The “Post Human” era is officially far from over. Following a massive weekend at Sick New World, Sheffield legends Bring Me The Horizon have announced their return to North America for “The Third Ascension Program” this fall.

This second expansion of their viral 2026 touring cycle isn’t just another run of dates—it’s a long-awaited homecoming for Western Canada, marking the band’s first performances in select cities in nearly 15 years. Backed by industrial titans Motionless In White and melodic metalcore heavyweights The Plot In You, Oli Sykes and company are set to bring their high-concept, cyberpunk live experience to the Great White North and beyond.

The Third Ascension Program:

• The Fall Leg: Kicks off September 20 in Vancouver, BC, focusing heavily on Canadian arenas.
• The Lineup: Motionless In White returns as main support, with The Plot In You joining the bill.
• The Significance: First time the band has played select Western Canadian cities since 2011.
• The Anniversary: Announcement follows news of Count Your Blessings | Repented, a full re-recording of their 2006 debut arriving July 10.
• Tickets: Presales start Wednesday, April 29; General on-sale Friday, May 1.

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Ending a 15-Year Drought in Western Canada

For fans in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary, the “Third Ascension Program” is more than just a concert announcement—it’s the end of a decade-plus wait. Bring Me The Horizon has spent the last few years dominating UK arenas and headlining major US festivals, but large swaths of Canada have been left out of the rotation until now.

The fall run promises the full NeX GEn experience: a multi-sensory, “video game” inspired production featuring cutting-edge AI visuals and a setlist that bridges the gap between their deathcore roots and their chart-topping alternative metal present.

We Also Recommend – Every Bring Me The Horizon Album Ranked—And Why Fans Still Can’t Agree On The Best One

The “Repented” Era: Count Your Blessings Returns

The tour announcement coincides with a massive nostalgia bomb for the “Sempiternal” and “Suicide Season” faithful. Oli Sykes recently confirmed that the band’s seminal 2006 debut, Count Your Blessings, has been fully re-recorded for its 20th anniversary. Titled Count Your Blessings | Repented, the project drops July 10, featuring modern production and re-tracked deathcore vocals that have already begun teasing on social media. Fans are already speculating if the fall tour setlist will include a special “Repented” segment to celebrate the release.

“The Third Ascension Program” Fall 2026 Tour Dates

Featuring Motionless In White and The Plot In You:

• 09/20 – Vancouver, BC – Rogers Arena
• 09/23 – Edmonton, AB – Rogers Place
• 09/24 – Calgary, AB – Scotiabank Saddledome
• 09/30 – Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
• 10/02 – Ottawa, ON – Canadian Tire Centre
• 10/03 – Hamilton, ON – TD Coliseum
• 10/06 – London, ON – Canada Live Place
• 10/08 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena

Spring 2026 “Ascension Program 2” Dates (Current Leg)

Featuring Motionless In White and Amira Elfeky:

• 04/28 – Toronto, ON – Scotiabank Arena
• 04/29 – Montreal, QC – Bell Centre
• 05/01 – Worcester, MA – DCU Center
• 05/02 – New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
• 05/04 – Baltimore, MD – CFG Bank Arena
• 05/05 – Pittsburgh, PA – PPG Paints Arena
• 05/07 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
• 05/09 – Daytona, FL – Welcome To Rockville Festival
• 05/11 – St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
• 05/12 – Kansas City, MO – T-Mobile Center
• 05/13 – Saint Paul, MN – Grand Casino Arena
• 05/15 – Rosemont, IL – Allstate Arena
• 05/16 – Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Festival

The Loaded Radio Final Word

Bring Me The Horizon is currently one of the most exciting bands in heavy music because they refuse to stay in one lane. Between re-recording their raw deathcore debut and touring a futuristic arena show with Motionless In White, they are catering to every generation of their fanbase. If you are in Western Canada, do not sleep on the Friday on-sale—these Rogers Arena and Rogers Place shows have been fifteen years in the making and will likely sell out in minutes.

Check This Out – ‘PRAY FOR PLAGUES’ REBORN: Bring Me The Horizon Announces 20th Anniversary Re-Recording of ‘Count Your Blessings’

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The Bottom Line Bring Me The Horizon has announced “The Third Ascension Program” North American fall tour with Motionless In White and The Plot In You, focusing on Western Canada. The run follows the band’s spring leg and the upcoming re-recorded 20th-anniversary edition of Count Your Blessings.

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(written by Islander) Five years after Le Cœur Bat (2021), and more than a decade after Un petit peu d’amour pour la haine, the genre-blurring French collective Non Serviam are returning with a third album named La Lune Dont Mon Âme Est Pleine, now set for release on June 12th. The new full-length is described […]

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Loathe have finally confirmed the details of their long-awaited new album, the follow-up to 2020’s instant classic ‘I Let It In and It Took Everything’.

The record is set to be titled ‘A Stranger To You’ and will be released on July 17 via SharpTone Records.

The artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting looks like this:

1. Entrance
2. Block Of Flats
3. Fortress Down
4. Gemini
5. Nothing Like The Knife
6. Harder To Pretend
7.اثينا
8. Revenant
9. The Way It Breaks
10. Meet My Maker
11. Fangs
12. The Ladder
13. Gifted Every Strength
14. No Stranger To You…

As you can see, the album will include ‘Gifted Every Strength’, which was released last year and sounds like this:

It will also feature the newly released ‘Revenant’, a collaboration with NOWHERE2RUN, the new project from former Code Orange members Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade” Balderose.

Musically, it is as sporadically dense as it is bristling with hedonistic and guttural outbursts. Intense and unpredictable, it’s a claustrophobic, forward-thinking, brutal and sensationally constructed piece of modern heavy music. Unlike anybody else and still very much the tip of the iceberg in terms of what it feels like this record is going to represent, it’s one hell of a statement to make.

Get stuck in.

The band are due to hit the road in the coming weeks.

MAY

09 – PERTH Magnet House
11 – ADELAIDE The Gov, Adelaide        
13 – MELBOURNE The Forum
14 – SYDNEY Metro Theatre
15 – NEWCASTLE King St Bandroom
16 – BRSIBANE The Tivoli, Brisbane

JUNE

03 – PRAGUE O2 Universum
05 – NUERBERG Rock Am Ring
06 – NUERBERG Rock Im Park
09 – ZURICH Komplex 457
10 – STUTTGART Im Wizemann Club
11 – ASCHAFFENBURG Colos-Saal
13 – NICKELSDORF Nova Rocks
14 – HRADEC KRALOVE Rock For People
16 – SAARBRÜCKEN Garage
17 – DORTMUND FSW
19 – CLISSON Hellfest
20 – DESSEL Graspop
22 – HAMBURG Docks
24 – COPENHAGEN Copenhell
25 – BERLIN Huxley’s Neue Welt

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Running through July and August.

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Today is the Day frontman Steve Austin has done a lot in the music business, including a Decibel Hall of Fame, but he’s taking it straight back to his roots with a new solo album, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice.

Austin—who was born in Lebanon, Tennessee with familial ties to Appalachia—grew up with outlaw country and bluegrass music, inspired by the albums he heard and by his father, honky-tonk musician Tillman Austin. Despite nearly 35 years as the brain behind Today is the Day (plus production credits including New American Gospel and When Forever Comes Crashing), the allure of outlaw country remained and Austin wrote his first record in the style. 

 The 11-track album is stripped back and raw, following closely in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. It has a sense of real authenticity, blending catchiness (“Long Way to Hell”) with ballads (“The Rain Keeps Comin’ Down,” “I Won’t Make It Last”) and occasional bursts of upbeat chicken pickin’. Austin is assisted on the record by drummer Colin Frecknall (Today is the Day), fiddle player Ryu Bennett and pedal steel legend Dana Flood (Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, and George Jones). 

 Decibel spoke with Austin about the new style, using vintage equipment and if listeners can expect more in the style. Read it below after pressing play on a full stream of Marked Cards and Loaded Dice. The album is officially out on May 1 via Austin’s own label, Supernova Records.

What led you to writing and recording an outlaw country record?
I came across a set of lyric books that belonged to my father, Tillman Austin, from the early 1950s. By day, he was a machinist at Chrysler, and at night, he played guitar and sang in a honky-tonk band. I read through all of his songs and it was heartbreaking stuff. The loneliness and pain that he was livin’ through filled every page. It made me think about how much I missed real country music—music from the heart that’s honest and real. So, I started writing what would be the 1st song on this record. 

Are these songs you’ve been writing for years or were they written with the express intention of going on this album?
The first song I wrote was “Am I Just Crazy,” during COVID lockdown in 2020. After being in isolation in the woods for months with the world crashing in, I was depressed out of my mind. Late one night, I played my song for Hanna [Austin’s wife]. It was emotionally heavy for both of us. She cried, and then I cried. I realized how important this was to me. These songs made me feel hope. They brought me back to my roots and the Austin family from Appalachia in Chestnut Mound, Tennessee. They made me wanna live when everything seemed so hopeless.

You used all vintage equipment for the recording of Marked Cards and Loaded Dice. How did using that specific gear help you to develop the sound you had in mind?
I wanted Marked Cards and Loaded Dice to sound as real as possible. I love the classic sounds on records like Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd and The Beatles’ White Album. I wanted Marked Cards and Loaded Dice to sound true to the old-school bluegrass and traditional country albums I grew up on. I love the way it came out and the down-home sound of the album. Just real songs and real playin’ from the heart about living through life.

You and Colin from Today is the Day played most of the instruments, but you also have Dana Flood and Ryu Bennett on the record; were they actively involved in the songwriting process or did you connect with them after songs were written?
After I had demoed all of the songs, I began a search for the sickest pedal steel and fiddle players I could find. Luckily, country music pedal steel legend Dana Flood lived only 45 minutes away. Dana had toured and played with all the greats during the outlaw country days in the 1970s. To me, he is a virtuoso and the Randy Rhoads of pedal steel. He plays some of the most beautiful steel guitar and dobro parts I’ve ever heard. He was a protégé of Don Helms, Hank Williams Sr.’s pedal steel man. Don called Dana the greatest there ever was.

I was honored that, after I showed him the songs, he was so inspired and excited to rock this thing with me. Ryu Bennett, who plays the fiddle, is a classically-trained symphony performer that loves Appalachian music. She has a very hypnotic and psychedelic style that reminds me at times of the strings on the Beatles’ acid-era albums. She rips some wicked old-time fiddle playin’. Colin totally rocked it on the drums. He has a great feel and lays down a rocking groove that works perfectly with the tunes. They all three came up with amazing jams, and I couldn’t have been more proud of their approach to these tunes.

A lot of your career has been spent in the heavy and extreme music arenas, playing in TITD and producing various records, but you grew up with old-school and outlaw country music. Do you feel like Marked Cards was a sort of return to your roots as a musician or person?
Yes, I do. During COVID, I had a lot of time for introspection. I grew up in Lebanon, Tennessee. I live in the woods in Maine now, and have a barn and some chickens. I burn firewood to heat our house and live a primitive life. I fix our cars, sweep the chimney, repair anything and everything at our pad. I enjoy arborist work and love being in nature, away from towns or cities. When I was a kid, my parents would drive me crazy. I’d get home from school and go way out in the woods and creeks, exploring caves, shooting persimmons off of trees with my .22 rifle. I’d take off riding on my horse. It was peace and solitude that was calming from the insanity going down at my house. Truly a kid’s dream. Just me and my dog and a forest playground with total freedom and escape. I feel lucky to live where I do now as well, and I’m proud of my Appalachian family. They work hard, live good lives and are there for anyone who needs a hand. The most important thing in life for me is my family, friends, animals and being the best man I can be. I’m grateful for my life and everyone in it. 

Is this a one-off excursion into the country music genre or should we expect more Steve Austin records in a similar vein?
Hell yeah! Last October, I recorded a Magnolia Session Album in Nashville with Dan Emery from Anti-Corp Records at his studio for album number two. It’s a binaural live recording with no overdubs and me singing and playing guitar. It has songs from Marked Cards and some new ones. I’ve already written four new songs for the next album after the Magnolia release. I love playing mountain music and the feeling it brings me and the people. Gonna keep pushing myself to play and sing what I feel inside. From now until I head off into the sunset.

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Cinematic Gothic: Mastering the ‘Noir’ Look in Everyday Style

Transform your daily wardrobe into a scene from a classic noir thriller.

The Cinematic Approach to Style

In cinematography, we know that what you leave in the shadows is just as important as what you reveal in the light. This philosophy is the foundation of the cinematic gothic aesthetic. You don’t need elaborate costumes to convey a narrative; you need a cohesive, intentional visual language that tells a story about who you are.

Building Your Noir Uniform

Mastering the ‘Noir’ look for everyday wear begins with three core principles: Contrast, Texture, and Silhouette.

Start by focusing on Contrast. In a black-and-white film, grayscale depth creates drama. In your wardrobe, focus on deep blacks paired with charcoal grays or crisp whites. Avoid clutter. Next, incorporate Texture. A smooth leather jacket worn over a distressed lace layer creates visual tension that draws the eye. Finally, Silhouette is your frame. Whether you prefer structured, sharp lines or flowing, ethereal fabrics, ensure your clothing fits your frame as precisely as a camera lens focuses on a subject.

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The Cinematographer’s Eye

To truly embody this look, you must view your surroundings through the lens of a cinematographer. Look for “frames” in your daily environment—architecture, shadows, reflections—and consider how your outfit interacts with those spaces. When you dress with an awareness of the lighting and environment around you, your style becomes an extension of the world you inhabit. This is the difference between simply wearing clothes and embodying an aesthetic.

Conclusion

Cinematic gothic style is not about performance; it is about precision and mood. By stripping away the unnecessary and focusing on high-contrast, textured layers, you create a timeless look that stands out in the modern world. Embrace the shadows, sharpen your silhouette, and make your everyday life your own cinematic masterpiece.

Set the mood with our latest cinematic soundscape:

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– April 27th, 2026 –

The hit interactive metal trivia experience expands to BraveWords.com

Metal Blade Records and BraveWords today announced a powerful new partnership to bring Metal Mondays, the fast-growing interactive audio trivia experience, to BraveWords.com.

Already building a passionate and competitive player base across iOS and Android, Metal Mondays has quickly established itself as a weekly ritual for metal fans. Now, for the first time, the experience will be fully integrated into one of the world’s leading metal media platforms – dramatically expanding its reach and impact.

The BraveWords rollout began Monday, April 20th, marking a major milestone in the evolution of the platform.

Metal Mondays has proven its staying power, with fans returning week after week to test their knowledge, discover new music, and compete for leaderboard dominance. The move to BraveWords.com represents the next phase – taking an already successful product and placing it directly in front of millions of deeply engaged metal fans.

Players can expect the same addictive format, now more accessible than ever:

• Audio-driven trivia spanning decades of metal
• Competitive gameplay with global leaderboards
• Opportunities to win exclusive prizes
• Deep dives into Metal Blade’s legendary catalog and beyond

What began as a mobile-first experience now evolves into a fully embedded, web-based destination – meeting fans where they already live, read, and breathe metal.

“Metal Mondays has already shown that fans are hungry for new ways to engage with the music beyond streaming,” said Brian Slagel, CEO of Metal Blade Records. “By partnering with BraveWords, we’re amplifying something that’s already working – bringing it to a massive global audience and making it even more accessible.”

“We’re always looking for ways to deepen engagement with our audience,” said Tim Henderson, CEO of BraveWords. “Metal Mondays stood out immediately – it’s proven, it’s sticky, and it taps directly into the competitive spirit of metal fans. Bringing it to BraveWords is a natural and exciting next step.”

The partnership transforms BraveWords.com into more than a destination for news – it becomes an interactive hub where fans can play, compete, and explore.

Metal Mondays encourages players to:

• Rediscover classic tracks and explore deep cuts
• Engage more deeply with artists and the Metal Blade catalog
• Return weekly for new challenges and evolving competition
• Participate in a shared global experience rooted in metal culture

It also creates new opportunities for sponsorship, advertising, and fan engagement through gamified media – an emerging frontier in music and entertainment.

About Metal Blade Records
Founded in 1982 by Brian Slagel, Metal Blade Records is one of the most influential labels in heavy music history. With a legacy spanning over four decades, the label continues to shape the genre through groundbreaking artists, innovation, and a deep connection to the global metal community.

About BraveWords
Founded in 1994, BraveWords is a premier destination for heavy metal news, interviews, and culture. With a global audience of dedicated fans, BraveWords has become a trusted voice and essential platform within the metal ecosystem.

About Metal Mondays
Metal Mondays is a weekly interactive audio trivia game that challenges fans to identify songs, artists, and genres while competing for leaderboard rankings and prizes. Originally launched on iOS and Android, the platform has built a growing and highly engaged player base, combining music discovery with competitive gameplay.

Metal Mondays is developed and powered by Pantheon Media and Spooler Media, leaders in audio innovation and next-generation fan engagement.

For the first time in six years, U.K. genre-agnostics Loathe are releasing a brand new, full-length studio effort titled A Stranger To You. Set to release on July 17, the album’s first single “Revenant” is streaming right now.

Described as “perhaps their heaviest song to date”, the new single “Revenant” is aptly named. It only hangs around for a few minutes, hits hard, and then vanishes as fast as it came. Seriously, this thing goes hard in the paint for the kind of thick sounds and rabid fury you’d expect from a band like Loathe.

Though you’ll have to wait a couple months for the release of A Stranger To You, you can make sure you get yourself a copy by preordering one for yourself today.

A Stranger To You tracklist

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4. ……

5. ……. …. … …..

6. …… .. …….

7. ……

8. Revenant

9. … … .. ……

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12. … ……

13. Gifted Every Strength

14. .. ……. .. ….…

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Posted on April 27th 2026, 5:00p.m.

Wolfgang Van Halen is taking Mammoth back on the road this summer, adding a new run of U.S. headline dates to The End tour. The expanded schedule fills in gaps between the band’s previously confirmed support slots with Creed, keeping the momentum going through the season.

The current Mammoth lineup features Wolfgang Van Halen handling guitar and lead vocals, alongside guitarist Frank Sidoris (from Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators), guitarist/vocalist Jon Jourdan, drummer Garrett Whitlock (of Tremonti), and bassist Ronnie Ficarro. Together, they’ll cover 18 shows across North America.

The run begins July 12 in Edmonton, Alberta at Rockin’ Thunder, where Mammoth opens for Creed, and continues through August 8 in Monroe, Minnesota at the Monroe State Fair, sharing the stage with Daughtry. Along the way, the band will hit cities including Des Moines, Huntsville, Chattanooga, and Albany.

Ticket details and VIP package options are available through the band’s official site.

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