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Nervosa Releases New Music Video “Ghost Notes” From Upcoming Album “Slave Machine”
Metal heroines Nervosa has unleashed a new single from their upcoming album, "Slave Machine," out on April 3, 2026 via Napalm Records. "Ghost Notes" lets loose a storm of heavy, yet easily recognizable riffs, driven by impelling drums and the ever-so-furious vocals of Prika Amaral. Culminating in a powerful guitar solo, "Ghost Notes" shows yet anot… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com -
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Returns To The Road This Summer With Support Of MACHINE HEAD, IRON REAGAN, And HAVOK
Killswitch Engage composed of Jesse Leach on vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz on guitar; Joel Stroetzel on guitar; Mike D’Antonio on bass; and Justin Foley on drums — will return to the road this summer on a headline run of the U.S. It marks the band’s first U.S. tour since last year’s Summer of Loud run.
The tour kicks off June 3 in Detroit and runs through June 27 in San Francisco, and includes appearances at Milwaukee Metal Fest and DC Warped Tour Weekend. Support will come from Machine Head, Iron Reagan, and Havok. All dates are below.
A variety of pre-sales begin today, March 3, at 2pm ET and run through Thursday, March 5 at 10pm local time. The general on-sale is set for Friday, March 6 at 10am local time. Get tickets here.
“I’m extremely excited to get back out on the road supporting our newest album This Consequence!” says Leach. “We are hitting major cities and bringing along with us an absolutely killer lineup with the legendary Robb Flynn and Machine Head, thrash masters Iron Reagan, and rounded out by the mighty Havok. This is a stacked and powerful crew of bands that will electrify and dominate wherever we roll up to… so LET’S GO!!!!!!”
Killswitch Engage On Tour With Machine Head, Iron Reagan, + Havok:
6/03 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore
6/05 — Minneapolis, MN — The Fillmore
6/06 — Milwaukee, WI — Milwaukee Metal Fest*
6/07 — South Bend, IN — Four Winds Field
6/09 — Raleigh, NC — The Ritz
6/11 — Brooklyn, NY — Brooklyn Paramount
6/12 — Boston, MA — Roadrunner
6/13 — Bethlehem, PA — Wind Creek Event Center
6/14 — Washington, DC — DC Warped Tour*
6/16 — Orlando, FL — Hard Rock Live
6/17 — Atlanta, GA — Tabernacle
6/19 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom
6/20 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center
6/21 — San Antonio, TX — Boeing Center at Tech Port
6/23 — Albuquerque, NM — Revel Entertainment Center
6/24 — Tempe, AZ — The Marquee
6/25 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
6/27 — San Francisco, CA — Warfield
*KsE Festival Appearance
The post KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Returns To The Road This Summer With Support Of MACHINE HEAD, IRON REAGAN, And HAVOK appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.
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Killswitch Engage Announce Massive Summer 2026 U.S. Headline Tour – @thebeast
Killswitch Engage Announce Massive Summer 2026 U.S. Headline Tour
Massachusetts metalcore titans Killswitch Engage are loading up the bus and taking no prisoners this summer. The band has officially announced a headline U.S. tour set to kick off June 3 in Detroit and wrap up June 27 in San Francisco, marking their first full U.S. run since last year’s Summer of Loud trek.
If you’ve been waiting to scream every word back at Jesse Leach, this is your moment.
The tour comes in support of their latest album This Consequence , out now via Metal Blade Records . The record has already made serious noise, fueled by the Top 5 single “I Believe,” which climbed to No. 3, and a successful Winter/Spring 2025 run that proved KsE are still swinging harder than ever.
A Lineup Built for Total Destruction
This isn’t just a tour. It’s a stacked bill that reads like a metal fan’s dream.
Joining KsE on the road:
Machine Head
Iron Reagan
Havok
Yes, that Machine Head. And yes, Robb Flynn is bringing the heat.
Jesse Leach didn’t hold back on the hype: he’s fired up to hit major cities with what he calls an absolutely killer lineup. With thrash fury, hardcore grit, and modern metal precision all packed into one bill, this one is built to electrify and dominate every stop.
Festival Appearances Included
Along the way, the tour will hit major festival stages, including:
Milwaukee Metal Fest
DC Warped Tour
Festival sets plus headline club and theater dates means fans get both the big-stage spectacle and the up-close chaos.
Tour Dates
With Machine Head, Iron Reagan, and Havok
6/03 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
6/05 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore
6/06 – Milwaukee, WI – Milwaukee Metal Fest*
6/07 – South Bend, IN – Four Winds Field
6/09 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
6/11 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Paramount
6/12 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
6/13 – Bethlehem, PA – Wind Creek Event Center
6/14 – Washington, DC – DC Warped Tour*
6/16 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
6/17 – Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle
6/19 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
6/20 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
6/21 – San Antonio, TX – Boeing Center at Tech Port
6/23 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel Entertainment Center
6/24 – Tempe, AZ – The Marquee
6/25 – Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
6/27 – San Francisco, CA – Warfield
*Festival appearance
Pre-sales begin March 3 at 2pm ET and run through March 5 at 10pm local time. General on-sale starts March 6 at 10am local time.
25 Years and Still Crushing
Formed in 2000 in Western Massachusetts, Killswitch Engage helped define early 2000s heavy music by fusing European-inspired guitar precision with East Coast hardcore intensity. Their 2002 breakthrough Alive or Just Breathing became a genre benchmark, while The End of Heartache earned gold certification and As Daylight Dies went platinum.
With three Grammy nominations, multiple Top 10 Billboard debuts, nearly 3 billion streams, and countless sold-out tours alongside the likes of Iron Maiden, Slipknot, and Slayer, KsE have long since moved from rising stars to certified pillars of modern metal.
Now celebrating 25 years as one of the most vital bands of the 2000s metal movement, they’re proving once again that consistency, passion, and road-warrior grit still matter.
Bottom line? This summer run is not a nostalgia lap. It’s a statement.
Killswitch Engage are back on the road, armed with a fresh record, a brutal supporting cast, and something to prove. If this tour rolls through your city, you already know what to do.
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Bodysnatcher Shares New Music Video “Violent Obsession”
South Florida deathcore mainstays Bodysnatcher have revealed their latest rager, "Violent Obsession" via MNRK Heavy. The furious track is taken from the band's upcoming new album "Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home," due for release on Friday, 10th April. Speaking about the inspiration behind the song, guitarist Kyle Carter commented: "'Violent Obsessio… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com -
Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, Iron Reagan & Havok Reveal June U.S. Tour
Almost like a Roadrage Tour throwback.
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1986 Hit Ranked ‘Best Song of the Era’ for Timeless Appeal
It wasn’t easy to go with just one, but one single track does stand above the rest. So, what’s the best song of 1986?
The post 1986 Hit Ranked ‘Best Song of the Era’ for Timeless Appeal appeared first on Audio Ink Radio.
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Get your limited-edition Metallica – Master Of Puppets zine
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Metallica’s landmark album Master Of Puppets, we’ve dug deep into the archive to bring you the definitive inside story of a record that sent shockwaves through heavy metal and changed our world forever.
Featuring rare photography from 1986 and choice cuts from Kerrang!’s own history books when we were there at the time, this 24-page A5 zine is the ultimate tribute to one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
Posted on March 3rd 2026, 3:21p.m.
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RED Announce MICHAEL BARNES’ Exit After 19 Years, Reveal Final Show and 20th Anniversary Tour Plans
Frontman to step away after one last Dallas performance as band plot End of Silence anniversary run and new era.
The post RED Announce MICHAEL BARNES' Exit After 19 Years, Reveal Final Show and 20th Anniversary Tour Plans appeared first on Metal Injection.
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Album Review: Triumpher – Piercing The Heart Of The World
Album Review: Triumpher – Piercing The Heart Of The World
Reviewed by Dan Barnes
Formed in their native Athens in 2019, Greek warriors, Triumpher, still led by guitarist Christopher Tsakiropoulos and singer, Mars Triumph, have returned for their third studio album, Piercing the Heart of the World. Coming a couple of years after the close releases of the 2023 debut, Storming the Walls, and its follow-up Spirit Invictus a year later, this new record goes further to solidify Triumpher’s growing reputation as one of Europe’s most reliable Epic Power Metal exponents.
Having shared stages with the likes of Grave Digger, Primordial, Midnight and Tom G’s Triumph of Death, this Greek quintet – completed by bassist Stelios Zoumis and drummer Agis Tzoukopoulos, alongside guitarist, Mario Ñ Peters – are as unashamedly Metal as they come. Taking influences from the stalwarts of the genre, Piercing the Heart of the World is manna to anyone with a penchant for that European Eighties bombast, with every one of the album’s seven – not counting the interlude – tracks ticking all of the chest-beating, fist-pumping, horns-aloft anthems the fan-base expect – no, demand of their Metal.
Black Blood get the ball rolling with the sound of a raging storm, and it doesn’t take long for Triumpher’s symphonic majesty to put a bit of wind and rain into context. Agis’ drum-kicks are imperious, and his percussive tolling death bells adds to the overall mythological nature of the album. There’s very much a Priest feel to the widescreen nature of the music, one that is heard weaving its way throughout the record.
The Flaming Sword has an upbeat chug and a killer solo to go with its big chorus, sounding all the world like the intent of Manowar; Destroyer starts with some Speed Metal scratching and fast and furious riffing, the galloping guitars and gang vocals giving the thrashing feel of Iced Earth, more so when the symphonic darkness sounds akin to the infernal interlude of Horror Show’s track, Damien.
There’s a slow baroque piece, understatedly called Vault of Immortals that finds Mars in a particularly sombre mood, and Erinyes blast with black metal intensity and blistering fretboard runs for the most musically savage moments on the record.
But no self-respecting Power Metal album is going to neglect some epic tunes, and Piercing the Heart of the World has three. The Mountain Throne is all about that big subject matter, creating atmosphere through the interplay between meaty guitars and delicate keys. The second half of the tune foregoes any subtlety and forges ahead, lead by Stelios’ bass, into the grandeur of the titular throne as the guitars scream like the rage of Achilles himself.
Following on from that comes Ithaca (Return of the Eternal King) in which the guitars evoke the gentle breeze in Odysseus’ sails as he nears home. Atmospheric and with a huge vocal presence, this telling of the final parts of The Odyssey, makes you feel the salt-water hitting your face as the waves crash against the bow. As land appears into view, the music swells and Mars’ voice adopts a Dickinson-like tone, as the end of the Ithacan king’s twenty-year journey is close to its end.
Triumpher return to Homer and the subject of Trojan War for the epic album closer, Naus Apidalia, which draws the record to a suitably bombastic conclusion, and includes a little nod to fellow Hellenics, Rotting Christ, in a lick as it comes out of its ambient mid-section respite.
I’m not the world’s biggest Power Metal fan, but I had a blast with Piercing the Heart of the World’s overblown presentation and unabashed bombast. I’ve seen enough to know this will be hungrily lapped up by the Metal Warriors around the world and they will turn out in their hordes when Triumpher come to town.
Are you supposed to sharpen a plastic sword, does anybody know? Asking for a friend.
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The Guess Who Confirm Summer 2026 U.S. Tour Dates
Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder will open the upcoming shows as well as the previously announced Canadian concerts. Continue reading…