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  • Blast Worship: Fermented Mess

    Where they from?
    Long Island, NY. MLB starts up this week, guess I gotta make my World Series prediction! (Googles furiously for two minutes) So after much careful consideration I have the Cubs losing to the Mariners in a seven-game series. Just don’t ask me to name a player on either team.

    Why the hype?
    This band burst onto the American scene with their self-titled debut EP a scant few months ago and, golly-gee, they just keep coming back to kick your ass again and again. Think really well done, ferocious grindcore that leans gore without falling into any of that subgenre’s usual trappings. There are no stupid samples to skip through, just ruthless barrages of detuned chromatic guitar onslaughts and air-tight drumming that would make the Bryan Fajardo’s of the world rather proud.

    Latest release?
    Split w/Harvester, self-released. Did I mention I got hit in the head with a beer at a Pig Destroyer show a couple of weeks ago? It really didn’t hurt that bad but my sister freaked out when the blood started oozing down my face like a Monty Python sketch. If you’ve never been to Swampfest in Gainesville, I could not recommend it any more.

    The post Blast Worship: Fermented Mess appeared first on Decibel Magazine.

  • Swiss black metal band APOLAUSTIC premiere new official video via No Clean Singing

    Apolaustic, the newly formed black metal band by former Stortregn vocalist/guitarist Romain Negro, have unveiled another official video from their debut full length “No Plenitude Without Suffering”. This one is beautifully shot and goes well with the emotions in their music. No Clean Singing premiered it AT THIS LINK. Excerpt –  “The film is both magnificent and haunting, harrowing and humbling. Its message might […]

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  • Summer Slaughter 2026 Lineup Revealed With Hatebreed Leading A Surprising Shift

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    Who Is Playing Summer Slaughter Tour 2026?

    Hatebreed will headline alongside Devourment, Incantation (select dates), Snuffed On Sight, Balmora, and Face Yourself.

    TL;DR:

    The Summer Slaughter Tour returns in 2026 with Hatebreed headlining a diverse extreme lineup. Devourment, Snuffed On Sight, Balmora, and Face Yourself join the run, with Incantation appearing on the final five dates. The tour kicks off July 2 and tickets go on sale March 27.

    This Tour Comes Back With A Different Energy

    There’s something noticeably different about this version of Summer Slaughter.

    Not just the bands—but the intent behind the lineup. It doesn’t lock itself into one corner of extreme music. Instead, it pulls from multiple directions and lets them collide.

    That shift says a lot about where heavy music is right now.

    The Timing Of This Return Feels Intentional

    Summer Slaughter has always represented the heavier edge of touring—but this return lands at a time when genre lines matter less than they used to.

    Hardcore, death metal, slam, and underground hybrid acts now share the same audiences more than ever.

    This lineup reflects that reality instead of fighting it.

    The Lineup Balances Legacy And New Blood

    Hatebreed Anchors The Tour With Proven Firepower

    Putting Hatebreed at the top of this bill is a move that widens the reach without watering anything down.

    They’ve spent decades building one of the most reliable live reputations in heavy music. Their sets aren’t about nuance—they’re about impact, precision, and connection with a crowd that knows every word.

    That kind of consistency makes them the perfect anchor for a lineup this varied.

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    The Supporting Acts Cover The Full Spectrum

    This is where the tour separates itself from past versions.

    Devourment brings the unapologetic brutality of slam death metal. Incantation delivers old-school credibility and atmosphere on the final stretch of dates. Snuffed On Sight represents the newer wave of chaotic heaviness that’s been gaining serious traction. Balmora and Face Yourself round things out with rising energy that leans into where the scene is heading next.

    It’s not one sound—it’s a full cross-section of what “heavy” means in 2026.

    Hatebreed’s Full Statement Sets The Tone

    The Band Invites Fans Into The Experience

    Hatebreed shared the following statement:

    “Here we go! Summer Slaughter tour part 1 dates announced! See you in July! What show are you coming to?! Please give a warm welcome to Devourment, Snuffed on Sight, Balmora, Face Yourself [let us know] if you wanna see a local or regional band play the show in your city!

    Please note, Incantation plays the last five shows.”

    That last detail adds a second phase to the tour—one that leans even heavier as it wraps.

    Full List Of Dates Announced

    July Run Across The U.S. And Canada

    07/02 Reading, PA @ Reverb
    07/03 Virginia Beach, VA @ Elevation 27
    07/05 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
    07/07 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
    07/08 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
    07/09 New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
    07/10 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
    07/11 Austin, TX @ Emo’s
    07/12 Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
    07/14 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
    07/15 Omaha, NE @ The Admiral
    07/19 Saginaw, MI @ The Vault w/ Incantation
    07/21 St. Louis, MO @ Pop’s Nightclub w/ Incantation
    07/22 Fort Wayne, IN @ Piere’s Entertainment Center w/ Incantation
    07/23 Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre w/ Incantation
    07/24 Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom w/ Incantation

    Tickets go on sale Friday, March 27.

    Fans interested in attending can find tickets here.

    This Tour Has Always Been About Extremes

    Summer Slaughter built its reputation by pushing heavier bands into the spotlight before they broke wider.

    That DNA is still here—but it’s evolved.

    Instead of sticking to a single lane, this version embraces the overlap between scenes. The same fan who shows up for Devourment is just as likely to connect with Snuffed On Sight or Hatebreed now.

    That wasn’t always the case.

    The Direction Of Heavy Touring Is Changing

    This lineup doesn’t feel accidental.

    It reflects a broader shift where tours are no longer built strictly around subgenres—but around shared intensity and audience crossover.

    That opens the door for more unpredictable lineups moving forward.

    And if this tour hits the way it’s built to, it won’t be the last one structured like this.

    So the real question becomes—is this the future of extreme tours, or just a one-off experiment that happened to work?

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    FAQ

    Who Is Headlining Summer Slaughter Tour 2026?

    Hatebreed is headlining the 2026 Summer Slaughter Tour.

    Which Bands Are Playing Summer Slaughter 2026?

    Devourment, Snuffed On Sight, Balmora, Face Yourself, and Incantation (on select dates) are part of the lineup.

    When Do Summer Slaughter 2026 Tickets Go On Sale?

    Tickets go on sale March 27, 2026.

    Is Incantation Playing Every Show?

    No, Incantation will perform on the final five dates of the tour.

    Band Bio: Hatebreed

    Hatebreed is an American hardcore band formed in Connecticut in 1994. Known for their aggressive sound and high-energy live performances, they’ve become one of the most consistent and respected acts bridging hardcore and metal.

    The post Summer Slaughter 2026 Lineup Revealed With Hatebreed Leading A Surprising Shift appeared first on Loaded Radio.

  • “You get lemons, so you f*cking make lemonade”: Zakk Wylde on Ozzy, camaraderie, and forging ever on

    Last July featured both a highlight and a lowlight of Zakk Wylde​’s life. On the first Saturday of the month, he did double-duty at Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning show in Aston, first saluting Sabbath with Pantera, and then taking his place stage left with Ozzy Osbourne, as the man of the hour made his emotional, heroic return to the stage for the final time, a stone’s throw from the street on which he grew up.

    Less than four weeks later later, Zakk was back in Birmingham, doing an equally honourable task. Along with his son Jesse – himself with the middle names John Michael in the Double‑O’s honour, and a man who also called him his godfather – the guitarist was a pallbearer carrying his friend to his final rest.

    “He was one of those guys that was always just there, man,” Zakk says today. ​“Like Keith Richards or Lemmy. And I’m a fan of those guys, but I played with Ozzy. He was a huge part of my life.”

    It needn’t be said that Ozzy was something of a father figure to Zakk. It was he who first discovered the guitarist in 1987, when Zakk was just 19, the start of a partnership that would yield some of the finest metal songs of the following decades, and a genuinely touching bond. He still affectionately calls Sharon ​“mom”. Though he hadn’t appeared with Ozzy for years, ​“If mom called and said they needed me, I’d be willing to drop everything and go.” At Back To The Beginning, it was a homecoming for him as well as Ozzy.

    Straight after the funeral, Zakk returned to America, continuing on the road with Pantera, where he says memories of visiting the arenas with his old partner in crime came to him every night. ​“I remember one place, when I was there with Ozzy, the crowd was up to their knees in mud and water. I was remembering all that while I was up there with the fellas in Pantera.”

    When that run ended, ​“I came back home, and I sat in our library room with the fireplace going. I just was thinking about Ozzy, because we had some of his books in there and everything like that. That’s when I wrote those lyrics.”

    Those lyrics are for Ozzy’s Song, the final track on Black Label Society​’s new album Engines Of Demolition. The music had actually been done a while, but the words were very much in the now. ​‘I saw you yesterday before you went away / Remember when, never thinking it would end?’

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    When Zakk talks about Ozzy today, slurping his way through a gallon of coffee at Soho’s swanky Sanctum Hotel, it’s with love and affection and positivity. He says Back To The Beginning was like ​“a fuckin’ high school reunion or some shit”, and recalls watching his master’s final turn with Axl Rose, who’d been humbled by meeting The Prince Of Darkness for the first time ever at the show. Ozzy himself was made up at this. ​“He was like, ​‘I can’t believe I just met Axl Rose!’”

    Grinning fondly through his unruly beard that makes him look like an oak tree in a leather biker vest, he calls the show ​“the perfect send-off. I mean, Freddie Mercury didn’t even have that! You know what I mean?”

    He grins a lot, actually, and most things he says come with a chuckle. In his drawl, the frequent swears become charming punctuation. He calls his bandmates – whatever band he’s in, though in BLS’ case referring to guitarist Dario Lorina, bassist John DeServio and drummer Jeff Fabb – as ​“the fellas”. 

    Between BLS, duties with Pantera, his Black Sabbath cover band Zakk Sabbath and ​“doing laundry and dishes and shit”, he’s also a spectacularly busy man. He fiddles constantly with a guitar customised with the album’s artwork, ​“So I remember what fuckin’ band I’m in today.”

    There’s also an unstoppable energy to Zakk Wylde. Even the name Engines Of Demolition is drawn from an idea of not letting the worst of times drag you down. This, he says, is how his old mate approached life as well.

    “The whole Engines Of Demolition [title], it adds to the mindset of strength, determination, being merciless, destroy, conquer, repeat,” he explains. ​“You know, you get lemons, so you make lemonade. What are we supposed to do? Well, let’s make some lemonade. If you have to do something you hate, just do it. Don’t complain. Do it and then go to the pub.

    “Ozzy had that. Considering all the adversity that had ever happened to him, when Sabbath ended [after he was sacked in 1979], how bummed out he was. He was like, ​‘The fuck am I supposed to do now?’ And then he meets Randy Rhoads and Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslakend, and they made Blizzard Of Ozz [1980] and Diary Of A Madman [1981]. And those weren’t just records. They made two template masterpieces for the whole generation.

    “And whatever came up, he retained his goodness and had a heart of gold throughout it all. He was never bitter or jaded or an asshole, he always remained Ozzy.”

    For Zakk, what matters in all this is camaraderie, being a team. It’s this that makes you unstoppable, he reckons, whether as a band, or when he was on his high school football team, before ​“music immediately put an end to that”. 

    “If you’re Black Label or you’re David Beckham, it’s about the camaraderie of the guys, the ​‘us against the world’ thing,” he continues. ​“When you’re getting ready to go out there, it’s like you’re all paratroopers and you’re getting ready to jump out of the plane together, and you’re all counting on each other. 

    “I always think about that every time I look at the rest of the fellas before we go onstage. Every time I’d look at Ozz when we about to run out, I give a thumbs-up, and then our fearless leader would walk out onstage, and we’d follow. That camaraderie and that energy and that life force, that’s what you miss the most.”

    Engines Of Demolition is very much a Black Label Society album. But it’s this quality that fills it with vibrant energy, the sound of people who just love riffs absolutely going for it and not being too clever about it. As ever, they’re counterpointed by mellower moments, ​“Like the difference between Sabbath’s Into The Void and The Rolling Stones’ Wild Horses.” It depends on how Zakk’s feeling when he picks up a guitar or a pen. 

    “You can never run out of ideas to write lyrics about,” he shrugs, as if he’s just been told being a rock’n’roller has a small window of time in which to work. ​“Ozzy’s Song, I would have never written those lyrics if Ozz hadn’t passed away. But then, Lord Humungus, that’s just about the dude in the mask from Mad Max!”

    It could be about you…

    “No, it’s just basically my little book report because I was watching Mad Max,” he laughs. ​“If I hadn’t named it Lord Humungus, probably no-one would know what it’s about. And then we rented these sumo suits for the video, so it’s even harder to tell, man!”

    Lord Humungus himself would probably be on board with the never-say-die philosophy of Engines Of Demolition. Ozzy certainly would. And having been at this for almost 40 years now, this is all Zakk knows, but it’s also how he’s able to celebrate the good times, and get through the others. As he says himself, he wouldn’t know how to navigate the world otherwise.

    “That’s just it, man. I’m always playing, always writing, always finding something to write about,” he grins again, finishing his coffee. ​“There’s always a new song to write. And when life gives you lemons, you fucking make lemonade, and you’ll get through it.”

    Posted on March 24th 2026, 3:30p.m.

  • Hatebreed to Headline This Year’s Summer Slaughter Tour

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    Earlier today, organizers involved with this year’s Summer Slaughter Tour announced the first round of dates and bands slated to perform. With tickets going on sale this Friday, March 27, now is probably the perfect time to make those announcements.

    According to the announcement, Hatebreed will be headlining the whole thing. As for the rest of the bill, it looks like Summer Slaughter is leaning heavily into the extreme metal side of things once again, with bands like Devourment, Incantation (at select shows), Snuffed On Sight, Balmora, and Face Yourself also on the bill.

    In addition to them being the headlining act, Hatebreed hinted that there was a new album in the works, so that’s pretty cool.

    If you decide you want to partake in the ‘summer slaughter’, you can participate in the artist pre-sale right now by using the password SSLAUGHTER. In the meantime, you can check out the current list of tour dates to decide if you’ll be attending this year.

    Summer Slaughter 2026

    7/2 Reading PA Reverb
    7/3 Virginia Beach VA Elevation 27
    7/5 Worcester MA The Palladium
    7/7 Cincinnati OH Bogart’s
    7/8 Nashville TN Brooklyn Bowl
    7/9 New Orleans LA Tipitina’s
    7/10 Houston TX House of Blues
    7/11 Austin TX Emo’s
    7/12 Tulsa OK Cain’s Ballroom
    7/14 Denver CO Summit Music Hall
    7/15 Omaha NE The Admiral
    7/19 Saginaw MI The Vault
    7/21 St Louis MO Pop’s Nightclub (+ Incantation, no Devourment)
    7/22 Fort Wayne IN Piere’s Entertainment Center (+ Incantation, no Devourment)
    7/23 Toronto ON Phoenix Concert Theatre (+ Incantation, no Devourment)
    7/24 Buffalo NY Town Ballroom (+ Incantation, no Devourment)

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  • SAVAGE MASTER and MYSTIC STORM to release new SHADOW KINGDOM split mini-album

    Today, Shadow Kingdom Records announces May 1st as the international release date for a special split mini-album between Savage Master and Mystic Storm, The Power / Wandering Time, on 12″ vinyl format. Featuring three exclusive new tracks from both bands, The Power / Wandering Time brings together two of traditional metal’s most exciting modern forces! Of course, those who follow Shadow Kingdom – or just true HEAVY METAL, […]

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  • Styrofoam Winos Announce New Album Any River: Hear “Pearls”

    When I went to Nelsonville Music Festival last year, Styrofoam Winos were everywhere. The Nashville-based trio of Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel played their own set. They were a crucial component of Ryan Davis’ Roadhouse Band. They popped up at the Michael Hurley tribute overseen by Will Oldham. People spoke reverently about this…

    The post Styrofoam Winos Announce New Album <em>Any River</em>: Hear “Pearls” appeared first on Stereogum.

  • They were bottled off stage by Alice Cooper’s audience, derailed by a death in The Pretenders and made U2’s producer cry: How Big Country made one of the biggest albums of the 80s

    In an exclusive extract from a new book about the life of Stuart Adamson, we look at the hidden story behind The Crossing

  • EP Review: Fat Jeff – Heavy Lonesome Blues

    EP Review: Fat Jeff – Heavy Lonesome Blues

    Reviewed by Matthew Williams

    As it usually the way, I’ll pick certain artists to review on the strength of their name or type of genre, but this one really intrigued me because of the title, “Heavy Lonesome Blues”. Upon reading the press brief, it said it was for fans of Kadavar and Seasick Steve, so I was already onto a winner with this one.

    The most surprising thing about Fat Jeff, and his unique brand of fuzz infused guitar is that he doesn’t come from Appalachia or Memphis, Tennessee, but the mountainous and forested hills of the Doubs region of France. The one-man band combines his wonderful guitar skills with a tambourine and a bass drum, to create 4 songs that are distinctively bluesy and laced with an essence of 90’s grunge, whilst remaining fresh and enchanting.

    The bottleneck slide sounding wonderment begins with “Welcome Stranger” as that big bass drum comes through loud and clear. The fuzzy warm tones pour out, and the raw energy produced gives it that hypnotic quality. As Fat Jeff himself comments, working as a solo artist is “a way to push boundaries and have complete control over the creative process” and if he continues this way, then nobody is going to complain.

    EP Review: Fat Jeff - Heavy Lonesome Blues

    “Identical to None” is one hell of a song, a foot stomping, head tapping moment of genius, that left me nodding along appreciatively. It’s so simple but so effective, that dabbles with a heavier stoner rock-based riff on a slightly detuned guitar sound. Yet, it is dripping in that unmistakenly bluesy sound that creates a wonderfully atmospheric composition.

    In these songs you’ll hear subtle nuances, with keyboards and acoustic guitars playing a significant role, as Fat Jeff went to isolate himself in a cabin in the Bourgogne forest to write these tracks. “A Nice Dead Person” is intimate and personal, as he delves into his past, but you are hit with some boogie woogie alongside the melody. The fulsome and captivating riffs are ones he’s had in his collection for some time, and now they are being let free for our audible delight.

    “I Would Like to Heal You” is a bit more sobering and solemn, allowing the guitar to speak to the listener. With hints of melancholy, it reflects the atmospheric moodiness of the EP which allows the sincerity of the music to permeate through before the keyboard inspired power kicks in later. Just as you think it’s over, we are gifted a bonus track from 2024, “Fly High” which was the inspiration behind “Heavy Lonesome Blues” as it laid the foundations for a step forward in terms of production and analogue recording. Its yet another awesome song and long may Fat Jeff continue in this vain.

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  • Monument Of Misanthropy Announce New Album ‘Washington State Charm’ – Ted Bundy Concept Album Due Out This June

    Originally founded as a solo project by singer Georg Wilfinger (ex-Miasma) in 2010 in Austria, MONUMENT OF MISANTHROPY has released three studio albums, an EP and a demo up to now. Previous full-length album "Vile Postmortem Irrumatio" was released in August 2024 and drew roaring reviews worldwide. Those relentless purveyors of audit… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com