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Grammy-nominated Trivium has announced its eleventh album, Crown in the Grave, for release Nov. 20 through Roadrunner Records. The lineup is vocalist/guitarist Matthew K. Heafy, guitarist Corey Beaulieu, bassist Paolo Gregoletto and drummer Alex Rüdinger.

The title track is out now. It starts with layered riffs that stack up gradually before exploding into a full wall of metal, mixing heaviness with the melody and technical chops Trivium has built its name on for more than 20 years. Galloping riffs, big solos, pounding drums and three-part vocals are all present, and the band pushes that formula toward new territory.

The video, directed by Pavel Trebukhin, takes its cues from Japanese Noh theater and a post-apocalyptic setting. It places the album’s artwork and themes inside a smoke-filled dojo, where the characters get ready for a showdown through tense, moody scenes. The look reflects the band’s long-running interest in classic Japanese theater and martial arts.

Gregoletto explained the thinking behind the record. “Crown In The Grave is our eleventh record, and when you get this far into a career, it’s easy to rest on what you’ve already done — or to reinvent yourself just for the sake of it,” says Gregoletto.

“With this record, we wanted to find the space between those two things: Take everything we’ve learned and everything that makes Trivium what it is, but present it in ways we hadn’t before.”

He continued: “We also wanted the record to exist within its own world. That began with the title track, inspired by Akira Kurosawa‘s Throne of Blood, and led us deeper into Japanese horror and cinema from the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. That influence grew into this darker, ghostly atmosphere that became a set of guardrails for the music, lyrics, artwork, and overall identity of the record.”

The bassist wrapped up, “We built our studio so we could give ourselves the time and space to figure out exactly what an eleventh Trivium record should be, and ‘Crown In The Grave’ is the answer we arrived at.

“It honors where we’ve been without living in the past, and pushes into new territory without abandoning what makes us Trivium. I think when you hear it, it’ll somehow feel both new and like a return.”

The press materials describe a band that has reached a peak after two decades of writing, touring and refusing to quit. The riffs hit hard, the solos burn, the screams are raw and the hooks are enormous.

Personal change played a role too. Heafy said that facing yourself was the last big challenge.

“Facing yourself is the final quest,” Heafy observes. “We had to do it as a band, and I had to do it in my personal life. I freed my mind from the constraints of being worried. I made a decision to just sing.”

He reached a crossroads after a mix of mental health struggles, physical injuries and heavy anxiety. He chose to go to therapy, settled on a medication regimen and shifted how he approached things.

“I cleared the plate,” the frontman admits. “I stopped trying to be safe and perfect at every show. Instead, I was actually enjoying the experience and living. If I messed up, it was okay because I’m human. With all of the changes Trivium went through, it’s like a brand new band.”

For the first time, Trivium made an album at its own creative home base in Orlando, a studio called The Hangar. The sessions were also the first with Rüdinger, known as Rüdi, who came close to joining in 2015 but pursued other projects instead. He answered the call a decade later.

“It happened when it was meant to,” Heafy declares.

“Rüdi didn’t just kill it on the drums; his contributions as a writer made a huge difference.”

Longtime producer Josh Wilbur, known for work with Korn and Lamb of God, returned for the sessions. Jacob Hansen, who has mixed Volbeat and Amon Amarth, handled mixing duties for the first time.

Beaulieu said the band zeroed in on what makes it tick.

“We took all of the elements of Trivium, honed in on them, and focused on writing songs with big riffs and big hooks,” notes Beaulieu.

“We made the record we’d been dying to make. The late great Shaun Glass [Soil] was a big Trivium fan. He’d always say, ‘You guys don’t cook the same meal.’

“Even though we use the same ingredients, we always make a new dish.”

Gregoletto said the band asked itself where to go next, and the answer led to the 1990s.

“Any band who has been around this long starts to ask: Where do we go from here?” says Gregoletto.

“We decided to challenge ourselves to top everything we’ve done. We referenced a lot of ’90s albums. If you look at The Black Album by Metallica, Countdown to Extinction by Megadeth or Superunknown by Soundgarden, the choruses are so important, and the songs are relatable. That’s what we strived for.”

Gregoletto also brought Throne of Blood to the group, and the film became the record’s guiding reference point.

“Kurosawa took Macbeth and set it in a feudal Japan,” the bassist elaborates.

“There’s minimal dialogue, yet the storyline is powerful. There are these haunting elements of being tempted by fate and this man’s downfall.”

Trivium starts a North American headlining tour Nov. 5 in St. Petersburg, Fla., and finishes Dec. 19 in Charlotte, N.C. In Flames, Orbit Culture, Fit for an Autopsy and Frozen Soul are along for the ride.

When the dates were announced earlier this year, the band said, “This fall’s Trivium tour is a huge one for us. The lineup is stacked from top to bottom, and we’re honored to have special guests In Flames, who not only influenced our early years but continue to prove time and again why they’re one of the greatest metal bands of all time.

“With Orbit Culture, Fit for an Autopsy and Frozen Soul rounding out the bill, we can’t wait to get out there, kick off this next era of Trivium with Rudi behind the kit, and give you a taste of the new music we’ve been working on. We’ll see you soon!”

Crown in the Grave is available to pre-order here.

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Acclaimed north-east artist Amelia Coburn has announced her second album, Myself and Other Monsters, due to arrive on 5th March 2027, alongside new single I Just Want To Say. Renowned for her vivid, gothic-tinged storytelling, Coburn’s new record is a cabinet of curiosities, where the supernatural hides within the domestic and beauty exists alongside the […]

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Posted on October 8th 2026, 5:50pm

Today, heavy rock group The Violent Hour announced their highly anticipated debut album, Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things. Set for release on January 22, 2027, the project is a culmination of frontwoman Carla Harvey’s journey thus far. Across 11 tracks that blend the grit of old-school rock ‘n’ roll, the soul of indie and alternative, and just the right dose of heavy metal, the album traces themes of survival, transformation, and the darker parts of being human. “Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things isn’t just about girl power women behaving badly,” Harvey says. “It’s almost the thesis for the whole record: good people can do ugly things, beautiful things can come from ugly places, and sometimes you have to get a little ugly to survive.”

Alongside the announcement, The Violent Hour unleashed the single, “Already Dead,” an infectious alt-rock track that captures the darkness of hitting rock bottom and insisting the only direction left is up.

First premiered via Ladygunn, “Already Dead” is about surviving the kind of pain that leaves you numb. When you’ve already been burned, betrayed, broken, and dragged through hell, there comes a point when you realize there isn’t much further you can fall. And that realization can be incredibly freeing. The song takes that darkness and turns it into something positive…a declaration that if you’ve already hit rock bottom, the only direction left is up. It’s about letting go of the things that broke you, finding your strength again, and realizing it’s never too late to start over. You can’t kill what’s already dead.

Carla Harvey explains, “‘Already Dead’ is about reaching a point where someone has put you through so much that they can’t hurt you anymore. There’s nothing left for them to take, and that can become its own kind of power.”

The accompanying music video directed by Vicente Cordero takes place in a morgue (fitting for Harvey, who is a former embalmer). What begins on an autopsy table quickly turns into a celebration of refusing to stay down. Death is just a minor complication…a tiny setback that results in a video that’s part horror movie, part dance party, and all rock ’n’ roll.

There are easier ways to start a band than having an existential crisis, locking yourself in a room with legendary drummer and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Benante (Anthrax, Pantera), and writing the record you’ve been threatening to make your entire life. But Carla Harvey has never been particularly interested in doing things the easy way.

She’s been a mortician, embalmer, grief specialist, comic book creator, author, actress, internationally touring musician, and professional collector of wonderfully questionable objects. So, naturally, her next move was The Violent Hour.

Born and raised in Detroit, Harvey grew up with one foot in art and the other in music, playing in bands at night while working whatever jobs paid the bills and plotting an escape to Hollywood. It delivered exactly the kind of beautifully weird life she was looking for: acting gigs, bands, dive bars, heartbreak, bad decisions, great stories and eventually a 15-year run co-fronting Butcher Babies on stages around the world.

But Carla has always had another life running parallel to rock & roll. Fascinated by death since childhood, she went back to school for Mortuary Science, graduated valedictorian, became a licensed funeral director and embalmer, worked in funeral service and hospice, and ultimately earned a Master of Science in Thanatology. She founded a grief-support initiative for musicians, artists and other people who might feel more comfortable discussing mortality in a backstage hallway than a beige therapist’s office. In other words, she can scream in your face and grief-coach you through the aftermath.

After leaving Butcher Babies, Carla found herself staring down the question every artist eventually faces: What would I make if I had absolutely nothing left to prove? The answer was The Violent Hour. Carla began writing with her partner Charlie Benante, and something clicked immediately. The songs came quickly: big, dirty, vulnerable, melodic, pissed-off and alive. Instead of chasing what she had already done, Carla found herself reconnecting with the things that made her fall in love with music in the first place: the danger of rock & roll, the sneer of punk, the hooks of the records she grew up worshipping and the beautifully unhinged spirit of the ’90s Riot Grrrl movement.

Then she built the band she wished she could have seen when she was a kid. The Violent Hour‘s live incarnation brings Carla together with lead guitarist Kiana De León, drummer Sasha De León, bassist Jewel Steele and rhythm guitarist Allie Kaye: five women making loud, feral rock music without sanding off the edges. The result lives somewhere between metal, punk, hard rock and the questionable part of Hollywood after midnight: crushing riffs, massive choruses, sex, humor, vulnerability, anger and enough swagger to make the whole thing dangerous.

And underneath all of it is Carla. The blue-collar Detroit kid. The mortician. The comic-book nerd. The grief scholar who can talk about death anxiety in the afternoon and climb onto a festival stage that night. The rock lifer who has released six albums with a seventh on its way, written comic books and a novel, toured the world, started over, and somehow still gets excited by the possibility of making something she hasn’t made before.

The Violent Hour isn’t Carla Harvey trying to recreate her past. It’s what happens when all of her strange lives finally end up in the same room.

Pretty Girls Do Ugly Things is available to pre-order here.

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It’s been seven years since Villagers of Ioannina City released the incredible Age of Aquarius, and six since I first heard it. It hasn’t left my regular rotation since, helped by an absolutely crazy live show at 229 in London in 2022. But the world is a different place since 2019. Age of Aquarius was a fundamentally happy record, with some lyrical messages exhorting striving for better buried in a lot of psychedelia. Venceremos, meaning “we will overcome,” is far more grounded. The psychedelia is almost gone from the lyrics and toned down in the music. Though it remains a Greek folk/prog rock record, Venceremos is heavier, and lyrically a far more straightforward protest and call to action for life in the 2020s.

Fortunately, this works out. Venceremos is still immediately identifiable as Villagers of Ioannina City. Greek folk melodies and heavy use of Greek traditional bagpipes and clarinet give the band a unique sound, to a foreign audience at least. Alex Karametis’ vocals are distinctive as well. The songs are long and evolve and shift organically—adopting protest music hasn’t turned them into a punk band. But there is a noticeable shift into prog metal. “Home” and “The Ruiner” have parts that remind me of Disillusion, both in composition and in sound, particularly a little vocal processing. There’s also a little more of a post-rock twist in places. “No Fear” in particular reminds me of the emotional post-rock sound of bands like Overhead, the Albatross.

There are some absolute bangers on Venceremos. “Ghosts in the Sky” in particular is fantastic. Building a seven-minute song around fundamentally one melody is a brave choice, but it’s a great melody, and it’s handed off between instruments and vocalists as the song progresses. “Here and Now” is the closest to the more uniform sound of Age of Aquarius, as the longest and most overtly positive song on the record. “The Ruiner” is bleak, heavy, and discomforting, building up into a furious chant as the song ends. Opening track—other than the obligatory intro—”Home” opens with a clean guitar melody that reassured me that VIC still have it the moment I heard it. You know as the song iterates on it and drifts into an atmospheric section that it’ll be back in the climax, but that doesn’t make it any less effective when it does. There are no weak songs here. Were I to really scrabble around for complaints, the fadeout ending on “No Fear” is a bit cheap.

There’s a female vocalist on nearly every track. Her appearances are mostly quite subtle, but on the hypnotic opening and bridge of “Ghosts in the Sky” and the duet near the end of “Venceremos,” she delivers some of the album’s best moments. She’s uncredited as far as I can tell, which is a bit of a shame. Similarly, Dimitris Brentas on wind instruments is credited in the promo materials but not on the Bandcamp page. I’m not really sure what that’s about, as the tightly integrated traditional instruments are such a big part of what makes Venceremos a success. The main trio are no slouches, of course. I particularly like Akis Zois’ bass work on “Venceremos.” Frontman Alex Karametis isn’t the most technical of vocalists, but he has a very pleasing tone that fits the music well. Likewise, his guitar work is intricate and interesting rather than flashy.

I’d always rather a band evolve than try to recapture the magic of a particularly brilliant album. Venceremos is why. It’s still Villagers of Ioannina City and still excellent, but it does something different, and that means I want to listen to both it and its predecessor. Among many excellent songs, “Ghosts in the Sky” is my SotY candidate #1. The 2020s have proven difficult to engage with musically. Venceremos is cathartic, angry, grounded, but still ultimately offers positivity, and that’s exactly what I needed.

Rating: Excellent
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: Stream/FLAC¹
Label: Napalm Records
Websites: vicband.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/villagersofioanninacity
Releases Worldwide: September 18th, 2026

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Def Leppard has booked a 2027 North American tour, and it is bringing Goo Goo Dolls along as the main support, with The Struts also on the bill. The run covers 45 shows, starting in March and wrapping in July, with stops in the biggest markets in the U.S. and Canada.

A dollar from every ticket sold goes to City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment centers in the country.

Def Leppard has been busy lately. The band wrapped its third sold-out Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace earlier this year, then played sold-out dates across Europe, South America and Mexico. This summer, the Greatest Hits compilation landed on four U.K. charts, with two of those debuting in the Top 10. Def Leppard also has around 11 million monthly Spotify listeners and has sold more than 110 million albums worldwide.

Goo Goo Dolls is coming off a long summer of shows that included sets at the iHeartRadio Festival and Sea.Hear.Now Festival. “Iris” has been enjoying a viral resurgence, sitting at diamond certification for 10 million in sales and more than six billion streams worldwide, with over a billion of those coming in 2025 alone.

The band has sold 15 million records, picked up four Grammy nominations and collected close to a dozen platinum and gold singles. It also logged 15 No. 1 and Top 10 hits, which gives Goo Goo Dolls the all-time radio record for “Most Top 10 Singles.”

Fans get several ways in on tickets. An artist fan club presale starts Monday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. local time. A Citi and Verizon presale for U.S. dates follows the same day at noon local time, with more presales rolling out through the week. The general sale opens Friday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m. local time here.

Citi is the official card of the tour. Citi cardmembers can buy presale tickets through the Citi Entertainment program from Monday, Oct. 12, at noon local time until Thursday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. local time. That offer is for U.S. customers only, and full details can be found here.

Verizon customers get their own presale through the Verizon Shine loyalty program, running for select shows from Monday, Oct. 12, at 10 a.m. local time to Thursday, Oct. 15, at 10 p.m. local time. Shine also hands out experiences, concert and sports tickets, merch, dining vouchers and gift cards. The offer is limited to U.S. customers and sold through Ticketmaster.

Def Leppard and Goo Goo Dolls tour dates:

03/02 – Allentown, Pa. @ PPL Center
03/05 – Montreal @ Bell Centre
03/07 – Detroit @ Little Caesars Arena
03/09 – Toronto @ Scotiabank Arena
03/11 – Quebec City @ Centre Vidéotron
03/13 – Newark, N.J. @ Prudential Center
03/17 – Boston @ TD Garden
03/19 – Nashville @ Bridgestone Arena
03/21 – Washington, D.C. @ Capital One Arena
03/23 – Pittsburgh @ PPG Paints Arena
03/25 – Chicago @ United Center
03/27 – Minneapolis @ Target Center
03/29 – Denver @ Ball Arena
03/31 – Salt Lake City @ Delta Center
04/13 – Austin @ Moody Center
04/16 – North Little Rock, Ark. @ Simmons Bank Arena
04/18 – Fort Worth, Texas @ Dickies Arena
04/20 – Mobile, Ala. @ Regions Arena
04/22 – Wichita, Kan. @ INTRUST Bank Arena
04/24 – Lincoln, Neb. @ Pinnacle Bank Arena
04/26 – Kansas City, Mo. @ T-Mobile Center
04/29 – Glendale, Ariz. @ Desert Diamond Arena
05/01 – Los Angeles @ Hollywood Bowl
05/05 – San Francisco @ Chase Center
05/07 – Sacramento, Calif. @ Golden 1 Center
05/09 – Seattle @ Climate Pledge Arena
05/11 – Spokane, Wash. @ Numerica Veterans Arena
05/14 – Vancouver @ Rogers Arena
05/16 – Edmonton @ Rogers Place
05/29 – San Antonio @ Frost Bank Center
06/01 – Houston @ Toyota Center
06/03 – Oklahoma City @ Paycom Center
06/05 – Milwaukee @ Fiserv Forum
06/07 – St. Louis @ Enterprise Center
06/09 – Louisville, Ky. @ KFC Yum! Center
06/11 – Savannah, Ga. @ Enmarket Arena
06/13 – Tampa, Fla. @ Benchmark International Arena
06/17 – Atlanta @ State Farm Arena
06/19 – Columbus, Ohio @ Schottenstein Center
06/21 – Cleveland @ Rocket Arena
06/23 – New York City @ Madison Square Garden
06/25 – Uncasville, Conn. @ Mohegan Sun Arena
06/27 – Philadelphia @ Xfinity Mobile Arena
06/30 – Charlotte, N.C. @ Spectrum Center
07/02 – Indianapolis @ Gainbridge Fieldhouse

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Tom Morello’s Power To The People fest brought rockstars, activists, and a Gen X-heavy fanbase to the outskirts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday.

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Taking place later this month.

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Today, Swedish metal powerhouse Eleine drops their new single and music video “Ich Sehe Dich,” taken from their highly anticipated fifth studio album, The Water Taste Of Blood, arriving December 4th via Algoth Records / Sound Pollution.

Where previous singles painted the picture of falling empires of lies, betrayal, and the damage left in their wake, “Ich Sehe Dich” brings the reckoning face-to-face as the most direct statement from the upcoming album. The song thrives on the striking contrast of beautifully melodic verses that steadily build tension until heavy, static, chuggy riffs shatter the calm and a three-word German chorus lands like a verdict: “Ich Sehe Dich.” I see you.

Standing shoulder to shoulder with the Eleine Legion’s favorite “Mein Herz Brennt,” the track is stern, heavy, and unapologetic. It unmasks manipulation and toxic shame, written for the exact moment you stop letting someone’s lies shape you and the people around you. Unflinching and brutal, it cuts straight through deceit, unveiling an intense, powerful new dimension in Eleine’s signature sound.

In Eleine’s own words: “Have you ever wanted to say ‘I see you’ straight to the face of someone who tries to hurt you, or others, through spreading lies? ‘Ich Sehe Dich’ is about that exact moment. Yet again, another chorus of ours felt so natural to have in another language. The words fell perfectly into place and emphasizes the heaviness of the message within the song.”

What began in southern Sweden has grown into a loyal global community united by music, perseverance, and the refusal to give up. Led by vocalist Madeleine Liljestam and guitarist/vocalist Rikard Ekberg, Eleine have spent recent years building one of metal’s most dedicated fan communities through acclaimed releases, including a #1 album on the Swedish sales charts, successful headline tours, and a direct connection with their audience that extends far beyond the stage.

Along the way, the band has shared stages with Arch Enemy, Kamelot, PAIN, Sonata Arctica, and W.A.S.P., while steadily building a headline presence of their own. Their 2024 European headline tour sold out multiple dates and led directly to a second headline run in spring 2025.

Today, Eleine connect with nearly 700,000 followers across their social and streaming platforms, while their music videos have surpassed 60 million views on YouTube. Now with Eleine’s new album Water Taste of Blood arriving December 4th, 2026, and their most extensive European and UK headline tour already underway, Eleine are ready to be heard on the biggest stage of their career and continue to expand the world they have built together with the Legion, their fans, who have grown alongside them and who have become the heart of the band.

Water Taste of Blood is available to pre-order here.

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