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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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With Black Sabbath, Slayer and Pantera tracks newly confirmed for it.

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The new Trivium album is called Crown In The Grave, it’s out November 20 on Roadrunner Records, and its title track arrived today with a video set in a smoke-filled dojo. The band’s eleventh record was built on Akira Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood, the 1957 film that moved Macbeth to feudal Japan, and on the Japanese ghost cinema of the fifties, sixties and seventies. It’s produced by Josh Wilbur, mixed by Jacob Hansen, and it’s the first Trivium album with Alex Rüdinger as a full member.

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The Title Track

‘Crown In The Grave’ the song does what Trivium do when they’re confident: it builds from layered riffs into something heavy and melodic at once, with the three-tiered vocal attack (Matt Heafy’s clean, his scream and Corey Beaulieu’s backing) stacked on the chorus. It’s the second track on the album, right after the opener ‘Jorōgumo’, and it sounds like a band that stopped second-guessing itself.

The video, directed by Pavel Trebukhin, is Noh theatre by way of the apocalypse: masked figures in a smoke-filled dojo preparing for a showdown, carrying the album’s artwork and its story into motion. It’s the clearest statement of the record’s world Trivium have put out, and it’s embedded at the bottom of this page.

What Crown In The Grave Is About

Paolo Gregoletto brought Throne Of Blood to the band, and the album grew out of it: a feudal-Japan Macbeth, Japanese horror from the 1950s to the 1970s, and a darker, ghostlier atmosphere than anything on the ten Trivium records before it.

‘We also wanted the record to exist within its own world,’ Gregoletto said. The idea was to honour what Trivium have been without living in it, and push into new ground. For the songwriting references he named a different decade entirely: Metallica’s Black Album, Megadeth’s Countdown To Extinction and Soundgarden’s Superunknown, the nineties records that put the chorus first and made every song relatable.

Corey Beaulieu’s line is the one the band will be quoting on tour: ‘We made the record we’d been dying to make.’ He also brought up something the late Soil guitarist Shaun Glass once told them, that Trivium ‘don’t cook the same meal’, meaning the same ingredients, never the same dish. For a band that has sat near the top of the metalcore conversation for twenty years, that’s the right brief.

Matt Heafy ‘Cleared The Plate’

Heafy says he stopped trying to be perfect at every show, started enjoying the experience, and credits therapy and a medication regimen with getting him there after a stretch of mental health struggles, injuries and anxiety.

‘I cleared the plate,’ he said. It’s unusual for a frontman to put that in an album announcement, and it changes how you hear the record: a band that spent years chasing precision deciding to chase feeling instead. The album was written and recorded at The Hangar, the band’s creative hub in Orlando, and it’s the first Trivium record written there from the ground up.

Josh Wilbur produced, returning after his earlier work with the band, and he’s the same Josh Wilbur who shaped Lamb Of God’s modern catalogue. Jacob Hansen, the Danish mixer behind a decade of Volbeat and Amaranthe records, mixed it, his first time working with Trivium.

Alex Rüdinger Is Finally Official

Alex Rüdinger officially joined Trivium in the studio during the making of Crown In The Grave, eleven years after he nearly took the job in 2015 and turned it down.

‘It happened when it was meant to,’ Heafy said, praising Rüdinger’s writing as much as his drumming. Rüdinger, known as Rüdi, has been one of the most in-demand technical drummers in metal through Whitechapel, Good Tiger and Intronaut, and the band say his contributions go beyond the kit. The drum chair has been the one unsettled thing about Trivium for a decade; this is the band saying it isn’t anymore.

Tracklist

Twelve songs, in this order:

1. Jorōgumo
2. Crown In The Grave
3. Dead Inside Of Me
4. The Terror
5. The Haunting Never Ends
6. Lie Of It All
7. Blackout The Dawn
8. Paradise Of Sinners
9. Death Throes
10. The Agony
11. Devour Your Dreams
12. Serpent In The Flame

A jorōgumo, for the curious, is a spider-woman of Japanese folklore who lures men to their deaths. As opening tracks go, it’s on theme.

The Tour

Trivium’s North American headline run with In Flames starts November 5 in St. Petersburg, Florida and ends December 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina, with Orbit Culture, Fit For An Autopsy and Frozen Soul on the bill.

That means the album comes out two weeks into the tour, so expect the new songs to appear in the set as the dates go on. The In Flames pairing is the strongest co-bill either band has had in years: In Flames have their own new record finished and a catalogue that built the Gothenburg sound, and Fit For An Autopsy are the heaviest thing on any arena bill this fall. Full routing is on the band’s site.

Trivium’s last album was In The Court Of The Dragon in 2021, followed by the Struck Dead EP last fall, and ‘Betrayer’ earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance along the way. Five years between full-lengths is the longest gap of their career. If Crown In The Grave is the record they say it is, it’ll earn a place on any list of essential modern metalcore albums, and the title track suggests it might.

TL;DR

• The new Trivium album, Crown In The Grave, is out November 20 on Roadrunner Records; the title track and its Pavel Trebukhin video are out now.
• It’s built on Kurosawa’s Throne Of Blood (Macbeth in feudal Japan) and 1950s–70s Japanese horror; produced by Josh Wilbur, mixed by Jacob Hansen, written and recorded at the band’s Hangar in Orlando.
• Alex Rüdinger is now an official member, eleven years after nearly joining in 2015.
• Twelve tracks, opening with ‘Jorōgumo’ and closing with ‘Serpent In The Flame’.
• North American tour with In Flames, Orbit Culture, Fit For An Autopsy and Frozen Soul runs November 5 (St. Petersburg, FL) to December 19 (Charlotte, NC).

FAQ

Watch the ‘Crown In The Grave’ video below, then tell us on the Loaded Radio app where it lands against Ascendancy and Shogun. Trivium are on the stream all week.

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Over the last few years, Atlanta-based dance producer Nikki Nair has collaborated with people like Hudson Mohawke and the Avalanches. A couple of months ago, he released an EP called The Sick Dimension on dh2, George Daniel’s dance-focused Dirty Hit imprint. Now, he’s getting ready to release another EP on a different label.

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Rock has always been at its best when it challenges authority, and The Refusers continue that tradition with the release of their explosive new single, Conspiracy Theory. Fueled by blistering guitars, thunderous Hammond B3 organ, and unapologetic lyrics, the track is a rallying cry for anyone who feels the system has been rigged against ordinary […]

Mariusz Duda (ex-Riverside) has announced the line-up of the new incarnation of Lunatic Soul.
To date, Lunatic Soul has been exclusively a studio project.

Following the changes that took place earlier this year (when Duda decided to leave Riverside and focus exclusively on Lunatic Soul), it is now clear that the project is set to evolve into a full band.

Duda has shared a photo revealing the new quartet’s line-up, which sees him joined by guitarist Mateusz Owczarek (who previously made a guest appearance on “Wasteland” by Riverside, among other releases), keyboardist and music producer Michał Fox Król, and drummer Michał “Malina” Maliński.

The new full-band incarnation of Lunatic Soul, which Duda describes as combining his “two musical worlds to date with a completely new energy”, will make its debut in spring 2027 with a new album and…the first live shows in the project’s (now the band’s) history.

The upcoming new Lunatic Soul album will be released worldwide through InsideOutMusic.

Previously, Lunatic Soul’s latest, 8th studio album The World Under Unsun was released late October via InsideOutMusic.

The album reached the following international sales charts results upon release: Poland Album Charts # 2, Germany Album Charts # 71, Germany Rock & Metal Charts # 18, Switzerland Album Charts # 55, Scotland Album Charts # 56, UK Rock & Metal Charts # 3, USA Current Rock Albums # 45 and USA Current Digital Albums # 43.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Magda and Robert Srzedniccy at Serakos Studio, Warsaw, Poland, The World Under Unsun is a true double-album containing a total of 14 tracks across almost 90 minutes of playing time. The World Under Unsun is still available in the following formats and vinyl variants (All coming in Gatefold sleeve on 180g vinyl with 4page LP-Booklet) from InsideOutMusic in Europe:

• Ltd. 2CD Mediabook
• Gatefold Black 2LP / Unlimited
• Ltd. Gatefold Transparent Sun Yellow-Red Marbled 2LP (500x copies, available from InsideOutMusic, JPC, Just For Kicks Music, and Burning Shed)
• Ltd. Gatefold Brick Red 2LP (300x copies, available from Lunatic Soul)
• Digital Album

Lunatic Soul most recently also released a single entitled “Ardour (Reimagined Version)”.
“Ardour” originally appeared on the album The World Under Unsun, but this new version shows the song in a completely reimagined version.

Stay tuned for many more news and updates about Lunatic Soul’s next activities…

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Sons of Lioth is a Belgium based metal-punk band radiating a down to earth let’s go attitude. Twenty years in and still turning amps to eleven, the fierce fivepiece has recently concocted a new DIY treasure: A fresh EP containing six shiny songs, meandering in between old school heavy metal mayhem and straightforward punky mischief. […]