-balladry of “Mother Love” tugs at the heartstrings a fair bit both lyrically and melodically speaking, yet once that explosive chorus lands Princiotta’s metallic edge has its say. A similar story is told in a more nuanced and almost progressive way on the down-tempo epic reinterpretation of Scorpions‘ song “When You Came Into My Life,” and the serene acoustic entry turned shuffling hard rock monster “Rise Above No Fear”. The only all-out exception to the rule of raging rock with a soaring voice on top is the closing ballad “Glow”, which offers an extremely poignant message of love and loss with Gioeli opting for a more intimate setting of a lone piano line accompanying his powerful pipes.

While Shout! also presents a sound that is a far cry from the vintage 80s AOR sound that typified Double Eclipse, it definitely draws more so from the mystique of that era than anything else they’ve put out since, and provides a more aggressive and uncompromising metallic edge that is sure to prove far more palpable to younger heavy and power metal enthusiasts. Anything worth playing is worth playing loud, and while this album does not live by decibels alone, it packs far more than one might expect from the average AOR band.

Release Date: April 17th, 2026
Record Label: SPV/Steamhammer
Genre: Melodic Hard Rock

Musicians:

• Johnny Gioeli / Vocals
• Alessandro Del Vecchio / Keyboards
• Luca Princiotta / Guitars
• Anna Portalupi / Bass
• Marco Di Salvia / Drums

Shout! Tracklist:

1. Shout
2. Rise Up
3. It Owns You
4. When You Came Into My Life (Scorpions cover)
5. Mother Love
6. Rise Above No Fear
7. Candy Love
8. I’m Leaning On It
9. Welcome To The Thunder
10. Glow

Order the album here.

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