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Desmond .

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The band IAMX, led by British musician Chris Corner, released their new single Artificial Innocence on February 20, accompanied by an official music video now available on all digital platforms.

After a period of intense creative activity, IAMX presents a track that explores conflicts between identity, control and vulnerability, themes that are recurrent in Corner’s artistic universe. Artificial Innocence combines the project’s signature raw electronic sound with an unsettling atmospheric tone.

Alongside the release, the band has confirmed the final dates of the “Artificial Innocence Tour 2026”, which will run across Europe during March and April, with artist Aux Animaux as special guest.

Confirmed dates:

• 14.03.26 – Leipzig (Germany)

• 16.03.26 – Gdansk (Poland)

• 18.03.26 – Budapest (Hungary)

• 20.03.26 – Bucharest (Romania)

• 21.03.26 – Belgrade (Serbia)

• 22.03.26 – Zagreb (Croatia)

• 24.03.26 – Ljubljana (Slovenia)

• 25.03.26 – Milan (Italy)

• 27.03.26 – Bratislava (Slovakia)

• 28.03.26 – Krems (Austria)

• 31.03.26 – Eindhoven (Netherlands)

• 01.04.26 – Cologne (Germany)

• 03.04.26 – Zurich (Switzerland)

• 04.04.26 – Mannheim (Germany)

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Reptilian Records presents a remastered vinyl repress of Human Abjection, the debut LP from infamous Miami sludge metal icons, CAVITY. The reactivated band is also back on the road, playing a string of shows across Florida this week, with Desertfest London coming up.

Formed in 1992, CAVITY is one of the primary acts responsible for pioneering the early sludge metal movement alongside the likes of Melvins, Eyehategod, Noothgrush, -16-, and others in the early 1990s underground, before the genre tag was a household term for most heavy music fans. 

CAVITY dealt lumbering, low-end, scathing, slug-paced crushers, delivered through massive volume and sheer glacial force, releasing records through revered labels like Rhetoric Records, Man’s Ruin, Bacteria Sour, Hydra Head, and others over the years, including splits with Daisycutter, Bongzilla, and a four-way split with Cable, Jesuit, and Overcast as part of Hydra Head’s In These Black Days tribute series to Black Sabbath.

CAVITY disbanded in 2001, and its members went on to form Black Cobra, Floor, Torche, and more. After fifteen years apart, the band reformed briefly as Cavity A.D, from 2015 until pandemic/lockdown-stricken 2020, when they parted ways once again. In 2026, CAVITY returns with new live appearances and more.

In conjunction with the band’s reformation, long-running noise rock label Reptilian Records now revives CAVITY’s long-out-of-print 1995 debut album, Human Abjection, with a proper vinyl and digital reissue, nearly three-and-a-half decades after its initial arrival. The album will be available in a limited-edition gold nugget vinyl remaster with a poster insert.

CAVITY’s limited Human Abjection vinyl remaster, out May 29th, is now available for preorder at Reptilian Records’ Bandcamp HERE, US webshop HERE, and EU shop HERE.

The reissue is announced as CAVITY returns to the stage, with a run of dates through their hometown state of Florida, playing Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and Jacksonville this week, March 19th through 22nd. The band is also set to play Desertfest London – headlining the Black Heart stage, Friday 15th May – joining Clutch, Truckfighters, -16-, Deaf Club, and many others at the festival. 

CAVITY will also play Emissions From The Monolith October 8th-11th in Youngstown, Ohio, alongside Today Is The Day, Rwake, Deadbird, Solace, Weedeater, Great Falls, Kowloonn Walled City, and countless others. Additional live plans and more are already in motion for later this year.

CAVITY:
Dan Gorostiaga – bass
Rene Barge – vocals
Ed Matus – guitar
Andrew McLees – guitar
Pat Forrest – drums

CAVITY Live:

3/19/2026 The Brass Mug – Tampa, FL w/ Meatwound, No Fraud, Spanish Needles, Bunaand

3/20/2026 Will’s Pub – Orlando, FL w/ Thrull, Bunaaand, Skeletizer

3/21/2026 Las Rosas – Miami, FL w/ Devalued, Prison Warder

3/22/2026 Albatross – Jacksonville, FL w/ Unregistered Weapon, Drosera, Horses, Salisbury

5/15/2026 Desertfest London – London, UK [info]

10/08-11/2026 Emissions From The Monolith – Youngstown, OH [info]

Source: EARSPLIT PR

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Masterplan .

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The summer of 2026 will once again bring a powerful wave of guitars to Cartagena. The Rock Imperium Festival will return on July 3, 4 and 5, 2026, taking place at Parque de la Cuesta del Batel and continuing to establish itself as one of the most important rock and metal events in southern Europe.

Leading the lineup are three major names in the genre. British legends Iron Maiden will headline one of the festival nights with what promises to be one of the most anticipated performances of the weekend. They will be joined by Swedish power metal giants Sabaton, known for their high-energy and epic live shows, as well as Dutch symphonic metal icons Within Temptation.

The lineup also brings together a wide range of international artists representing different styles within metal and hard rock. Among the confirmed bands are Mastodon, Anthrax, Testament, Trivium, Queensrÿche, Lacuna Coil, H.E.A.T and The Gathering, among many others completing the bill.

Since its first edition, the festival has continued to grow, becoming a key meeting point for metal fans in Spain and beyond. Its seaside location and carefully curated lineups featuring both legendary acts and contemporary bands have helped position it as a prominent stop on the European festival circuit.

With three days dedicated to heavy music in all its forms, Rock Imperium Festival will once again turn Cartagena into a gathering point for rock and metal fans from across Europe.

Tickets and festival passes for the 2026 edition are already available through the festival’s official channels.

useful links:

Tickets:https://www.rockimperiumfestival.es/es/

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Listen to the best in new, heavy music every week with HEAVY‘s new weekly HEAVY AUDIO MAG, featuring music from our weekly cover artist plus new premieres, hit predictions, and killer tracks we just know you want to listen to from bands featured over both digimags and some just because we want to put them […]

A few weeks ago Rosalía and Björk gave a live debut to “Berghain” at the BRIT Awards. Tonight the Spanish superstar performed many live debuts at her Lux Tour kickoff at LDLC Arena outside of Paris.

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I previously said it during my review of their recent self-titled album but it’s a weird concept for Alter Bridge to be undertaking a major UK tour in March rather than the last few months of the year. But put that weirdness aside and everything else about said tour is exactly what you’d expect from … Continue reading Gig Review: Alter Bridge / Daughtry / Sevendust – Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham (5th March 2026)

Alternative emo rock favourites The Beautiful Monument will hit stages in Sydney and Melbourne next month for an intimate weekender, debuting their latest singles Cry About It and Dancing with the Buried live for the very first time. Tickets are on sale now via Destroy All Lines. The four-piece will take over The Burdekin on […]