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Ingested – Split With Vocalist
After joining the ranks in 2024, vocalist Josh Davies is no longer part of Ingested. Adam Mercer will be handling vocal duties on the upcoming European tour with Bodysnatcher. -
Black Lung – Launch ‘Forever Beyond Me’ Single
Psychedelic doomers Black Lung have recently released an Elias Mays Schutzman-directed music video for “Forever Beyond Me”, the third single off their upcoming studio album Forever Beyond.
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“A search for spiritual redemption”: Hear new President single Angel Wings – the masked band’s first song after signing with major label Atlantic Records
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King 810 – To Tour Europe This Summer
Michigan-based King 810 are pleased to announce “The Summer Solstice Tour”, a string of headline club shows and a couple of festival appearances across the European lands.
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Necrotted – Announce Sixth Full Length Effort
On April 24th 2026, German death metal formation Necrotted will unleash their sixth long player dubbed We Are The Gods That Tear Ourselves Apart. Additional details, tracklist and cover artwork, can be checked out below.
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Rise Against Launch Fan-Driven Initiative The A.R.T. Project (All Rise Together)
Rise Against have revealed the details of a new fan-driven art initiative, which is showcased in a new music video for their track ‘Ricochet’.
The A.R.T. Project (All Rise Together), at its core, invites fans into the band’s creative process, one they have developed over the last 25 years. A way of bringing people together at a time when division is rife and reminder us of the almighty power of music in troubling times.
The first instance of the project in action has been revealed via a conversation filmed during an immersive art activation in Los Angeles. Fans were invited to create posters showcasing their thoughts and feelings, which were then displayed and used as a backdrop for the band during a performance of ‘Ricochet’, the title track from their latest album.
It’s an inspiring sight, harking back to how things used to be in the punk and hardcore scenes. People getting to meet at a central point, speak their minds, and share in the solace and serenity of those who feel the same as you do. It’s powerful and personal, something that often gets lost in today’s chaos. And if this is just the tip of the iceberg, the potential for what it could become is massive.Check out the activation and the band’s performance below.
A series of additional videos will be released over the coming weeks, all leading up to the band’s upcoming headline tour. The dates of that look a little like this.
MARCH
03 – PROVIDENCE The Strand
05 – MONTREAL L’Olympia
06 – MONTREAL L’Olympia
08 – OTTAWA Hard Rock Casino
10 – TORONTO History
11 – TORONTO History
13 – PITTSBURGH Stage AE
14 – MT. PLEASANT Soaring Eagle Casino
15 – MADISON The Sylvee
18 – PRIOR LAKE Mystic Lake Casino
19 – FARGO Fargo Civic Center
21 – WINNIPEG Burton Cummings Theatre
22 – WINNIPEG Burton Cummings Theatre
24 – EDMONTON Convention Centre
25 – CALGARY Grey Eagle Event Centre
27 – PENDICTON Trade & Convention Centre
28 – VANCOUVER PNE Forum
30 – SPOKANE Knitting Factory
31 – BOISE Treefort Music Hall
APRIL03 – RENO Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort
04 – WHEATLAND Hard Rock Live
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Album review: Sylosis – The New Flesh
A couple of months ago, Josh Middleton was talking to Kerrang! to announce The New Flesh. Among other things, looking back on his two-decades-and-change as the driver of Sylosis, the guitarist pondered on what it is that’s kept him going. “This is always going to be me,” he mused. “If push came to shove, I’d obviously put my kids and my wife over anything. But doing this is definitely my life. There’s just no other options.”
Though never a band short on energy, this set-in vigour and sense of purpose is particularly zesty throughout The New Flesh. And though not exactly in need of an overhaul, there’s something refreshed, regalvanised here, a sense of feeling old magic stirring again, even considering the band’s recalibration and renaissance that started with 2023’s A Sign Of Things To Come. The New Flesh, indeed.
Partly, this is down to ‘The Shredding From Reading’ taking the path less technical (for them). They haven’t turned into The Ramones, and Josh and now-guitarist-and-Conjurer-bassist Conor Marshall’s riffs are still impressively nimble, but frequently it’s about sheer power, going straight for the throat and into the pit.
The chunky on-off thrashings of opener Beneath The Surface are an early black eye, matching speed with chonk, exploding with vigour. As snorting and angry as it is, it also sounds like an absolute riot. Same goes for Spared From The Guillotine, which charges in like prime Slipknot, with not a moment of fat on it. The title-track, meanwhile, boasts a Testament-styled yob-shout in the chorus that actually sounds like it was recorded while dodging stagedivers. It’s all fantastically urgent and alive.
When the brutality takes a breather, there’s still plenty to be had. Lacerations, with its slower, big chorus asking ‘Are you alive or is it just a chemical feeling?’ is a massive sing-along, while the walloping riff to Erased has a slight but satisfying whiff of Mastodon’s loose heft to it, and Adorn My Throne throws in a couple of black metal-ish moments. Even when the metal is gone on the acoustic-led Everything At Once, a song exploring Josh’s feeling about his family while he’s away from them on tour and asking himself if he’s actually doing the right thing, the rawness remains compelling.
‘Sylosis make good album’ isn’t exactly a headline. But for a band now seven albums in to sound as urgent and up for it as they do is something to celebrate. Because when, as Josh says, there’s no other option, there’s no choice but to go in with as much raging energy and clear excitement for it as this. All hail the new flesh.
Verdict: 4/5
For fans of: Trivium, Machine Head, Lamb Of God
The New Flesh is released on February 20 via Nuclear Blast
Posted on February 19th 2026, 11:38a.m.
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Gary ‘Razar’ King: Hope and Darkness
My contact over in Texas – Gary ‘Razar’ King – continues to be a busy chap. If you’ve been here before you may be aware of other stuff he’s sent to me such. Gary is the guitarist in Raddar – a long standing band which has a back catalogue of superb heavy/classic rock albums such […]
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Album Review: Darklore – The Great Elven War
Album Review: Darklore – The Great Elven War
Reviewed by Dan Barnes
Out of Brisbane, Australia come Darklore, a band who live and breath the Fantasy elements that dominate their musical output. Blending blackened symphonic metal to the works of J.R.R. and George R.R., these Aussies are back with the sophomore album, The Great Elven War, six years on from debut, The Evils of Man, back before the pandemic.
At seventy-minutes this album is as epic as either The Lord of the Rings or A Song of Fire & Ice, evoking the image of darkened hall, lit only by crackling fires around which tales of heroic deeds are recounted. It’s the kind of fare that the old school Bloodstockers would brandish plastic broadswords and quaff ale from huge drinking horns, having a whale of a time while doing so.
To set the scene, opening chapter, The Hunting Grounds begins with lashing rain, cracking thunder and a howling wolf, before building dark chords and blackened riffs, in the vein of Cradle and Dimmu. It’s the widescreen nature of those bands that Darklore seems to emulate, with the vocals of Raiven Dark adopting the icer tones of Scandinavian forests than the metropolitan bustle of Brisbane.
The Beast of Bauclair takes time in its nine-minute plus run time to add an ambient passage, breaking the lush tune just long enough for a full-bloodied shredding solo, courtesy of Luna, otherwise seen as Slaves of Anubis’ bassist. The North Remembers goes in for some serious power metal vibes while maintaining the overall feel of grim and frostbitten vistas; Horns of Buffira even manages to include a jiggery feel to its huge bluster.
Descendents of the Pale Moon was released as a single late last November, and acts as a sequel to the debut’s The Raven’s Return, expanding on that track’s revenge-driven resurrected knight’s quest for justice against a duplicitous king. Rather than being the normal, run-of-the-mill single fodder, at nearly eight-minutes in length I cannot imagine it getting much repeated airplay on commercial stations. That said, the swirling riffs are fast and furious and dancing keys give a drive and dynamism here and throughout.
Second single, Servants of Sauron, begins with a scream before the keys lay down an orchestral platform for some meaty riffs and, maybe, something of a Celtic feel as the tune wends to its conclusion.
The closing pairing of the title track and The Wrath of the High Heaven both top the ten-minute mark and bring this mythical saga of heroism and bravery to a close.
Like all the best Fantasies, Darklore’s recounting of The Great Elven War is long and multi-layered, with stories of valour and sacrifice a plenty. And, as with all the best Fantasies, it can be over-long at times, and I occasionally found myself wondering whether the extended run-time was wholly justified. But I probably have that thought when tackling literary Fantasy too, so maybe that’s a failing on my part.
The production is faithful to the subject matter, being big and powerful throughout, giving Darklore’s world-building narrative the tools to be as huge as the titular war itself.
In my limited experience of the Fantasy genre, I suspect this is not the last we’ve heard of said Elven War, with the scope to produce many a follow-up story. Just a bit quicker than Mr Martin’s The Winds of Winter, if you please.
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ERRA Share Seething New Track ‘i. the many names of god’
ERRA have unveiled the first piece of the trilogy of tracks that closes their upcoming album ‘silence outlives the earth’, and it finds them in furious form.
Titled ‘i. the many names of god’, it’s a song that takes us within the heavier side of the band’s repertoire. Pitch black in tone and apocalyptic in stature, it bellows and chugs like the earth is being scorched before your very eyes. There is still a technicality hiding in the cracks, Jesse Cash’s sprawling riffs tickling the ear wonderfully, but it is bombardment that rules the roost here. Heady, harrowing and unholy, it is the band at their most unrelenting and untethered.
Jesse had this to say about it, stating, “‘the many names of god’ is the first in what we consider the trilogy of ‘silence outlives the earth.’ The trilogy represents a distinct shift in tone from the previous songs on the record. We wanted the aesthetic of the track listing to persuade the feeling of that shift. the record transitions to a darker place at this point, and the many names serves to take the heaviest moods expressed in the preceding tracks and visceralize them.”Lost yourself in it below.
‘silence outlives the earth’ will be released on March 08 via UNFD. It will also feature the recently shared ‘further eden’, which sounds a lot like this.
The band are set to hit the road around the album’s release, a co-headliner with Currents. They will be joined by Caskets and AVIANA. Here are the dates:
MARCH
06 – BALTIMORE Nevermore
07 – RALEIGH The Ritz
08 – ATLANTA The Masquerade
10 – TAMPA Ritz Ybor
12 – NASHVILLE Brooklyn Bowl
13 – CLEVELAND House of Blues
14 – PHILADELPHIA The Fillmore
15 – BUFFALO Town Ballroom
17 – TORONTO History
18 – MONTREAL Mtelus
20 – WORCESTER Palladium
21 – NEW YORK Irving Plaza
22 – PITTSBURGH Roxian Theatre
24 – CINCINNATI Bogarts
25 – GRAND RAPIDS The Intersection
27 – DETROIT St. Andrews Hall
28 – CHICAGO House of Blues
31 – MILWAUKEE The Rave
APRIL
01 – MINNEAPOLIS Uptown Theater
03 – LAWRENCE Granada Theater
04 – DENVER Summit Music Hall
05 – SALT LAKE CITY The Complex
07 – SEATTLE The Showbox
08 – PORTLAND Roseland Theater
10 – SACRAMENTO Channel 24
11 – ANAHEIM House of Blues
12 – SAN DIEGO House of Blues
14 – TEMPE The Marquee
15 – ALBUQUERQUE Sunshine Theater
17 – DALLAS House of Blues
18 – HOUSTON House of Blues
19 – SAN ANTONIO Vibes Event CenterThe post ERRA Share Seething New Track ‘i. the many names of god’ appeared first on Rock Sound.