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In 2019, David Gilmour broke the record for most expensive guitar ever sold when his 1969 Black Fender Stratocaster was auctioned off for $3,975,000. Now, the Pink Floyd guitarist’s iconic instrument has broken the record again, this time selling for $12.1 million, according to Rolling Stone.

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Metalcore unit Engraved have just released a new track, the third from a forthcoming album.

Bleed is the latest instalment on the band’s journey, coming after the previous singles NCB and The Fallen, all of which feature on the album Hymns for the Hollow, due in May.

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Earlier this year, Neil Young called out ICE and commenced a boycott of all Trump-supporting companies. Earlier this week, the legendary singer-songwriter shared more thoughts about the administration, as well as news that he’s working on a new album.

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Your Gaze Can’t be traced in the shadows

The Slashes’ new single Vampiros saunters in with its collar up, looking half in love with the night and half ready to knife it in the ribs. The Slashes understand that old post-punk trick of turning tension into glamour, but they come at it from a different stretch of pavement, where border-town air, cold-wave chill, and rock en español romanticism all mix with the fumes and streetlight fever. That collision results in a song with style on its sleeve and a little danger tucked in its boot.

That guitar line is the hook, plain and simple, bright enough to catch your ear on first pass and bruised enough to stay there. It cuts through the track with that clean, cool ache that made whole generations of doomed romantics think buying a black jacket might save their lives. Underneath it, Beto Bautista’s bass moves with a slow, predatory purpose, less interested in showing off than in tightening the song’s spine until every chord change feels like somebody advancing with bared fangs and a flapping cape. Carlos Robles plays the drums with a sharp, restless touch, giving the track a nervous body without crowding the room.

Esteban Rene sings like a man who has spent enough evenings under bad signs to know that romance and ruin often wear the same scent. There is conviction in his delivery, the kind that arrives after experience – bad bars, bad exits, and the odd beautiful mistake. He carries the Spanish lyric with a cool, dusky elegance, and then Elsa Martinez arrives above him, her voice turning the song from a stylish nocturnal rocker into something richer, stranger, and a little spellbound.

The ending is a beauty. The crackle of static and the faint horns from Derek Cannon give Vampiros the feel of a transmission slipping out of reach, like some pirate-radio love song bleeding into the desert air. It leaves a residue, a mood, a sense that the band knows exactly how much mystery to let in.

Listen to Vampiros below and order the single here.

The Slashes have already put in the miles, hauling these songs from San Diego to New York and sharing bills with names that carry serious weight, but Vampiros feels like a black flag planted firmly in the earth, heralding more dark romance to come.

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In August of last year, Lil Nas X was arrested and hospitalized after acting erratically in Los Angeles and allegedly injuring cops who approached him. He spent the weekend in jail and then was let out on bail and ordered to attend an outpatient drug rehabilitation program. He was charged with four felonies and he pled not guilty to three counts of battery of a police officer and one count of resisting an officer. Today he appeared in court.

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German death metal heavyweights Rise Of Kronos have confirmed they’ll be dropping their fifth studio album, Slaves Of Time, on 17th April 2026. The band, who rebranded from their original moniker Surface back in 2021, have been keeping busy lately, racking up nearly a quarter of a million views on their recent videos as they … Continue reading Rise Of Kronos return with new album ‘Slaves Of Time’

The enigmatic duo sace6 have been making waves by smashing together R&B vibes with heavy metal intensity, and now they’ve finally given us the details on their first full-length effort. The debut album, titled Brutalist, is set to arrive on 8th May via Sumerian Records. To get us in the mood, the band have unleashed … Continue reading Sace6 announce debut album ‘Brutalist’ and drop new single / video “Covet”

Mike McCready’s Farewell to Seasons will also be published as a graphic novel

New York City’s Vexillary understands that pressure alters matter. On 1000X, mastermind Reza Seirafi treats EBM less as a fixed code than as a volatile compound, something to be heated, split, recombined, and sent back into the room with a different charge in its blood. Loosely inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the track twists the mythic journey inward, turning the archetypal quest into something more intimate, more physical, and far more dangerous. Arriving ahead of Digital Suspiria, due March 20, it feels built for impact: a hard-driving body-mover with steel in its spine, desire on its lips, and a female vocal that cuts through the mix like a blade drawn slowly across silk.

The beat lands with club-floor certainty, but around it Seirafi stacks details that give the song its bite: synth lines with a sleek, poisonous sheen, bass pressure that keeps the whole thing pinned to the ground, and a sense of momentum that never lets the air settle. What emerges is one of Vexillary’s most dancefloor-ready transmissions, channeling sexual tension, twisted affection, and driving rhythm into something venomous and vulnerable at once. There is pleasure here, certainly, though it comes with teeth.

The coy female vocal, channeling both Shirley Manson and First Band on the Moon-era Nina Persson, drives the song’s psychic weather, giving shape to its themes of revenge, power, and erotic ruin. The track plays like a sharp-edged duet between pain and pleasure, with Seirafi folding industrial, darkwave, and techno into something lean, fevered, and faintly dangerous.

The video extends that atmosphere into a violent fever vision. Self-directed by Seirafi and starring Sarah Trotter, it frames vengeance through a female point of view, intercutting bodily performance with scenes from the natural world, collapsing male figures, and a collision of practical effects and digital manipulation. The visual language is restless and feral, somewhere between nightclub panic and hunt sequence, with TERMSECT’s editing and VFX pushing everything toward a state of ecstatic rupture.

Watch below:

Across releases for Blaq Records, through Full Frontal Lunacy, Crash and Yearn, and Horror in Dub, Seirafi has shown a knack for taking familiar materials and rendering them newly unstable. 1000X continues that run with real force. It is sleek, severe, and sensuous, a track that understands the body as both laboratory and battleground, and desire as a form of transformation.

Listen to 1000x below and order the single here.

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