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Goth rock icons The 69 Eyes are thrilled to unveil their new single “Brandon Lee (Forma Acustica)”, out now via BLKIIBLK.  Originally featured on “Blessed Be”, the song was first released in 2000 and became an international success for the band. Its title refers to the late American actor Brandon Lee, who played the lead… Continue Reading →

beabadoobee has hit the top of the UK Albums Chart once more with her new album, celebrating emo and alt-rock in abundance.

The album features contributions from everyone from Deftones’ Chino Moreno and The 1975’s Matty Healy and George Daniels, to vocal features from Turnstile’s Brendan Yates and Hayley Williams. It was co-produced by the legendary Rick Rubin and has writing credits from Title Fight’s Shane Moran. Basically, it is a who’s who of alternative brilliance.

And the result is sensational. Fuzzy, intimate, beautifully considered and celebratory in all the right ways, it’s a record that already feels timeless.

And in rising to the top of the charts, according to the Official Charts Company, it follows on from 2024’s ‘This Is How Tomorrow Moves’, which also debuted that high.

She’s electric! beabadoobee secures her second consecutive Number 1 album with Pylon 🔌⚡ https://t.co/XGmQfibqXX

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) September 25, 2026

And to celebrate, here is the video for ‘Write Me A Letter’:

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Raw, loud, and unapologetic — “Halo” shows Hardcore Superstar at their most direct. Driven by heavy riffs, plenty of attitude, and a chorus built for the live stage, the song thrives in the tension between chaos and redemption. Bitter truths, wine-soaked resentment, and prayers that ring hollow all collide along the way. The band describes… Continue Reading →

Back in the great SoundCloud-rap wave of the ’10s, the West Palm Beach weirdo Ghostemane emerged with a messy and fascinating style that combined that moment’s underground rap, and its ’90s Memphis origins, with metal, hardcore, goth, and industrial. Ghostemane had a strange and prolific run, but he largely disappeared following the release of 2020’s Anti-Icon, his most recent LP. But now he’s coming back with a new album, just in time for Halloween.

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Clutch has announced their fourteenth studio album, Wasted Lands, set for release Jan. 22, 2027 via the band’s own Weathermaker Music. The band has also shared the title track, “Wasted Lands,” along with its official music video — the first studio album from the Maryland quartet since 2022’s Sunrise On Slaughter Beach.

Wasted Lands was produced by Gene “Machine” Freeman (Lamb of God, Kyng), marking Clutch’s first collaboration with Freeman since 2015’s Psychic Warfare, following previous partnerships on Pure Rock Fury, Blast Tyrant, Earth Rocker and Psychic Warfare. The album was written and recorded at Doom Saloon, the band’s longtime rehearsal space in Frederick, Maryland. Among the album’s firsts: “Beware The Fever” marks the introduction of banjo on a Clutch record, using a rough demo played by Neil Fallon and captured by Jean-Paul Gaster during a writing session — despite several attempts to re-record it, the original performance is what ended up on the record.

Regarding the inspiration behind the title track, Fallon shares: “The inspiration for the lyrics in ‘Wasted Lands’ came about when it was brought to my attention that someone had been dragging my name on Facebook (weird, right?). Apparently, I had reneged on a free t-shirt and dinner. I think it was a prize in a pay to play contest. Not to overstate the obvious, but it was a load of horse hockey.

“Many people tried to explain to this person that it was not me and that they had been hustled. But they simply would not believe it. So I thought, screw it, no half-measures. You want a monster? Let’s give you one.”

Drummer Gaster shares a note on a defining detail within the track: “There’s a part where Neil says, ‘Vegetable, mineral, man, or beast.’ And I put a bass drum on, ‘man or beast,’ and Machine thought that was kind of weird. He was like, ‘Man, you’re covering up the vocal!’

“And I said, ‘No, that bass drum is gonna make the crowd go nuts, I guarantee it.’ And it does, because there’s nothing more exciting than having a big bass drum slam through a PA, and Neil singing a vocal on top of it. I mean, I get goosebumps from that, you know?”

Clutch share: “Exploded monuments, haunted coal towns, robber barons, time cops, a chestburster, fifteen tons of antimatter and a creature called Neil Patrick Fallon. ‘Wasted Lands’ came from one clear intention: write a great rock record that will make fans go nuts when they hear these songs live, while leaving enough space in the creative process to follow the unexpected turns that keep Clutch exciting to us and our fans after thirty-five years together.”

In support of the album, Clutch will head out on a 16-date U.S. headline tour beginning Oct. 16 at The Fillmore Charlotte and wrapping Nov. 7 at The NorVa in Norfolk, Virginia, with support from Slomosa and Blood Vulture. The band will then launch its global Wasted Lands tour in Australia starting Jan. 23, 2027, the day after the album drops, with support from Corrosion of Conformity, running through Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Clutch is: Neil Fallon (vocals), Jean-Paul Gaster (drums), Dan Maines (bass), Tim Sult (guitar).

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The first single from their upcoming album ‘Scorn Eternal’

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“Upperhand” draws from the eerie, paranormal world of the game, turning the tension of CONTROL Resonant into a dark, cinematic metal anthem. Apocalyptica’s melancholic cellos and thunderous rhythms meet the distinctive vocals of Katrine Stenbekk (Kalandra), creating a track that feels equally at home on a movie soundtrack or a concert stage. Here is the… Continue Reading →

Kamelot have just released their new album, Dark Asylum, and will soon kick off the first leg of the Dark Asylum Tour with KamFest at 013 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. The band have now also announced the dates for the second leg of the tour, and here they are: 05/03/26 – Osnabrück, DE – Hyde Park06/03/26 – Groningen,… Continue Reading →

Emi Grace has unveiled her latest full release, ‘The Bliss Of Ignorance’, five songs of spiky, sassy and sensational rock.

A snapshot of not just who Emi is as a personality but also as a player, the EP features some of her biggest solos and boldest melodies to date. From the pomp at the heart of ‘Intuition’ to the technical playfulness of ‘Don’t Bother’, it is fun, fierce and flamboyant in all the right ways.

As much a statement of intent as a fork in the road, now is the time to jump on board before things kick up another gear.

It also serves as Emi’s first record since signing to ARRO Records, co-founded by Twenty One Pilots’ Tyler Joseph. 

Get stuck into the full EP below.

And here is the video for ‘Don’t Bother’:

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Well, shit. What a night this was going to be. I was pooped before I left the house, and I was expecting to have the crap entertained out of me. What I wasn’t expecting was opener Desecrated Extinction, a one-man “slamming porngrind” act from down the road, who had a half-full Slay spinning in circles … Continue reading Gig Review: Gutalax / Basement Torture Killings / Coprocephalic Mutation / Desecrated Extinction – Slay, Glasgow (20th September 2026)