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  • HEAVY AUDIO MAG #68 – The Week In Metal

    Listen to the best in new, heavy music every week with HEAVY‘s new weekly HEAVY AUDIO MAG, featuring music from our weekly cover artist plus new premieres, hit predictions, and killer tracks we just know you want to listen to from bands featured over both digimags and some just because we want to put them […]
  • COMEBACK KID Announce new Album CHOSEN HELL, Share Title Track

    Canadian hardcore heroes Comeback Kid are thrilled to announce their new album Chosen Hell. It arrives November 6 via SharpTone Records and via Dine Alone Records in Canada. Chosen Hell, the band’s eighth and latest LP, further distills the potency of the musical elements that have defined CBK since the beginning while once again evolving […]
  • Pearl Jam celebrate Ten’s 35th birthday with rare live performance on vinyl

    Pearl Jam are celebrating the 35th anniversary of the release of their debut album, Ten, by releasing a complete live performance of the 1991 classic on vinyl.

    Ten Live was recorded on April 29, 2016, at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, a show that saw Pearl Jam play Ten in its entirety for only the second time in their career. The choice of setlist was a last-minute decision made by Eddie Vedder after he learned that the band had sold out their 10th consecutive show at the venue. (The first occasion was in 1992, at the Nachtwerk club in Munich, Germany, during a promotional tour for the album.)

    Ten Live is available on three-sided black vinyl and clear vinyl (the latter for Ten Club members only), and is available for pre-order now. It’ll be released on November 29. Full tracklist below.

    In other Ten-related news, bassist Jeff Ament has appeared on Pearl Jam’s Sirius XM channel with mixing engineer Tim Palmer to discuss the making of the album.

    Meanwhile, guitarist Mike McCready has joined many in the music world by paying tribute to Dolly Parton and Rocky Horror Picture Show star Tim Curry, who died on the same day this week.

    “RIP Tim Curry, one of the greatest,” writes McCready. “Darkness must flow down the river of nights dreaming. Dolly Too, one of the greatest! Don’t dream it, be it!”

    In 2020, McCready filmed a version of the Wild And Untamed Thing from the musical’s soundtrack for the Rocky Horror Picture Show project, a livestream fundraiser organised by Wisconsin Democrats in support of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign. Molly Sides and Whitney Petty of Thunderpussy appeared as dancers in the video.

    Pearl Jam: Ten Live tracklist

    Side One
    Intro
    Once
    Even Flow
    Alive
    Why Go

    Side Two
    Black
    Jeremy
    Oceans
    Porch

    Side Three
    Garden
    Deep
    Release
    Master/Slave

  • TURMION KÄTILÖT Share New Single ‘Lunastakaa’

    Following the massive wave of anticipation sparked by their recent album announcement and the chaotic first track Raivotarjonta, Finnish industrial metal pioneers TURMION KÄTILÖT are doubling down. Today, the band strikes again with Lunastakaa, the fiercely energetic second single from their upcoming twelfth studio album, Resodance, arriving globally on October 23, 2026, via Nuclear Blast […]
  • MASTODON Unleash New Album MARROW DEEP

    Mastodon have released their highly anticipated new album Marrow Deep via Loma Vista Recordings. Five years on from the expansive Hushed and Grim, Marrow Deep documents founding members Brann Dailor, Troy Sanders, and Bill Kelliher alongside new members Nick Johnston and João Nogueira as they emerge from personal upheaval with a renewed sense of purpose. […]
  • OF VIRTUE Return With New Single ‘Flatline’

    Michigan metalcore force Of Virtue return with their deeply personal new single, Flatline, taken from their highly anticipated upcoming album, Death Of The Altar, out October 2nd via Arising Empire. Following the success of their 2023 album Omen, which has amassed more than 65 million streams, Of Virtue continue to evolve their distinctive blend of […]
  • Chicago Post-Punk Trio French Police Release Videos for “Super Over Drive” and “Silver”

    I need to know

    And maybe we can talk about

    And maybe we can try to solve it

    Take me by the hand and take me away

    Heartbreak rarely proceeds with literary dignity. People sulk, contradict themselves, make declarations they abandon ten minutes later, and discover that wounded pride is a lousy substitute for company. The same voice that insists, “I don’t need you,” can soon confess, “I miss you.” French Police build their new double single, Super Over Drive / Silver, around that reversal, tracing the distance between defensive solitude and the admission that another person is still wanted.

    The release follows July’s Reptile / Japan, the double single that opened the Chicago trio’s new chapter with Interscope Records. On Reptile, Brian Flores looked toward companionship as a possible escape from thoughts he could not quiet. Super Over Drive takes that need into more combative territory, allowing loneliness to sour into anger before Silver strips away the posture and asks whether speaking plainly might still save something.

    French Police have spent the better part of their existence making romantic catastrophe sound unusually well-dressed, and these paired songs carry that instinct into bigger, cleaner arrangements without disguising the embarrassment in the words. There is still enough black-clad cool here to populate three basement clubs, but Flores sounds increasingly willing to let the mask slip, giving both songs their peculiar charge.

    Super Over Drive runs on a bass line with the stubborn forward motion of somebody walking home at 3 a.m. because calling a cab would require admitting the night went badly. The rhythm section keeps everything locked down while Manny Herrera’s guitar rises, retreats, then slices back through the arrangement from another angle. Flores stretches his phrasing farther than usual, holding notes until the romantic detachment begins to crack. His voice carries composure and panic simultaneously, a useful combination for a song about insisting you can live without anybody while secretly hoping somebody will notice you are drowning in your own apartment.

    Directed by Chris Eichenseer, the accompanying video frames the band through a sepia-tinted, abstract performance that feels appropriately unstable. Bodies blur into movement, faces appear and disappear through unusual compositions, and the muted brown tones give the footage the quality of some damaged transmission dug out of an abandoned television studio. It is moody, slightly trippy, and strange in exactly the right proportions, extending the song’s sense of emotional dislocation without explaining any of it away.

    Watch the video for Super Over Drive below:

    Silver turns the temperature down, balancing spacious guitar interplay, vocal reach, and carefully controlled escalation while leaving more room around Flores’ voice. Here the problem is communication itself: caring without saying so, sensing that something has broken, and wondering whether two people can still name the damage before it becomes permanent. The song carries guilt without theatrical punishment. Its final admissions of absence and need land with the blunt force of somebody finally saying what should have been said weeks earlier.

    Watch the video for Silver below:

    Founded by Mexican-American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Brian Flores in 2018, French Police—with Herrera on lead guitar and Rolando Donjuan on bass—came out of Chicago with obvious debts to Interpol while steadily developing a romantic severity closer to the international post-punk culture surrounding Molchat Doma, Lebanon Hanover, The Chameleons, and KINO.

    At the very moment a major-label deal promises to enlarge their world, Super Over Drive and Silver keep French Police focused on the smaller disaster: two people sitting close enough to speak, each waiting for the other to go first.

    Stream the songs here.

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