Timothée Chalamet has been catching some flak over the past few days for comments he made about opera and ballet. Last month he reunited with his Interstellar dad Matthew McConaughey for a Variety/CNN town hall, during which they debated how short-form video content and waning audience attention spans play into box office turnouts and the pacing of popular screenplays: “I admire people, and I’ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to keep movie theaters alive, we’ve gotta keep this genre alive,'” Timmy Tim said. “And another part of me feels like if people want to see it, like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it.”
Joe McCorriston: Fix Your Hearts (Self Released) CD/DL/Streaming Out Now Buy Here Singer-songwriter Joe McCorriston returns after 8 years with a new album, Fix Your Hearts. London living, Morecambe born Joe McCorriston is back with his first release of new material since 2018’s Existence. Familiarity. At that point, still in his very early 20’s, McCorriston […]
Well, it’s not like he didn’t tell us he was gonna do this. Matt Zane has been campaigning and defending his in-process documentary on the late Wayne Static and his wife Tera Wray, for a while now. Both of their families have actively spoken against it, though Zane is adamant that he had both Static and Wray’s blessings beforehand. The doc is supposed to cover the tumultuous yet beautiful nature of their relationship, and include some unreleased solo material from Static himself. Zane’s keeping up on part of that promise currently, since he’s just shared a clip from an unfinished Wayne Static track called “Infiltrator.” Check out the clip below.
Zane shared the following on his Instagram:
An unfinished, previously unheard track recorded by late Static-X frontman Wayne Static has surfaced as part of filmmaker Matt Zane’s ongoing unauthorized documentary project.
According to Zane, the song was intended to appear in his forthcoming film about Wayne and his late wife Tera Wray. However, the estates of Wayne and Tera, along with Static-X, have declined to grant permission for the unreleased music to be used.
“I want to make it clear, I’d love to finish and give Wayne’s fans his final recording but the families and Static-X aren’t allowing it,” said Zane. “I’d give 100% of the profits of the music to Wayne’s and Tera’s family as long as the recordings were kept in their original form. They were recorded as Wayne Static solo music, not Static-X.”
The Backstory Zane says the material dates back to 2008 while he was directing Tera Wray in her music series Radium. At the time, Wayne offered music to support the project.
“Warner Brothers stopped us but not before Wayne gave me a bunch of stuff,” Zane explained. “I cover the entire ordeal in the documentary. I have a video of Wayne publicly admitting he wrote music for the series.”
Now, years later, Zane has chosen to move forward with completing select portions of the material for inclusion in the documentary and its potential soundtrack.
“There are songs that I won’t touch that Wayne wrote 100% of,” Zane stated. “But all the misc. riffs and other ideas are what I’ll use. Wayne liked what I was doing with them so I figure I’m on the right track.”
Singer Search Begins Due to legal restrictions preventing the use of Wayne Static’s original vocal tracks, Zane is now launching an open call for vocalists who believe they can step in and honor Wayne’s style and legacy.
“It’s just like what Jonathan Davis did for the Queen of the Damned soundtrack,” Zane said. “He wasn’t allowed to sing on that soundtrack so he brought in other singers, including Wayne!”
Fans and vocalists interested in participating are invited to submit a recording of themselves performing their favorite Wayne Static song to:
TheSlackerJesus@gmail.com
Zane’s doc is said to include six previously unreleased and/or unfinished bits of Wayne Static creations, with “Infiltrator” seemingly one of them. Since Static and Wray’s families have been so staunchly against the release of the doc, which Zane has been attempting to pay for and crowdfund to make, they haven’t granted him permission to use any of Static’s recorded material for inclusion in it. Zane’s trying to MacGyver this of sorts, by now launching a search to find a new vocalist to record Static’s vocals so the tracks can be used after all.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, but this seems like a whole lot of trouble to go through for something the estate’s don’t want. But, what do I know?
Evocatively charged, RED SANDS present a powerful offering in their new music video for “System“. The band sought to be bold in their approach to “System”, not only through their criticism of political corruption but also through the track’s musicality. Deviating from RED SANDS‘ typical sound, this offering presents the fierce edge of thrash metal with dynamic melodic and progressive components. The single is taken from the quintet’s recently released EP, Evocations.
“Lyrically, ‘System’ is a protest song to condemn the destruction of our world”. RED SANDS shares. “A song to denounce the corruption of our politicians, the hypocrisy of the clergy, and the environmental catastrophe caused by rapacious corporations. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, the Four Horsemen, morphed into evil political, religious, and economic powers that have shaped our lives in recent years.”
Commenting on the sonic quality of the track, the band reveals, “‘System’ is probably the most intricate song on the list. Unlike ‘My Beloved Ghost’ or ‘The Hunt’, this track demands multiple listens to really grasp all its musical convolutions. Throughout five minutes of heavy riffs, bass scales, double kicks, guitar tremolos, and synth atmospheres, the song illustrates all the chaos of a real-life dystopia”.
Evocations – Track Listing:
Mors Vincit Omnia
The Coven
The Hunt (feat. Stu Block)
My Beloved Ghost
System
The Hunt (Alternative Version)
Independent melodic metal band RED SANDS have unveiled their highly anticipated EP Evocations. The record captures the group’s evolution into a symphonic, emotionally charged sound that merges power, melody, and atmosphere into a single vision.
Evocations presents six tracks that explore mortality, memory, and transformation. From the ominous opening “Mors Vincit Omnia” to the commanding presence of “The Coven,” the ferocity of “The Hunt” featuring Stu Block, and the reflective melancholy of “My Beloved Ghost,” the EP traces a cycle of creation and decay. A new song, “System,” stands at the heart of the release, confronting the corruption and chaos of modern existence with sharp lyrical force and complex musicianship.
Produced by Daniel Novelo, the EP features contributions from acclaimed engineers and guest artists. Evocations embodies the precision and emotion that define RED SANDS. The band’s sound draws from the intensity of ICED EARTH and IRON MAIDEN, the symphonic depth of NIGHTWISH and THERION, and the introspection of OPETH and DRACONIAN, forming a unique expression of melodic and symphonic metal rooted in Mexico City’s creative scene.
The artwork, created by vocalist and visual artist Jonathan Corral, mirrors the album’s lyrical themes through surreal imagery: a creature made of memories and relics, carrying a dying bird on a blank musical score. It serves as both a metaphor for unfinished creation and a meditation on impermanence.
RED SANDS formed in Mexico City in 2012 when brothers Daniel and Eric Novelo joined forces with their cousin Juan Carlos León. What began as a family project soon developed into one of Mexico’s most distinctive melodic metal acts
Beyond the stage, members of the band remain active in Mexico’s metal culture. Eric and Daniel host the podcast Metalópolis, dedicated to promoting the national scene and connecting audiences with emerging artists. This sense of community and independence continues to define RED SANDS, whose music stands as both a personal statement and a contribution to the evolution of Latin American metal.
French act Gros Enfant Mort had already been a remarkable name on the international screamo/post-hardcore scene around the time of La banalité du mal, but Le Sang Des Pierres (The Blood of Stones) is the album where all of their defining traits come together—only for the whole thing to spectacularly fall apart as well. The […]
The German band Alkaloid have long been known for pushing the boundaries of progressive and technical death metal to the extreme: world-music rhythms, sci-fi concepts, flamenco passages, and jazz flourishes have all coexisted comfortably on The Malkuth Grimoire, Liquid Anatomy, and Numen. But now the label “mad scientists of metal” truly seems to have been […]
