Twenty-five years after the release of their breakthrough album Broke, Californian pioneers (hed)PE are heading back to the UK for a run of dates celebrating one of the defining records of their career. Originally released in 2000, Broke fused punk, metal, hip-hop, funk and reggae into a sound that refused to sit neatly in any one genre. Now, the band are bringing the Still Broke 25th Anniversary Tour to the UK and Ireland, with the album set to be played in its entirety.
For anyone who lived through the alternative metal explosion of the late 1990s and early 2000s, Broke needs little introduction. The album delivered twelve tracks across almost 54 minutes, including fan favourites such as Killing Time, Waiting to Die, Feel Good, Bartender, Boom (How You Like That) and Swan Dive. It also featured guest appearances from Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Morgan Lander of Kittie on Feel Good.
The appeal of this tour is that it isn’t simply a greatest-hits set with a couple of anniversary tracks thrown in. Broke will be performed from start to finish, giving fans the chance to hear the album as a complete piece while also revisiting the songs that helped establish (hed)PE’s reputation.
The UK run began in Southampton on 22 September, followed by Bristol, Exeter, Liverpool and Manchester before crossing to Dublin and Belfast. The tour then returns to the UK for dates in Glasgow, Newcastle, Wolverhampton, Nottingham, Norwich, London, Milton Keynes and Brighton, with the final show taking place at Concorde 2 on 11 October. Along the way, the band will be joined by fellow alternative metal outfit Cold.
With Broke reaching its quarter-century mark, the Still Broke 25th Anniversary Tour offers a rare opportunity to hear the album in full. For longtime fans, it is a chance to revisit a record that soundtracked a particular era of alternative metal, while for newer listeners it provides the perfect excuse to discover Broke in the way it was intended: loud, unpredictable and from beginning to end.
Angry Anderson is dead at 79. The Rose Tattoo frontman died on Monday in Australia, surrounded by family, weeks after suffering a cardiac arrest during the band’s European farewell tour in August. That tour was called One Last Ride. Nine remaining European shows were scrapped, the Australian farewell dates planned for Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane never happened, and Anderson went home for treatment instead.
His family said he was ‘a devoted father, and much-loved member of his friends, bandmates and the wider music and entertainment community,’ and asked for privacy. He had fronted Rose Tattoo for fifty years.
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Angry Anderson booked a farewell tour, named it One Last Ride, and didn’t make it to the end of it. On today’s Metal Breakdown Daily I’m going through what happened in Europe in August, why half the obituaries you’ll read today have his Rose Tattoo history wrong, and what fifty years at the front of that band actually bought him. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.
What Happened
The first sign anything was wrong came on 30 August, when Rose Tattoo put out a short statement. Anderson had suffered a cardiac arrest and was in hospital in Europe receiving treatment. The band asked people to leave the family alone.
‘We would like to let everyone know that Angry suffered a cardiac arrest and is currently in hospital receiving treatment and the care he needs,’ the statement read. ‘At this time, we kindly ask that you please respect the privacy of Angry and his family as they focus on Angry, his treatment, and his recovery.’
The European leg had nine dates left on it and was due to finish on 21 August in Busdorf, Germany. All of it went. So did the Australian farewell run that was supposed to close the band’s career in September.
He was flown home. He died on Monday, aged 79. Reports of his death attribute it to cardiac arrest following the episode on tour.
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The Tour Was Called One Last Ride
I’ve watched a lot of bands announce farewell tours they didn’t mean. Rose Tattoo meant this one. Anderson was pushing eighty when the dates went on sale, the band had been playing for five decades, and the name on the poster was not a marketing line.
He got most of the way through it. Then his heart stopped in Germany, the last nine shows came off the board, and a farewell tour nobody expected to be literal became exactly that.
There’s a version of this where that reads as tragedy. I don’t think it is. He announced the end, went out and played nearly all of it, and the tour did the job it was named for. Compare that to the long list of bands still out there with nobody left from the original lineup, trading on a name and a logo. Anderson took his band to the finish line himself.
Slash And The Tributes
Slash was first out of the gate, and he kept it short.
‘I’m going to miss my good friend, I can’t believe he’s gone,’ he wrote. ‘Condolences to his family, friends & band members.’
That connection goes back forty years. Guns N’ Roses covered Rose Tattoo’s ‘Nice Boys’ on Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide in 1986, and for a huge number of North American listeners that cover is the only Rose Tattoo song they’ve ever heard. It’s the reason the band ever got played on rock radio over here at all. Slash has talked about that record for decades and has turned up on stage with the Tattoo more than once. The Guns N’ Roses orbit has always held Anderson in higher regard than the charts ever did.
Tributes have come in from across Australian music and well outside it, which tells you something about a man most of the metal press only ever wrote about in relation to somebody else’s cover version.
Fifty Years, And He Wasn’t There On Night One
Here’s the part almost every obituary today is getting wrong, so let’s fix it.
Anderson was not a founding member of Rose Tattoo. The band’s first lineup, in early 1976, was Tony Lake on vocals, Pete Wells on slide guitar, Leigh Johnston on rhythm guitar and Michael Vandersluys on drums. Anderson arrived in Sydney mid-year from Melbourne, where he’d fronted Buster Brown from 1973 until that band folded in 1975, and he replaced Lake. He brought Buster Brown’s drummer Dallas ‘Digger’ Royall with him.
So he wasn’t there on night one. He was there for the next fifty years, which is the harder thing to do. Every other man who played on those first records is dead — Royall in 1991, Peter Wells and Ian Rilen both in 2006, Lobby Loyde in 2007, Mick Cocks in 2009, Neil Smith in 2013. Anderson kept the band alive through all of it.
Eight studio albums between 1978 and 2020. The 1978 self-titled debut with ‘Bad Boy For Love’ on it, their first hit single. ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw’. ‘We Can’t Be Beaten’. Slide guitar over street-level lyrics, delivered by a short, bald, tattooed man who sang like he was shouting over a bar fight and probably had. They were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 2006.
They never got the American career the records deserved. Bands who did get one — AC/DC, and later Guns N’ Roses — kept pointing at them anyway. If you’ve read our ranking of the best cities in the world for heavy music, the Sydney pub circuit Rose Tattoo came out of is a big part of why Australia punches so far above its population.
Anderson had a second career that had nothing to do with volume.
In 1987 he released ‘Suddenly’, a ballad, which went to No. 2 on the Australian Music Report and No. 3 in the UK. It got there because it was the song playing when Scott and Charlene got married on Neighbours, an episode ABC News reports was watched by more than 20 million people. The man who sang ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw’ had a wedding ballad. He never seemed remotely embarrassed about it.
He acted, too. He was in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome alongside Tina Turner, which puts him in one of the strangest and best-scored film franchises heavy music has ever attached itself to — worth a look at our best metal movie soundtracks ranking for the company he was keeping. He fronted youth affairs segments on Australian daytime television. He sang ‘Bound for Glory’ at the 1991 AFL Grand Final.
And he did decades of work that never made the metal press. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1993 for service to the community as a youth advocate, and he worked with the Starlight Children’s Foundation, Canteen, Camp Quality and Make-A-Wish, plus years of prostate cancer awareness campaigning. In 2018 his son Liam was killed in a park in New South Wales. Anderson kept doing the advocacy work afterwards.
The band was already finishing. One Last Ride was the end of the road by design, and there is no indication anyone intends to carry the name forward.
If anyone did, it would be a Rose Tattoo with nobody in it from any era of the band’s recording history, which is a different proposition entirely from the reunions and continuations we cover most weeks.
This has been a brutal fourteen months. Ozzy died in July last year, seventeen days after he sat on a throne in Birmingham and finished the job, and his festival is only now coming back to America without him. Brent Hinds went a month after that, with no warning at all. Anderson sits between those two. He got to name his ending and play most of it, and then it stopped nine shows short.
Angry Anderson, frontman of Rose Tattoo, died on Monday 21 September 2026 in Australia. He was 79.
He suffered a cardiac arrest during the band’s European farewell tour in August and was hospitalised; he was flown home to Australia for treatment.
The tour was called One Last Ride. Nine remaining European dates and the planned Australian farewell shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane were all cancelled.
Anderson joined Rose Tattoo in mid-1976, replacing original vocalist Tony Lake. He was not a founding member, but he fronted the band for fifty years and eight studio albums.
Slash paid tribute, calling him ‘my good friend’. Guns N’ Roses covered Rose Tattoo’s ‘Nice Boys’ in 1986, which is how most North American fans found the band.
FAQ
How did Angry Anderson die?
Anderson died on Monday 21 September 2026 in Australia, aged 79. Rose Tattoo announced on 30 August that he had suffered a cardiac arrest during the band’s European tour and was in hospital receiving treatment. He was later flown home to Australia, and reports of his death attribute it to cardiac arrest following that episode.
How old was Angry Anderson when he died?
He was 79. Gary Stephen Anderson was born in Melbourne on 5 August 1947 and died on 21 September 2026.
Was Angry Anderson an original member of Rose Tattoo?
No. Rose Tattoo’s first lineup in early 1976 was Tony Lake on vocals, Pete Wells, Leigh Johnston and Michael Vandersluys. Anderson joined mid-1976, replacing Lake, after his previous band Buster Brown broke up. He then fronted Rose Tattoo for fifty years, longer than any other member.
What happened to Rose Tattoo’s farewell tour?
The One Last Ride tour was cut short in August 2026 when Anderson suffered a cardiac arrest in Europe. Nine remaining European shows were cancelled, including the scheduled finale on 21 August in Busdorf, Germany, along with the Australian farewell dates planned for September in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane.
What was Angry Anderson’s biggest hit?
His biggest chart success was the 1987 solo ballad ‘Suddenly’, which reached No. 2 on the Australian Music Report and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart after featuring in the Scott and Charlene wedding episode of Neighbours. With Rose Tattoo, his best-known songs are ‘Bad Boy For Love’, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Outlaw’, ‘We Can’t Be Beaten’ and ‘Nice Boys’, the last of which Guns N’ Roses covered in 1986.
Fifty years at the front of one band, and he went out on a tour he named himself. What’s the Rose Tattoo song you’re putting on today? Tell us in the comments. Follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.
Jayler have released a cinematic video for The Getaway ahead of a 37-date European and UK arena tour as special guests to Deep Purple. Filmed at Cotswold Airport, the video places James Bartholomew, Tyler Arrowsmith, Ricky Hodgkiss and Ed Evans among runways, aircraft hangars and open skies. A 1965 Ford Mustang and a Yakovlev Yak-3 warbird feature in the film, which moves from sunrise to a golden-hour finale.
“The Getaway isn’t about running away,” the band said. “It’s about heading towards something. It’s freedom, brotherhood and chasing whatever comes next. No destination. No explanation. Just The Getaway.”
The video was produced by Ignite Productions, with Lisa Perry as creative director and executive producer and David Paveley as producer.
The song appears on Jayler’s debut album, Voices Unheard, which was released by Silver Lining Music in May. The record reached No. 2 on the UK Independent Album Breakers Chart, No. 3 on the Official Rock & Metal Albums Chart and No. 5 on the Official Independent Albums Chart.
The release follows a year in which Jayler opened for Guns N’ Roses at Monsters of Rock Brazil, toured Brazil with Lynyrd Skynyrd and played several UK shows with Sammy Hagar.
The band’s tour with Deep Purple begins at Arena 8888 in Sofia on 29 September and concludes at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 25 November 2026. See here for tickets and further information.
Jayler With Deep Purple – 2026 Dates
29 September – Arena 8888, Sofia, Bulgaria
1 October – BT Arena, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2 October – Papp László Sportaréna, Budapest, Hungary
4 October – TIPOS Aréna, Bratislava, Slovakia
5 October – Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
7 October – O2 Arena, Prague, Czech Republic
8 October – Atlas Arena, Łódź, Poland
10 October – Stark Arena, Belgrade, Serbia
11 October – Boris Trajkovski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia
13 October – Telekom Center Athens, Marousi, Greece
16 October – Hallenstadion, Zürich, Switzerland
17 October – Unipol Forum, Milan, Italy
19 October – Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, Spain
20 October – Movistar Arena, Madrid, Spain
22 October – Adidas Arena, Paris, France
23 October – Lotto Arena, Antwerp, Belgium
25 October – Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark
26 October – Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden
28 October – Spektrum Arena, Oslo, Norway
29 October – Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden
31 October – Qi Arena, Leipzig, Germany
1 November – Sporthalle, Hamburg, Germany
3 November – Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany
4 November – Uber Arena, Berlin, Germany
6 November – Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
7 November – Arena, Nuremberg, Germany
9 November – Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam, Netherlands
10 November – Zénith, Strasbourg, France
12 November – Arkéa Arena, Bordeaux, France
13 November – Zénith Nantes Métropole, Saint-Herblain, France
French dark folk entity SKÁLD releases “Dǫkksalir”, unveiling gentle melodies that unfold almost like a lullaby—perfectly fitting the concept of the enchanting yet frightening sirens lurking in the dark. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming full-length album, Ørlǫg, which will be released this Friday, September 25, 2026. Ørlǫg marks SKÁLD’s first release via Napalm Records and awakens ancient spirits as the band extends an invitation into times long gone but not forgotten.
Right in time to bring their new music to stages across Europe and the United Kingdom, SKÁLD are set for a major autumn UK/EU arena tour supporting The Hu, kicking off on September 29 in Glasgow.
SKÁLD about “Dǫkksalir”: “‘Dokksalir’ draws us into the dark depths of the sea; in the distance, the sirens’ song calls to us, yet also terrifies us; mischievous spirits watch us and laugh at us; they already know we will be weak; the light no longer protects us; down below, eyes stare at you—perhaps it is you yourself watching yourself lose your way. Those siren voices are so beautiful.”
As the Norns weave our future, this album is a fascinating passageway into our pristine origins and the consequences of our choices. Ten new songs as stepping stones, Ørlǫg is an offering to listen, to dwell, to reflect—and to find something within yourself previously unknown. SKÁLD don’t just play music, they awaken ancient ways.
A staple band in the neofolk genre, SKÁLD deliver a striking work of art with their latest album, deferentially using their sources to keep old spirits alive and form the enchanting world of Ørlǫg. The language might sound unfamiliar, but the music still touches the soul.
SKÁLD about Ørlǫg: “Ørlǫg is the cosmic web that influences the world and every person. Part of our Ørlǫg is determined by our birth, our past actions, and our upbringing, but Ørlǫg is not set in stone; our daily choices are constantly shaping it. What we do now and what we have done in the past determines what will happen to us in the future; we cannot escape the consequences of our actions. This album makes us question our choices—both individual and collective—and the patterns we accept or reject. The Norns weave our destiny, but we can take control of certain things: travel, ride worlds, and grow. Each song on this album describes a situation, a place, a choice to be made. Let’s take hold of our Ørlǫg.”
The atmospheric journey to claim direction starts within the dreamscapes of “Draumakona”, an expressive look at the female side of shamanic prophecy. The French band constructs their Nordic folk melodies to be particularly catchy, shifting powerfully between female lead singing and multilayered vocal arrangements to create an antiphony between individuum and community. Inspired by Skaldic poetry, SKÁLD use instruments fitting of the time: Ørlǫg is shaped by Nordic fiddles, different forms of harps and lyres, horns, kannels, and whistles, among others, as well as three lead vocalists to bring the arrangements to life. “Myrkviðr” picks up on the opening track’s persuasive energy, with male vocals taking the lead this time.
Further spreading their message is “Ratatoskr”, intonated by clattering sounds and throat singing, channeled into hauntingly repetitive chants of the eponymous squirrel’s name. “Útgarðr” contrasts the different voices compellingly by the passages being sung simultaneously with alternating focus and a goosebump-inducing climax—instantly opposed by “Ek skald rida” which makes use of similar techniques, but is the most tranquil track on the album. “Himinbjǫrg” reaches far out to the edge of Asgard, where Heimdall guards the rainbow bridge, Bifröst. SKÁLD lend him an assertive voice, so the song serves as an emphatic yet reassuring guide through our sometimes-clouded destiny. “Heiemo og Nykkjen”, a rendition of a traditional medieval folk ballad from what is now Norway, takes a more provident approach to both instrumentation and vocal delivery, while “Veit barnit”calls upon the knowledge of children and uses a child’s voice alongside their usual harmonies to reflect that. The grim finale, “Eldr ok iss”, Old Norse for “fire and ice”, again calls on contrasts as well as referencing part of the creation myth in which the primordial being Ymir emerged from Muspelheim—the realm of fire—colliding with icy Nilfheim in the beginning of times. SKÁLD build an appropriate arc of suspense with a formidably sinister atmosphere.
Ørlǫg tracklisting:
Draumakona
Myrkviðr
Ratatoskr
Dǫkksalir
Útgarðr
Ek skald rida
Himinbjǫrg
Heiemo og Nykkjen
Veit barnit
Eldr ok iss
Ørlǫg will be available in the following formats: – 1LP Gatefold Whitelabel / Testpressing, incl. LP-Sized Booklet, Covercard (numbered), Certificate of Authenticity (numbered, dated) – Napalm ROW exclusive (strictly limited to 50 copies) – 1LP Gatefold Splattered Milk Black Orange, incl. LP-Sized Booklet – Napalm Records exclusive (strictly limited to 300 copies) – Bundle: 1LP Gatefold Translucent Yellow & Logo Shirt – Napalm Records exclusive – Bundle: Digipack & Shirt – Napalm Records exclusive – 1LP Gatefold Marbled Translucent Orange – Band Only Exclusive (strictly limited to 300 copies) – 1LP Gatefold Clear Indie USA (strictly limited to 200 copies) – 1LP Gatefold Translucent Yellow – 1LP Gatefold Gold – France Exclusive (strictly limited to 500 copies) – 1CD Digipack, incl. 6p Digipack – Digital Album
SKÁLD Live 2026
Warrior Chant Tour As Special Guest for The Hu 29.09.26 UK – Glasgow / O2 Academy 01.10.26 UK – Bristol / Prospect Building 02.10.26 UK – Bournemouth / O2 Academy 03.10.26 UK – Newcastle / O2 City Hall 05.10.26 UK – Belfast / The Telegraph Building 06.10.26 IE – Dublin / 3Olympia Theatre 08.10.26 UK – Birmingham / O2 Academy Birmingham 09.10.26 UK – London / O2 Academy Brixton 10.10.26 UK – Manchester / O2 Apollo 11.10.26 UK – Norwich / UEA LCR 14.10.26 BE – Brussels / Ancienne Belgique 15.10.26 DE – Hamburg / Sporthalle 17.10.26 DE – Munich / Tonhalle 18.10.26 DE – Berlin / Columbiahalle 19.10.26 PL – Warsaw / Stodola 20.10.26 PL – Warsaw / Stodola 22.10.26 DE – Cologne / Palladium 23.10.26 NL – Utrecht / TivoliVredenburg 24.10.26 NL – Tilburg / 013 27.10.26 FR – Lyon / Le Radiant 28.10.26 FR – Paris / L’Olympia 30.10.26 CH – Zurich / X-TRA 31.10.26 LU – Esch-sur-Alzette / Rockhal 01.11.26 BE – Brussels / Ancienne Belgique
SKÁLD are: Christophe Voisin Boisvinet – Percussion, Nordic Fiddles, Harp, Horn, Vocals, Programming Marti Ilmar Uibo – Percussion, Lyre, Kannel, Whistles, Jaw Harp, Vocals Steeve Petit – Percussion, Vocals Marie Potosniak – Fiddles, Vocals Guillaume Levy – Irish Bouzouki, Citole, Gudok Nathalie Lemoye-Voisin – Vocals Ravn – Moraharpa Michel Abraham – Vocals Eyline Uibo – Vocals
Electronic-rock firebrands Wargasm have returned with their explosive brand-new single, “Swallow”, out today on all digital streaming platforms via their new label home, Hopeless Records. Following hot on the heels of recent cut “Get Down”, the three-minute blast of sonic adrenaline proves once again why the London duo remain one of the most unpredictable forces … Continue reading Wargasm unleash explosive and chaotic new single / video “Swallow” via Hopeless Records
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