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Last weekend, Olivia Rodrigo headlined her own one-off festival Daisy Chain Fields in Irvine, California, and it looked fucking awesome. During her set, Rodrigo performed with Stevie Nicks, Sarah McLachlan, and Alanis Morissette, and the day also featured sets from acts like Chappell Roan, Doechii, Mitski, the Breeders, Garbage, Bikini Kill, Die Spitz, and Quiet Light. The benefit raised $10 million for women’s rights nonprofits, and Melinda French Gates announced that she’s doubling that total with a $10 million donation of her own. Most of us couldn’t be there, but we might get to experience the show in movie form.

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Two of Finland’s biggest exports in melodic death metal are hitting the road together. Amorphis and Insomnium will co-headline a run of North American dates this fall, with U.S. melodic death/doom act Hinayana rounding out the bill. The tour kicks off in Boston on Nov. 17 and stretches into mid-December, bringing both bands’ signature blend of melody and heaviness to stages across the continent.

The trek doubles as continued touring behind Amorphis‘ latest album, Borderland. Released through Reigning Phoenix Music in September 2025, the record lands 35 years into the band’s career and marks their first collaboration with producer Jacob Hansen, bringing a fresh spark to a sound that’s already covered a lot of ground.

That’s really the throughline of Amorphis‘ whole catalog: a band that refuses to stay still. The current lineup, Tomi Joutsen on vocals, Esa Holopainen and Tomi Koivusaari on guitars, Olli-Pekka Laine on bass, Santeri Kallio on keyboards, and Jan Rechberger on drums, has taken the band from the raw death metal of Karelian Isthmus through defining mid-90s melodic death records like Tales From The Thousand Lakes and Elegy, into the more grandiose sound of Eclipse and Skyforger, and eventually toward the genre-blending approach of Under The Red Cloud and Queen Of Time. Whatever era you pick, Amorphis rarely misses.

2022’s Halo was proof the approach still works: it gave the band its sixth No. 1 album in Finland, cracked the Top 3 in Germany, and picked up two Emma Gaala awards, Band Of The Year and Export Of The Year. Rather than rushing out a follow-up, Amorphis stepped back from touring to focus entirely on the next record. Borderland is the payoff, a album that builds on everything that’s worked for the band recently while still pushing into new territory.

On the Insomnium side, the co-headliners are gearing up for their tenth album, Netherworlds, due Oct. 16 via Century Media. Since forming in Joensuu, deep in Finland’s North Karelia region, Insomnium has built a career on melancholy and atmosphere, carving out a lane where sorrow and hope sit side by side inside massive melodic death metal soundscapes.

Netherworlds keeps that identity intact while pushing the band’s songwriting into more emotionally complex territory. Insomnium isn’t interested in repeating itself, and the new record reflects that: same unmistakable sound, new emotional ground being covered. Behind the scenes, producer and engineer Miiro Varjus played a bigger role than usual, becoming a close creative partner to the band throughout the album’s creation and helping shape its dark, immersive atmosphere. The record was tracked at Fascination Street Studios, with Jens Bogren producing and mixing and Tony Lindgren handling mastering, a combination that gives Netherworlds both scale and intimacy.

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Polish technical thrash/death metal trio GODSLUT have unveiled “Self-made Gods,” the second single taken from their forthcoming album, The Art of Deconstruction. The record will arrive on September 4, 2026, through Selfmadegod Records. Guitarist and vocalist Krzysiek Śniadecki describes the subject of the new track in characteristically direct terms: “The post-2020 era in a nutshell […]

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On April 2, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth asked General Randy George to stand down as Army Chief of Staff. No public explanation was given. According to reporting from the Washington Post, the Army’s most senior officer was reportedly forced into early retirement — roughly a year short of forty years of service — after Hegseth wanted him to shelve an investigation into a military helicopter flyby near Kid Rock’s Nashville home. The musician himself is not accused of any wrongdoing. And the man now publicly defending the general is the frontman of Tool.

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What actually happened, in order

The sequence matters here, so let’s take it plainly.

March 28. Two Apache helicopters from the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Campbell fly past Kid Rock’s sprawling Nashville property — the residence he refers to as the Southern White House. Rock posts a video of the flyby with the caption: “God Bless America and all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to defend her.”

Shortly after. The two pilots are suspended while the Army opens an investigation into whether safety regulations were breached.

Then. Hegseth reinstates both pilots. He announces it on X: “Thank you @KidRock. @USArmy pilots’ suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.”

April 2. Hegseth asks General Randy George to stand down as Army Chief of Staff. No public explanation is given for the decision.

Now. The Washington Post reports that George’s departure followed Hegseth wanting him to shelve the flyby investigation. Per that reporting, George told colleagues he felt it was important to follow typical protocol and determine whether any safety regulations had been violated. He was reportedly driven from his role shortly afterward.

April 28. Rock and Hegseth both draw criticism after taking a US military helicopter ride together as part of America’s 250th birthday celebrations. Hegseth posts about it, calling Rock a patriot and a huge supporter of the troops.

Kid Rock isn’t the one being questioned

Worth stating clearly, because a lot of the reaction online is going to skip past it.

Kid Rock has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He didn’t authorise the flight. He didn’t dispatch the aircraft. He posted a video of two helicopters flying past his own house, with a caption honouring the fallen.

Every decision that followed — opening the safety review, suspending the pilots, reinstating them, and whatever led to a four-star general leaving his post — was made inside the military chain of command. That’s where the story lives.

He also hasn’t commented on the reporting about General George, and had no obvious reason to know about it.

You can hold whatever view you like about the man’s politics. On the facts of this particular story, he’s a musician who filmed something flying over his garden.

Joined my friend @KidRock — and some of our great @USArmy Apache pilots — for a ride this morning. (More to come on that!)

Kid Rock is a patriot and huge supporter of our troops. The War Department is wasting no time celebrating America’s 250th — home of the free because of the… pic.twitter.com/7EyhlaCeUj

— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) April 28, 2026

The Maynard James Keenan connection

Here’s why this landed on a heavy metal news site, and it’s genuinely remarkable.

Maynard James Keenan and Randy George were classmates at West Point Prep. They ran cross-country together.

Keenan has posted publicly in George’s defence, and his account of their history is worth reading properly.

His framing: most of his classmates at West Point Prep were there with a single mission — to graduate West Point and serve. Focus, drive, a plan, and zero compromise. Keenan says he was one of the few with doubts and inner conflict.

When he eventually declined his appointment to West Point, most people around him saw it as an enormous mistake. A handful didn’t. They knew him well enough to respect the decision.

One of those supportive classmates was Randy George.

Keenan’s point, four decades later, is simply that he’s returning the favour. He notes George went on to become a four-star general and Chief of Staff of the US Army, was approaching his fortieth year of service, and says he can’t imagine how disappointed and upset the man must feel at being asked to retire early.

He signs off by telling George that they’re there for him, and suggesting it might be time for a beer or three.

Think about what that means for a moment. The man who fronts one of the most significant bands in modern heavy music — a career built on questioning institutions and authority — was once on track for West Point. He walked away. And the person who backed him on the hardest decision of his young life became the highest-ranking officer in the United States Army.

Forty years later, one of them is speaking up for the other.

You could not invent it.

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Where Keenan is right now

Context on the man making that statement, because he’s had a considerable few months himself.

Keenan underwent a hip replacement on August 26 after an injury in Luxembourg during A Perfect Circle’s European tour, and confirmed the same night that he wouldn’t be cancelling any of the roughly 27 shows he has booked across 18 countries between September and Christmas — because fans had bought tickets and booked non-refundable travel.

He’s fronting Tool at Riot Fest, Louder Than Life and Aftershock this month, then taking Puscifer across Europe and the UK behind Normal Isn’t, then A Perfect Circle and Puscifer through Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Hawaii.

He’s also been writing for all three bands throughout, and running vineyards in Arizona alongside it.

He is not, in other words, a man with spare time for statements he doesn’t mean.

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What’s confirmed and what isn’t

Being precise about this matters, so here it is separated out.

Confirmed: the flyby happened on March 28. The pilots were suspended. Hegseth reinstated them and said so publicly in his own words. George was asked to stand down as Army Chief of Staff on April 2, with no public explanation given. Rock and Hegseth took a helicopter ride together on April 28 and drew criticism for it.

Reported, not confirmed: that George’s departure was a consequence of his wanting the safety investigation to proceed. That comes from Washington Post reporting citing what George told colleagues.

Not established: any official reason for George’s retirement. The Department has offered no public explanation, then or since.

We’ll update if that changes.

TL;DR

• What happened: two Apache helicopters from Fort Campbell’s 101st Combat Aviation Brigade flew past Kid Rock’s Nashville home on March 28, 2026. He posted a video of it.
• What followed: the two pilots were suspended pending an investigation into whether safety regulations were breached. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reinstated them, announcing it on X with the words “No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots.”
• The general: on April 2, Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to stand down. No public explanation was given.
• The reporting: the Washington Post reports George was reportedly forced into early retirement after wanting the safety investigation to run its course, having told colleagues he felt it important to follow protocol. He was approaching his fortieth year of service.
• Kid Rock’s position: he has not been accused of any wrongdoing. He posted a video of a flyby over his own property.
• The music connection: Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, who studied alongside George at West Point Prep and ran cross-country with him, has publicly voiced his support.

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A new video teasers seems to imply as much anyway.

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She’s just being “Miley” now. Miley Cyrus, one of her generation’s defining pop stars, has a new album on the way, and she has dropped the “Cyrus” from her name. This feels like an implicit rebuke of her father, the troubled country star Billy Ray Cyrus, but she hasn’t come out any said anything about that yet. She also hasn’t said much about her new LP. It’s called Bass Persuades, and it’s coming out in just a couple of weeks.

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Overkill will be performing an old school set, while Left To Die will be celebrating 40 year’s of Death’s “Scream Bloody Gore”.

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