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America’s Got Talent 2026 winner Nene Royal fullfiled one of her dreams last night, October 13, when she appeared onstage in Singapore with her favourite band, Avenged Sevenfold.
Royal, the 16-year-old Thai star who won the world’s best known talent contest after dazzling judges and TV viewers with fiery covers of The White Stripes Seven Nation Army and Linkin Park’s. The Emptiness Machine, was a late addition to the support bill for Avenged Sevenfold’s show at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, and entertained the crowd with her covers of Soundgarden‘s Black Hole Sun, Muse‘s Hysteria, and Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name, among others.
Royal was then invited to join A7X onstage to guest on Bat Country and Unholy Confessions.
When Royal spoke to Metal Hammer last month, she admitted that she was both excited and scared at the prospect of playing with her heroes at the 12,000-capacity venue.
Explaining how she landed the gig, the vocalist/guitarist from Phuket said, “The managers in Singapore text me: ‘Oh, I hear you wanna play with Avenged Sevenfold?’ I was like, Yeah! They said, ‘Well, Avenged Sevenfold want you to support them.’ They asked me, ‘Do you wanna do it?’, and I was like, Yeah! Dreams come true. Incredible.”
Watch the teenage sensation guest with her favourite band below.
US TV talent shows have thrown up a number of artists who have gone on to enjoy successful careers, including Kelly Clarkson, who triumphed on the very first season of American Idol, metal-loving country star Carrie Underwood, who won the show in 2005, Adam Lambert (runner up in the eighth season of American Idol in 2009), and Daughtry (fronted by Chris Daughtry, a finalist on American Idol in 2006).
Reliqa have announced the details of their second full-length album, the follow-up to their 2024 debut ‘Secrets Of The Future’.
Titled ‘High Risk Thoughts’, it will be released on February 12 via Nuclear Blast.
The artwork looks like this:
Whilst the tracklisting is more like this:
1. Serum
2. Hands to the Ceiling
3. High Risk Thoughts
4. Quiet Coda
5. Your Touch
6. Cemetery Roots
7. One Word
8. Unguarded
9. Digital Heaven
10. Nobody Survives This
You can also check out opening track ‘Serum’ right now as well. A haunting, crushing, thoughtful piece of modern metalcore brimming with spine-tingling melodies and brutal chugs, it is a sensational introduction to the project. One that showcases how the band have utilised their previous strengths and expanded into brave new waters all at once.
The band had this to say about it:
‘Serum’s sound represents a sort of bridge from where we were to where we are now, so it felt apt to have it not only open the new record but also mark its announcement to the world. It’s low and menacing with a mechanical edge (heavily inspired by the Danish prog legends VOLA), but we’ve also loaded it with some fun twists and turns, all part of our long-held goal to condition our listeners to expect the unexpected and be open-minded. This is the only song on the record that we’ve been consistently playing live for some time now and the reception has been full of energy, giving us high hopes for the rest of the album’s verdict.”
You can also hear the sensational ‘Your Touch’ now as well:
Reliqa will be making their first-ever trip over to the US next year as support for Northlane. Here are all of the dates:
FEBRUARY 2027
12 – SACRAMENTO Ace of Spades
13 – ANAHEIM House of Blues
14 – MESA Nile Theater
16 – DALLAS South Side Music Hall
17 – SAN ANTONIO Vibes Event Center
18 – HOUSTON White Oak Music Hall
20 – ORLANDO House of Blues
21 – ATLANTA The Masquerade (Heaven)
23 – CHARLOTTE The Underground
24 – BALTIMORE Baltimore Soundstage
26 – PHILADELPHIA Brooklyn Bowl
27 – NEW YORK Irving Plaza
28 – BOSTON Paradise Rock Club
MARCH 2027
02 – MONTREAL Beanfield Theatre
03 – TORONTO Danforth Music Hall
05 – DETROIT St Andrews Hall
06 – CHICAGO House of Blues
07 – MINNEAPOLIS Varsity Theater
08 – DENVER Summit Music Hall
10 – SALT LAKE CITY The Grand @ The Complex
13 – CALGARY The Palace Theatre
14 – EDMONTON Midway
15 – VANCOUVER Commodore Ballroom
17 – SEATTLE Neptune
18 – PORTLAND Roseland Theater
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If my search skills are to be trusted, Sunn O))) have never been mentioned at MetalTalk. It is not that surprising, given their extreme niche in the Metal world, albeit a niche that has grown to the size where this sonically and physically challenging band can sell out a 1,000-capacity room on a Monday night.
Words And Photography: Tim Bugbee
Like most bands of the Metal/Drone crossover, the duo of Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley owe more than a bit of sonic debt to The Melvins.
But instead of King Buzzo’s and Dale Crover’s knack of grafting catchy melodies to heavy songs, O’Malley and Anderson increasingly sharpened their focus on sound, and lots of it.
It has been interesting to see their progression, starting with Burning Witch and then via Goatsnake and Khanate, crafting a sound where the timbre and volume are just as, if not more, important to the actual notes played.
Before I entered the club, someone with a Sunn O))) hoodie walked past, and as a merch item/declaration of intent, the phrase “ever breathe a frequency?” inked on the back could not have been more appropriate.
One does not go to a Sunn O))) show to dance or sing along. It is more of an endurance test.
The stage is ringed with twelve massive 4×12 Hi-Watt cabinets, flanked on either side by huge Ampeg bass cabinets, three atop each other on their sides, all powered by a mix of vintage Ampeg and Sunn O))) pre-amps.
If you want to re-create their backline, I hope you are a scion of some industry magnate because these do not come cheaply. Amazingly, there were no reports of local brownouts.
The other primary hallmark of a Sunn O))) show is their unbridled use of chemical fog, with two massive jets shooting occasional plumes from each side of the stage and more from behind the wall of amps (aka ‘Tonehenge’).
The haze stretched far beyond the main room, past the loos and nearly into the front room. I am sure most people left the venue carrying a lot more glycol and glycerin in their lungs on the way out than on the way in.
Have I mentioned the robes yet? The massively crawling and suffocating riffs, slower than a glacier making its way to the ocean, along with everything else, make a performance more like an experience than a concert, the stark opposite of a sensory deprivation tank.
After firing the smoke machines on an infrequent cycle, the PA broadcast the infamous live Venom 7″ that Thurston Moore put out on his label years ago. RIP, Cronos.
Though Sunn O))) might be the world’s worst ‘Name That Tune’ band, some intrepid soul figured out the minutiae between the long drone tracks to take a stab at deciphering the set list, which was written in runic characters.
Remember the endurance claim? Starting a show with an hour-long song is a nice throwback to Sleep when they played Dopesmoker as support for Hawkwind back in the ’90s. Invisible oranges were clutched, heads slowly bobbed, and eardrums cowered in fear for their lives.
Yep, just another Sunn O))) show.
Smartly, another loud sludge/doom/drone band was not added as a supporting act, and instead legendary guitarist David Grubbs took a seat in front of Sunn O)))’s towering backline with just a small practice amp powering his Telecaster.
Grubbs’ first band was the pre-Slint Hardcore band Squirrel Bait. But he quickly branched off into noisier (Bastro) and more esoteric (Gastr Del Sol) directions and has spent the last couple of decades making inscrutable music either solo or with like-minded voyagers.
The proverbial calm before the storm was a welcome counterpoint.
Posted on October 14th 2026, 11:29am
BLACKGOLD are about to head out on the road, and they have shared a new track that they most definitely will be playing.
Titled ‘KILLAZ’, it sits on the more hip-hop side of their expansive and celebratory sound, allowing them to have some real fun between the beats and the bars. Funky as it comes and full of fun little jabs and references, it’s very much a song that represents the essence of the band whilst also showing off some of who is behind the mask.
It also features an appearance from rapper Woes, who the band discovered whilst out in Austin for SXSW earlier this year.
Vocalist Spookz had this to say about it all:
“‘KILLAZ’ feels like letting the mask slip just enough to show a different side of what BLACKGOLD can be. It’s bouncy, chaotic, full of attitude and doesn’t sit still for a second. Finding Woes busking in Austin and then ending up making a track together felt completely in the spirit of this band – unexpected, a bit unhinged, and somehow exactly right.”
BLACKGOLD will be making their way around the UK and Europe later this month. Here are all the dates:
OCTOBER
28 – BRISTOL Thekla
30 – LONDON Underworld
31 – TORQUAY The Foundry
NOVEMBER
05 – MANCHESTER Ambers
06 – GLASGOW Classic Grand
07 – BIRMINGHAM O2 Institute2
18 – UTRECHT DB’s
20 – COLOGNE Artheater
22 – HAMBURG Logo
23 – COPENHAGEN Pumpehuset
24 – BERLIN Badehaus
26 – WARSAW Hydrozagadka
27 – BIELSKO BIALA Rude Boy
28 – PRAGUE Cafe V Lese
30 – VIENNA Viper Room
DECEMBER
01 – NUREMBERG Club Stereo
02 – ANTWERP Kavka
03 – PARIS Backstage By The Mill
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