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This coming October, the Swedish metal group Hellbutcher will be heading out to South America for a string of headlining shows.
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Do you remember the great Banana Man controversy of summer 2026? At the Baltimore hardcore band End It’s Toronto show in early June, frontman Akil Godsey called out a guy in the pit for “[wanting] attention” with his banana costume. “You don’t get rewarded for doing that shit,” he told the crowd. “He wanted the attention, and now he has it.” Godsey offered the setlist to whoever stripped off the costume.

“People have been trying to dim my sparkle my entire life,” a distraught Banana Man wrote on Instagram after. “I was an unwilling participant, attacked and clothing removed at the direction of a band I paid to see.” Tons of online commenters, many of whom had never heard of End It or been to a hardcore show, had strong opinions about the incident.

Godsey became the target of racism and death threats before addressing the situation on his own Instagram. “We’re a hardcore band,” he explained. “We do hardcore things.”

Finally, three weeks after the incident, End It called a truce with banana-costumed concertgoers when Godsey hugged it out with a different Banana Man at Jera On Air. He was also handed a banana that he promptly tossed into the crowd. “Who woulda thought doing something stupid at a show would get me a month of attention?” Godsey said.

Now the great End It Vs. Banana Man Feud Of 2026 has our attention again. Yesterday Godsey showed off new No Banana Man ink he got at Baltimore’s Red Thorn Tattoo, posting the reveal on his Instagram Stories. It depicts a running Banana Man cartoon in a “prohibited” symbol. Watch below.

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One week prior the release of their new studio record Carrie Chains, American duo Castle offers in listening the last new single in advance “3 Knocks”.
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In collaboration with ‪Spitfire Audio, ‪Joseph Stevenson‬ goes inside the orchestral work that shapes Devin Townsend‘s latest album The Moth.

The final episode focuses on “The Moth”, the album’s central theme and one of its recurring musical ideas. Stevenson examines how the motif was developed through orchestration, breaking down the separate layers and instruments that give the piece its full sound.

For anyone interested in the mechanics behind the arrangements, the episode offers a closer look at how the individual parts come together to create the track’s larger impact.

The Moth is available to stream and order here.

Devin Townsend is also preparing to take the material on the road with his solo Metamorphosis tour across Europe and the UK. The latest schedule now includes Madrid and Barcelona, with shows set for October 9 and 10, respectively.

Tickets for Devin Townsend’s Metamorphosis Solo UK & European Tour 2026 are on sale here.

The post JOSEPH STEVENSON Breaks Down the Orchestral Arrangements Behind DEVIN TOWNSEND’s “The Moth” appeared first on Sonic Perspectives.

Americans Escape The Fate have unveiled details and first single in connection with their new album announcement. Dubbed The Last Goodbye, it will be set free on October 2nd,2026 via Big Noise Music Group.
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Last month, Elephant 6 greats the Olivia Tremor Control announced their first new album in 27 years, The Same Place. The idiosyncratic psych-pop outfit shared “The Same Place” and “Garden Of Light” as the first previews, and now they’re back with “Advice From The Oceans,” a jaunty ode to the sea.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BLEEDING ANTLERS UNLEASH DARKER, HEAVIER SOPHOMORE ALBUM SONGS OF PRAISE OUT NOW
UK Doom Metal Collective Returns With Seven Tracks of Crushing Doom, Gothic Atmosphere, Folk Horror, and Occult Storytelling

UK doom metal collective Bleeding Antlers have officially unleashed their long-awaited sophomore album, Songs of Praise , out now as of August 22, 2026 .
Six years after emerging from the shadows with their critically acclaimed debut Stagmata , Bleeding Antlers have returned with a darker, heavier, and more expansive collection that pushes their bizarre and theatrical brand of doom metal even further into the darkness.
Originally formed out of what was supposed to be nothing more than a stag party adventure across Europe in 2016, Bleeding Antlers somehow turned an unlikely brotherhood into one of underground doom’s most distinctive outfits. Their sound combines crushing doom metal with progressive rock, sleaze, folk shanties, gothic atmosphere, and a healthy dose of theatrical madness.
Where Stagmata introduced the world to Bleeding Antlers, Songs of Praise finds the band embracing the silence between the riffs and using it to make the heavy moments hit even harder.


“Stagmata was us finding the sound of Bleeding Antlers. Songs of Praise is us learning what to do with the silence around it. More space, more weight, and a lot darker in tone than Stagmata.”


Produced, mixed, and mastered by Simon Bismarck , Songs of Praise delivers seven haunting compositions exploring temptation, loss, mythology, mortality, and spiritual conflict.
Despite its title, this is certainly no traditional hymnbook. These are songs of devotion aimed toward altogether different altars.
The album moves from the apocalyptic groove of “When the Sun Bursts” and the folk-horror atmosphere of “Meet Me in the Woods at Midnight” to the Norse-inspired weight of “Fimbulwinter” and the band’s haunting reinterpretation of Lana Del Rey’s “Blue Jeans.”
The journey concludes with “Crooked Lines,” an epic meditation on faith, temptation, and the eternal struggle between light and darkness.
Bleeding Antlers first made their mark with Stagmata , earning widespread praise throughout the underground metal community for their uniquely theatrical approach to doom.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR STAGMATA

“Behind the satyr masks and cloven-hoofed animal obsession they have genuinely excellent songs and an album that draws you in with each listen.”
4.5/5 – Emerging Rock Bands Magazine
“Perhaps the finest set of sleazy psychedelic doom shanties ever committed to record.”
The Metal Show
“Folk-goth glamour, Hammer-horror camp and drunken satanic swagger… you’d have a hell of a good time.”
No Clean Singing
“Stagmata is the sound I wish Metallica had evolved into after Reload.”
7.5/10 – Rock Hard Greece
With Songs of Praise now available, Bleeding Antlers are taking the new material to the stage with a series of UK headline performances beginning in September, followed by appearances at Rustfest , North West Doom Fest , Godivageddon , and additional festival dates extending into 2027.
Equal parts cathedral doom, occult folk tale, folk-horror fever dream, and drunken midnight sermon, Songs of Praise represents Bleeding Antlers at their darkest, heaviest, and most ambitious.
The sermon has begun.
Turn it up.
ALBUM INFORMATION

Artist: Bleeding Antlers
Album: Songs of Praise
Release Date: August 22, 2026
Status: OUT NOW
Genre: Doom Metal
For Fans Of: Pallbearer, Candlemass, Type O Negative
Produced, Mixed & Mastered By: Simon Bismarck
BAND LINEUP

Simon Bismarck – Vocals
Good Luke – Guitar
Prince Ben – Bass
Bad Luke – Brown Notes
Ghost Pete – Drums & Vocals
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Email: Bleedformedonington@gmail.com

For more than three decades, industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory have explored the friction between man and machine, tracing the rise of artificial intelligence and humanity’s loss of control over its own creations.

Today, the band launches a bold new era with “Roboticist”. The latest single, which premiered on Sirius XM Liquid Metal, marks the recording debut of the band’s current lineup featuring vocalist Milo Silvestro, drummer Pete Webber, and bassist Tony Campos. Blending crushing mechanical aggression with a haunting, melodic hook, the track explores a dystopian reality where flesh fails, and only consciousness endures.

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Damien Rainaud, the single arrives alongside a cinematic music video directed by Vincente Cordero and produced by Arion Csihar. System activated: the next chapter of Fear Factory has officially begun.

Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares comments: “The future isn’t coming. It’s already here; “Roboticist” is the next evolution of Fear Factory. Man, Machine, and the war for what comes next. I can’t wait for everyone to hear the beginning of a new era of Fear Factory.”

Death is no longer the end, it is the next evolution. The machine no longer needs humanity; it inherits the future.

Stand by; critical intel on the upcoming album is imminent. In the meantime, prepare for the live assault. Experience Fear Factory as they tear across Europe and the US on the Cybernetic Domination Tour. Tickets for all dates are on sale here.

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