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Spurs vs Pistons: Sure, this game is hot, but what’s hotter is the NBA’s theme song for Sunday Night Basketball.

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🔥 Who Will Rise as This Week’s Champion on the MDR Battle Of The Bands? 🔥
And who will dominate next month as Band of the Month on Metal Devastation Radio?
Last month’s winners, BROKEN TRINITY, crushed the competition with a staggering 46,705 VOTES , claiming the title of Band of the Month on Metal Devastation Radio! You can check them out HERE !
This is the weekly championship edition of the Band Of The Month – Battle Of The Bands that we host every month on MDR!
How does it work?
Every Monday, we launch a new poll featuring bands that submit music each week on metaldevastationradio.com. Voting runs until Friday at 9PM EST .
Each Friday night , at the start of The Zach Moonshine Show , I’ll be spinning the Top Six weekly winners , and announcing the #1 band of the week live on air — getting thousands of listens on Mixcloud !
At the end of the month , all weekly votes are added up, and the band with the highest total votes becomes our Band of the Month !
Winning Band of the Month gets:
A featured post on our Facebook page, reaching thousands of fans
A front-page spotlight on metaldevastationradio.com , which pulls in hundreds of thousands of views every month
A free PR email blast from Metal Devastation PR, hitting 40,000+ contacts including labels, zines, stations, and more
Airplay every hour during general rotation
Tons of social media shares and exposure across our network
If you want the world to know who your band is, this is the easiest way to make it happen!
💥 Want in on the next battle?
Comment below with your band name and we’ll add you to next week’s poll — or email me at zach@metaldevastationradio.com with “Battle Submission” in the subject line.
Bands can compete as many times as they want , and if you enter multiple weeks in the same month, your votes combine toward the Band of the Month title!
👇 Click on the bands below to vote as many times as you like, or add your own! Poll closes Friday, February 27th at 9PM EST ! 👇






Who Will Rise as This Week’s Champion on the MDR Battle Of The Bands?? 02/23/26 – 02/27/26

Hardline .

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It’s been a couple years since Magic Tuber Stringband’s last LP, Needlefall. Today, the North Carolina duo-turned-trio known for traditional Appalachian folk music is announcing their new album Heavy Water. The lead single “Tribute To The Angels” is out now. On Heavy Water, fiddler Courtney Werner and 12-string guitarist Evan Morgan are joined by bassist/banjoist…

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February 23, 2026 – Tomahawk return to the road this summer for their first live performances in 13 years, with the month-long U.S. run marking the band’s 25th anniversary and reuniting Tomahawk with labelmates the Melvins for their first tour together since 2003’s “Geek Show” trek.

Featuring Duane Denison, Mike Patton, John Stanier, and Trevor Dunn, Tomahawk last toured in support of 2013’s Oddfellows before returning in 2021 with Tonic Immobility, which was released during the pandemic and never performed live.

Denison says of the upcoming outing: “In the spirit of the Olympics, Team Tomahawk has decided to rise up and go for the gold once again – also competing will be our cohorts the Melvins.”

“This tour is a no brainer. I can’t wait. A Melvins/Tomahawk trek will be a stone groove,” says Buzz Osborne, who brings the Melvins out in their four-piece incarnation featuring Osborne, Dale Crover, Steven McDonald, and Coady Willis.

Tickets are on-sale this Friday, Feb. 27, at 10 a.m. local time, with an Ipecac pre-sale available Wednesday, Feb. 25, at 10 a.m. local time (password: Flashback). Ticketing links are available via Ipecac.com.

“A Huge Waste of Your Time and Money” 2026 U.S. Tour dates:

July 18 – Nashville, TN Brooklyn Bowl
July 20 – Austin, TX Emo’s
July 21 – Dallas, TX Granada Theater
July 23 – New Orleans, LA House of Blues
July 24 – Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre
July 26 – Washington, DC 9:30 Club
July 27 – Philadelphia, PA Union Transfer
July 28 – Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel
July 30 – Boston, MA House of Blues
July 31 – Buffalo, NY Electric City
August 1 – Cleveland, OH House of Blues
August 3 – Detroit, MI The Fillmore
August 4 – Chicago, IL The Riviera Theatre
August 5 – Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
August 7 – Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
August 8 – Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center
August 10 – Portland, OR Pioneer Courthouse Square
August 11 – Seattle, WA The Showbox
August 12 – Seattle, WA The Showbox
August 14 – San Francisco, CA The Warfield
August 15 – Los Angeles, CA The Belasco

The Melvins also have a trio of headlining dates in the lead-up to the Tomahawk dates:

July 13 – Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
July 16 – Kansas City, MO Record Bar
July 17 – St. Louis, MO Old Rock House

About Tomahawk:

Tomahawk — guitarist Duane Denison (the Jesus Lizard, The Unsemble, etc.), vocalist Mike Patton (Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Fantômas, etc.), drummer John Stanier (Helmet, Battles, etc.), and bassist Trevor “field mouse” Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, etc.) — show up just when we need them. The first time was in 2001 with the self-titled Tomahawk. Following Mit Gas (2003) and Anonymous (2007), they dropped Oddfellows during 2013. It marked their best chart debut, reaching #9 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums Chart.

All kinds of touring and festivals followed before the members went back to their gazillion other gigs in 2014. Then on their 20th anniversary, they finally returned with their fifth full-length album, Tonic Immobility, and now on their 25th anniversary, they have returned to the stage.

About the Melvins:

Formed in 1983 in Montesano, Washington, the Melvins are one of modern heavy music’s most influential bands. Led by Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover and currently featuring Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Coady Willis (Big Business, High on Fire), the band has released more than 30 albums across a four-decade career that helped shape the sound of heavy music. Their latest release, Tarantula Heart, arrived last year, with a new collaborative album with Napalm Death, Savage Imperial Death March, due this Spring.

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All things come and all things go

The early bird gets to take things slow

I can’t complain, I can’t complain

Took me years to get used to the rain 

There’s something quietly beautiful about a father, son, and daughter deciding to make a record together: three people who share blood, history, arguments, inside jokes, and a deep affection for analogue synths, gathering in a room full of vintage gear in Augsburg and letting fate take its course. Social Station (Paul Todd, Jake Blake, and Natalie Simona) approach their latest offering, Dissolve, like caretakers of a shared language, one built from classic post-punk basslines, hypnotic guitar figures, and voices that carry both youth and memory.

Written and performed by Social Station, with mixing and mastering by Charlie Vela, Daniel Hallhuber, and Rob Early, Dissolve carries the careful touch of collaborators who understand both weight and space.

Dissolve opens with field recordings of protests and parades in Lima, Peru – real voices, real unrest – before sliding into Familysong. “It’s essentially a family jam session,” they explain, and you can hear it: Simona’s drum programming skitters and snaps while Todd’s guitar circles, Blake’s bass prowls with classic post-punk poise. It’s communal, slightly chaotic, and absolutely committed.

Good to Me, written in New York by Blake, kicks the door in. That bass is pure post-punk backbone, the guitars smeared in minor-key mood, the vocal  a plea wrapped in pride, tenderness requested with teeth still showing. The influence of Interpol and Joy Division hovers, but this thing breathes on its own. It aches for care while bracing for betrayal. The Divide stretches its arms toward the sun and finds static in the sky. Lovely guitar flourishes glide over a steady, insistent bassline that could have slipped out of a Modest Mouse daydream before crashing a Horrors gig. It’s about weight: personal, planetary; and the thin line between endurance and exhaustion. The groove keeps you upright even as the lyrics stare down the undertow.

Pink Turns Blue swivels its hips. A livelier bassline, a hint of Duran Duran funk, sing-song delivery sliding into fixation. Roses rot in the brain. Memory loops like a scratched single. It’s hypnotic without hypnosis, sweet without sugar. Love decays in real time, and the band lets it. If You Want, engineered by Charlie Vela, is brisk, bright, and restless. Echoing guitar lines arc overhead with a whiff of Arcade Fire lift, while the rhythm section barrels forward. Conditional love becomes choreography; devotion becomes dare.

The title track, Dissolve, dives into Buffalo’s Continental Club after midnight. Funked-up bass in the tradition of A Certain Ratio anchors eerie guitar lines that hover like smoke above a dance floor. Romance and decay mingle. Identities blur. It’s intimate and a little dangerous. My Shadow finds Blake in reflective mode, melody clear and earnest, recalling mid-2000s bands like Arcade Fire, We Are Scientists, and Bishop Allen. Regret hangs in the air, but the song moves effortlessly. Alone by Design bangs out on Simona’s TR-8S, Blake’s walking bass strutting with a Pixies twitch by way of Bauhaus. Isolation becomes architecture, built brick by beat.

The Divide Part II reframes an earlier idea with newfound resolve. Perspective before panic…feet on the ground, eyes forward. Then The Exploding Dress closes the curtain. Minimal, mirrored, intimate…a nod to the Alan Parsons Project and the experimental work of Carl Stephenson. Simona leads, Todd answers. Identity pares down to essentials.

And finally, Dancing Plague crashes in as Social Station presents us with a hard-hitting remix of My Baltimore. The family hands the keys to the club and lets it burn bright. Social Station steps aside just long enough to let the beat take over, handing over the keys and watching the room ignite.

Listen to Dissolve below and order the album here.

Having shared stages with Lathe of Heaven, Dancing Plague, and Carrellee, Social Station sounds like a band fully at home in that lineage: communal, committed, and ready to keep building.

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The “worst kept secret in show business” is now official as Tomahawk share A Huge Waste of Your Time and Money Tour plans

Out NOW Via High Roller Records Words by: Daryl Daryl Naïve? Perhaps. But like a breath of fresh air from 1981. The band call themselves heavy metal and list some obvious influences, but I’d say it’s NWOBHM reborn. This time-capsule album is precisely the antidote I needed this month. There appears to be a growing […]

The otherworldly Maria BC is back with another spectral single from their forthcoming album Marathon. This one’s called “Rare,” and it follows the previously released previews “Night & Day” and “Marathon.” “This is a song about being in love with someone who never sleeps,” the Oakland artist explains. “I’m proud of the chaotic arrangement —…

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It seems forever since 2023’s ‘Screamin’ at the Sky’ which eschewed ballads, rocked hard and delivered 12 blistering tracks, unless that is you bought the special digital limited edition which also included bonus track “Love Somebody” and covers of “Burning Love” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, making 15 new recordings is all. Three years on we are looking at a sleeker new offering – a new EP with just 7 tracks and one of them a cover of  Simple Minds “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” featuring  Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman.

If you’ve already checked out the lead single ‘Neon Eyes’ and second single and title track ‘Celebrate’ then you’ve already heard the best of the original material here. To make matters slightly worse for fans and collectors it appears that this will be a digital only release from Mascot. Now as a long time fan of the band who has managed to collect every release the band has put out so far (including all the promo singles over the years) all of a sudden there’s a gap. But frustrating as that may be for some like me this is all about the music and Black Stone Cherry is a band that never lets you down.

Digitally available on 6th March 2026 via Mascot Records there’s not long to wait and it all yet again underlines that these guys are the perfect storm of a melting pot that takes in rock, metal, roots, blues and soul , and unlike many they get even better with age. Chris Robertson sums it up: “I look at these songs on the EP as a culmination of everything we’ve lived since Screamin’ At The Sky.”

Looking at it track by track…

‘Celebrate’ of course has a great video and is all about what it’s like to be stuck in something, whether that be a boring job or maybe stuck in your own head, and how any little opportunity can lead to a small victory! It’s a song about celebrating every little thing in life, even if it’s just making it through the day. It’s the type of fist-pumping banger that Black Stone Cherry does so well and destined to be a fan favourite from the moment the crawling riff buzzes in and Chris vocals soar to the chorus. The more you play it the more addictive it gets.

‘Neon Eyes’ adds a an almost funky, floating counter-punch that has a trance-like refrain that has you nodding knowingly. It’s these contrasts that Black Stone Cherry do so well.

‘Caught Up In The Up Down’ is back to that heavy groove as Chris almost raps the verse and shows that BSC are the kings of dynamics. The groove nails it

In a way the EP sounds like a great collection of new ideas, offering a sneak into what we might expect on the next full length. The press release notes “a dreamily woozy, Nirvana-laced grunge singalong (on) ‘I’m Fine‘” but in reality there’s more BSC thrust in the mix, and I hear far mor AIC than Seattle’s best know ‘Grungers’. However you hear it, there’s no doubt it’s a very cool song. 

Now whilst ‘Screaming at the Sky’ had nothing close to a balled the heart wrenching ‘Deep’ shows you just what we were missing. This is a real highlight here, a bonafide ‘lighters in the air’ moment that anyone who has lost a love can relate to. Going out on a limb it might just be my current favourite here. 

On an EP that doesn’t put a foot wrong ‘What You’re Made Of’ might just be the heaviest. Man those melodies just hit the right note and the muscular guitar just works perfectly in the mix stabbing against Chris’ vocal and ending in a fiery solo that has three parts. This is just so cool and made to be played loud!

The final track comes as another curveball: ‘Don’t You (Forget About Me) ft. Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman’ might not be the most obvious cover, with teh original all 80’s pop excess and pomposity, but in the hands of BSC and with the help of Tyler Connolly (Theory Of A Deadman) it becomes more of an anthem than it ever was. This cover has some real grunt, great guitars and the all too familiar chorus is well and truly nailed. It’s inspired! I can already hear this being played live! It will be lapped up…

Produced by the band themselves, Celebrate is an EP of contrasts and a nice addition to the band’s rich catalogue. And as always they always leave you wanting more!

Even between albums BSC show why they are the masters of modern hard and heavy music. You will love this even if you will (maybe) never get to hold it.

9/10

Track Listing

1. Celebrate
2. Neon Eyes
3. Caught Up In The Up Down
4. I’m Fine
5. Deep
6. What You’re Made Of
7. Don’t You (Forget About Me) ft. Tyler Connolly of Theory of a Deadman

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