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More than ten years have passed since Mika Tauriainen last appeared on a new release. The former Entwine vocalist now returns in an unexpectedly restrained setting, lending his voice to AFTER INFINITY’s “Whisper in the Air.” Released on September 15, 2026, the song is the latest preview of the Finnish melodic metal project’s second album, […]

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The final live sendoff for the heavy metal architects and the Prince Of Darkness.

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Trivium is kicking off a new chapter, and it sounds like the band brought its nastiest riffs along for the ride. The Grammy-nominated foursome- Matthew K. Heafy on vocals and guitar, Corey Beaulieu on guitar, Paolo Gregoletto on bass, and Alex Rüdinger behind the kit- just dropped “Dead Inside Of Me,” and it’s a statement of intent.

“Dead Inside Of Me” is the first taste of the band’s upcoming eleventh studio album, its first new material since 2021’s In The Court Of The Dragon. Further album details are still under wraps for now.

What is available right now is proof that the Florida quartet hasn’t lost a step. “Dead Inside Of Me” leans hard into modern thrash riffing, guitar-forward power grooves and pummeling rhythms, wrapped around melodies sharp enough to cut. And naturally, given it’s Trivium, the solos are not in short supply.

Pavel Trebukhin directed the song’s official video, a grim descent into the darker corners of the human mind, which you can watch below.

“‘Dead Inside Of Me’ was a song that came together at the end of a long day of writing new music last summer. It started with a riff I’d had kicking around for five or six years called ‘Slam’, looping over a simple groove,” explains Gregoletto. “A lot of the most fun song ideas come from blending two contrasting ideas together. Take a death metal riff and play it like a stadium rock song. Let the screaming and singing weave together until they feel like one voice. Being able to explain the idea that simply as the song was coming together helped keep us laser-focused and on track to see the vision through to the end.”

He finishes, “The song was loosely inspired by the Japanese concept of honne and tatemae, the tension between your true inner feelings and the mask you present to the outside world to hide them.”

Trivium also has a run of dates lined up, launching Nov. 5 in St. Petersburg, Fla. and closing out Dec. 19 in Charlotte for a North American headline tour with In Flames, Orbit Culture, Fit For An Autopsy and Frozen Soul in support. It’s a loaded bill from top to bottom.

“This fall’s Trivium tour is a huge one for us,” the band said when the run was first announced earlier this year. “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!”

Trivium‘s track record backs up the hype. In The Court Of The Dragon, the band’s tenth album, landed to critical acclaim in 2021 and picked up coverage from mainstream outlets like The New York Times, NPR, Forbes, Billboard, TechCrunch and Kotaku, alongside genre stalwarts Guitar World, Revolver, Alternative Press and more. Go back to 2005, and there’s Ascendancy, still considered a genre landmark, which Kerrang! named its Album Of The Year, went gold in the U.K. and sold past 500,000 copies worldwide. Metal Hammer later slotted it into the Top 15 of its ranking of the 100 greatest metal albums of the 21st century.

That record set off a run of six straight Top 25 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 and five consecutive Top 3 debuts on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart, a streak that carried through to 2017’s The Sin And The Sentence, which pushed the band’s cumulative streams past a quarter billion. “Betrayer” picked up a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal Performance along the way, and Decibel, Loudwire, Ultimate Guitar, MetalSucks and Metal Hammer were all in agreement, with the latter calling the band, “quite simply one of the best bands in modern metal.” 2020 brought What The Dead Men Say, produced by Trivium alongside Josh Wilbur, which debuted at No. 35 on the Billboard Top 200, No. 2 on the Top Current Albums chart, and No. 3 on both the Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts. Over the years, Trivium has shared stages with Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden , and plenty more, and has played major festivals including Download, Bloodstock, and Knotfest. The band’s Struck Dead EP came out in fall 2025.

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The Hellacopters have made it official: founding guitarist Dregen (born Andreas Tyrone Svensson) is out of the band for good, with his ongoing hand injury forcing the split.

The Hellacopters put out a statement Wednesday, Sept. 16, which Dregen also shared on his own social media. It reads, in full:

“As most of you know, Dregen hasn’t been playing with us for roughly three years now, due to his hand injury. All of us have been hoping that he would fully recover and return to the band at some point, but the tremendously sad fact is that the damage to his fingers is permanent. While he can still play some rhythm guitar most of our songs are just not doable anymore.

“As a founding member of the band, Dregen will always be a huge part of the family and he will continue to be with us in spirit. He has always had many cards up his sleeve and there is no doubt that he will pull out a few in the near future. LG Valeta, who has been filling in for him since the injury, will carry on with us going forward.”

Dregen co-founded The Hellacopters back in 1994 alongside Entombed drummer Nicke Andersson, at a time when Dregen was also holding down guitar duties in Backyard Babies. His last studio outing with The Hellacopters came on the band’s 1997 sophomore effort Payin’ The Dues, after which he stepped away to focus entirely on Backyard Babies.

The Hellacopters called it quits back in October 2007, closing out that chapter with Head Off, a covers collection that stood as the band’s seventh full-length. The breakup didn’t stick, though. Eight years on, the group got back together, kicking things off with a one-off slot at Sweden Rock Festival marking the 20th anniversary of debut album Supershitty To The Max!

Guitarist Robert “Strängen” Dahlqvist spent nearly a decade in The Hellacopters, joining in 1999 and sticking around until the band’s 2008 split. He died in February 2017 at 40.

Along the way, The Hellacopters picked up two gold certifications, took home a Swedish Grammy and a Kerrang!award, and have racked up hundreds of millions of streams.

The reunited lineup got back to studio work with Eyes Of Oblivion, released via Nuclear Blast in April 2022, their first collection of new material since Head Off. Less than three years later came Overdriver, out in January 2025.

Between those two records, The Hellacopters stayed busy on the road, sharing stages with Iron Maiden in Gothenburg in July 2022 and Ghost in Germany in June 2023, on top of their own headline dates across Europe. Feb. 16, 2024 brought a pair of reworked takes on 1999’s Grande Rock, packaged together as Grande Rock Revisited — one a remastered version of the original, the other a remixed and partially re-recorded companion imagining how the record might have sounded with Dregen still in the fold. Not long after, the band turned to new material, unveiling single “Stay With You” in May 2024 and pressing it as a limited seven-inch through Lightning Records.

Overdriver, The Hellacopters‘ ninth full-length, was tracked at Strawberry Studio & The Honk Palace and marked the first album the band handed entirely to guitarist/vocalist Nicke Andersson behind the boards.

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Horsepower! Horsepower! All this Polo on, I got Horsepower! Sorry. That’s not what this blog post is about. It’s just what I get stuck in my head whenever I see the word “Horsepower.” This particular blog post is about Charlotte Weinman, the Brooklyn-based indie rock musician who records under the name Horsepower. She doesn’t sound anything like 2 Chainz.

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(written by Islander) Today we again find ourselves in the favored position of premiering a song from an album by the long-running Czech death metal band Cutterred Flesh. We have done this twice before, for each of their two most recent albums before this newest one. The last time, three years ago, we praised “the […]

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Following the rapid sellout of London’s Royal Albert Hall, Dutch symphonic metal giants EPICA have announced The Symphonic Synergy European Tour. The exclusive production will bring the band together with a full orchestra and choir for 11 performances across 10 countries in autumn 2027. The tour will celebrate EPICA’s 25th anniversary with an expanded and […]

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