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Posted on October 20th 2026, 4:42pm

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Back in 2006, Fall Out Boy were live from New York on Saturday night for an episode of SNL, and it was a performance that vocalist Patrick Stump still sees as a dream come true.

The band were the musical guest on Season 31, Episode 13 of the show, which aired on March 04 and was hosted by Natalie Portman.

Delivering both ‘Dance, Dance’ and ‘Sugar, We’re Going Down’, Patrick still looks back on the appearance fondly today.

In our new interview with him, found in Made In Chicago: A Rock Sound Tribute, he describes how it felt to live out a real ambition.

“I’m not an ambitious person but SNL was this thing that I was obsessed with as a kid, and I’m still kind of obsessed with it. It was literal dream stuff to even imagine being there.

I didn’t consider myself a singer. I was a smartass who was pretending to sing as a joke and accidentally discovered that I was an okay singer. And now I’m singing on SNL. I remember we played right after Natalie Portman did her famous rap video with The Lonely Island.

We got to interact with some of the cast. I remember Kristen Wiig was really sweet to me. I was really nervous and scared and terrified of being on TV. And it wasn’t much, but she came over and was like, ‘Hey, you know, you’re really talented. That was really good’. I needed that so bad at that moment.”

But before the show even aired, the band’s style of performance almost got them into hot water…

You do a dress rehearsal which they film and then you do the real live show and the dress is there in case there’s anything that goes wrong and they can play it in.

“So we did the dress and we played ‘Sugar…’ and Pete and Joe are just doing their thing, like we do in any other club, jumping off the walls. The thing I didn’t realise at SNL is that all of the staging is interconnected. So the backside of one set is the front of another set.

So they bounce off the walls, and all of SNL wobbles. The stage director came over, and he was not impolite but it was very firm – ‘Ok, thanks, don’t ever fucking do that again’.

So that was the big thing I remember, almost collapsing SNL.”

Iconic, as always.

You can read the full interview with Patrick, alongside chats with Pete Went, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley, in our special edition magazine.

Grab it alongside a CD brimming with exclusive tributes recorded by bands closely associated with the band.

Order yours now at SHOP.ROCKSOUND.TV

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Metallica has released pro-shot footage of “Devil’s Dance” from the second night of its Life Burns Faster residency at Sphere in Las Vegas. The performance took place Oct. 3. Life Burns Faster runs from Oct. 1 through March 13, 2027. 

The run consists of 24 shows, packaged as 12 No Repeat Weekend engagements spread across October, November, January, February and March. As on the M72 world tour, each Thursday and Saturday pair gets entirely different setlists, so no song shows up on both nights.

The Oct. 3 gig opened with “Blackened,” then rolled through “Fuel” and “Leper Messiah” before the band reached into the Load catalog for “Devil’s Dance.” The song had been absent from live sets for 18 years. Later, Metallica also brought back “The Outlaw Torn” for the first time in seven years.

Sphere holds 17,600 people and has shaken up live entertainment since opening in September 2023. The venue sits near the Venetian Resort and Wynn Las Vegas, just off the Strip, and is known for its 16K wraparound screen and a hefty sound system. Past residencies there include U2, Phish, Dead & Company and The Eagles.

Drummer Lars Ulrich said when the band announced the residency earlier this year that watching U2 open the venue three years ago convinced him Metallica had to play there. “About 12 seconds into the opening night of Sphere with U2 back in ’23, I thought, ‘We have to do this. It’s completely uncharted territory,’” Ulrich said. “This residency gives us another chance to reinvent how we interact with our fans in a live setting. We are beyond excited to share this with the world … and way fuckin’ psyched to go next level!”

The venue’s tech includes what is billed as the highest-resolution LED display in the world, which curls up, over and around the audience. Its audio rig, Sphere Immersive Sound, is powered by HOLOPLOT and is designed to deliver clean, precise audio to every seat.

Metallica has played to millions of fans across all seven continents, in venues of every size. The M72 tour has drawn more than four million people across Europe, North America, the Pacific Rim and the Middle East since it launched in spring 2023, and it is widely regarded as one of the best stretches in the band’s 40-plus years on the road.

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Posted on October 20th 2026, 4:23pm

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A decaying world that consumes its inhabitants’ time provides the backdrop to Chronophage, the fourth album from Québec City’s Saccage. Across nine tracks, the band approach that subject through nihilism and satire, continuing their combination of death metal and blackened crust. Caligari Records will release the album on CD and digitally on 20 November 2026, […]

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Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been in no rush on his next solo record. In a new chat with Brent Porche of Philadelphia’s 93.3 WMMR, he discussed From The Dark, which lands Friday, Oct. 23 via BMG. Asked when the idea first took shape, Iommi said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), “Well, I’ve been busy doing a lot of other stuff, of course, when we were doing the Sabbath thing, and I’ve done a couple of other projects. And so I thought, well, yeah, it’d be nice to do another solo album. It’s been 21 years. [Laughs] So, yeah, I’ve enjoyed it, and I’ve taken me time doing it.

“Like, when we do a Sabbath album, it’s always you’ve got a certain time to do it, then you’ve gotta record it, and then you’re touring. In this case, there’s no pressure. I’ve been able to do it when I want. I’ve got my own studio here [at home]. So I just come over and I start working on putting ideas down.”

Jorn Lande appears throughout From The Dark and shares writing credits on every song. Bassist Becky Baldwin and drummer Karl Brazil round out the lineup. Iommi co-produced the record with Mike Exeter, his longtime writing partner, producer and engineer.

On the album title, Iommi said, “It’s the mood of it, really. Jorn came up with all the lyrical side of it. So, I’d done all the music. But From The Dark seemed like an appropriate title for the album.”

Asked what about Lande‘s voice stayed with him over the years and made him think, “He’s the guy I want for this album,” Iommi said, “Well, Jorn did some work with us on the [Ronnie James] Dio [tribute]. Once Ronnie passed, we’d done a Dio tribute in London for him. And we had Jorn sing two or three of the Sabbath songs, and (legendary Deep Purple bassist/vocalist) Glenn Hughes.

“So, I like Jorn‘s voice. He’s a nice guy as well — good to get on with. And it just seemed ideal. It sort of goes with what I play, and I like that idea.”

On how he wrote the material, Iommi said, “Well, I think it’s more or less the same way as I’ve always written. I put ideas down, and then when we got Jorn in, ’cause Jorn lives in Sweden, so we flew him in and then played him some of the ideas and then adjust them as we went on. I might change the verse part or we might put a new chorus bit in. And it was same as I’ve done everything else in the past. Same idea.”

As for how far back the ideas go, Iommi said, “Well, how this started, really, was I started doing an instrumental. I was gonna do an instrumental album, so I put about four or five tracks down instrumentally. And then I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t know. I think I’d like to do an album with a vocalist.’ So I put them on one side and then started writing riffs for a vocalist. And that’s how it sort of started, really. And it’s gone on.

“I haven’t… The good thing about this album, there’s been no pressure. I haven’t had to go out on tour. I haven’t had to have it done by a certain time. So I was allowed to be able to take my time on it and live with some of the ideas.

“So what I’d do, I’d say to Mike Exeter, who’s been with me for, like, 30 years, I’d say, ‘Let’s work on a Monday and Tuesday,’ ’cause he’s obviously producing other things. And so we always used to put Monday and Tuesday on the side every week, and then if something cropped up, we wouldn’t work, if he’s busy or I’m busy or doing something else. So we’d work around each other, and then just come in and start putting ideas down. So it was all very casual.”

Collectors get plenty of options. From The Dark arrives in several deluxe vinyl and CD formats, including a double LP pressed in four colors, each sold through different retailers. It is cut at 45rpm for better dynamic range and comes in a black card gatefold with a die-cut of Iommi‘s signature cross, which reveals a dark illustrated journey as the inner sleeve slides out. An Amazon exclusive CD uses the same die-cut sleeve, and a deluxe 32-page CD media book edition adds two bonus tracks.

Iommi is widely considered one of the most influential guitarists in modern music. As the founding member and main composer of Black Sabbath, he is credited with helping shape the sound and vocabulary of heavy metal.

His résumé includes multiple Grammy Awards, a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction, and academic honors in the U.K., among them a doctorate from Coventry University, a Lord Mayor’s Award and the Freedom Of The City of Birmingham. In June 2026, he received an MBE, one of the highest honors in British public life.

As a young man, Iommi survived an industrial accident that cost him the tips of two fingers. That injury pushed him toward a distinctive playing style and the heavier, darker guitar tone that defined Black Sabbath. With Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, the band released groundbreaking albums throughout the 1970s and became one of Britain’s most culturally significant exports.

Over six decades, Iommi has kept recording, performing and collaborating around the world. He worked extensively with the late Ronnie James Dio, released well-received solo material, and reunited with the original Black Sabbathlineup for the chart-topping 2013 album 13 and the farewell tour The End (2016 to 2017), which drew 1.6 million fans.

More recently, he branched into other cultural territory. In 2023, he teamed with the Birmingham Royal Ballet on Black Sabbath – The Ballet, a production built on his early compositions. Black Sabbath also headlined the 2025 show Back To The Beginning in Birmingham, a look back at the band’s origins and a poignant farewell to fans that took place just weeks before the death of Osbourne.

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