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In March 2020, prog and metal bands watched their touring calendars disappear within weeks. Venues closed, and festivals such as Download and Rock am Ring were pushed to 2021 or canceled outright, and the live music industry lost an estimated $30 billion in revenue that year. Acts that had built their reputation on stage suddenly had no stage to play, so some turned to the one tool still available: a camera pointed at an empty room, and an audience that could log in from anywhere in the world.

TesseracT gave one of the clearest examples of what that could look like. On December 12, 2020, the British band filmed the Portals livestream at Light Up Studios in Fareham, England, working through fourteen songs from across their catalog inside a cinematic storyline built around a single character and a full arena-style light show. Drummer Jay Postones stayed in Texas rather than risk crossing borders during the outbreak, so Monuments drummer Mike Malyan filled in for the night, and fans logged on from time zones the band’s usual tour routing would never have reached. The performance later reached digital platforms including Amazon Prime and iTunes, so the audience kept growing long after the broadcast itself had ended.

That detail mattered more than it looked. A livestream did not need a venue’s capacity or a city’s time zone, only a screen and a connection, and the same one-to-one video link that carried a band into a living room also carried strangers to each other on ordinary chat platforms. Someone looking for something similar to Thundr today wants that same format: one person, one camera, matched with another person instead of an audience.

Livestreams Became a Recognized Format

Other bands followed the same logic through 2021 as the shutdown dragged on. The Contortionist marked ten years of their Exoplanet album with an Exoplanet anniversary livestream, playing catalog tracks the band said they had rarely performed before, calling it a chance to revisit songs that had sat untouched since the record came out. It streamed on demand for forty-eight hours, giving fans in different time zones a real window to catch it instead of one fixed showtime.

The format was not confined to one style of show. BEAT, the instrumental project featuring King Crimson alumni Adrian Belew and Tony Levin, broadcast a livestream from Los Angeles billed as a global event rather than a regional tour date. Rival Sons staged a two-night livestream called Pair of Aces, timed for a stretch when in-person shows were still off the table across much of the US and UK. Trivium turned part of their headquarters, a space they call The Hangar, into a dedicated stage for streamed shows once touring paused. Each band treated the broadcast less like a stopgap and more like a lasting way to reach people who could not get to a club or an arena.

From Emergency Measure to Standard Practice

By 2022, streaming a show was no longer an emergency substitute for touring. Puscifer released two cinematic live films that year: one revisited songs from the band’s 2007 debut album, filmed at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, and the other reworked 2011’s Conditions of My Parole track by track at the Wiltern Theater. Both leaned on story and staging rather than a camera pointed at a stage, treating the format as a genuine creative outlet rather than a placeholder for a canceled tour.

Festivals kept the habit going too. Danny Wimmer Presents streamed Welcome to Rockville’s 2021 lineup on Twitch for the first time, putting sets from Slipknot, Disturbed, and Rob Zombie in front of anyone with a login instead of only the crowd inside the venue. The platform mattered less than the pairing it enabled: one performance, watched by people who would never have shared a room otherwise.

Metal’s Biggest Stages Went Global

The same approach later carried acts whose milestone shows could never fit inside a single building. Powerwolf built their livestream event The Monumental Mass into a full production, later releasing it across multiple physical formats instead of treating it as a one-off broadcast. Megadeth announced They Only Come Out at Night, a livestream captured at Budokan and offered to fans worldwide the same day it was filmed, folding the concert film and the livestream into a single release.

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath closed that chapter in July 2025 with a farewell concert streamed to fans who had followed the band for decades but had no realistic way to be in the room. The show was staged on July 5, 2025, at Villa Park in Birmingham, the city where both Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath got their start. None of these bands needed a pandemic to justify the format by then. It had simply become part of how a major metal show reaches its audience.

What the Shift Leaves Behind

Prog and metal acts rarely fill arenas on their own, and a European or Asian leg of a tour can be the difference between profit and loss for a mid-sized band. A livestream sidesteps visas, freight, and hotel costs entirely, which is part of why the format outlived the circumstances that created it. That calculation applies just as much to a band selling five thousand tickets as one selling fifty thousand, since the fixed costs of moving a stage show barely shrink at the smaller end.

The bands that kept streaming after venues reopened were not chasing a trend. A cinematic set filmed once and watched on demand reaches a fan in a country the tour will never visit, at a cost a single festival slot cannot match. For a genre built on smaller, scattered audiences rather than stadium crowds, that math held up well after the shutdown ended.

What changed was not the music but the room. A stage built for a few hundred people in a club became a screen reachable by tens of thousands of people nowhere near each other, and prog and metal bands kept the habit because it worked, not because anyone told them to adapt.

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NEKUS and BLOODSOAKED NECROVOID will release the split album Funerary Rites of Ancient Doom on October 16, 2026, through Caligari Records and Seed of Doom Records. The vinyl release brings together four exclusive tracks, running approximately 36 minutes. Germany’s NEKUS occupy the first side with “Dakhma,” a single composition lasting more than 19 minutes. The […]

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System Of A Down is marking 25 years of Toxicity by turning a Los Angeles gallery into a shrine for the record. The band has teamed up with Beyond The Streets for a week-long exhibition that opens Tuesday, Oct. 13.

Toxicity hit stores Sept. 4, 2001, and landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. SPIN named it album of the year, and it went on to become a touchstone for a generation coming of age in a shaky new century.

A quarter-century later, the album still gets discovered by new listeners. It mixes chaos with beauty, aggression with vulnerability and political awareness with surrealism, and that blend has carried it across genres, borders and age groups. System Of A Down remains as provocative and relevant as ever, and few rock acts have had a bigger influence.

The exhibition, titled System Of A Down x Beyond The Streets: Toxicity 25th Anniversary Exhibition, gives the gallery over to the album’s legacy for the week. Visitors can expect exclusive merch, rare artifacts and ephemera from the Toxicity era, immersive installations, iconography and the story behind the record. Admission is free for the entire run.

Free Entry / No Ticket Required
434 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA
October 13-18
Tues – Fri | 12PM – 8PM
Sat & Sun | 10AM – 10PM

Few bands have shaped heavy music the way System Of A Down has. The Los Angeles four-piece has spent nearly three decades soundtracking political, sonic and spiritual upheaval, starting with its multi-platinum self-titled debut in 1998. The band has sold more than 42 million albums worldwide, regularly sells out stadiums and pulls in over 26 million monthly listeners on Spotify, which makes it one of the most-streamed rock/alternative acts on the planet.

The lineup is Daron Malakian (guitars, vocals), Serj Tankian (vocals, keys), Shavo Odadjian (bass) and John Dolmayan (drums).

Beyond The Streets is a flagship gallery and cultural venue devoted to contemporary and emerging graffiti and street artists. Founded by Roger Gastman, its Los Angeles home hosts rotating, free exhibitions alongside a curated shop.

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KAMELOT have announced the second European leg of their Dark Asylum World Tour, with CYHRA joining as special guests. The newly confirmed run begins on March 5, 2027, in Osnabrück and concludes on March 20 in Brno, continuing the tour behind Dark Asylum, out now through Napalm Records. Tickets for the spring dates go on […]

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And it seems likely to further divide the band’s fans.

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Today, the genre-defying instrumental rock innovators Polyphia release the hypnotic new track “With Eyes To See” with an accompanying music video. This is the third single off their highly anticipated fifth full-length studio album Be Not Afraid out October 23rd with Rise Records.

The accompanying music video mirrors the track’s hypnotic pull, layering mesmerizing visuals with flashes of a world turned inside out. It’s interwoven with glimpses of redacted Epstein files and world destruction, grounding the video’s dreamlike unraveling in something unsettlingly real.

Earlier this year, Polyphia teased their new chapter with the release of their first single in over four years, “Can You Feel It” pushing boundaries in ways the band never has before with a hybrid of metal and dance music. Following, they released “Power In The Blood” with a music video filmed at the São Francisco da Penitência Church in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The powerful visuals from each release lay the foundation for what’s to come off the new record.

Throughout 2024 and 2025, Polyphia worked together in various locations in Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas alongside co-producer RJ Pasin and guitar phenom Spiro Dussias. Guitarist Tim Henson took a different approach to composition, initially singing lines aloud and then translating them onto guitar, creating a process that encouraged the entire band to build on each other’s ideas in real time. More than anything, the sessions were defined by how much fun they were having creating music together. By the time the album was finished, they had reached a point where they could let go of any expectations about what would happen next and simply enjoy what they had created together.

The collective thread together a three-dimensional offering of otherworldly metal, future-facing prog, and pulsating house sealed tightly with carefully curated samples, inventive beat-craft, and the guitar eloquence that Tim and Scott remain renowned for. This time around, the instrumental push-and-pull invokes the polarity of the ultimate extremes: good and evil.

When speaking on the album Henson adds: “The album takes you through the extremes of two different worlds / moods: one being very uplifting and triumphant, the other being spine-chilling and terrifying. There are moments on the record that legitimately scare me when I listen to them.”

Polyphia will be on tour this fall in the UK and Europe, before heading out on the North American leg of their World Tour in early 2027.RJ Pasin will still support every date worldwide. North American shows will feature Ladrones, with select dates including Intervals. Perturbator will join all UK and European dates, which remain unchanged for Nov/Dec 2026. For more information and to purchase tickets visit here.

Be Not Afraid is available to pre-order here.

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DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT will begin a 16-date European headline tour on October 16, 2026, in Dresden, performing every night through the final show in Stuttgart on October 31. CONJURER will provide direct support, with BRNJSMIN opening the tour except at the Samhain appearance in Maastricht. The seven-country run supports Innern, the German black metal […]

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Directed by Nathan “Karma” Cox.

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