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Fresh off the release of their new LP An Ending In Itself, today the iconic alternative rock band Sleeping With Sirens is taking a trip down memory lane and releasing a reprise of “I’m Coming Home (Big Gulps).”

This was the first song ever written by Sleeping With Sirens and the first video ever posted to the band’s YouTube channel in 2009. A grainy but inspired performance, filmed in one take on a laptop computer in 2009, the song found new life in 2026 when dedicated fans pushed “Big Gulps” to spontaneous virality on TikTok. In response to the engagement online, Kellin Quinn returned to the studio to rerecord “Big Gulps”, this time in a proper studio making this the first professional recording of the track.

“”Big Gulps” was the very first Sleeping With Sirens song ever written, so it’s pretty amazing to see our fans digging through our old content on YouTube and watching it take off on TikTok,” shares Kellin Quinn. “That said, the original recording was literally recorded on a MacBook back in 2009. So, I wanted to get back into the studio and properly rerecord a new acoustic version of the song. Thank you for being such incredible fans for so long and we hope you enjoy this new version of “Big Gulps””.

Sleeping With Sirens’ fall headlining tour kicks off after their appearance at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA on October 3rd. Rain City Drive and Shyeye will be supporting them on this run, visiting cities across the U.S. and Canada before their final performance at Vans Warped Tour Orlando on November 14th. Following the US tour Sleeping With Sirens heads to Latin America in December of this year, and then finally a Europe & UK headliner in February-March of 2027.

Earlier this year, the band released their highly anticipated eighth studio album An Ending In Itself with Rise Records which debuted in Billboard’s Top 20 Hard Rock charts the first week. Produced by Will Yip (Turnstile, Circa Survive, Movements), the new record represents both a homecoming and a reckoning for the band as they revive the restless spirit of their classic sound with the nuanced experience of recent years.

After fifteen years, seven studio albums, one EP, one live album and thousands of shows, the band has built an undeniable connection with their audience consistently drawing devoted fans and delivering electrifying performances that showcase their distinctly unique path through modern alternative rock. They helped to define the early to mid-aughts Warped Tour era and are now experiencing a renewed surge with younger audiences discovering their catalog.

The band, Kellin Quinn (vocals), Nick Martin (guitar), Justin Hills (bass), Matty Best (drums), and newest addition Tony Pizzuti (guitar), continues to hone its signature sound while boldly exploring new creative frontiers. That future-forward perspective, coupled with a deep connection to their listeners, has established Sleeping With Sirens as a household name that’s more relevant than ever.

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Get ready to unleash the fury as Dark Down South III returns to Kirup this November 21 and 22, bringing two days of relentless metal mayhem to Western Australia’s South West. From Friday through Saturday, Jim McDonald Oval will once again transform into a haven for metalheads, showcasing a lineup that cuts across the full […]

WINDSWEPT have made their fourth album, A Sign of the Cloven Hoof, available to stream in full ahead of its September 25, 2026 release through Primitive Reaction. The Ukrainian black metal trio draw inspiration from Ukrainian demonology and the early stories of Mykola Gogol across the record’s five tracks. The band is another outlet for […]

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Here’s a tale about a rabble of underground rock visionaries turning a thriving local music scene into a global phenomenon, putting the world’s spotlight onto the US’s Pacific Northwest and prompting teenage Herberts as far afield as Chelmsford, Essex to suddenly have the urge to own a corduroy shirt (yes, that was me).

Along the way there were those who turned their back on it, those who lost their way, those who died and those who turned their back on it, but turned round again with a new set of rules and ended up staying really big anyway and everything was fine (okay, this bit pretty much just refers to Pearl Jam).

What remains is the music, most of which still sounds vital today, artefacts from an era that dramatically reshaped what rock music could be.

Green River – Rehab Doll (1988)

Rehab Doll is definitely not the first grunge record – it’s not even the first Green River record, preceded by the previous year’s mini-album Dry As A Bone and 1985’s Come On Down EP – but no band best sum up the different directions in which grunge would twist and turn than this Seattle five-piece. Stone Gossard’s gnarly riffs would be honed into anthemic classic-rock in Pearl Jam, as would the guitarist’s rhythmic interplay with bassist Jeff Ament, whilst frontman Mark Arm and lead guitarist Steve Turner would use the punkier moments as the template for the spikier, Stooges-y sound that underpinned Mudhoney. As a standalone record, this still thrills though, if only for all the possibilities you can hear that lay ahead.

Nirvana – Nevermind (1991)

The record that needs the least amount of explaining, the story of grunge is right here in Nevermind’s 42 minutes and 36 seconds – where sweatbox venue attitude meets burgeoning ambition, where perfect pop melodies slide off crunching four-chord riffs. It was the sound of grunge going mainstream, to the point that you could split the genre into two distinct sections: before Nevermind, and after Nevermind. Two very different worlds.

Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992)

Is it cheating to have this in here? Tough, I’ve already written it, it’s on the internet, the time to try and stop me has passed. But the truth is that, as the very excellent soundtrack to a pretty decent film, the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s Seattle-set rock-rom-com perfectly captured almost all of grunge’s key players at a point when they were about to go interstellar, containing non-album classics from Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell and Smashing Pumpkins, whilst Alice In Chains wrote their masterful Would? specifically for inclusion. I say almost because, obviously, there’s no Nirvana here, the planned inclusion of their song Breed nixed by Kurt Cobain.

Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993)

Pearl Jam were pulling in different directions when it came to making their second record. Eddie Vedder was trying to wrap the whole thing in barbed wire and avoid the band being pulled into MTV’s bosom, whilst his bandmates were thinking ‘what’s the problem? We’re huge, everything’s great!’. Nodding to this, Vedder wanted to call the record Five Against One, and it’s that tension that makes Vs. such a startling, exhilarating listen. But if he didn’t want it to be massive, maybe Vedder should’ve written some crapper choruses. As it was, he laid down a series of era-defining angsty singalongs for the masses to savour. It was so huge that Vedder saw no choice but to take them on a diversion for 1994’s Vitalogy. It would be almost a decade until they came back into the light.

Alice In Chains – MTV Unplugged (1996)

It wasn’t easy trying to decide which record to end this on. It could’ve been something that demonstrated the bandwagon jumpers who followed in grunge’s wake, terrible bands devoid of the risk-taking and adventure of the scene’s pioneers. Yes, I’m talking about Creed. Or it could’ve been Smashing Pumpkins’ epic Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, which triumphantly blew the whole thing wide open, or Hole’s 1998 album Celebrity Skin, a brilliant poppy rock record that hit at a time when everyone else had ran out of ideas. But really the story of grunge ends in tragedy and loss, and no record captures that better than this poignant, stripped-down live set, featuring one of Layne Staley’s final performances. The excitement of those early days was a long time ago. Here was when reality bit.

SAVAGE have unveiled “Bonedust,” the first single from their forthcoming album, Malignant Reveries. The track arrives with a music video created by F/53 Films, while pre-orders are now open for the album on CD and vinyl. The band’s approach draws on the raw death metal sound associated with the turn of the 1990s. The announcement […]

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Finnish death metal band (PSYCHOPARALYSIS) have released “Metacognitive Failure,” the second single from their forthcoming album, Spectrum of Suffering. The track arrived on September 23, 2026, ahead of the album’s November 20 release through Inverse Records. The new song develops the band’s combination of death metal and progressive songwriting, with lyrics exploring human consciousness. Describing […]

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New growth.

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King Diamond’s Halloween, the three-track LP picture disc originally released in 1986, will be re-released worldwide with new art by Mario Lopez on October 23rd via Metal Blade Records, just in time for the season.

The Halloween title track comes off King Diamond‘s debut album, Fatal Portrait (1986), as does “The Candle,” which served as the opening track on Fatal Portrait, and was part of the early storytelling approach that would become central to King Diamond‘s future discography. “The Lake,” while recorded during the same general period as Fatal Portrait and associated with those sessions, wasn’t included in the original nine-track album.

Halloween was produced by King Diamond and Rune Höyer with production assistance by Michael Denner and engineered by Roberto Falcao.

Preorders for the LP are available at Metal Blade Records and additional King Diamond Halloween merch here.

King Diamond Halloween Lineup:

King Diamond / Lead and Backing Vocals
Andy LaRocque / Lead Guitar
Michael Denner / Lead Guitar
Timi Hansen / Bass Guitar
Mikkey Dee / Drums

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Global superstar Justin Bieber hasn’t toured in many years, but he has given some awfully high-profile live performances in 2026: Coachella, the Grammy Awards, the World Cup Final halftime show. On Tuesday afternoon, Bieber unexpectedly added another gig to that list when he got some friends together and played a quick impromptu acoustic set in LA’s MacArthur Park.

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German heavy metal force Mystic Prophecy has released a lyric video for their new single “March Or Die,” taken from the band’s upcoming studio album In Metal. The album will be released on November 27, 2026 via Perception – Powered by Reigning Phoenix Music.

Driven by classic heavy metal energy, powerful riffs and a defiant spirit, “March Or Die” is a song about standing together when everything around you descends into chaos. While its imagery draws from the battlefield, its message is rooted in everyday life: keep moving forward under pressure, face adversity head-on and refuse to give up.

Vocalist R.D. Liapakis comments: “‘March Or Die’ may draw on the imagery of battle, but its message reaches far beyond the battlefield. At its core, the song is about human survival, perseverance and the need to keep moving forward, whatever life puts in your path. Time does not stand still, and neither can we: our actions determine the road ahead. Standing still is death – so, March Or Die!”

With more than two decades of history behind it, Mystic Prophecy has long established itself as one of the driving forces of the German and international heavy metal scene. Following the success of its acclaimed albums Metal Division and Hellriot, the quintet surrounding charismatic frontman R.D. Liapakis, also known for his work as a vocalist with Michael Schenker, now returns with renewed energy, a strengthened lineup and a record built to hit with maximum impact.

Mystic Prophecy is entering its next era with three powerful new additions to the fold. Tommy Gun takes over bass duties, while guitarist Dan Baune, known from NWOBHM act Monument, and drummer Christophe de Combe of Belgian metallers FireForce complete the renewed lineup. Together, they inject even more power, precision and fire into the unmistakable Mystic Prophecy sound.

In Metal was produced by Dan Baune and R.D. Liapakis, with mixing and mastering handled by Henrik Udd. The album stays true to everything that has made Mystic Prophecy a force for more than 20 years while pushing its sound firmly forward. Fans can expect powerful, concise hooks with instant shout-along appeal, technically brilliant riffs and a hard-hitting, monstrous sound. A modern production gives the songs weight, depth and unstoppable headbanging force without sacrificing the band’s classic heavy metal spirit.

Whether on stage or on record, Mystic Prophecy has always treated heavy metal as a passionate ultimate fight: no compromises, no holding back, just pure power. With In Metal, the band is ready to prove once again why it remains at the forefront of international heavy metal. In support of their upcoming album, Mystic Prophecy will hit the road in late 2026, joined by special guests Iron Savior and Generation Steel. Find all dates listed below!

In Metal will be released on November 27, 2026 here.

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