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Welsh ragga metal outfit Skindred has released a video for “Big Em Up,” the latest single from its chart-topping album You Got This. The record leads with a straightforward message of support for anyone dealing with anxiety, depression or other mental health struggles, and this song carries it further: look in on your friends, and lift them up when they are low.

Singer Benji Webbe said: “It’s so easy to get overwhelmed by life and everything it throws at you, from your gas bill to a family tragedy or people just being negative and your timeline filling up with hate and negativity on social media. ‘Big Em Up’ is a simple message for everyone to check on their friends and to pick ’em up and to try and encourage some positivity back into the world.

“It’s a message me and my brothers in Skindred try and share in the music we play, so all we ask is for our fans and listeners to enjoy the single and to also share that message of positivity too. Please check on those around you. Big Em Up!!”

Skindred heads out on its largest U.K. and Ireland run to date later this month in support of You Got This, kicking off Oct. 23 at Nottingham’s Rock City. The band will also throw a Halloween party called Night Of The Living Dred at London’s Alexandra Palace on Oct. 31, with Alien Ant Farm and Spineshank on the bill.

For every ticket sold to the Alexandra Palace show, £1 will go to the music charity Metal For Good, which backs projects centered on mental health and well-being and on helping people unlock their potential, among other causes.

You Got This also picked up a Welsh Music Prize nomination last month.

Production on the band’s ninth LP came from Grammy winner Jay Ruston. Drummer Arya Goggin has pointed to his résumé as part of the appeal: Ruston has the songwriting chops to work with 1980s power ballad specialist Desmond Child, and he has also produced Corey Taylor of Slipknot and Mike Patton‘s Mr. Bungle.

The Newport, Wales, trio, rounded out by guitarist Mikey Demus, is following up the mainstream breakthrough of 2023’s Smile. That album debuted at No. 2 on the U.K. official albums chart, and Skindred went on to win the best alternative music act prize at the MOBOs and best U.K. act at the Heavy Music Awards.

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The ending theme to ‘Reincarnated As A Sword II’.

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A day before its official release, Mexican death metal band IN OBSCURITY REVEALED are streaming their second album Caustic Maelstrom in its entirety. The eight-track record arrives on 9 October through PERSONAL RECORDS, seven years after debut full-length Glorious Impurity. The full album is currently available exclusively through the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Formed […]

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Carla Harvey has no shortage of experience in the funeral and death care industry.

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DOWN have released “The Myth”, the latest single from their long-awaited new album Volume V, due on 20 November through NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS. Opening the record, the track moves from a direct, heavy attack into what Pepper Keenan describes as a distinctly ’70s-style jam. Stream “The Myth” For Philip H. Anselmo, the song carries echoes […]

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Grammy winner Yungblud has put out a live recording of his hit “Zombie” featuring The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Billy Corgan, filmed at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre. It is the lone occasion on which he and Corgan have played their reworked version of the song in front of a crowd.

The show took place July 30, one day before Yungblud played Lollapalooza in the slot just ahead of The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Friday night headlining set. It made for a busy stretch in Chicago for both camps.

“Zombie” first appeared on Yungblud‘s chart-topping album Idols and turned into one of its signature tracks, landing a Grammy nomination for best rock song. It is now the fastest-streaming single he has ever released, with more than 200 million streams. The song got a second act when Yungblud recruited The Smashing Pumpkins to rebuild it.

Matt Schwartz and Corgan produced that version, which wraps Corgan‘s unmistakable guitar tone around a song that already owed plenty to his band. The Smashing Pumpkins‘ Jimmy Chamberlin added drums and James Iha contributed guitar, so the loop between influence and collaborator closed neatly. Charlie Sarsfield directed the accompanying video, which features Yungblud alongside The Smashing Pumpkins.

The Doncaster, England, native, whose real name is Dominic Harrison, won his first Grammy at the 68th ceremony, taking best rock performance for his take on “Changes.” He played it at the July 2025 farewell show for Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne in Birmingham, England.

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Featuring Spanish, French and English lyrics.

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The retro-futuristic world of Journey to the Sun has reached its final animated chapter. Barcelona melodic power metal band KILMARA have unveiled an official visualizer for “Alliance of the Free”, transforming one of the album’s central songs into a full-scale adventure inspired by the cartoons that shaped the musicians’ childhoods. Rather than reproducing a live […]

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A new label deal and a first trip across the Atlantic arrive almost simultaneously for ETERNAL. The Phoenix death metal band have officially signed with BLKIIBLK, while their debut European tour begins today, 8 October, alongside SUFFOCATION, INGESTED and UNDEATH. The signing follows the momentum generated by 2024 album Cryptic Lust, released through CARBONIZED RECORDS. […]

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Before properly introducing themselves on record, Sydney death metal newcomers CAUTION spent their first year building a reputation in the live environment. Shows across Australia and a trip to Japan came first; now that aggression has been captured in “Eradication From The Taint”, the first preview of the band’s debut EP. The single was released […]

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