“Life in Motion” wasn’t just a tagline on a screen Friday night — it was the first real breath you felt at the Opening Ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games.
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Hot on the heels of “The Devil’s Own,” Spain’s BLOODHUNTER have unveiled the official music video for their new single “The Outspoken.”
This track hits hard. Fast-paced drums, razor-sharp melodic leads and crushing riffs collide with Diva Satanica’s commanding vocal delivery. The result is a relentless melodic death metal rager that balances aggression with sharp hooks and tight songwriting. “The Outspoken” doesn’t waste a second. It builds, strikes, and leaves its mark.
Lyrically, the song serves as a defining statement for the band. Vocalist Diva Satanica comments:
“It’s like a hymn that defines the identity of this band. We can be many things, but we will never stop being honest with other people and with ourselves. It’s a very powerful song that speaks about our own identity as a band over the years.”
With “The Outspoken,” BLOODHUNTER reaffirm their place in modern melodic death metal: intense, direct, and unapologetically honest and leave fans hungry for more music that will hopefully follow soon!
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Fresh off the release of his latest single Relapse, Sydney singer-songwriter Hayden McGoogan is writing from a place of hard-won clarity. Penned just after a month into sobriety, the stripped-back track captures a fragile headspace: doing well, but fearing it could all unravel. “It’s not about relapsing,” he explains. “It’s about hoping I don’t.” Recorded […]Ukrainian metal band OnesteP released a new single, “Arise.” The single comes as their lead singer Brood’s celebrtaes her birthday. Liisten to “Arise” here below and wish Brood a happy birthday!
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Italy’s FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE are preparing to shroud stages across North America in their haunting, symphonic-infused death metal and have unveiled a series of headline dates for this spring. This follows the announcement that the band will be joining AVATAR on their “Don’t Go in the Forest 2026” tour with guests FROZEN SOUL.
The band comments, “Could we come to North America and completely forget Dallas (TX), St. Louis (MO), Albany (NY), or let our Canadian friends in Montreal (QC) down? Of course we could not! That’s why we have added four exclusive headlining shows alongside the massive spring trek supporting Avatar this April and May. Expect a longer setlist, a bigger production, and some extra surprises! Our Texan friends FROZEN SOUL will be joining us for these dates, so you know exactly what to do. See you there folks!”
2026 Headline Dates:
4/21 – Dallas, TX – Granada*
4/27 – St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
5/17 – Albany, NY – Empire Live
5/18 – Montreal, QC – Beanfield Theatre
* no FROZEN SOUL
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2026 Tour Dates with AVATAR and FROZEN SOUL:
4/16 Sacramento, CA Channel 24
4/17 Los Angeles, CA Novo
4/19 Tucson, AZ Rialto Theater
4/20 Albuquerque, NM Revel
4/22 San Antonio, TX Aztec
4/23 Oklahoma City, OK Criterion
4/25 Omaha, NE Steelhouse Omaha
4/26 Des Moines, IA Val Air
4/28 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall
4/29 Moline, IL The Rust Belt
4/30 Grand Rapids, MI GLC Live at 20 Monroe
5/1 Milwaukee, WI Eagles Club Stage
5/2 Fort Wayne, IN The Clyde
5/4 Huntsville, AL VBC Mars Music Hall
5/5 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle
5/6 Knoxville, TN Mill & Mine
5/7 Myrtle Beach, SC House of Blues
5/8 Daytona Beach, FL Welcome to Rockville
5/10 Raleigh, NC The Ritz
5/12 Richmond, VA The National
5/13 Philadelphia, PA Franklin Music Hall
5/14 Columbus, OH Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival 2026
5/15 New York, NY Palladium Times Square
5/16 Buffalo, NY Buffalo Riverworks
5/19 Wallingford, CT The Dome
5/20 Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino
Opera Track – Listing:
1. Ode to Art (De’ Sepolcri)
2. I Can Never Die
3. Pendulum
4. Bloodclock
5. At War With My Soul
6. Morphine Waltz
7. Matricide 8.21
8. Per Aspera Ad Astra
9. Till Death Do Us Part
10. Opera
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Metallica has added four more nights to its upcoming “Life Burns Faster” residency at the high-tech Sphere.
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I could have been a wise man
Could have been the one…
Hermidgets has taken an old wound off the shelf, peeled away the dried glue and cheap varnish, and found that it still bleeds when pressed. Their latest single, Could I Be Better, feels like the kind of song that stares into its own earlier incarnation with a crooked, hard-earned grin, then guts it and starts over. The first version, as it turns out, no longer knew enough about pain to tell the truth. That history matters. You can hear it in the bones of the track, in the sense that every line has been rehandled, worried over, stripped clean until all the decorative fat is gone and what’s left is nerve, muscle, and a few bruises that never quite healed right.
The track’s strength comes from the way it circles all the people a person might have been for somebody else: saviour, lover, stooge, safe harbour, evidence of some greater meaning…and then lets those phantoms drift off one by one, until the song is left standing in the cold with its plainest and hardest admission. There is no grand absolution here, no theatrical collapse onto the chaise lounge, no purple plume of romantic ruin. What you get instead is a plainspoken reckoning with the slow humiliation of waking up to yourself again, dragging your body into another day, and finding that the vacancy is still there.
Musically, Hermidgets keeps the frame severe and the feeling fevered. The synths move with a stern, spare elegance, while the beat keeps its measured tread like somebody pacing the kitchen at dawn, too tired to panic and too awake to lie down. There’s a lineage here tied to dark synthpop’s cooler bloodline, but Hermidgets isn’t kneeling at anybody’s altar. The track carries its own weather: private, wintry, and claustrophobic, yet never smothered under studio fog or needless ornament. The arrangement understands restraint in the old dramatic sense, where holding back becomes its own form of pressure.
The black-and-white video deepens that mood without gilding it. By the river, with faces partly withheld and bodies doubled through layered performance, Hermidgets turns anonymity into a kind of spiritual condition. The female figure passing through detachment, collapse, and ascent lends the clip a mournful grace, though even that rise feels provisional, like grace on layaway.
Watch Could I Be Better below:
Self-revision can be savage work. Could I Be Better doesn’t present growth as triumph. It presents it as a question asked in an empty room, where the echo comes back smarter than you were the first time.
Hermidgets previously released The Mire (2020) and NIHIL (2024), gradually shaping a coherent, emotionally resonant artistic identity.
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BMG Records (release date 06.03.26) Something old, something new….. for Squeeze’s first studio album in over eight years since 2017’s ‘The Knowledge’ they have revisited what might in a parallel world have been their debut album. At the outset of … Continue reading
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Fluorescent doll
Anemic sound
This empty daylight
Constant Williams has built Casket Cassette out of family ruin, bad weather of the soul, and the kind of memory that sits in your chest like a bent nail. Even the name feels like an object pulled from a box in the back of a closet and held up to the light with a shaky hand: a live recording made by his father, tucked into his grandfather’s casket, equal parts love token and burial rite. That’s heavy freight to drag into a song, and their latest single Kiss Me Awake carries it with the sickly grace of someone crossing the room after three days without sleep, trying to look composed while the floor keeps tilting.
The lyrics come dressed in hard light and failing flesh. Oxblood glamour sours at the edges. Fluorescence turns the room into a waiting area for spiritual collapse. Limbs and lips and hands show up as evidence rather than adornment, each image adding to the sense that the body has become an unreliable witness. Williams writes like a man staring into a mirror that has started lying to him.
The chorus drags poet Robert Lowell’s words through the club door by the collar and lets him speak the line that still lands like a brick through a church window: the self as inferno, the mind as a bad neighbourhood you can’t escape. Lowell got there by way of Milton, and Williams knows exactly how to put that literary wreckage to use. He doesn’t wave it around to look smart. He sinks it into the refrain where it belongs, as a confession that has been waiting centuries for the right drum machine and the right bruised voice.
Knowing that Williams’ family lost their home in the Los Angeles fires last year makes this hit harder, because the song already feels half-buried in ash and aftermath. You can hear a life singed at the edges without any need for grandstanding. That history gives Kiss Me Awake an extra ache, but the track never turns pious about suffering. It stays lean, diseased, romantic, and a little dangerous to stand too close to.
For anybody raised on Depeche Mode’s ache, Clan of Xymox’s night-bloom atmosphere, Kontravoid’s cold stare, Curses’ clubbed-up gloom, or Bootblacks’ bruised beauty, this thing lands square in the bloodstream. Kiss Me Awake feels like the kind of song you play when love has soured but you’re still dialing the number, still hoping somebody picks up…still standing half dead yet hopeful in the white buzz of daylight.
Listen to Kiss Me Awake below and order the single here.
Kiss Me Awake, mixed by Matia Simovich and mastered by Stefan Brown at Abbey Road Studios, is the first taste of REDUCER, their third LP, due in June, and the title alone tells you plenty. Reduction, redaction, erasure, isolation, the whole grim business of being pared down until you barely recognize your own outline. Williams wrote from that marginal state, and the song breathes with the stale air of a life temporarily stranded between departures. The romance at the center of it never offers comfort. It arrives wrapped in dependency, confusion, physical depletion, and that old rotten hope that another person might reach into the wreckage and switch the current back on.
Williams, who earned his MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2024, will continue releasing new music through 2026. This May, Casket Cassette will make his debut at Wave Gotik Treffen, marking the beginning of an international expansion for the project. Casket Cassette will also be an official SXSW artist this year, playing multiple shows in Austin, as well as Sid the Cat this Friday in SoCal and headlining The Paramount in LA on April 3.
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One of six unreleased songs Matt Zane intends to use in his upcoming unauthorized Wayne Static documentary.
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