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Nonpoint, Spineshank, and Hed PE – The Glass House Pomona – August 28, 2026

It’s a happy surprise to discover that a band you love to listen to is just as exciting on stage – such was the case the first time I saw Nonpoint.  Knowing what was likely in store from having seen them play, I applied to photograph their Friday show at The Glass House in Pomona, California.  In researching the show beforehand, I was surprised and excited to discover that two other bands I knew and had paid to see on their own were also in the lineup – Spineshank, and Hed PE – this was sure to be an amazing night of music! 

Nonpoint

The Glass House doesn’t look like a music venue from the outside, and that’s because it was a Thrifty Drugstore before being converted into an 800-capacity room 30 years ago.  Inside, it consists of a very large and open space painted black, a bar at the back, and a balcony area above the bar.  The stage is positioned diagonally to the room, but the lighting and sound are good, and it’s a solid place to see a show, with the exception that during a California heat wave, the air conditioning system proved to be woefully inadequate.  Despite huge AC tubes in the elevated ceiling blowing cold air upon those lucky enough to be standing directly under them – those that were separated from those spots by a foot or two were sure to be sweating.  Perhaps the heat added to the setting that was about to unfold…

I’d seen Nonpoint perform multiple times before, and the thing that stuck with me about their shows was the constant energy they expended on stage.  In addition to having great songs, they work their asses off to make every show memorable, and Friday night in Pomona was no exception. 

One of the first things you notice is that Robb Rivera’s drum set is facing stage right, so you’re looking at him from the side over his high-hat.  The next thing you notice is vocalist Elias Soriano perched high atop his platform and positioned as close as possible to the fans pushed up against the barricade.  He performs directly to them, frequently extending his microphone into the audience.  Guitarists Rasheed Thomas and Jaysin Zeilstra are a flurry of energy – jumping high into the air, headbanging, and twirling in circles, while Rasheed’s hair flies akimbo in all directions.  Adam Woloszyn on bass frequently approached the audience with one foot up on the center platform, banging his head in time with the music while his long hair desperately played catch-up.  All of this was happening while they played the hell out of their instruments – they sounded much like their records, but with an added edge that only the outpouring of energy from the rabid fans in attendance could solicit.

Nonpoint are on the road supporting their new record The Last Word which comes out September 18^th.  Two new songs from the record (“Red Yeti” and “Is It”) were played back-to-back and went over really well with the crowd.  There are eight more shows remaining on the current Outta Control Tour, which has been rolling down the road with very little rest since late January – these guys have been preaching the word door to door, night after night for months on end.  If you are lucky enough to have them play your town, this show is well worth your hard-earned money – they’re an incredible band live, and the added value play is to show up early enough to see Spineshank and Hed PE.

 Nonpoint is: 

• Elias Soriano – Vocals  
• Robb Rivera – Drums  
• Rasheed Thomas – Guitar  
• Adam Woloszyn – Bass  
• Jaysin Zeilstra – Guitar  

Setlist:

1) Ruthless

2) The Wreckoning

3) Buscándome

4) Is It

5) Red Yeti

6) Chaos and Earthquakes

7) Dodge Your Destiny

8) Breaking Skin

9) Mindtrip

10) What a Day

11) Victim / Endure

12) My Last Dying Breath

13) Bullet With a Name

Spineshank

I became aware of Spineshank 26 years ago when I was hired to be the steadicam operator on their “Synthetic” video.  Despite a really long day circling the band with a heavy camera on my back, I became a fan of the song (which generally doesn’t happen when you hear it 30-50 times in a day) and the band.  I didn’t get to see them live back in the day, but finally saw them last year at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, and their performance in front of thousands was well worth the wait.  They were just returning from a decade-plus hiatus, had a lot of steam to blow off, and they made a point of taking it out on the massive festival stage and audience.

Friday night was in front a smaller crowd, but Spineshank were no less motivated to provide a killer set for the Pomona crowd.  From the opening notes of “Asthmatic”, all bets were off, and the they proved to be a formidable and energetic live band.  Vocalist Jonny Santos owned the stage, and was a force of nature all night.  Tommy Decker killed it on drums, while his son Tommy Decker Jr., who joined the band in ’25, was equally adept on guitar.  Robert Garcia provided the low-end and backing vocals, as song after song rained down on the crowd.  A wall of death was orchestrated towards the end of the set, and participants had abundant room to gather speed with The Glass House’s ample floorplan.  For those that were already worn out after Hed PE’s set, Spineshank provided just the right amount of rocket fuel needed to replenish the tanks.

Spineshank are:

• Jonny Santos – Lead vocals 
• Robert Garcia – Bass
• Tommy Decker – Drums
• Tommy Decker Jr. – Guitar

Setlist:

1) Asthmatic

2) Synthetic

3) Violent Mood Swings

4) Smothered

5) Beginning of the End

6) New Disease

7) The Height of Callousness

8) Dead to Me

Hed PE:

I’d seen Hed PE play a few years ago while visiting family in Montana, and it was an interesting night in two regards 1) Montana isn’t known for its heavy music scene, and 2) as a result of the lack of rock fans, the 1000 capacity venue had a couple of hundred people at most.  Regardless, Hed PE hit the stage and played as if they were playing a major festival to tens of thousands of diehard fans.  Their show didn’t waver a bit then, and Friday night in front of a venue full of people specifically there to see them, they hit it even harder, feeding off the fan’s enthusiastic reaction.

Hed PE has gone through multiple lineup changes since their formation in 1994, but their brand of genre-defying G-rock hasn’t changed and is just as vital as ever.  Their short but furious set delivered on every level – it was hard to imagine this band being first on the bill, but whatever their placement, they were ready to deliver, and gave the fans exactly what they’d hoped for.  All of the songs in their setlist were from the 2000 album Broke, and despite the short set, Hed PE made the most of it, and delivered a performance few in attendance will soon forget.

Hed PE are: 

• Jared Gomes – Vocals/Melodica  
• Kurt Blankenship – Bass  
• Nathan Javier – Guitar  
• Stephen Arango – Drums  

Setlist:

1) Jesus (of Nazareth)

2) Killing Time

3) Waiting to Die

4) Feel Good

5) I Got You

6) Bartender

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Five Finger Death Punch has a treat for fans, and it’s free.

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Norwegian melodic black metal veterans ISKALD have unveiled the second official teaser for their upcoming sixth full-length album, Curse of the Mind, due out on September 25th via Dusktone. Following the first preview, this new teaser offers another glimpse into the album’s dark and expansive atmosphere, bringing together further excerpts from across the record.

Rather than revealing a single composition in isolation, the teaser highlights the different shades that shape Curse of the Mind from its melodic black metal foundations to its more imposing and atmospheric passages, offering a broader taste of what ISKALD have prepared for their return.

Listen to the new teaser HERE.

Frontman Aage Krekling comments:

“For our second teaser we go deeper into the ritual. You will hear fragments from ‘Manifestation of Madness’, ‘A Burden of Hope’, ‘Curse of the Mind – Invocation II’, ‘The Sacrifice’ and ‘The Other Realm’. Where the first invocation opened the door, this one pulls you into the prison itself – isolation turning into doubt and psychological collapse. Helheim is not a place, it is the inner darkness taking shape, and the mind is the true battlefield. This passage leads directly to our first and only single before the album release, ‘The Other Realm’”.

Preorders:

https://dusktone.bandcamp.com/album/curse-of-the-mind

https://www.dusktone.org/

Following the acclaimed Innhøstinga (2018), the new album marks the beginning of a new chapter for the band after signing with Dusktone in early 2026. Available on colored LP, black LP, CD Box and CD, Curse of the Mind was recorded during the summer of 2025 at Strand Studio in Beiarn, mixed and mastered by Hallstein Sandvin, and features artwork by SG7 Graphics.

For over two decades, ISKALD have stood among the leading names in Norwegian melodic black metal. Now performing as a five-piece, the band expands its trademark northern sound with its most ambitious and immersive work to date.

Built as a conceptual journey, Curse of the Mind unfolds through four interconnected chapters linked by ritualistic invocations, exploring themes of psychological torment, inner conflict, fragile hope and ultimate sacrifice. Framed within a stark, Norse-inspired vision of Helheim, the story is mythological in setting but deeply psychological at its core. Helheim is not merely a place, it is the shape taken by inner darkness. The true battlefield is the mind itself.

The album unfolds in four movements, connected by four ritual Invocations:

I. The Other Realm – The Descent
Vast emptiness, fog and isolation.

II. Manifestation of Madness – The Prison
Doubt, fragmentation and psychological collapse.

III. A Burden of Hope – The Fragile Light
Strength found through accepting the darkness within.

IV. The Sacrifice – The Ritual
Before the throne of Hela, suffering becomes meaningful.

Track-list:

1. Curse of the Mind – Invocation I
2. The Other Realm
3. Curse of the Mind – Invocation II
4. Manifestation of Madness
5. Curse of the Mind – Invocation III
6. A Burden of Hope
7. Curse of the Mind – Final Invocation
8. The Sacrifice

Line-up:

Aage Krekling – Vocals
Simon Larsen – Guitars
Ben Hansen – Guitars
Isak Larsen – Drums
Tobias Aubert – Bass

Upcoming ISKALD concerts:

Bodø/Sinus: 03.10.2026
Oslo/Vaterland: 24.10.2026
Trondheim/(TBA): 29.01.2027

ISKALD:

https://iskaldofficial.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/iskaldofficial/

https://www.facebook.com/iskaldofficial

Dusktone:

https://www.dusktone.it/

https://dusktone.bandcamp.com/

https://www.instagram.com/dusktone/

https://www.facebook.com/dusktone

Areas of the U.S. are gearing up for a winter of historic proportions when it comes to snow, cold and ice.

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Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson took aim at US President Donald Trump’s ‘Lake America’ antics as the metal giants opened their Run For Your Lives Tour in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday night.

Trump is in an ongoing trade war with his northern neighbours and has been delivering a series of jibes, including saying he would make Canada the “51st State” of the US.

And after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from trade talks this week, claiming the US negotiators had tried to move the goalposts at the last minute, Trump predictably did not take it well.

In an orchestrated media conference in the Oval Office this week, Trump crossed out the name of Lake Ontario on a map using a marker pen, and wrote “Lake America” in its place. He previously renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf Of America.

Dickinson has joined a string of people in pouring scorn on Trump’s stunt, telling the sold out audience at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena on Saturday night: “How long has it been since we have been to Toronto? Too long, too long. And in Canada, in fact.

“We got here, we crossed Lake Ontario, we will be crossing the Gulf of Mexico.

“It is a ridiculous state of the world.”

Trump’s stunt has drawn ridicule and anger from Canada and beyond. Carney responded by saying that no matter what the US calls it, Canadians will know it as “Lake Ontario – then, now and always.”

Ontario’s top-ranking politician, Premier Doug Ford, also hit back, comparing Trump’s stunt to a sketch from Saturday Night Live.

Lake Ontario is the smallest of the five Great Lakes of North America and sits between the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and the US state of New York to the south. Toronto is the capital city of Ontario.

Iron Maiden North American tour 2026 remaining dates

Aug 30: Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena *
Sep 03: Montréal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau *^
Sep 05: Harrison, NJ – Sports Illustrated Stadium *^
Sep 09: Boston, MA – TD Garden *
Sep 11: Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live *
Sep 12: Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion *
Sep 15: Hershey, PA – Hersheypark Stadium *
Sep 17: Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life Festival
Sep 19: Shakopee, MN – Mystic Lake Amphitheater *
Sep 22: Chicago, IL – Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre *
Sep 25: Los Angeles, CA – BMO Stadium *^
Sep 29: San Antonio, TX – Alamodome *^

* Megadeth supporting
^ Anthrax supporting

PETER AMISANO | Go Venue Magazine

On August 24, 2026, at Morton Amphitheater just outside Kansas City, three very different bands turned an otherwise ordinary Monday night into a celebration of nearly five decades of American pop and rock music.

The evening began with The Romantics, bringing back those hard-hitting drums, retro guitar and classic hooks. Their music has always had a directness; songs like “Rock You Up” and “When I Look in Your Eyes” demand audience participation.

“Talking in Your Sleep” and, inevitably, “What I Like About You” were among the night’s most infectious moments. The latter remains almost impossible to resist live. It is one of those songs that can turn a seated amphitheater into a room full of people on their feet, singing and it did.

If The Romantics supplied the evening’s youthful energy, Christopher Cross supplied its elegance.

Cross’s music occupies a particularly interesting place in the history of popular music. His 1980 debut wasn’t simply successful—it was historic, earning five Grammys, including Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist.

More than four decades later, songs such as “Sailing,” “Ride Like the Wind,” “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” and “Never Be the Same” have acquired something beyond nostalgia. They have become atmosphere.

“Sailing” was especially effective in an outdoor amphitheater setting. Its gentle melody and spacious arrangement seemed almost designed for a summer evening, while “Ride Like the Wind” provided a welcome change of pace and demonstrated the musicianship behind Cross’s smooth pop exterior.

Then came Toto, and suddenly the evening became a master class in musicianship.

Led by the enduring partnership of guitarist Steve Lukather and vocalist Joseph Williams, Toto remains one of those bands that musicians seem to admire at least as much as the general public does. Their biggest songs are familiar, but hearing them performed live reveals just how much is going on beneath those familiar melodies.

“Rosanna,” “Hydra,” “I’ll Be Over You,” “Hold the Line” and “Africa” are not simply greatest-hits selections. They are showcases for arrangements that have aged remarkably well.

Lukather remains the centerpiece, bringing both technical precision and rock-and-roll bite to the guitar parts. Williams, meanwhile, gives Toto’s material the vocal power it requires. The result is polished without feeling overly clinical.

The most memorable moment of the night came when the three acts ultimately shared the stage for the finale. After spending the evening moving through three distinct musical worlds, The Romantics, Christopher Cross and Toto came together, turning the ending into a genuine celebration rather than simply another encore. The performance brought the evening full circle.

The night wasn’t really about reliving 1980. It was about discovering that music from that period still works in 2026.

Toto

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Christopher Cross

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The Romantics

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There’s a version of the last eighteen months where I Prevail simply stopped. They lost the clean-vocal half of their identity when Brian Burkheiser stepped away in May 2025. Days later they lost Dave Shapiro, the agent who’d built their career, in the San Diego plane crash. Most bands would have called it a hiatus and disappeared for two years.

Instead I Prevail put out the heaviest record they’ve ever made, with Eric Vanlerberghe singing every single part on it. He joins Scott Penfold on this week’s Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about how that actually went. Listen below.

LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE NOW:

Eric Vanlerberghe on becoming I Prevail’s only voice, the surprise single that arrived from nowhere, what’s coming after Violent Nature, and a 2026 run that goes from Alexandra Palace to the Intuit Dome. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play, or hit play above.

One voice, two jobs

For a decade I Prevail worked on the model half of modern metalcore is built on: one man screams, one man sings, the chorus lifts.

Burkheiser handled the cleans from the band’s formation in 2013 until May 2025, when he stepped away. Eagle syndrome was cited at the time — an elongated styloid process producing chronic throat, neck and ear pain, which is about as brutal a diagnosis as a professional singer can get.

That left Vanlerberghe holding both jobs.

Speaking around the album’s release, he admitted there was a little uncertainty but that it had to be squashed down with confidence, and added the line that’s become the mission statement for this era: they’re not quitters, they’re just going to keep pushing.

Which sounds simple written down and isn’t. Screaming and clean singing are different instruments using the same equipment. Doing both for ninety minutes, four nights a week, across a full album cycle is a physical proposition most vocalists never have to attempt — and he had to work it out in public, on tour, with an audience that had spent ten years hearing someone else sing those parts.

Live, the load gets shared where it can be. Rhythm guitarist Dylan Bowman covers additional vocals on stage, and the setlist itself has quietly become a piece of stamina engineering.

Burkheiser has since launched a solo project, SCATTERBRAIN, releasing his first track “Phases” in early 2026. Both camps have kept the specifics of the split largely private.

Violent Nature, a year on

Violent Nature landed on September 19, 2025 via Fearless Records — thirty-two minutes, no filler, and the heaviest thing in the catalogue.

The rollout ran five singles deep: the title track in May 2025, then “Into Hell,” “Rain,” “Annihilate Me” and “Pray.” It pulls deathcore, nu-metal, grunge and outright pop-rock through the same funnel and somehow holds together. Kerrang! gave it four out of five. Metal Hammer’s verdict was that it’s a little hit and miss but the hits go hard. It reached number 17 in Australia, a market the band would go on to properly conquer a few months later.

The structural change behind it matters more than the reviews. Jon Eberhard produced the record and then joined the band on bass and keys — which means I Prevail now tour with their producer permanently installed in the rhythm section.

That single fact explains almost everything about what’s happened to their writing since.

We covered Violent Nature and “Pray” in full when it landed, and a year of shows later it’s aged into something harder and more coherent than it seemed at release.

The current lineup: Vanlerberghe on vocals, Steve Menoian on lead guitar, Dylan Bowman on rhythm guitar and vocals, Eberhard on bass and keys, Gabe Helguera on drums.

“Paradise” — the song that escaped the album

On June 26, 2026, I Prevail released “Paradise,” a collaboration with Amira Elfeky that didn’t exist when Violent Nature was finished.

It was written on the road in Europe. Which is only possible because of the Eberhard situation — having your producer in the band means a fully-formed demo can happen in a bunk with a laptop, rather than waiting for a studio block eighteen months later.

The video came from Orie McGinness, whose work with Bad Omens and Poppy tells you roughly what register it operates in.

And the band’s own framing of the song is unusually honest: they said they still don’t think they know exactly what they made.

That’s a more interesting statement than any press release. A band four albums deep, mid-cycle, writing something on a tour bus that they can’t quite categorise — and putting it out anyway rather than filing it for later.

Elfeky isn’t a one-off guest either. She joins the UK and European leg this autumn, which means “Paradise” goes into the live set with both voices intact.

So what’s next — deluxe, or a whole new record?

Asked earlier this year what the band was sitting on, Vanlerberghe was deliberately non-committal and obviously excited about it: they’ve got some cool stuff, it might be a deluxe, it might be a record, and at that point it was just a bunch of ideas.

Given “Paradise” came out of exactly that pile and went straight to release, the odds of more surfacing before this touring cycle ends look strong.

That’s the question I put to him directly on the episode, and his answer is the reason to listen.

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The 2026 tour: Alexandra Palace to the Intuit Dome

I Prevail have already delivered their biggest Australian run to date — five cities in June 2026 including John Cain Arena in Melbourne and the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, with Imminence and Invent Animate supporting.

The back half of the year is bigger.

UK and Europe — with Polaris and Amira Elfeky

September 19 — Leeds, UK @ O2 Academy
September 20 — Glasgow, UK @ O2 Academy
September 22 — Manchester, UK @ O2 Victoria Warehouse
September 25 — London, UK @ Alexandra Palace
September 26 — Birmingham, UK @ O2 Academy
September 30 — Brussels, BE @ Ancienne Belgique
October 1 — Tilburg, NL @ 013
October 3 — Düsseldorf, DE @ PSD Bank Dome
October 5 — Stuttgart, DE @ Porsche Arena
October 6 — Paris, FR @ Zénith
October 8 — Zurich, CH @ Halle 622
October 9 — Milan, IT @ Alcatraz
October 10 — Vienna, AT @ Wiener Stadthalle
October 12 — Warsaw, PL @ Stodoła
October 13 — Berlin, DE @ Velodrom

North America — with Three Days Grace

October 23 through November 22, 2026, covering the South, Midwest, Pacific Northwest, California and the Southwest, wrapping at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood.

They also play Mexico City on December 12 on a bill with Babymetal.

Alexandra Palace to the Intuit Dome inside two months is a serious year for a band who spent the previous one working out whether they could still function. If you’re planning the rest of the calendar, our 2026 touring guide has the wider picture.

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Losing Dave Shapiro

The other thing that shaped this era happened away from the stage entirely.

Dave Shapiro — Sound Talent Group co-founder, and one of the most consequential agents in modern heavy music — died in the San Diego plane crash on May 22, 2025, days before the Violent Nature campaign began in earnest. He’d guided I Prevail’s career for years.

Vanlerberghe has said the loss scrambled the band’s touring plans and left a hole no reshuffle could fill.

Losing your co-vocalist and your agent inside a fortnight, then walking into an album cycle anyway, is not a normal set of circumstances. It’s worth remembering that when you look at what they actually shipped.

Magic cards, retro consoles, and the shop in Michigan

When the buses stop, Vanlerberghe goes to work somewhere else.

He co-owns Black Vault Gaming in St. Clair Shores, Michigan — a bricks-and-mortar shop dealing in retro consoles, Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon and tournament nights. By his own account it’s grown well beyond what he expected. He’s drafted Magic on camera with Frank Iero. His vinyl and card collections are, by all reports, a problem.

It’s a genuinely useful window into how a man decompresses from a job that now demands his entire voice every night. And it puts him in a growing group of heavy music people building something outside the band that isn’t a merch line — a symptom of the same broader shift that’s made this the healthiest decade for the genre in twenty years.

TL;DR

• This week’s Loaded Radio Podcast: Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail.
• The change: he’s been the band’s sole vocalist since Brian Burkheiser stepped away in May 2025, handling both screams and cleans for the first time in the band’s history.
• The record: Violent Nature, out September 19, 2025 via Fearless Records. Thirty-two minutes, five singles, and the heaviest album in their catalogue.
• The structural shift: producer Jon Eberhard joined the band on bass and keys, meaning I Prevail now write and demo anywhere, including on a tour bus.
• The new song: “Paradise,” released June 26, 2026 with Amira Elfeky. Written on the road in Europe, and not part of the album sessions.
• What’s next: unconfirmed. Vanlerberghe has said it might be a deluxe or it might be a record.
• The tour: UK and Europe from September 19 with Polaris and Amira Elfeky, then North America with Three Days Grace from October 23, finishing at the Intuit Dome. Mexico City follows on December 12.

FAQ

One voice doing two jobs, a record made in the worst year imaginable, and a song nobody planned. Which I Prevail era do you rate highest? Tell us in the comments. And keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.

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