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Escape The Fate have announced the details of their new full-length album ‘The Last Goodbye’, the follow-up to 2023’s ‘Out Of The Shadows’.

The record will be released on October 02 via Big Noise.

The artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting is more like this:

1. Last Goodbye
2. Comatose
3. Coffin Kingdom
4. Paranoia
5. Idle Potential
6. Déjà Vu
7. Devil In Wait
8. Money Power Fame
9. Hurt
10. Medicine
11. Other Side
12. Bedroom Wall
13. Remedy Of Numbness

You can also check out ‘Paranoia’ right now, serving as the third taste of the record following on from ‘Idle Potential’ and ‘Déjà Vu’.

A vicious blend of classic rock riffing and dramatic metalcore flair, it further extends everything Escape The Fate has become. Bold, brutal and emotionally brash.

Vocalist Craig Mabbitt had this to say about it:

“Paranoia is a deep dive into what’s become a consistent state of mind of mine, putting those feelings into song helps to suppress.”

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Jay Weinberg has spoken at length about the period following his November 2023 dismissal from Slipknot, and about the therapy that helped him through it. In a new interview with Bryce Maopolski of HeartSupport — a nonprofit providing free, music-based mental health support to people in the heavy music community — the drummer described feeling, in his own words, like a tangled ball of rusted barbed wire. What he says about what came next is more useful than any of the headlines about the firing itself.

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Scott Penfold covers the Jay Weinberg interview on today’s Metal Breakdown Daily — what he actually said about the search for a therapist, and why the part most coverage will skip is the part that matters. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and get it every weekday morning.

What actually happened, and when

The timing is worth laying out, because it explains a lot.

November 3, 2023 — Weinberg plays his final show with Slipknot at the Hell & Heaven festival in Toluca, Mexico.

November 5 — Slipknot announce via social media that they’ve made a creative decision to part ways with him.

November 11 — Weinberg posts on Instagram that he was heartbroken and blindsided to receive the phone call, the news of which most people learned shortly afterwards.

Two weeks later — he undergoes an outpatient procedure to repair a torn labrum in his left hip and shave down a misshapen part of his femur.

Which means that within a fortnight of losing a job he’d held for a decade, he was immobile at home, recovering from surgery, with nothing to do but think about it.

His own description: enduring all of that at once was a mental and physical grind, every moment of every day, just to feel like a normal person.

The part most coverage will skip

Here’s the genuinely useful bit, and it’s the reason this interview is worth more than a quote-grab.

Weinberg wasn’t new to therapy. He’d tried it in his early twenties, living in New Jersey and New York. His assessment of that experience: nothing that felt like a match made in heaven. It helped somewhat.

That’s where an enormous number of people stop. You try it once, it doesn’t click, you conclude it isn’t for you, and you never go back.

He went back.

Toward the end of 2023 and into 2024 he started looking for a therapist near where he now lives in Tennessee, which took time. And what unlocked it was a recommendation — from a very close friend, the man who married him and his wife, who suggested his own therapist.

Weinberg’s words on that moment: it finally felt like an unlocking of a door. A door he’d tried many keys on that just wouldn’t open.

He now speaks to that person once a week and says it helps him sort through thoughts and process events and circumstances that are difficult to make sense of. His observation on why that matters: when life doesn’t make sense and is difficult to process, you feel like you’re the crazy one.

The first one not being a fit doesn’t mean the thing doesn’t work. It means you haven’t found the right person yet. That’s the takeaway, and it’s coming from someone plenty of people in this scene will actually listen to.

What he’s careful to say

His framing throughout is unusually grounded, and worth quoting properly because it avoids both extremes.

He’s explicit that none of this is a case of being fixed and all better. He views it as part of being a healthy person — tending to more than just the physical rigours of what he enjoys putting himself through.

He talks about being okay with not being the person who naturally has all the answers, and about sometimes needing to reach out to his community, or to someone he trusts, to get through a challenging moment.

And his description of what therapy actually does is the least oversold thing you’ll read on the subject: it doesn’t solve anything in life, but it eases the process of getting to the next moment.

He also notes that life doesn’t get less complex — he finds it gets more so — and points out that being an artist means opening your life up to critique and judgement, with pressure that builds over time.

He became a father a couple of months ago, which he says brings a whole new angle to all of it.

HeartSupport

Worth knowing about, since it’s where this conversation came from.

HeartSupport is a nonprofit that provides free, music-based mental health support to people in the heavy music community. Weinberg gave this interview to their development manager, Bryce Maopolski, and the full conversation is on their YouTube channel.

For a scene that has historically been better at writing about pain than dealing with it, an organisation doing this work — for free, aimed at fans rather than just artists — is genuinely worth supporting.

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The decade before

For context on the size of what ended.

Weinberg discovered Slipknot as a pre-teen, through his father — drummer Max Weinberg of the E Street Band. He was hooked immediately, and by the time he was invited to Los Angeles in 2013 to audition as Joey Jordison’s replacement, he was a serious fan of the band he was trying out for.

Before that he’d played with Against Me! and Madball.

His first Slipknot album, 2014’s .5: The Gray Chapter, earned three Grammy nominations — two for Best Metal Performance and one for Best Rock Album. In an odd footnote, the band initially declined to name the musicians playing drums and bass on that tour, and Weinberg and bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella were outed by a disgruntled former drum tech who posted a backstage call sheet on Instagram.

He also played on 2019’s We Are Not Your Kind and 2022’s The End, So Far, both of which topped Billboard’s rock albums chart.

Former Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande replaced him in February 2024.

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Slipknot’s revolving door

Weinberg’s exit is one of several in recent years, and the band’s history of departures is long enough to have become part of the story — we’ve traced the full arc of every lineup change separately.

Most recently, Sid Wilson confirmed his own departure in August 2026 after twenty-nine years, and has since resurfaced working on new music with his own label. No reason was given in that case either.

Our breakdown of who’s actually in Slipknot right now has the current picture, and Look Outside Your Window — the long-delayed experimental side record — finally arrived this year.

What’s different about Weinberg’s version is that he isn’t relitigating any of it. He isn’t asking anyone to take a side. He’s describing what he did about how it felt.

Nearly three years on, at a moment when heavy music is bigger than it’s been in decades, that’s a genuinely valuable thing for someone from one of the biggest bands in the genre to put on the record.

TL;DR

• What’s happened: Jay Weinberg spoke to HeartSupport about seeking therapy following his November 2023 dismissal from Slipknot.
• The timing: he was told on November 5, 2023, two days after his final show. Two weeks later he had hip surgery and spent the recovery, in his words, on the couch alone with his thoughts.
• His description of that period: feeling like a tangled ball of rusted barbed wire.
• The key point: he’d tried therapy in his early twenties and it wasn’t a fit. He went looking again years later, and a friend’s recommendation was what finally worked — he described it as unlocking a door he’d tried many keys on.
• Where he is now: speaking to a therapist weekly, and a father for the first time as of a couple of months ago. He’s clear it isn’t a case of being fixed, just part of being a healthy person.
• The interview: conducted by Bryce Maopolski of HeartSupport, a nonprofit providing free mental health support to the heavy music community.

FAQ

A man who tried therapy once, decided it wasn’t for him, and went back years later anyway. If you recognise yourself in that, it’s worth another go — and HeartSupport exist for exactly this. Keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.

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Posted on September 1st 2026, 1:05pm

Music and gaming have been connected for decades, but some of the most interesting titles have slipped under the radar. While Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution became household names, there are plenty of other games that found clever ways … Continue reading →

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Poison The Well drummer Chris Hornbrook has recently unveiled a full multi-cam drum play-through of “Thoroughbreds“, taken from the band’s latest album, Peace In Place, which arrived earlier this year. The metalcore veterans have the following dates scheduled for October: Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

30 years after the release of their first album, Chicago melodic punk band Sludgeworth return with their 2^nd LP, Second Time Around.  According to their Bandcamp bio, this is a culmination of both a reunion from Riot Fest and weekly booze-filled jam sessions.

What they present to us is a new collection of melodic punk rock songs to get you headbanging and remembering the good old days.  It may have just been a natural result from multiple hangouts, but there is very noticeable attention given to the creation of Second Time Around that has very clear messages that go beyond being an old punk band. 

Ultimately, it is a personal album for the band. The core themes from this album include reminiscing and offering advice for their younger selves (“Can’t Change Yesterday”, “Hurry Up, I Don’t Have Forever”).  It does also address the present and the uncertainties of the nation in songs such as “Simulation” and “Tipping Point”.

Second Time Around also features some really great guitar riffs, standout beats, and clean vocals.  It’s very well an album that could’ve been released in the early 90s if the band stuck around, sharing the same melodic punk sounds as No Use For A Name and Propagandhi.

Overall, this is a fantastic melodic punk album that sounds like it’s from the 90s punk era. Despite a 3-decade time skip, Sludgeworth has aged finely and proves that older punk bands can still put out absolute bangers.  So hit up an old friend, grab a beer, and laugh about the past, because Second Time Around is meant just for that.

Favorite songs: “Hold Steady”, “Our Better Angels”, “Trouble Brewing”

“Second Time Around” by Sludgeworth is available for purchase on Bandcamp.

Hamburg shoegaze outfit The First Eloi releases “Drawn Into These Headlights,” mixed and mastered by legendary producer James

Live Review: ArcTanGent 2026 – Thursday

20th August 2026
Words: Matt Noble
Photos: Rich Price

My first band of the weekend was Belgian post-metallers Psychonaut. Their low tunings give them a sludgy quality from the early Baroness playbook, as well as a bit of post-hardcore emotivity in the vocal delivery. With an enchanting stage presence, they calmly let their music and soundscaping do the talking, which is often spacey and ethereal. At times, the hypnotic rhythms even give their set somewhat of a tribal feel. This really is the sort of set to lose yourself to. It’s not all standing around pensively stroking beards, though, as they made time to engage the crowd and get everyone clapping along, living up to their slot on the main stage at a festival of this size. Showing their strength as individuals and as a unit, their polished and atmospheric performance isn’t just ‘good vibes’, but a spellbinding set that really shows off what the band is all about.

French post-black titans Alcest unfortunately had their set cut short due to logistical and travel issues, but made every second count on the main stage as soon as the lights dimmed. Their dreamy black metal is tailor-made for a festival like Arctangent, and they received a deservedly warm reception for their atmospheric, professional and technically flawless performance. Setlist staples like ‘Sapphire’ or the closing ‘Eclosion’ showed them in fine form, with their haunting vocal melodies, layered instrumentation and occasional blasts into extreme territory making their case as a festival highlight for many present. Last time out they were on the second stage. Delivering a (shorter) performance today with musical brilliance and heaps of presence, this felt like a step up even from then.

What can be said about Igorrr? It’s rare to have the adjectives ‘gothic’, ‘operatic’ and ‘electronic’ all in one place in a reviewer’s notepad, but no one else sounds like Igorrr, and don’t they know it. Utilising such a wide range of influences, to witness Igorrr is an experience of sorts. The instrumentation is unconventional, the lighting is manic – and that’s exactly what draws people into their musical cult. They get the crowd moving and dancing quickly, building a proper festival atmosphere, almost causing the band’s watertight performance to go over people’s heads. Hair-raising blackened vocal screeches and blasts of electronica keep us all on our toes for the full 75 minutes. The best and simplest way to describe and remember this performance would be the sheer intensity of it all, from the stage production, to the musical quality, to the titanic physical presence of those on stage. Again, this is a band that feels most at home at a musically open-minded event like Arctangent, and they really deliver the goods tonight. 

Thursday night headliner Chelsea Wolfe follows on to pull out all the stops for such a (deservedly) high-profile slot. Her striking stage show and incredible sense of aura and grandeur command the main stage, but with a graceful calmness as the overflowing tent is lulled into a trance for over an hour. Amid the quiet moments, the crowd is incredibly respectful, hanging onto every note. But when they turn up to eleven, the band’s soundscaping, crushing distorted guitars, and use of electronics sound truly immense out the front, while Wolfe’s haunting, ethereal vocals lead with elegance. 

After a guest vocal appearance from Alcest’s Neige that added a sense of one-off and ‘you had to be there’ to the festival headline, Wolfe played three songs from ‘The Dark’, her latest album that came out the following day (or about an hour after the set ended, in real time). This really felt like a special, celebratory performance that lived up to its billing. Closing with ‘16 Psyche’ to a rapturous reception, her set ended on a genuinely high note. Time to place your bets on a runthrough of ‘Bloodmoon: I’ with Converge this time next year?

Photo credits: Rich Price

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