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Papa Roach have announced the dates of a huge tour across the US, taking place at the start of Summer in 2027.

‘The Rise Of The Roach’ tour will makes it way across the country with support coming from Ice Nine Kills and Ninth Key.

So that’s a load of this:

Then a whole load of this:

And then, of course, a whole heap of this:

Vocalist Jacoby Shaddix had this to say about the trip:

“We can’t wait to get out there and infest America again. Bringing our horrifyingly entertaining friends Ice Nine Kills is overdue, and we’re excited to introduce our fans to Ninth Key, a band we’re big fans of. These shows are going to be unforgettable”

Whilst INK frontman Spencer Charnas had this to add:

 “Jacoby’s cameo in the ‘Hip to be Scared’ video is already legendary among our beloved Psychos, and it’s an absolute honor to get invited to tour with Papa Roach. We can’t wait to put our blood-soaked stamp on the stage before P Roach blazes through their monster catalog of hits. It’s going to be several nights to dismember!” 

Here are all the dates:

MAY 2027

11 – BILOXI Mississippi Coast Coliseum
13 – ALPHARETTA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
15 – TAMPA MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre
16 – MIAMI FPL Solar Amphitheatre
18 – CHARLOTTE Truliant Amphitheater
19 – BALTIMORE The Paramount Baltimore
21 – BROOKLYN Barclays Center
22- UNCASVILLE Mohegan Sun Arena
24 – PITTSBURGH Citizens Live at The Wylie
26 – INDIANAPOLIS Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
27 – MILWAUKEE BMO Pavilion
29 – CINCINNATI Riverbend Music Center
30 – CLARKSTON Pine Knob Music Theatre

JUNE 2027

02 – BOSTON Leader Bank Pavilion
03 – CAMDEN Freedom Mortgage Pavilion
05 – SCRANTON The Pavilion at Montage Mountain
06 – CUYAHOGA FALLS Blossom Music Center
08 – CHICAGO The Pavilion at Northerly Island
09 – ST. LOUIS Saint Louis Music Park
12 – AUSTIN Moody Center
13 – THE WOODLANDS The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
15 – ALBUQUERQUE First Financial Credit Union Amphitheater
16 – PHOENIX Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre
18 – ONTARIO Toyota Arena
19 – LAS VEGAS PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
21 – MORRISON Red Rocks Amphitheatre
22 – WEST VALLEY CITY Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
24 – SACRAMENTO Golden 1 Center
26 – RIDGEFIELD Cascades Amphitheater
27 – AUBURN White River Amphitheatre

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HELGRIND have signed with Time To Kill Records for the release of Shadows of Souls, a ten-track album recorded in 2024 and subsequently tested on stages in Germany, Austria and the UK. The partnership opens the next chapter for the British thrash band, whose history stretches back to 2000. A release date and the first […]

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A short, direct song built to release its energy in front of an audience: that was WINGLESS’ intention with “The Gnosis of Decay”, the second single from their forthcoming sixth album, Vision Beyond Form. The Polish death metallers premiered the track on 19 October through Selfmadegod Records. Guitarist and founding member Grzegorz Luzar describes it […]

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Here are the new releases for October 18th to 24th. Releases reflect proposed North American scheduling, if available.

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Upcoming Metal Releases: 10/18/26 – 10/24/26

Grief Cathedral — The Graves We Hold Inside | Morbid and Miserable Records | Funeral Doom + Death Metal + Doom Metal | United States (Louisville, KY)

Grief Cathedral deliver a dynamic funeral doom record with their debut, The Graves We Hold Inside. Its five lengthy songs explore different moods and tempos. The title track stands out, opening with delicate piano and Victoria Graves’ ethereal clean vocals before building into more energetic doom, with JD Hall’s roars providing a compelling counterpoint. “At the Threshold of a Dying Season” introduces the album’s melancholic atmosphere with reverberating guitar notes and a slow, steady drum rhythm. Graves’ breathy vocals complement the subdued instrumentation before thick, distorted riffs and Hall’s rough growls take over. Vocally, it’s an unlikely combination. Imagine Portishead meets Cannibal Corpse. “The Tongue That Cursed the Light” brings a harsher intensity and quicker tempo. The record’s greatest strength is how organically the band navigates such contrasting sounds. Jerry Barksdale’s guitar work is a highlight, with enchanting melodies that amplify the heavier riffs.

–Lily O’Delia

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Dis Fig — What to Make of These Mortal Hands | Thrill Jockey Records | Industrial | Germany (Berlin)

Dis Fig’s last album, a collaboration with industrial metal elites The Body titled Orchards of a Futile Heaven, ends on one of the most emotional notes of her career as Dis Fig begs someone not to die while walls of sound crash around them. It’s a precursor to what she does on her second solo album, What to Make of These Mortal Hands, which is far harsher than her debut PURGE and reveals her true desire as an artist: to give you a headache.

Dis Fig’s bass is bigger than what makes cars rumble, houses shake, or tinnitus-causing eruptions. Her bass brings about earthquakes. Melded with squelching glitches and shattering electronics, the colossal bass pushes headphones to their limits as Dis Fig’s harrowing voice wraps itself around the entropy. On lead single “The Account,” she taps the wind between for a nihilistic collaboration, articulating, “I survived by devising my own take on piety and heaven”. Dis Fig hides in a heaven of her own creation: one she calls out from with a wounded voice.

–Aidan Sibley

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Fvneral Fvkk — Indecent Idols | Dying Victims Productions | Doom Metal | Germany (Hamburg)

From Colin Dempsey’s track premiere of “The Beasts of Speyer”:

Glum doom metal with Catholic overtones is the game here, and Fvneral Fvkk somehow resist buckling under the weight. Simon Schorneck bears the heaviest burden. His vocals animate the track, with the rest of the instrumentation supporting his crisis rather than staking out on their own.

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Iommi — From the Dark | BMG | Heavy Metal | United Kingdom (Birmingham)

Content to be Sabbath’s sole burning flame for 50+ years, Iommi’s hallowed name has only ever commanded top billing via solo records a scant handful of times. Remarkably, the brand new From the Dark is Iommi’s first stand-alone effort since 2005’s Fused. Initially conceived as an instrumental project, From the Dark morphed into a more traditional concern when the guitarist started collaborating intensely with veteran Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande. The album is fleshed out with bass work from Mercyful Fate’s Becky Baldwin, percussion courtesy of Karl Brazil and multifaceted contributions from longtime Iommi consigliere Mike Exeter, who also co-produced the set. Lande co-wrote all the tracks and the “existential questioning” within his lyrics seem a perfect match for the ruminative 78 year old musician as he ponders his own mortality in the wake of Ozzy Osbourne’s passing last summer. Chunky trad metal warhorses like “World Alone” and the haunting maritime doom of “Stormwatcher” highlight the depth of their writing partnership. The vibe is similar to Heaven and Hell’s The Devil You Know. What else do you need?

–Dennis J. Seese

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The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir — Songs from a Dying Empire | Fiadh Prod | Black Metal | United States (Atlanta, GA)

TBMBMC’s debut full-length expands on what made their 2025 demo so great. It’s unapologetically wrathful about the state of the world and sorrowful for what’s been lost, and what never was in the first place. It channels the anger into explosive and expansive black metal, interspersing it with more delicate and atmospheric moments of sadness.

–Kevin Zecchel

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Wolves in the Throne Room — Estuary | Relapse Records | Black Metal | United States (Olympia, WA)

The latest album from the USBM legends takes a theme that’s been an undercurrent in their music for decades and makes it explicit: apocalypse. While previous works hinted at the grief over a vanishing biosphere, Estuary sets itself in a post-apocalyptic world. The music matches the grim setting, being the band’s heaviest record yet. The trademark long tremolo-picked passages are here, but Wolves in the Throne Room have also evolved into a much more riffy band over the years. Haunting, atmospheric, and deeply impactful.

–Kevin Zecchel

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The Effigies have been flying the flag for Chicago punk rock since 1980. Their fuzzy, dissonant brand of rock n roll may not have gotten the same press and fame as some of their peers, but that’s no judgement on the quality of their work. They made a name for themselves early on, cutting their teeth alongside musical legends like X, The Plasmatics, PIL and Black Flag. Their DIY drive and sharp, dark and aggressive songwriting led them to every corner of the punk universe, leaving their mark on the historical stages of New York’s CBGB, New Jersey’s Maxwell’s, Milwaukee institution 1st Avenue, and the Bay Area punk Mecca Mabuhay Gardens all on the strength of their self-released albums and relentless work ethic. After several lineup changes, and a couple starts and stops, the band returned to the stage in 2022, and in 2024 we were graced with their final recording with founding vocalist John Kezdy, prior to his unfortunate and tragic passing, aptly titled Burned. Now the living legends are back with a renewed sense of purpose and a brand new album. 

Photo credit Jesse Pace

“Voluntary Surveillance” gets to the heart of this album pretty quickly and efficiently. While I wouldn’t necessarily call this a concept album, there are certainly common themes at play that keep the album laser-focused. It opens with a stomping groove, but quickly moves into more heavy dissonant sections that highlight the paranoid feel of the lyrics. As the title suggests, the track illustrates the current state of the world where we have given up any perceived sense of personal privacy for the privilege of having a computer in our pocket. Corporations watch our every keystroke and hand our information to any and every marketing firm and advertiser for pennies, while our freedoms and liberties are bled away for convenience. This anxious vibe carries over into lead single “Hallucinations”, a sweeping arena worthy rocker with a big swampy guitar riff that I’m sure would have garnered the approval of the late great Lux Interior.

The rhythm section really stands out on this record. The tight drum and bass grooves supplied by bassist Paul Zamost and drummer Steve Economou are expertly woven and keep the songs on the rails, leaving guitarist and producer Andy Gerber plenty of space to go wild when needed. The driving bass groove of title track “Fire Aim Ready” is a perfect example. Busy at times, but never distracting, it gives a danceable feel to an otherwise heavy song about the divisively forced tribal nature of modern American politics. It even veers into sections of Sabbathesque half time diversions at times, keeping the listener on their toes.

“Algorithm’ touches on the way social media uses a combination of surveillance, advertising  and sensational headlines to push narratives into your view as a means of using our emotions to control our daily lives. The inevitable result of these campaigns is a growing division of the public, leading to the recruiting efforts of ominous bad actors illustrated in “Neighbors Divide”. With each song the picture becomes a little clearer, revealing a technocratic dystopia lead by a class of elite corporate conmen and villains right out of an Orwell novel. Sadly, it’s no fiction. These things are happening right in front of our eyes, as detailed in songs like “Rapid Decline” and “Cult of Corruption.

This record is razor focused and well crafted with plenty of fantastic musical performances and a message that is desperately needed in these dystopian times. While oligarchs and technocrats are buying up the world and forcing us all into a global surveillance state, The Effigies are here to bring you anthems of defiance. You may not know these cats yet, dear readers, but if you give this piece of sonic art a listen, I’m certain you will join the leagues of the initiated in holding The Effigies up as living legends and modern punk rock stalwarts worth praising.  Fire Aim Ready drops on October 23rd via Pravda Records, just in time to haunt your record players for the spooky season.

The Effigies have been flying the flag for Chicago punk rock since 1980. Their fuzzy, dissonant brand of rock n roll may not have gotten the same press and fame as some of their peers, but that’s no judgement on the quality of their work. They made a name for themselves early on, cutting their teeth alongside musical legends like X, The Plasmatics, PIL and Black Flag. Their DIY drive and sharp, dark and aggressive songwriting led them to every corner of the punk universe, leaving their mark on the historical stages of New York’s CBGB, New Jersey’s Maxwell’s, Milwaukee institution 1st Avenue, and the Bay Area punk Mecca Mabuhay Gardens all on the strength of their self-released albums and relentless work ethic. After several lineup changes, and a couple starts and stops, the band returned to the stage in 2022, and in 2024 we were graced with their final recording with founding vocalist John Kezdy, prior to his unfortunate and tragic passing, aptly titled Burned. Now the living legends are back with a renewed sense of purpose and a brand new album. 

Photo credit Jesse Pace

“Voluntary Surveillance” gets to the heart of this album pretty quickly and efficiently. While I wouldn’t necessarily call this a concept album, there are certainly common themes at play that keep the album laser-focused. It opens with a stomping groove, but quickly moves into more heavy dissonant sections that highlight the paranoid feel of the lyrics. As the title suggests, the track illustrates the current state of the world where we have given up any perceived sense of personal privacy for the privilege of having a computer in our pocket. Corporations watch our every keystroke and hand our information to any and every marketing firm and advertiser for pennies, while our freedoms and liberties are bled away for convenience. This anxious vibe carries over into lead single “Hallucinations”, a sweeping arena worthy rocker with a big swampy guitar riff that I’m sure would have garnered the approval of the late great Lux Interior.

The rhythm section really stands out on this record. The tight drum and bass grooves supplied by bassist Paul Zamost and drummer Steve Economou are expertly woven and keep the songs on the rails, leaving guitarist and producer Andy Gerber plenty of space to go wild when needed. The driving bass groove of title track “Fire Aim Ready” is a perfect example. Busy at times, but never distracting, it gives a danceable feel to an otherwise heavy song about the divisively forced tribal nature of modern American politics. It even veers into sections of Sabbathesque half time diversions at times, keeping the listener on their toes.

“Algorithm’ touches on the way social media uses a combination of surveillance, advertising  and sensational headlines to push narratives into your view as a means of using our emotions to control our daily lives. The inevitable result of these campaigns is a growing division of the public, leading to the recruiting efforts of ominous bad actors illustrated in “Neighbors Divide”. With each song the picture becomes a little clearer, revealing a technocratic dystopia lead by a class of elite corporate conmen and villains right out of an Orwell novel. Sadly, it’s no fiction. These things are happening right in front of our eyes, as detailed in songs like “Rapid Decline” and “Cult of Corruption.

This record is razor focused and well crafted with plenty of fantastic musical performances and a message that is desperately needed in these dystopian times. While oligarchs and technocrats are buying up the world and forcing us all into a global surveillance state, The Effigies are here to bring you anthems of defiance. You may not know these cats yet, dear readers, but if you give this piece of sonic art a listen, I’m certain you will join the leagues of the initiated in holding The Effigies up as living legends and modern punk rock stalwarts worth praising.  Fire Aim Ready drops on October 23rd via Pravda Records, just in time to haunt your record players for the spooky season.

Three Dog Night became one of the most successful American rock groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s by combining three powerful lead singers with an outstanding instrumental band. Formed in Los Angeles in 1967, the group brought together Danny Hutton, Cory Wells, and Chuck Negron, later joined by guitarist Michael Allsup, keyboardist Jimmy Greenspoon, bassist Joe Schermie, and drummer Floyd Sneed. Their harmonies, energetic concerts, and ability to recognize exceptional songs helped them establish a sound that crossed rock, soul, rhythm and blues, and pop. The band’s recording career began with its self-titled 1968 album, which included a

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