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Album Review: Resurrected – Perpetual

Reviewed by Eric Clifford

Resurrected play a cancerous strain of deathgrind with comorbidities from Cannibal Corpse to Carcass to Aborted, and if that sounds like a good time to you then it’s probably because it is. Fat riffs like over-ripe cysts, the coarse fuzz of wire wool scraped over raw wounds. This is very comfortable territory for me; the blast and groove, the commitment to revolting, tasteless heaviness, the gurgle of the grime through the slaughterhouse grate. And you will notice that Cannibal Corpse influence by the way; “Sanity is Lost” is the spitting image of a latter day Corpsegrinder cut that would’ve slipped, noctambulant and murderous, onto “Evisceration Plague” with ease. It’s the intricate but offensively heavy chug riffs with the quick-time hi-hat shimmering away over a kick-snare pattern that hits like a life sentence, only to drop with a heaving lurch into a drooling, inbred Uruk-Hai of a thrash riff. In other places Resurrected opt for a crippling slam salvo (“Decomposed”), kick drums firing away with ankle-snapping vigour. Powerchord hatchets slice into backbones of writhing tremolo lines; Exhumed among a hundred others have trodden this path before, but, well, “If it isn’t broken” remains an axiom for a reason.

I’m not sure I’d consider it a flaw exactly, but what Resurrected bring to the table isn’t exactly the most original thing you might ever wish to consume. That’s not a dealbreaker for me because if every album I heard from now until the sun burned cold sounded like Cannibal Corpse and “Symphonies of Sickness” era Carcass, I would die happy. But it does mean that if you’re less lovestruck by deathgrind than I am then you’ll likely find less to enjoy than did I. It’s also not just other bands that they sound nervously close to – some riffs also seem a bit too similar for comfort with…other riffs that the band are playing mere songs distant. It’s a fair enough riff they have on “Forever Damned” at 1.36 – a jaunty lick centring around a pull-off onto an open string, but you’ll hear the like scattered here and there across the rest of the release (1.38 of “Echoes of Creation” for one example, 0.51 on “Into Mighty Death” for another) – never as wearing as repetition might imply, but noticeable nonetheless. Perhaps it was a necessary sacrifice in order to pen the sorts of spontaneous human combustion riffs they also have in the holster; “Echoes of Creation” opens with a riff designed to stress test bomb shelter ceilings – again, not a startlingly novel riff, two open string palm mutes into a power chord that ascends or descends with each iteration, but fuck if it doesn’t hit like rapid-onset food poisoning. There’s something of an apropos theme going on here, and someone with a sharper wit than mine could probably make a pithy quip about a band called Resurrected playing the same riffs we’ve been hearing since the late 80’s, but when it’s this much fun, who am I to argue with the path they’ve picked?

The bass is a throaty rumble, minotaur brawn hitched to a fretboard chugging away like someone strung it with overhead pylon cables that the bassist has to rambunctiously twat with a hammer to play. The snare halberds through the mix in a way I find instantly gratifying; you do sometimes get releases wherein the drummer is blasting his ass off only to find himself buried somewhere in the overall mire of sound. I want snare hits to go through me like a vindaloo fired from a railgun, so it’s an inestimable delight to report that not once was a solitary decibel shaved from the drum performance. They even pull off something I’m generally sceptical of – a cover. Malevolent Creation’s “Infernal Desire” makes for an undeniably effective climax that fits into the album’s repertoire seamlessly. I might even prefer it to the original, but that could more be a result of me having barely listened to Malevolent Creation before. I should probably do something about that, but if and when I do, it will be as a result of Resurrected doing them sterling justice as a capstone for their own efforts – regardless of how much I feel as though bowing out on a cover version risks overshadowing your own work with someone else’s.

“Perpetual” was, on the whole, a blast. It’s the sort of joyously antisocial yet familiar racket that your gran thinks all heavy metal sounds like, and by rights it ought to leave any slavering genre fanboy (me, in fewer words) rapturous. This stuff never gets old, and in forty years when i’m drooling away in a nursing home forgotten by my relatives it’ll doubtless still prompt bouts of geriatric neck trauma from me. If you’re less enamoured with this stuff it won’t convert you, but for those of you who have acquired the taste for this breed of rotteness it will doubtless leave a grin plastered on your mug that you could measure in miles.

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MONO Announces 13th Studio Album ‘Snowdrop’ / Expands World Tour

LISTEN TO: WINTER DAPHNE

Snowdrop is the band’s first album made with Brad Wood (Touché Amore, The Smashing Pumpkins), following the passing of longtime collaborator and friend, Steve Albini. Snowdrop is out June 12, 2026 (Temporary Residence).

MONO’s “Winter Daphne” Statement 

“The language of flowers for the Winter Daphne is ‘the final surge of life’, ‘glory’ and ‘eternity’.

In the looming moment of the final parting, life erupted with a sense of pride. Our shared memories surged back like a revolving lantern. Then, a stillness slowly arrived and you transformed into light, departing peacefully for heaven.”

PRE-ORDER: SNOWDROP

SNOWDROP TRAILER

Chosen for both his familiarity with MONO’s creative and technical working process – as well as his decades-long friendship with Steve Albini – Brad Wood entered Albini’s storied Electrical Audio studios in September 2025 to record what would become Snowdrop. Once again working with Chicago-based conductor and orchestral musical director, Chad McCullough, MONO enlisted a 10-piece orchestra as well as an 8-piece choir for the eight massive pieces that make up Snowdrop. With the band performing and Wood recording in the same hallowed space where most of MONO’s records had been made in their quarter-century history, the songs on Snowdrop carry an extra weight. Mixed by Wood at his Seagrass home studio in Los Angeles, the album is equally intimate and enveloping. 

Where there could easily be a pall hanging over Snowdrop, there is instead an extraordinary air of gratitude. Rather than steep in heartache, there is a poignant appreciation for the resonance of life well-spent with a dear friend – and the yearning for what may come. Snowdrop is the sound of a band turning shock and sadness into hope and wonder – and finding renewed focus in the freedom of unknowing.

TRACK LISTING:    

1. Snowdrop

2. Winter Daphne

3. Gerbera

4. Statice

5. Herdera

6. Shion

7. Bells of Ireland

8. Farewell to Spring

TOUR DATES

ASIA 2026

Jul 3, 2026 / JP Tokyo / Spotify O-East
Jul 5, 2026 / JP Osaka / Yogibo Holy Mountain
Jul 10, 2026 / KR Seoul / Sangsang Madang
Jul 11, 2026 / TW Taipei / Sub Live
Jul 12, 2026 / HK Hong Kong / TIDES
Jul 14, 2026 / SG Singapore / Annexe Studio 

EUROPE 2027

Jan 30, 2027 / DE Berlin / Metropol
Jan 31, 2027 / DE Dresden / Beatpol
Feb 1, 2027 / DE Munich / Strom
Feb 3, 2027 / CH Bern / Dachstock
Feb 4, 2027 / FR Lyon / Marché Gare
Feb 6, 2027 / ES Barcelona / Sala Apolo
Feb 7, 2027 / ES Valencia / Sala Jerusalem
Feb 8, 2027 / ES Madrid / Sala But
Feb 10, 2027 / PT Lisbon / Lisboa ao Vivo
Feb 11, 2027 / PT Porto / Mouco
Feb 13, 2027 / ES San Sebastian / Dabadaba Club
Feb 14, 2027 / FR Mérignac / Le Krakatoa
Feb 15, 2027 / FR Nantes / Stereolux
Feb 16, 2027 / FR Paris / Cabaret Sauvage
Feb 17, 2027 / NL Utrecht / TivoliVredenburg
Feb 18, 2027 / BE Brussels / Le Botanique
Feb 20, 2027 / UK London / Electric Ballroom

AUSTRALIA 2027 

Apr 22, 2027 / AU Brisbane / The Tivoli
Apr 23, 2027 / AU Sydney / Manning Bar
Apr 24, 2027 / AU Melbourne / Max Watts
Apr 25, 2027 / AU Adelaide / The Gov
Apr 27, 2027 / AU Perth / The Rechabite

MONO Announces 13th Studio Album ‘Snowdrop’ / Expands World Tour

LISTEN TO: WINTER DAPHNE

Snowdrop is the band’s first album made with Brad Wood (Touché Amore, The Smashing Pumpkins), following the passing of longtime collaborator and friend, Steve Albini. Snowdrop is out June 12, 2026 (Temporary Residence).

MONO’s “Winter Daphne” Statement 

“The language of flowers for the Winter Daphne is ‘the final surge of life’, ‘glory’ and ‘eternity’.

In the looming moment of the final parting, life erupted with a sense of pride. Our shared memories surged back like a revolving lantern. Then, a stillness slowly arrived and you transformed into light, departing peacefully for heaven.”

PRE-ORDER: SNOWDROP

SNOWDROP TRAILER

Chosen for both his familiarity with MONO’s creative and technical working process – as well as his decades-long friendship with Steve Albini – Brad Wood entered Albini’s storied Electrical Audio studios in September 2025 to record what would become Snowdrop. Once again working with Chicago-based conductor and orchestral musical director, Chad McCullough, MONO enlisted a 10-piece orchestra as well as an 8-piece choir for the eight massive pieces that make up Snowdrop. With the band performing and Wood recording in the same hallowed space where most of MONO’s records had been made in their quarter-century history, the songs on Snowdrop carry an extra weight. Mixed by Wood at his Seagrass home studio in Los Angeles, the album is equally intimate and enveloping. 

Where there could easily be a pall hanging over Snowdrop, there is instead an extraordinary air of gratitude. Rather than steep in heartache, there is a poignant appreciation for the resonance of life well-spent with a dear friend – and the yearning for what may come. Snowdrop is the sound of a band turning shock and sadness into hope and wonder – and finding renewed focus in the freedom of unknowing.

TRACK LISTING:    

1. Snowdrop

2. Winter Daphne

3. Gerbera

4. Statice

5. Herdera

6. Shion

7. Bells of Ireland

8. Farewell to Spring

TOUR DATES

ASIA 2026

Jul 3, 2026 / JP Tokyo / Spotify O-East
Jul 5, 2026 / JP Osaka / Yogibo Holy Mountain
Jul 10, 2026 / KR Seoul / Sangsang Madang
Jul 11, 2026 / TW Taipei / Sub Live
Jul 12, 2026 / HK Hong Kong / TIDES
Jul 14, 2026 / SG Singapore / Annexe Studio 

EUROPE 2027

Jan 30, 2027 / DE Berlin / Metropol
Jan 31, 2027 / DE Dresden / Beatpol
Feb 1, 2027 / DE Munich / Strom
Feb 3, 2027 / CH Bern / Dachstock
Feb 4, 2027 / FR Lyon / Marché Gare
Feb 6, 2027 / ES Barcelona / Sala Apolo
Feb 7, 2027 / ES Valencia / Sala Jerusalem
Feb 8, 2027 / ES Madrid / Sala But
Feb 10, 2027 / PT Lisbon / Lisboa ao Vivo
Feb 11, 2027 / PT Porto / Mouco
Feb 13, 2027 / ES San Sebastian / Dabadaba Club
Feb 14, 2027 / FR Mérignac / Le Krakatoa
Feb 15, 2027 / FR Nantes / Stereolux
Feb 16, 2027 / FR Paris / Cabaret Sauvage
Feb 17, 2027 / NL Utrecht / TivoliVredenburg
Feb 18, 2027 / BE Brussels / Le Botanique
Feb 20, 2027 / UK London / Electric Ballroom

AUSTRALIA 2027 

Apr 22, 2027 / AU Brisbane / The Tivoli
Apr 23, 2027 / AU Sydney / Manning Bar
Apr 24, 2027 / AU Melbourne / Max Watts
Apr 25, 2027 / AU Adelaide / The Gov
Apr 27, 2027 / AU Perth / The Rechabite

Crimson Glory recently announced their brand new album ‘Chasing The Hydra‘, the first new album in 26 years. The album will be released worldwide on all digital services, CD and vinyl on April 17th via BraveWords Records. The early reviews have been incredible and today the band releases a new track to YouTube for the […]

The post Crimson Glory Release New Track ‘Beyond The Unknown’ appeared first on ROCKPOSER DOT COM.

VANA has returned with her first new music of 2026, and her hot streak is nowhere near close to coming to an end.

The track is called The track is titled ‘In Your Name’ and serves as the follow-up to the huge ‘Pray’, which has racked up over 3.7 million streams since its release last year.

An atmospheric, shimmering ballad that swiftly transforms into a contorted, blistering piece of metalcore battery, it further cements the incredible control over beauty and brutality that she possesses. Smooth as caramel one minute, razor-sharp the next, it’s a sign to always expect the unexpected.

VANA had this to say about what the song means to her, stating, “Falling in love is painful. Where there is equal love, there will inevitably be equal loss. Sometimes you fall in love even when it hurts you. Sometimes, loving someone you know is bad for you hurts less than grieving the loss of that love. “In Your Name” demonstrates how far some would go in the name of love, no matter how toxic that love may be.”

And whilst we are all here, let’s get stuck into ‘Pray’ as well, because what an incredible song.

VANA is set to hit the road on a big bad headline tour across the States. Here are the dates:

APRIL

17 – ATLANTA Masquerade (Hell)
18 – ORLANDO Conduit
19 – TAMPA Orpheum
21 – NORTH CAROLINA Hangar 1819
22 – PHILADELPHIA Foundry
23 – WASHINGTON Atlantis
25 – NEW YORK Gramercy
26 – BOSTON The Sinclair
28 – TORONTO Mod Club
29 – CLEVELAND Mahall’s

MAY

01 – CHICAGO Bottom Lounge
02 – MINNEAPOLIS Fine Line
03 – ST. LOUIS Delmar Hall
05 – KANSAS CITY Record Bar
07 – DENVER Bluebird
9 – SALT LAKE CITY The Grand @ The Complex
10 – BOISE Shrine Social
12 – SEATTLE The Croc
13 – PORTLAND Hawthorne
15 – SACRAMENTO Goldfield
16 – LOS ANGELES The Roxy
17 – ANAHEIM HOB Parish
19 – ARIZONA Crescent Ballroom
21 – AUSTIN CATIL
22 – HOUSTON Bad Astronaut
23 – DALLAS Puzzles
26 – NASHVILLE Basement East
28 – ALLANTOWN Arrow
29 – PITTSBURGH Thunderbird Music Hall
30 – LANSING Grewal Hall

JUNE

01 – LOUISVILLE Headliners Music Hall

The post VANA Releases Crushing New Track ‘In Your Name’ appeared first on Rock Sound.

When Is Slipknot’s “Look Outside Your Window” Coming Out?

A tentative wider release date of June 12 at 8AM is now showing online, while the Record Store Day vinyl edition is set for April 18 and limited to 2,300 copies worldwide.

TL;DR

• Look Outside Your Window is listed for Record Store Day 2026 on April 18 as a limited LP release.
• The Record Store Day listing shows 2,300 copies worldwide.
• A separate online listing reportedly points to June 12 at 8AM for a broader release, with CD and vinyl shown.
• A May 19 “go live” date strongly suggests pre-orders could open then, though that part still needs formal confirmation.
• The project comes from Shawn “Clown” Crahan, Corey Taylor, Jim Root and Sid Wilson, and it was created during the All Hope Is Gone era.
• This is not being framed as a standard Slipknot album.

The June 12 Date Changes The Conversation

For years, Look Outside Your Window lived in that frustrating Slipknot category where fans knew it existed but never knew when it would actually surface. That part has changed now. Once a real date starts showing up online, the story stops being “maybe someday” and turns into “how exactly are they rolling this out?”

That is the real hook here. Not whether the album exists. Not whether it was recorded. It is how much of this release is actually going wide beyond the collector crowd.

Record Store Day Is Still The First Real Battle

April 18 is the first date that actually counts for fans trying to own this thing.

Record Store Day’s 2026 listing confirms Look Outside Your Window as an LP release tied to this year’s event, with 2,300 copies worldwide. It is also presented under Look Outside Your Window rather than as a Slipknot studio album, which tells you a lot about how carefully this project is still being separated from the band’s main catalog.

That part matters less as trivia and more as warning. A run of 2,300 is not the kind of release you casually circle back to next week.

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The Wider Release Still Has One Big Gap

The reported June 12 listing is the part that makes this story bigger than Record Store Day, because it suggests the project is not stopping at a limited vinyl novelty. The problem is that the broader release picture still looks incomplete.

Right now, the formats being shown are physical. CD and vinyl are easy enough to understand. What is still not clear is whether Look Outside Your Window hits streaming platforms the same day, later, or not at all.

That is not a small omission. For a release that has been delayed, re-framed, and talked around for this long, the digital question is the line between cult artifact and full-scale event.

Why This Was Never Going To Sound Like Slipknot Proper

This project has always carried a built-in identity problem, and that is exactly why people are still fascinated by it.

Clown has said the material grew out of sessions during the making of All Hope Is Gone, with Jim Root there daily and Corey Taylor and Sid Wilson later becoming part of it, until it became something shared by the four of them. He also said that when they played it for people, the response was consistent: “It’s not Slipknot.”

That line has hovered over this album for years, and it still does. This was never about hidden Iowa leftovers or some secret ultra-heavy detour. It was always the opposite.

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The Radiohead Comparison Is Why Casual Fans Could Be Caught Off Guard

Corey Taylor has previously compared the material to Radiohead-era experimentation, which is about as clear a warning label as you can put on a project with Slipknot names attached.

That comparison should reset expectations immediately. Anyone clicking into this expecting a lost Slipknot rage record is probably going to have the wrong album in their head before the needle even drops.

And honestly, that is part of why this release has lingered in fan imagination for so long. It sits in the exact space Slipknot usually does not.

This Is Bigger Than A Curiosity Release

What makes Look Outside Your Window interesting now is timing.

Slipknot’s catalog already has its official eras, its core lineup arguments, its rankings fights, and its live-history mythology. This project cuts across all of that. It comes from a known period, with known members, but it refuses to behave like a normal entry in the band’s story.

That is why this should naturally feed readers into Loaded Radio’s existing Slipknot cluster, especially your pieces on the current lineup and your full album ranking. This story does not replace either of those pages. It makes them more clickable.

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What To Watch Between Now And Release

There are really only three things that matter from here:

1. Does May 19 become the real pre-order launch?

If that “go live” date holds, the rollout stops feeling half-hidden and starts feeling intentional.

2. Do streaming services get confirmed?

That decides whether this stays collector-heavy or reaches the wider fanbase fast.

3. How hard do they separate it from Slipknot branding?

That answer will shape how casual listeners interpret it before they hear a note.

That kind of left-turn, expectation-breaking record is exactly the sort of thing that works on the Loaded Radio stream when it finally lands. Not because it sounds like the obvious choice, but because it does not.

Two Songs From These Sessions Have Already Been Heard

Even though Look Outside Your Window has never been officially released as a full project, parts of these sessions have surfaced before — just not under that name.

Two tracks in particular connect directly back to these recordings:

• “Til We Die” — released as a bonus track on All Hope Is Gone
• “My Pain” — later reworked and included on We Are Not Your Kind (2019)

Both originated from the same experimental sessions that produced Look Outside Your Window, giving fans an early glimpse into how different this material really is.

These songs don’t behave like typical Slipknot tracks. They lean slower, more atmospheric, and far more experimental than anything tied to the band’s core identity — which lines up exactly with how the rest of this album has been described.

Where This Lands

If this lands the way it’s been described, it won’t be the kind of record people throw on once and move past — it’s the kind that slowly works its way into regular rotation. That’s exactly how tracks like this end up living on the Loaded Radio stream long after the initial reaction fades.

FAQ

Is “Look Outside Your Window” A Slipknot Album?

Not in the normal sense. Record Store Day’s listing presents it as Look Outside Your Window, and Clown has long described it as something outside the usual Slipknot framework.

When Is The Record Store Day Release?

April 18, 2026.

How Many Copies Are Being Released For Record Store Day?

2,300 copies worldwide.

Who Made “Look Outside Your Window”?

Shawn “Clown” Crahan, Corey Taylor, Jim Root and Sid Wilson were the core members involved in the project.

Is A Digital Release Confirmed?

No. Physical formats have been shown, but streaming and digital availability remain unclear.

Slipknot Bio

Slipknot are one of modern metal’s defining bands, known as much for reinvention as extremity. Across lineup shifts, stylistic turns, and side-paths that never fit the public image cleanly, they have built one of the deepest catalogs in heavy music. Look Outside Your Window stands out because it comes from inside that world while sounding like it was never meant to live comfortably there.

The post Slipknot “Look Outside Your Window” Release Date Appears Online — But The Full Rollout Is Still Unclear appeared first on Loaded Radio.

Kelela back! The consistently great post-genre artist released Raven, her most recent studio album, in 2023. Last year, she came out with an extremely cool live album called In The Blue Light and collaborated with Green-Light on the TRAИƧA compilation. Today, she returns with “idea 1,” a new single that seems to promise bigger things…

The post Kelela – “idea 1” appeared first on Stereogum.

Posted on April 8th 2026, 4:22p.m.