On Friday, October 9, 2026, Milan’s Legend Club hosted an unmissable event for fans of the sleaze and hard rock sound. Organized to celebrate Speed Stroke’s “Damage Control Tour,” the evening featured Hell in the Club as guests of honor—whose extraordinary performance turned the concert into a top-tier co-headlining show.
Kicking off the evening is a great show by Nastyville…
Momsen cites the Seattle grunge legends as one of the bands who changed her life, and in a new interview with YouTube star Rick Beato she admits that she was “elated” when she was told that her band had been offered the opportunity to support Soundgarden on their 2017 US tour.
“Every time I listen to a Soundgarden record, I discover something new inside of it,” she tells the podcast host. “There’s certain music where it feels like the artist is speaking for you, or to you, in a way that you maybe don’t know how to communicate yourself, and Soundgarden has always done that for me.”
Understandably, Momsen says she was “devastated” by Chris Cornell’s death by suicide on that 2017 King Animal tour. Subsequently, she has honoured Cornell’s life and music by performing with Soundgarden’s three surviving members on a number of occasions.
In January 2019, Momsen sang three songs – Rusty Cage, Drawing Flies and Loud Love – at the star-studded I Am The Highway memorial concert in Los Angeles, and in 2022, she joined members of Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic to sing The Day I Tried To Live and Black Hole Sun at the Los Angeles staging of the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert.
She also sang with the band at their induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2025, and more recently, on September 9 this year, joined the trio, and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, for a half-time show performance at the Seattle Seahawks season-opening game against the New England Patriots.
“Every time we’ve done this, it’s been pressure,” Momsen admits, before going on to say that, performing with the group at their RARHOF induction, that pressure was mixed with “love and excitement and pride”.
“I was coming from a perspective and a place of just, like, pure and utter joy for them,” she says. “Every time they ask me to sing with them it’s an honour.”
“Individually they’re all the greatest musicians in the world,” she continues, “and then you put them together and it creates this unparalleled sound.”
Finding a place within this sound, Momsen admits, is a challenge in itself.
“Matt [Cameron] always cracks me up,” she tells Beato, “because he goes, ‘But you’re a huge fan, so you know these songs.’ And I go, Yes, I know them, but knowing them and then removing the vocal, and doing them and accomplishing them are two very different things.”
“Everyone thinks it’s the notes and it’s like, no, it’s the fucking time signatures. Soundgarden, it sounds like it’s just flowing when you’re listening, you don’t even realise they’ve changed it until you remove something, and have to actually do it, and then you go, Wait a second. What the fuck just happened?”
KK’s Priest has gone back to the Judas Priest catalog and re-recorded “Never Satisfied” with vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens. The song first appeared on Judas Priest‘s 1974 debut album, Rocka Rolla. The new version is available as a free download, and a music video directed by John Psaras accompanies it.
For guitarist KK Downing, the idea was to take a look back across a career that now spans several decades and hear how the material sounds in the hands of the current KK’s Priest lineup.
“Yeah, it seemed like a good idea to, at this point in my career, in my life, span so many decades, just to turn the page back and look at how things might possibly present themselves many decades later,” Downing explained. “So, songs like “Never Satisfied” and other recordings that I enjoy connecting with again after so long.”
Business development also helped move things along. Reach Music recently acquired the rights to Rocka Rolla and Sad Wings Of Destiny, and both albums are getting remastered and reissued. Rocka Rolla is already out, while Sad Wings Of Destiny is slated for November.
“And obviously with a view to not just reinvigorating those songs by having KK’s Priest‘s current lineup record those songs,” Downing said, “it’s also, I’m glad to say, that Reach Music have now acquired the rights to those two albums, which has actually freed the whole thing up, and has brought about a willingness and a want to be able to bring the albums to the surface again.”
The new recording also sets up a comparison between two very different metal voices. Rob Halford sang the original, and Owens now takes his own run at it. Downing thinks each singer can leave a personal mark on the material.
“Two great singers and performers,” he said. “I mean, you know, it’s going to be tough. I guess the main thing is that Rob would be associated with the archive legacy, the original going back when. But obviously, Ripper is sort of capable of doing the same thing, but with a slightly different delivery and tonality of the voice.”
Downing added, “But other than that, I mean, both the vocalists can completely nail down any song, and it would be often tough to choose what the preference would be.”
The single lands while KK’s Priest is out on the road in North America with W.A.S.P. The package puts two veteran acts with roots in 1980s metal on the same stage, and Downing says the shows have been as high-octane as fans would hope.
“I’ve done 21 shows. Got another 21 to do. So we’re exactly at the halfway point,” Downing said. “I mean, W.A.S.P., legendary early ’80s band, and obviously we go back. So that’s what they’re going to get,” he said. “But they’re going to get a hell of a lot of classic songs that they’ve known that go back decades. And so it will hopefully drive fans to come along and sing along, which they are doing, and seemingly enjoying what we do tremendously.”
“Never Satisfied” ties together several chapters of Downing‘s history: an early Judas Priest composition, a fresh take with Owens on vocals, and a current lineup playing classic metal on North American stages.
Oldham thrash upstarts Tortured Demon have unleashed their brand-new single, “Apocalypse”, marking their debut release via BLKIIBLK. The track provides the first glimpse into the quartet’s forthcoming full-length record, scheduled to land in early 2027. Comprising frontman and guitarist Jacob Parkinson, drummer Joe Parkinson, lead guitarist Rory Marsland-Smith, and bassist Lewis Bridges, the young outfit … Continue reading Tortured Demon unleash ferocious new single “Apocalypse” ahead of Oct/Nov tour
The Chicago punks have announced a brand new track…their first since their 2022 full-length, Rewire. The new track is called “Dig” and it’s a raw, fast-paced look at the world around us. Here’s what the band had to say about the track:
“‘Dig’ is a blistering, fast-paced song that hits like a raw emotional outburst.Written as an emotional release in response to the troubling things we continue to ignore and/or the activities our country continues to participate in, both at home and around the globe.”
“Dig” features the great Sean Sellars (Good Riddance/Pulley) holding down the drums. It’s officially out tomorrow (October 16th) but you can check it out here today! Get on it! And go see Counterpunch on tour with Authority Zero at the dates below!
UPCOMING SHOWS
October 17 — Denver, CO — East Fax Tap October 21 — Albuquerque, NM — Launchpad* October 22 — Tulsa, OK — The Vanguard* October 23 — St. Louis, MO — Golden Record* October 24 — Chicago, IL — Reggie’s* October 25 — Detroit, MI — Small’s* October 26 — Rochester, NY — Photo City Music Hall* October 27 — Providence, RI — Alchemy* October 28 — Westfield, MA — The Nook* October 29 — Clifton, NJ — Dingbatz* October 30 — Brooklyn, NY — Wood Shop*
Cleopatra Records will release Purple Storm: A Tribute To Deep Purple on Nov. 13, following closely behind its well-received Ride The Rainbow tribute to Rainbow, the other band of Ritchie Blackmore. As with that project, a lineup of hard rock and metal names has signed on to put its own spin on some of the genre’s most loved songs.
A few tracks have already surfaced, but the one many fans have been waiting for comes from Angel. The band, which also appeared on Ride The Rainbow, has tackled “Woman From Tokyo,” one of the cornerstones of the Deep Purple catalog.
The track has already made noise. A limited-edition 12-inch single came out earlier this summer, and the entire pressing was gone in roughly 12 hours. Now it has a video from Misterdeeds11/Jay Rice, which mixes footage of Angel recording the song in the studio with clips from the band’s own trips to Japan, where fans hold Angel in as high regard as the die-hard crowd back home in the U.S.
“Deep Purple was one of my favorite bands back in the day,” said Angel veteran Punky Meadows. “Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore…. what can I say? That goes without saying! When Cleopatra asked Angel to contribute to the Deep Purple tribute album, we chose to do a classic..Give it a kick in the ass… and Angelize it! “My Woman From Tokyo”!! Dig It!!”
His bandmate Frank Dimino added, “Recording the Deep Purple song brought back memories of when we rehearsed next door to each other in the Gower Studios lot. Great band, great song, great times!!!!”
The album covers 11 Deep Purple songs in all. Along with “Woman From Tokyo,” the tracklist includes “Highway Star,” “Child In Time,” “Smoke On The Water” and “Black Night.” The selections reach back to the band’s early days with “Hush,” its first U.S. hit single, and forward to the title track of the 1984 album Perfect Strangers.
The guest roster spans several generations of rock players. It includes Chris Adler, Chris Poland, and David Ellefson (Megadeth), Alan Davey (Hawkwind, Hawkestrel), Graham Bonnet, Ronnie Romero and Bob Daisley (Rainbow), Jonathan Cain (Journey), George Lynch (Lynch Mob), Pat Travers, Arthur Brown, Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Rod Stewart), Thor, Rick Wakeman (Yes, David Bowie), Mick Box (Uriah Heep) and more.
Pre-order the physical edition of Purple Storm: A Tribute To Deep Purplehere, and pre-save the digital edition here.
