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There are easier ways for a man with Randy Edelman’s CV to spend his time. He could tour the film scores, take the applause for The Last of the Mohicans and go home. Instead he has made Green Park, a ten-track album of new songs released September 25 on Cherry Red Records, and it is about as […]
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5 Seconds of Summer have announced that they are releasing an EP under their nightclub-ready alias CLUBSOS, and have shared a new taster of it.
‘CLUBSOS EP Vol. 1’ will be released on October 30, and can be pre-saved right here.
And with that news comes the release of a new version of ‘NOT OK’, which originally appeared on last year’s ‘Everyone’s a Star’.
Taking the audacious attitude of the orginal and throwing a bit wobbly garage beat in for good measure, it is a completely new side to everything that 5 Seconds Of Summer has ever been defined by. And, most importantly, it works.
Whatever else is set to come on this ambitious EP is going to be a party, to say the least.
Until the EP’s release, there’s a couple more tasters for you to get moving to.
Here is ‘EVOLVE’:
And here is ‘EVERYONE’S A STAR’:
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Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today leads with the Mastodon bone dust vinyl: a Bone Dust Edition of Marrow Deep with fragments of 11,000-year-old mastodon fossil pressed into the wax, 170 copies at $150, available only by raffle because that’s how much ground-up mastodon tooth the band had.
Also today: broadcast-quality audio of Black Sabbath’s lost 1970 Dutch TV set, which the broadcaster said was destroyed in a fire, has surfaced and is being pressed as The Lost 1970 Avro Sessions, and Metallica add ‘Until It Sleeps’ at their fourth Sphere show, the fourth show in a row with a song the room hadn’t heard yet.
STREAM THE METAL BREAKDOWN DAILY NOW:Scott Penfold opens today’s Metal Breakdown Daily with the bag of mastodon teeth that became a $150 record, then the Black Sabbath tapes a broadcaster swore had burned, Metallica’s fourth new song in four Sphere nights, and a Take on which kind of scarcity is actually worth your money. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.
Mastodon and Loma Vista are releasing a Bone Dust Edition of Marrow Deep, a double LP with powdered mastodon fossil pressed into the record, limited to 170 copies at $150 and sold only through a raffle that ships to the US, Canada and Mexico.
The band’s own account: ‘About 20 years ago, we were given a giant bag of mastodon teeth.’ They weren’t display pieces, just fragments, and they sat in a box for two decades until Troy Sanders suggested grinding them down and putting them in the record itself. A geologist from the University of Georgia sprinkled the dust into the wax before pressing, with Waxworks doing the manufacturing. Each copy comes with a certificate of authenticity. Sanders’s pitch: ‘How cool is it to juxtapose something with 11,000 year old fossils with a modern 2026 Mastodon record?’
The number is the honest part. Loma Vista says 170 ‘due to the finite quantity of bone dust available’, which is the first time in years a limited edition has been limited by anything other than a sales forecast. Entering the raffle doesn’t guarantee a purchase; winners get the chance to buy.
Marrow Deep, released in August, is the band’s ninth album and the first made after the split with, and then the death of, founding guitarist Brent Hinds, and it’s already arguing for a high spot in the Mastodon catalogue ranked. The vinyl gag is pure Mastodon: a band named after a dead animal, from the state whose sludge lineage runs through them even if the Atlanta boys never lived in New Orleans, finally putting the animal in the product. A decade of ‘limited to however many we can sell’ pressings, and the one that’s real came from the bass player, not the marketing department.
Full audio of a 40-minute Black Sabbath performance recorded in spring 1970 for the Dutch TV show Doebidoe in Hilversum, long believed destroyed in a fire at broadcaster AVRO, has surfaced and is being pressed by an unofficial German label as The Lost 1970 Avro Sessions, limited to 666 copies.
The session happened about three months after the debut album came out, for Nederland 1’s Doebidoe, the show that preceded Top Pop. The band played extended versions of the first record, including a ‘The Wizard’ with lyrics that differ from the album and a live ‘Warning’, a song that rarely made setlists. They also mimed ‘Evil Woman’ for the cameras. Three days later they were on Beat-Club in Germany doing ‘Black Sabbath’, ‘Iron Man’ and ‘N.I.B.’, footage the show put on its YouTube channel earlier this year.
The Dutch tape was supposed to be gone. For over a decade the only trace was a silent twenty-second clip of ‘N.I.B.’ that appeared on YouTube in 2013. Now the live audio is circulating on YouTube and the Internet Archive in broadcast quality, and a label called Avertigro, a mash-up of Vertigo and AVRO, has pressed it. The 666 copies may already be spoken for.
A week after we covered the last Sabbath studio album that died in an email, here’s the opposite: a recording nobody planned to keep that refused to disappear. Ozzy was 21. The band was four months into being famous, and the debut was still being treated as a novelty record by critics who’d rank it near the top today. Sabbath have a long history of sessions that went wrong in interesting ways; this is one that went right and got lost anyway. It shouldn’t take a bootleg label in Germany to put it out. Somebody who holds the rights should be on the phone to Holland today.
Metallica played ‘Until It Sleeps’, the gold-certified lead single from 1996’s Load, for the first time at the Sphere during their fourth show in Las Vegas on October 10, continuing a run in which every night of the residency so far has introduced a song the venue hadn’t heard.
The tally: night one, October 1, brought back ‘…And Justice For All’ for the first time in twelve years, the song whose original mix famously buried its bass. Night two, October 3, was the deep-cut night, ‘Devil’s Dance’ for the first time in about eighteen years and ‘The Outlaw Torn’ for the first time in seven, with ‘Blackened’, ‘Fuel’ and ‘Leper Messiah’ opening. Night three gave ‘Fade To Black’ its Sphere debut. Night four, ‘Until It Sleeps’.
The band is rotating two set templates so each weekend pair doesn’t repeat, with a new addition dropped into every show. Twenty remain: October 15 and 17, then every week through November 7, then January 28 through March 13. Twenty-four in all when it’s done, the longest run that building has given a heavy band.
The Sphere’s problem for performers is that the room is the headliner. U2 found that out, Phish found that out, and the next band booked for a Vegas residency is sending avatars. Metallica’s answer is to make the setlist the headliner instead. One new song a night, in a band whose frontman still rewrites the set by hand, is how you get forty-year fans to fly to Vegas twice in the same month.
Three stories, one number each: 170, 666 and one song a night. Scarcity is what’s being sold this week, and only one version of it is worth real money.
The case against all of it is fair. Rarity is a pricing strategy. A $150 record with fossil dust in it is still a record you can stream for free. A bootleg of 666 copies is a bootleg, and the surviving members of Black Sabbath see nothing from it. And a band changing one song a night at the Sphere has found a way to sell you Saturday after you bought Thursday.
But there’s a difference between scarcity you can hold and scarcity you have to be present for. The Mastodon record is a brilliant object, and it will live on a shelf. The Sabbath tape is a gift, and it’ll be on YouTube long after the vinyl is gone. The Metallica version is the only one where the rare thing is music happening in front of you. ‘Devil’s Dance’ for the first time since 2008, in a room the size of a small moon, is not a collectible. It’s the reason any of us started going to shows.
So: enter the raffle, download the tape so you can hear Sabbath at 21, and if you’re spending real money on scarcity this year, spend it on a flight to Las Vegas. The only edition that matters is the one you were in the room for.
By raffle only. Entries are taken through Loma Vista Recordings; winners get the chance to buy one of 170 copies at $150, shipping to the US, Canada and Mexico. Entering does not guarantee a purchase. Each copy includes a certificate of authenticity and contains powdered mastodon fossil pressed into the vinyl.
Yes. The band says it was given a bag of mastodon teeth about twenty years ago. The fragments were ground to powder and a University of Georgia geologist added the dust to the vinyl wax before pressing. Troy Sanders puts the fossils at 11,000 years old; the band’s video says 10,000.
A 40-minute live set recorded in spring 1970 in Hilversum for the Dutch TV show Doebidoe, with extended debut-album songs including a different-lyric ‘The Wizard’ and a rare live ‘Warning’. Broadcaster AVRO said the tapes burned. The audio has now surfaced and an unofficial German label, Avertigro, has pressed 666 copies.
‘…And Justice For All’ on October 1 (first time in twelve years), ‘Devil’s Dance’ and ‘The Outlaw Torn’ on October 3, ‘Fade To Black’ at show three, and ‘Until It Sleeps’ on October 10. Metallica rotate two set templates so each weekend pair doesn’t repeat.
Twenty. October 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 31; November 5 and 7; then January 28 and 30, February 4, 6, 18, 20, 25 and 27, and March 4, 6, 11 and 13, 2027. With the four already played, the residency totals 24 shows.
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