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An official event celebrating five decades of Kiss in Germany has been announced for October 30, 2026, at Mitsubishi Electric Halle in Düsseldorf.

Billed as the 50 Years Of Kiss In Germany: Official Fan Celebration, the event will feature Kiss guitarist Tommy Thayer as its main special guest. During the evening, Thayer will join Kiss Forever Band on stage for part of the tribute band’s live performance. Fans will also have access to a limited number of autograph signings and photo opportunities with the guitarist.

The live entertainment will be led by Kiss Forever Band, with German metal icon Doro Pesch also taking part in the celebration. She is scheduled to join both Thayer and Kiss Forever Band for the event’s closing musical performance.

Additional guests include concert promoter Ossy Hoppe and photographer Didi Zill, both of whom have longstanding connections to Kiss and their history in Germany.

Beyond the live performances, attendees can expect displays featuring rare Kiss memorabilia, exclusive merchandise created for the event, limited music releases and other attractions that will be announced closer to the date.

Organizers have also made one point clear: Kiss themselves will not perform as a band during the celebration.

Tickets for the event go on sale on August 11, 2026. Fans interested in attending should note that registering in advance does not count as purchasing a ticket and does not guarantee entry once sales begin. Register your interest here.

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Buster Odeholm took on the mixing duties.

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Wormwood are a Swedish black metal band and this is their latest release. This short, two-track EP follows on from 2024’s The Star, bringing us a another dose of Wormwood’s intelligently crafted progressive black metal. With a duration of 16 minutes, Å showcases Wormwood’s notable talents in an easy-to-digest format that nonetheless has plenty to explore … Continue reading “Wormwood – Å (Review)”

Formed in early 2024, Dutch purveyors of progressive, technical death metal, Mystical Death, independently released their debut EP, Carnation, in the September of that same year. Featuring five exquisitely constructed songs which maintained a gritty, old school death metal atmosphere while displaying remarkable technicality and adventurous spirit, Carnation drew the attention of renowned American label, Rottweiler Records. Rottweiler […]

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John Douglas, longtime guitarist for Scottish indie rock band Trashcan Sinatras, has passed away. The band shared the news in a social media post today, writing that Douglas passed away peacefully on Monday “after a brief illness.” Douglas was 63.

The post Trashcan Sinatras’ John Douglas Dead At 63 appeared first on Stereogum.

Coal Chamber drummer Mikey Cox expects to be fully recovered from his recent surgery for the show.

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Corrosion of Conformity's Pepper Keenan revealed that he first auditioned for Metallica in the '90s after James Hetfield's infamous pyro accident. Continue reading…

Where they from?
Leeds, United Kingdom. The NFL kicks off its preseason this Thursday with the annual Hall of Fame Game, so it’s officially time for me to make my Super Bowl pick. For the 11th year in the row it’s the same: Jets vs Lions. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some keyboard cleaner I need to huff.

Why the hype?
THEY ARE BACK AND WORSER THAN EVER! The original Leeds mad men, the trend-setters for an entire micro-wave of bands you’ve probably never heard of! Gets Worse are the quintessential Leeds grind/violence band: goofy, gonzo and berzerk in ways that would make most North Americans poop their pants. Of all the guitar-less powerviolence bands out there, Gets Worse are perhaps the most, uh, guitar-less. The basses gnash and gnarl their way through unhinged spasms of drumming and mongo vocals that would make even Joe Denunzio proud.

Latest release?
No Bones, out now on RSR Records. This record shrieks and wobbles its way into the listener’s heart. I asked ChatGPT to help me write this review and I think it summed it up perfectly when it said “This content violates our policy on explicit material.” It was so beautiful I cried.

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Now in their 37th year of blasphemous brutality, legendary Finnish Black Metal iconoclasts ARCHGOAT remain one of the most single-minded and relentlessly visceral bands in extreme music. Ahead of the 11th September release of new album “Nightbringer, Lightbringer“, the Finnish legends now unleash a second angelslaying attack! Listen to ‘The Dawn To Armageddon‘ below: Composer Ritual Butcherer had this […]

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