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Tigers Jaw release their highly anticipated new album ,”Lost on You“, on March 27th via Hopeless Records. “Lost on You” –produced/engineered

In late summer, the Swedes Avatar will embark on a week-long headlining tour over Australia and New Zealand to promote their latest album Don’t Go In The Forest. The trek kicks of on August 26th in Adelaide.
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“The First Tremor”, the final advance single taken from The Moon And The Nightspirit‘s forthcoming eight long player Seed Of The Formless, has premiered online. The accompanying visualiter video was created by Lukasz Jaszak.
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Punk veterans Good Riddance have released today their 10th studio album “Before The World Caves In“, via Fat Wreck Chords.  Front

German heavy metal ensemble Midnight Rider has announced the release of their third studio album, Limited Infinity, on May 22nd, 2026 via Massacre Records. Check out the first streaming single, “The Renegade”, via YouTube below.
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Don Broco’s new album ‘Nightmare Tripping’ is out now, and the band have celebrated by sharing a video for one of its many highlights.

That is ‘True Believers’, an absolute behemoth of a track that finds the band at their most bludgeoning and belligerent. Featuring a guest vocal from Architects’ Sam Carter, it is a riff-fueled look at the worrying rise in far-right ideology being accepted like it’s normal rather than shunned and mocked. There’s a reason the song is as angry as it is, as the band are clearly furious that such behaviour and thinking have been allowed to seep back into everyday life.

And the video, showing off brainwashing and cohesion in their most violent forms, brings that anger to the forefront.

Vocalist Rob Damiani had this to say about it all:

“We started writing this song back in 2024 during the Southport Riots. At the same time, the Olympics were on, and flicking between them and the news was an alarming contrast between celebratory British patriotism and violent English nationalism. Over the last few years, it’s been impossible to avoid the rise of the far-right across Europe and the United States, seeing politicians and people on the streets alike using the Nazi salute freely without consequence, and genocide apologists’ ideas embraced in the mainstream media. This song is about the brainwashing that’s led to this, to question what we’ve been brought up believing and the narratives that have been reinforced for generations,” shares Damiani. 

Adding, “As soon as the initial ideas were fleshed out I wanted Sam on this track. We’ve been fans of Architects for a long time and the energy and aggression he brings to his vocals are unmatched. As a human being of planet earth he’s used his talents again and again to stand up for what’s right so to collaborate on this song with him was very special.”

You can pick up a special transparent green cassette of ‘Nightmare Tripping’ right now, exclusively from Rock Sound, right here. There are only 300, so be quick.

The band are due to take the album on the road later this year. Here are the recently announced tour dates.

SEPTEMBER

28 – LINCOLN Engine Shed
29 – SHEFFIELD Octagon

OCTOBER

01 – EDINBURGH Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
02 – MANCHESTER Academy, Manchester
03 – LIVERPOOL Guild of Students
04 – NEWCASTLE City Hall
07 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
10 – NORWICH UEA, Norwich
14 – BRISTOL The Prospect Building

The post WATCH: Don Broco’s Dramatic Video For ‘True Believers’ appeared first on Rock Sound.

German thrashers Mission In Black have shared a new song, “Divinity Of Lies”, from their upcoming full-length effort Divinity Of Lies due on April 24 via El Puerto Records.
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Lex Legion is the newly formed group, featuring King Diamond‘s classic late ’80s lineup – Mikkey Dee, Andy La Rocque, Pete Blakk, and Hal Patino alongside vocalist Nils K. Rue from Pagan’s Mind. They are planning to released debut self-titled record in June 2026 via MNRK Music Group. More info in due time.
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Tours featuring 311 and The Dirty Heads, Coheed and Cambria, Corrosion of Conformity and the Summer Slaughter tour were all announced this past week. Continue reading…

Don Broco are now on the Dark Side. Gone is the whimsy that punctuated their earlier albums. They’ve kept the electronic hints, of course, but taken their sound in a distinctly heavier direction on their latest offering, ‘Nightmare Tripping’. It’s hard to believe that ’T-Shirt Song’ was only a couple of albums prior, but a lot has happened since its release in 2018. While we never disapprove of a heavy take from a band, a lot of the fun of Don Broco has been dampened in favour of deeper, darker lyrics and, as a result, their latest incarnation sounds a whole lot like, well, every other band occupying a similar position on festival lineups. Of course, when ‘Nightmare Tripping’ drops live on their upcoming tour, the newest tracks will undoubtedly slot in perfectly as part of a greater whole, but on record, they’re conjuring an altogether more sombre experience. 

Their new direction is clear from the very start. From the second ‘Cellophane’ glitches into life, we’re swept into a struggle for survival. It’s tremendous and claustrophobic, a song for those longing to unplug. Their electronica has taken on the role of harbinger on ‘Hype Man’, their most Shikari-like track, which is destined to become a fan favourite when the bridge crashes into the euphoric crystals of the chorus, and ushers in a taut race into the unknown on ‘Disappear’. Sampling bagpipes is a bold move, but it just adds to the whole deep cave pool atmosphere they’re evoking. Calling in the services of Nickelback to add a bucketload of riffs takes the title track in an equally unexpected turn, with the whole song switching incredibly rapidly between rhythms and genres…but it works. Whatever spirits Don Broco are contacting via this seance of a song, they must be controlling an ambitious, interesting direction. 

It’s not all totally darkness though. ‘Euphoria’ feels the most characteristically Don Broco song here here, and it’s no great stretch to imagine vocalist Rob Damiani cavorting onstage to its robotic bridges and clashing riffs. The standout track by a mile is the collab with Architects frontman Sam Carter – ‘True Believers’ – which absolutely shines with excitement and atmospheric promise. A distinct maturity haunts each late night chord to make for a gorgeous song, and one which feels like it should have been the cornerstone for a whole different album; one which took a more thoughtful turn away from the darkness and into the light. That said, the chunky guitars that lead ‘Swimming Pools’ into the familiar shallows of the Broco sound is exactly what we need as an antidote to the fear that Don Broco have gone off the deep end, and serves as a reassurance that they haven’t completely abandoned their roots. 

It feels like a tradition now to end any album in 2026 with a slow number, and Don Broco finish with the moody, atmospheric ‘The Corner’, a song that feels like a book being gently closed after a satisfying read. This begs the question: what’s the next chapter for Don Broco? They’ve established that they want to make deeper songs that stretch into more personal territory, with a goal to take on the tougher bands in their sphere of influence. Can we expect an even darker record next year? Whatever the answer, there’s no return to their old antics after the ambitions displayed in ‘Nightmare Tripping’.

Kate Allvey