Remedy are pleased to announce that rising German Sleaze Rock band Gun Called Britney will join them as special guests for the December dates of the “Messing Up Our Legacy Tour – Europe 2026/2027”. The Hamburg-based band will open for Remedy across Germany and Belgium from December 7 to 11, appearing at the shows in […]
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Following up their 2026 European tour that saw seven of their solo headline shows sell out across nine countries and thirteen performances, Japan’s BROKEN BY THE SCREAM continues their rapid ascent with their latest single, “Parallel Universe,” out on Metal Blade Records.
Featuring the band’s dynamic four-vocalist lineup of Tsubaki Nanaougi, Shizuku Mikogami, Yayoi Takayashiki, and Io Nozukidaira, the new track sees the group further pushing their unique blend of soaring melodies, vicious screams and punishing metallic aggression.
The band comments, “Just as the truth of heliocentrism once overturned a world where geocentrism was considered common sense, falling in love can completely transform a life that once revolved around oneself. ‘What if I had done things differently?’ ‘What if I had chosen another path?’ As we struggle, hesitate, and make choices among countless possibilities, each decision leads us toward a different future. ‘Parallel Universe’ is a song about love, choice, and the different worlds that may unfold beyond them.”
Watch BROKEN BY THE SCREAM‘s “Parallel Universe” video HERE
“Parallel Universe” follows the band’s first release for Metal Blade Records, “花鏑[HANAKABURA]” [streaming HERE] and arrives after a hugely successful European and UK tour that saw BROKEN BY THE SCREAM perform to predominantly sold-out venues across the continent. The tour culminated in a massive performance at Wacken Open Air, where the band took the Louder Stage – one of the festival’s main stages – and delivered their explosive live show to a huge audience.
With their boundary-pushing sound, four-vocalist attack and increasingly powerful live presence, BROKEN BY THE SCREAM are rapidly establishing themselves as one of the most distinctive and exciting acts in modern heavy music. “Parallel Universe” marks the next chapter in that ascent.
2027 tour dates being announced very soon!
BROKEN BY THE SCREAM is:
Tsubaki Nanaougi – vocals
Shizuku Mikogami – vocals
Yayoi Takayashiki – vocals
Io Nozukidaira – vocals
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Trailblazing guitarist/vocalist Lita Ford is proud to announce she has officially signed to Frontiers Music Srl! In more exciting news, LITA will be debuting her new single, “Dracula,” on October 27th. The upcoming single was produced by Gary Hoey, mixed by Max Norman, and was performed by LITA, Gary Hoey, and Bobby Rock on drums.
On the signing, LITA shares:
“It’s been a long journey to create this magical dark fairytale album for everyone to enjoy. I needed the perfect team to make that happen and to help give this powerful record a life it deserves. I am so happy to say I have officially sealed the deal with Frontiers Music Srl, as we are thrilled, excited and ready to rise with the 1st new single on OCTOBER 27th, 2026. Good Night. Good Bye..Prepare To Die ‘DRACULA’!! Brace yourself.”
Check out Lita’s Facebook and Instagram for a sneak preview of “Dracula!”
Pre-Save “Dracula” HERE
Jeff Stevenson, GM of Frontiers Label Group, comments:
“We are incredibly proud to welcome LITA FORD to the Frontiers Label Group family. LITA is a true rock icon—an artist whose influence, musicianship, and unmistakable attitude have inspired generations of fans and musicians around the world. Beyond her extraordinary legacy, what excites us most is that LITA continues to look forward creatively. We’re honored that she has chosen Frontiers for this next chapter, and we can’t wait for fans to hear what she has in store.”
About LITA FORD:
LITA FORD began her career in 1976 as the lead guitarist of The Runaways, the groundbreaking all-female rock band behind classics like “Cherry Bomb” and “Queens of Noise.” After the band’s breakup in 1979, FORD forged her own path and quickly established herself as one of the most influential women in hard rock and heavy metal.
FORD launched her solo career in 1983 with ‘Out for Blood,’ followed by ‘Dancin’ on the Edge’ in 1984, which earned her a Grammy nomination and produced the hit “Gotta Let Go.” She reached new heights with her 1988 self-titled album, ‘Lita,’ a multi-platinum success that featured the iconic singles “Kiss Me Deadly” and “Close My Eyes Forever,” her celebrated duet with Ozzy Osbourne. She went on to release ‘Stiletto,’ ‘Dangerous Curves,’ ‘Black,’ and ‘Living Like a Runaway,’ earning additional Grammy nominations along the way.
Over the course of her career, FORD has been recognized with the Guitar Player Lifetime Achievement Award, Guitar Player Certified Legend Award, and induction into the Guitar Player Hall of Fame. In 2017, she was honored as the First Lady of Rock Guitar at the She Rocks Awards. Her influence has also extended beyond music, with appearances in film, television and video games, while her 2016 memoir, “Living Like a Runaway,” became a national bestseller. Her iconic B.C. Rich Warlock guitar was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s permanent collection in 2021.
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Type O Negative never played ‘Nettie’ live, and in a new clip from his conversation with Loaded Radio, Kenny Hickey says it was never up for discussion. ‘It’s about his mother,’ Hickey says of the World Coming Down track Peter Steele named for Annette Ratajczyk. ‘Sacred place for him.’ That was the only song Steele kept off the stage for an emotional reason.
The rest of the setlist fights were something else: a frontman who, by Hickey’s account, would release a record and then refuse to play anything from it on the tour promoting it, because of something he’d seen at a Black Sabbath show in the 1970s. The clip, from Hickey’s hour on The Loaded Radio Podcast, can be seen below, with his stories of jamming ‘Walk’ with Pantera every night and learning a Down riff two minutes before walking out at Jones Beach.
WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE VIDEO CLIP NOW:Asked whether the band ever tried to perform ‘Nettie,’ Hickey’s answer was immediate: ‘No. It’s about his mother.’ Steele never refused it in a dramatic way; it simply was never going to happen.
‘Nettie’ closes the first half of World Coming Down, the 1999 album Steele wrote in the shadow of his father’s death and his own collapse, and it’s the most undefended thing in the Type O Negative catalog: no irony, no horror-movie frame, just a son’s letter to his mother. Fans have spent twenty-seven years asking why a band that played ‘Everything Dies’ and ‘Everyone I Love Is Dead’ night after night never touched it. Hickey’s answer is that those songs were about grief in general and this one wasn’t. ‘Sacred place for him,’ he says, and leaves it there.
Were there other songs Steele refused on principle? ‘Not for that,’ Hickey says. ‘Deep emotional reason? No.’ The other refusals were about something Hickey still sounds exasperated by.
LIVE & LOUD: Stream the World’s Hardest Radio Station 24/7Hickey says Steele’s habit was to release a record, go out on the tour supporting it, and then refuse to play anything from it, on the theory that ‘nobody knows the music.’
‘We’d release a record, and you’d go out on tour to support it, and he refused to play the songs on the record,’ Hickey says. ‘I’m like, what are you doing?’ Steele’s reasoning: ‘Nobody knows the music. They’re just looking at me like I’m an [expletive].’ Hickey traces it to one night. ‘He based it all on this memory, when he went to see Black Sabbath in the ’70s and they played some new songs off the record, and he didn’t know them. So in his mind, nobody knew the music.’
Hickey’s counter, delivered more than once over the years: ‘Peter, we’re out here promoting the record. We’ve got to play the songs from the record.’ It was, he says, ‘just another one of those things we struggled with,’ and it reframes the ‘Nettie’ question. ‘Forget about Nettie. We had other problems getting any of the songs into the set.’ For a band whose live recordings lean so hard on Bloody Kisses and October Rust, that’s the explanation: the newer the song, the harder Kenny had to fight for it.
Hickey never formally jammed with Dimebag Darrell in a rehearsal room, but when Type O toured with Pantera in the ’90s he walked out and played ‘Walk’ with them almost every night, usually after being handed a Black Tooth Grin.
Did he and Dime ever plug in together? ‘I don’t remember, actually,’ Hickey says. ‘But I think it was inevitable.’ He’d played Dime the demos for Seventh Void, the band he and Johnny Kelly formed in the mid-2000s, ‘and he absolutely [expletive] loved it.’ The plan was for the Abbott brothers to be involved; by the time Seventh Void arranged for Vinnie Paul to produce Heaven Is Gone, Dime had already been killed. ‘I’m sure we would have, at that point,’ Hickey says of the jam that never happened.
What did happen was ‘Walk.’ ‘The times I plugged in were to play Walk on stage with them,’ he says. ‘Almost every night.’ Dime would appear with a Black Tooth Grin, the Crown Royal-and-Coke that was his calling card, and needle him: ‘Oh, what, it’s not cool enough? You don’t want to come out, Kenny?’ Hickey’s reply: ‘No, it’s not that, Dime. It’s just that I don’t want to go back out on stage. I just want to drink and be an [expletive] all night.’ He went out anyway.
‘Every night they’d give me a guitar, and we played the song and had a ball.’ The crew gave the guest guitar its own channel, ‘so if you [expletive] up and you can’t play it, they just put you lower.’
The jam Hickey rates above all of those happened this summer: Pepper Keenan handed him his own guitar on stage with Down at Jones Beach on Long Island, August 29, 2026, for a song Hickey had never played.
‘What was more cool was going out and playing with Down in Long Island,’ he says. ‘Pepper actually gives you his guitar. I just learned the riff two minutes before.’ He didn’t know the song? ‘I didn’t know anything. He showed me the riff on stage before he was handing me the guitar.’ The brief was a lead out of the riff in F-sharp minor, ‘and that’s it.’ From the floor, it looked rehearsed.
‘It really put me out there,’ Hickey says, ‘but I had so much fun doing it.’ Then, with the shrug of a man who has played sludge since before it had a name: ‘If I don’t know how to improvise in F-sharp minor by now, I should give up.’
Those slow, dragging riffs are, as Scott points out in the clip, Hickey’s native language; Down’s Jimmy Bower and Kirk Windstein were building Eyehategod and Crowbar in New Orleans at the same time Hickey and Steele were building Type O in Brooklyn. ‘That’s up my alley,’ Hickey says. ‘I could slide right into that.’
Hickey spoke to Loaded Radio in the week of Type O Negative’s ongoing archival releases and his recent update on the band’s legacy. The full hour, including the Bloody Kisses years, the Peter Steele stories that didn’t make the clip, and what he and Johnny Kelly make of the band’s second life with a generation that never saw them, is on The Loaded Radio Podcast. If you only know Type O from the hits, start there, then go find ‘Nettie.’ Just don’t expect to ever hear it from a stage. That was the point.
No. According to guitarist Kenny Hickey, the band never attempted it. ‘Nettie,’ from 1999’s World Coming Down, was written by Peter Steele about his mother, and Hickey says it was a ‘sacred place for him.’ It was the only Type O Negative song Steele kept off the stage for an emotional reason.
‘Nettie’ is Peter Steele’s song for his mother, Annette Ratajczyk, known as Nettie. It appears on World Coming Down (1999), an album shaped by the death of Steele’s father and his own health and addiction struggles. Unlike the album’s other songs about loss, it has no irony or horror framing, which is why Steele never performed it.
Kenny Hickey says Steele believed that ‘nobody knows the music’ on a new record and that audiences would stare at him blankly. Hickey traces the belief to a Black Sabbath concert Steele attended in the 1970s, where the band played new songs he didn’t recognize. Hickey says getting any new material into Type O Negative’s sets was a recurring struggle.
Yes, as a nightly guest. When Type O Negative toured with Pantera in the 1990s, Hickey came out to play ‘Walk’ with the band almost every night, usually after Dimebag Darrell handed him a Black Tooth Grin. He and Dime never had a formal jam session; Dime loved the demos of Hickey’s band Seventh Void, but was killed in 2004 before a planned collaboration, and Vinnie Paul later produced Seventh Void’s album Heaven Is Gone.
On August 29, 2026, at Northwell at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York, during Down’s set at Berzerkus Fest. Pepper Keenan handed Hickey his own guitar on stage; Hickey says he learned the riff two minutes beforehand and improvised a lead in F-sharp minor.
Hear the whole conversation: Kenny Hickey on The Loaded Radio Podcast, and subscribe on YouTube at loadedradioofficial for every clip. Follow Loaded Radio for more.
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After releasing the song of the same name last week, NOAHFINNCE has now revealed all of the details of their new full-length album.
‘WONKY’ will be released on February 19 2027, via Hopeless Records, and serves as the follow-up to 2024’s ‘GROWING UP ON THE INTERNET’.
Noah had this to say about the record in a stark Instagram post:
“Wonky is a direct reaction to the state of the world right now – it’ll drive you crazy if you let it:
The rise of the alt right.
The increase in anti-trans legislation.
The polarisation of everyday people.
The hopelessness that my generation feels about the future.
The dystopian way in which billionaires, AI and algorithms dictate decisions that make life infinitely more difficult for the masses.
And the unrelenting anxiety caused by all of the above.
But it’s also an album about:
Accepting yourself for who you are.
Rejecting the notion that other people get to define your worth.
Celebrating the differences that draw us to each other.
Persevering despite everything that’s thrown at you.
It took 2 years to write this thing and FUCK was it worth the wait. This is the most amount of work I’ve ever put into anything in my life and I could not be happier with the final product. It’s not just an album, it takes you through a journey and I can’t wait for you to catch up.”
The artwork looks like this:
1. w3Lc0me 2 w0nky
2. RAYGUN
3. STUBBORN
4. THREES
5. fr33f@ll
6. WHAT IF
7. TOO SENSITIVE
8. MR OVERWHELM
9. CROSS EYED
10. DEAD IN AMERICA
11. d.3.a.d
12. WONKY
13. an att3mpt @ p3rs3veranc3
14. ALWAYS TOMORROW
As you can see, it features the previously shared ‘MR OVERWHELM’ and ‘TOO SENSITIVE’, as well as the freshly unveiled ‘WONKY’.
Noah had this to say about the title track, which was co-written with As It Is’ Patty Walters and Ben Biss:
“This is my first fully acoustic song since Asthma Attack came out 8 YEARS AGO and woweee this is very much another NOAHFINNCE song to cry to. Patty asked the question, ‘Why have you never written the classic acoustic emo song?’ This is what came out of it. It’s about accepting being different/a little bit fucked up and letting go of the idea that you need to change in order to be worthy.”
Noah is heading out on tour from today, and here are the dates you can catch him:
OCTOBER
22 – CARDIFF Y Plas, Cardiff
23 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute
24 – LEEDS Stylus
26 – NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
27 – LONDON Electric Ballroom
29 – GLASGOW Saint Lukes
30 – NEWCASTLE Newcastle University
31 – MANCHESTER Academy 2
And Noah was also recently a guest on Rock Sound 7of30, which you can catch up with below:
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Posted on October 22nd 2026, 1:11pm
I have always had a thing for bubblegum music. It’s just fun to listen to. I would also argue that it’s not as easy to write as many people think. Writing catchy pop songs is a true art. Have you ever tried to write one yourself? It’s not easy to do. Or at least do it well. The 1910 Fruitgum Company was one of the most successful bubblegum pop groups of the late 1960s, helping define a musical movement built around catchy melodies, upbeat rhythms, and irresistible sing-along choruses. Originally formed in Linden, New Jersey, as Jeckell and the Hydes,
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