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  • Quemasantos share new single “The Oneironaut”

    Check out the chilling new track

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  • Recognizing Tonal Momentum and Echoes of Past Styles in Riff Turnarounds

    I got something really exciting in the mail recently: my complimentary copy of The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition, which features my latest publication about metal, a chapter about metal’s tonal roots in the blues and the evolution of a common musical structure I call a “riff turnaround.” This new edited volume is really an important moment for the musicological study of metal, featuring a who’s-who of folks currently writing on the topic.

    The editors put in a fanatical amount of work to put this collection together—especially Lori Burns, who has several such collections that have either just come out or are in process. This one is really a huge service to metal studies, giving tons of early-career scholars a chance to get their work published and helping those of us who are already published get a boost to our citation counts. And the collaboration between the editors and the individual chapter authors are drawing a huge web of scholarship into coherent field rather than a bunch of disconnected one-shot publications. I can’t wait to read the other chapters!

    Here’s some more information about my chapter:

    Title: “Recognizing Tonal Momentum and Echoes of Past Styles in Riff Turnarounds”

    Abstract: Riffs are often described in terms of their propulsive rhythm, but they also create a sense of forward motion through tonal momentum. This is especially true in “riff turnarounds,” figures added after multiple repetitions of a riff to create additional momentum, which often demarcate sections within a song’s form. One factor that contributes to this impression of momentum is when a listener recognizes a riff turnaround as a recurrence of a melodic motion they have heard before. This recognition of similarity allows a “transference” (Scotto 2019) of scale degree functions and tonal momentum from one song to another. Through this recognition and transference, each listener can hear echoes of older styles of blues, rock, and metal in newer music-even in styles like progressive metal which substantially depart from those traditions.

    Here are some of the songs I discuss in this chapter. You might recognize a few of them from previous posts on this blog (linked).

    While the whole book is fairly expensive, I’m happy to share a pre-print version of my chapter, which you can access for free over at my Academia.edu profile or at the link below.
    https://www.academia.edu/120233272/Recognizing_Tonal_Momentum_and_Echoes_of_Past_Styles_in_Riff_Turnarounds

  • Yungblud confirms 2026 North American headline tour

    In support of his latest album, ‘Idols’

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  • The Goods – April Fools

    Returning with a gently uplifting yet melancholic sigh as we wave goodbye to summer, Oakland based Rob Good (Ryli) announces his band The Goods’ full length debut Don’t Spoil The Fun with shimmering lead track April Fools.

    A bittersweet paean to the complexities of human connection, Good explains the song thus: “It’s about being tugged around by someone else’s ever-changing moods, someone who drives you up the wall but who you’re nevertheless drawn to, almost because of how crazy they make you.” 

    Joined by bassist Cherron Arens and guitarist Gabriel Monnot, The Goods have perfected a timeless pop formula loaded with arpeggios and heart warming harmonies. Be sure to keep those soaring summer memories alive by letting this most beautiful music into your life.

    Don’t Spoil The Fun arrives 24th October on Dandy Boy Records. You can pre-order here.

  • Yoth Iria “Gone with the Devil”




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    ARTIST: Yoth Iria
    ALBUM: Gone with the Devil
    RELEASE DATE: 05/08/2026

    01. Dare to Rebel
    02. Woven Spells of a Demon
    03. The Blind Eye of Antichrist
    04. I, Totem
    05. 3am
    06. Give ‘Em My Beautiful Hell
    07. Once in a Blue Moon
    08. Blessed Be He Who Enters
    09. The End of the Known Civilization
    10. Harut, Government, Fallen

  • Lamb of God return with blistering new song, “Sepsis”

    Marking their first new track in years

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  • The countdown begins. Friday, get a taste of our new Coming Home Live Album.

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    The song „Wind of Change“ was first released 35 years ago. It remains the most successful German rock single worldwide. Starting October 3rd, you can get a preview of „Wind of Change“ from the upcoming album „Coming Home Live“.

    If ever a song became an icon of a historical event, it is the anthem composition celebrating the fall of the Iron Curtain, the end of the Cold War, and the reunification of Germany – „Wind of Change“. The song has now been viewed more than a billion times worldwide on Vevo and just as many times on YouTube; no other German single has sold more copies, and the song has served as the soundtrack for half a dozen Hollywood films.

    To mark the 35th anniversary of German reunification and exactly 35 anniversary of German reunification and exactly 35 years after “Wind of Change” first appeared on the album “Crazy World,” the SCORPIONS’ label is releasing a truly extraordinary live recording of the song: as an appetizer for the album “COMING HOME – LIVE,” which will be released in December. It’s a recording of the SCORPIONS’ magnificent anniversary concert in Hanover’s stadium in July 2025. A moment of pure goosebumps: when 50,000 fans in the stadium sing in unison with the band and Klaus Meine, the performer, composer, and lyricist… “Now listen to my heart/it still believes in Love/waiting for the wind to change.”

    Essentially, this is the second change to the lyrics of “Wind of Change.” After Klaus Meine symbolized the worldwide longing for peace and freedom using Moscow as an example in the original 35 years ago, “I didn’t think it was appropriate, in view of the terrible war in Ukraine, to romanticize Russia with lines like ‘Follow the Moskva / Down to Gorky Park.’ I wanted to make a statement in support of Ukraine. So the song began with ‘Now listen to my heart / It says Ukraina, waiting for the wind to change.’” Meanwhile, conflicts around the world have escalated further. “That’s why we changed the lyrics again on the current tour. ‘Now listen to my heart / it still believes in love / waiting for the wind to change.’ Whether it happens in Ukraine, Gaza, Israel, or anywhere else on our planet, we don’t want to lose faith in a peaceful future.”

    SCORPIONS will release “COMING HOME LIVE” the iconic concert at the Hanover stadium, featuring all of the rockers’ biggest hits and many musical surprises, as a live album on vinyl and CD for fans on the 05th of december. Pre-orders are now available.

  • Hardy Unveils ‘Country! Country! Country!’ Deluxe Album

     

    HARDY UNVEILS COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY! DELUXE ALBUM

    FOLLOWS FRIDAY’S LONG-AWAITED COUNTRY! COUNTRY!
    Off the back of the release of his highly anticipated new album COUNTRY! COUNTRY! on Friday, HARDY unveils its deluxe edition, COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY!
     The deluxe LP offers brand-new song “Good Ole Boy” as well as stripped-back, acoustic versions of tracks “Dog Years,” “Country In Me” and “Take the Country and Run.”
    Get COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY! here.
    COUNTRY! COUNTRY! and its singles “Dog Years,” “Bottomland”, and “Bro Country” have received enthusiastic early acclaim from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Forbes, Holler, Entertainment Tonight and more.
    The new album marks HARDY’s return to his roots, written in the wake of his much-lauded rock album Quit!!, released last year to widespread critical acclaim. While he loved the thrash of jumping headfirst into the rock world, he missed his community: the peers he wrote No. 1 country radio hits and put together the HIXTAPE series with. After a step away, he felt refreshed.
    COUNTRY! COUNTRY! takes its name literally, ranging from celebrations of his youth in the Mississippi mud—“Bottomland” being named for a specific camo pattern HARDY favors for hunting—to commentary on the state of country music at large. In sum, it’s a celebration of what makes HARDY HARDY.
    HARDY’s first-ever headline date at Madison Square Garden momentously drew the months-long JIM BOB World Tour to a close. This run has seen him headline festivals and his own shows coast to coast with support from Koe Wetzel, Stephen Wilson Jr., McCoy Moore and inaugural CROW RECORDS signeeSikarus.
    He’ll play festivals through the end of the year as well as a very special show, Country vs. Cancer, presented by the American Cancer Society, HARDY’s recently launched charity endeavor The HARDY Fund and Whiskey Jam—to benefit the ACS. HARDY will headline alongside Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley, Lanie Gardner and McCoy Moore at The Pinnacle in Nashville. More information here.
    The pride of Philadelphia, Mississippi has earned his reputation as “a promising purveyor of keeping the spirit of classic heavy Southern rock alive” (American Songwriter), “capable of writing the big hits for radio, obstinate enough to do something completely unexpected, and savvy enough to find the throughline for it all” (Rolling Stone). A five-time ACM award winner and two-time CMA award winner, HARDY has also won three CMA Triple Play awards, was named the 2022 BMI Country Songwriter of the Year and is a three-time AIMP Songwriter of the Year. He’s collaborated and shared stages with Thomas Rhett, Morgan Wallen, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Cole Swindell and more.
    HARDY—COUNTRY! COUNTRY! COUNTRY!
    1. Country Country
    2. Favorite Country Song
    3. Bro Country (with ERNEST)
    4. Luckiest Man Alive
    5. Car That Drove You Away
    6. Girl With A Gun
    7. Buck On The Wall
    8. I’d Go Crazy Too
    9. Take The Country And Run
    10. Goodbye
    11. Bedrooms In The Sky (with Stephen Wilson Jr.)
    12. Bottomland
    13. Good Ole Boy
    14. Who Don’t
    15. Country In Me
    16. Gun To My Head
    17. Keep It Country
    18. Y’all Need Jesus
    19. Dog Years
    20. We’re All Gonna Die
    21. Everybody Does
    22. Country In Me – Acoustic One Take
    23. Take The Country and Run – Acoustic One Take
    24. Dog Years – Acoustic One Take
    HARDY LIVE
    November 6—Stars and Strings—Hollywood, FL
    December 2—Country vs. Cancer—Nashville, TN

    The post Hardy Unveils ‘Country! Country! Country!’ Deluxe Album appeared first on Mayhem Music Magazine.

  • Morgan Wallen Releases New Music Video “I Got Better”

    MORGAN WALLEN WALKS AWAY FROM WRECKAGE IN NEW “I GOT BETTER” MUSIC VIDEO

    On the heels of concluding his 2025 I’m The Problem Tour on September 13 in Edmonton, Alberta, Morgan Wallen has notched another top five-and-climbing single at country radio with “I Got Better,” the second-of-37 tracks on his blockbuster fourth studio album, I’m The Problem. Today, the 19-time Billboard Music Award winner released the official music video for the single he dubbed his “most personal” upon its May 16 release.

    Co-written by Wallen alongside Michael Hardy, Chase McGill, Blake Pendergrass, Ernest Keith Smith and Ryan Vojtesak, “I Got Better” comes to life on screen under the direction of Justin Clough. The cinematic video uses a car accident as a metaphor for the wreckage of a relationship. The storyline follows Wallen as he walks away from the crash, his wounds gradually beginning to heal as he does so.
    Wallen first teased the video’s creative clad in bloodied attire via a social media post on September 3 during a week off on tour, simply captioning, “Interesting bye week lol.”
    I’m The Problem spent 12 non-consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 albums chart and 13 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Canadian Albums chart. It also became Wallen’s first album to debut at No. 1 on the UK Official Charts – making him one of only five artists to debut at summit with a country album. The project has already yielded four No. 1’s at country radio, including the title track, which remained at No. 1 for eight weeks.
    The project debuted at No. 1 in seven countries upon release. In Australia, I’m The Problem became the longest-running No. 1 album by a country artist in 10 years, with three consecutive weeks atop the ARIA albums chart, while “What I Want (feat. Tate McRae)” spent five weeks at No. 1 on Australia’s Country Airplay chart.

    The post Morgan Wallen Releases New Music Video “I Got Better” appeared first on Mayhem Music Magazine.

  • Ingested “Denigration”




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    ARTIST: Ingested
    ALBUM: Denigration
    RELEASE DATE: 05/08/2026

    01. Dragged Apart
    02. Merciless Reflection
    03. Watch You Fold
    04. Stitch by Stitch
    05. We Are All Inherently Evil
    06. Dredge the Dark
    07. Oaths Betrayed
    08. Beaten Beyond the Veil
    09. Steel Toe Truth
    10. Cold Sun