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The band’s last show saw Abbath Doom Occulta throw down his guitar and walk offstage during the opening song.

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If you’ve got 16 minutes, you have enough time to hear Wellness, the debut album from the New York band of the same name. Comprised of members of Liturgy, Kayo Dot, Chepang, Heavenly Blue and the critically-underheard Massa Nera, Wellness is built on a foundation of vintage mathcore and emoviolence, with expected flourishes of black metal.

Clocking in at seven songs over the course of its runtime, Wellness give their songs just enough time to expand and unfold before bringing them to a halt. The guitars are jagged and explosive, propelled by drummer Leo Didkovsky. Vocally, Aeryn Santillan gives just as much, fitting a significant number of lyrics into the album’s short runtime.

Wellness sounds like the early 2000s. There is a constant barrage of riffs that wouldn’t feel out of place within the Ferret Music, Deathwish and Ebullition catalogues, filtered through a diverse group of musicians. The album officially comes out later this week on Third House Records, but Decibel is streaming it below.

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Nashville Materializer are a new group formed by brothers Chris and Conner Poole but their psych-tinged brand of chugging stoner/doom metal is captivating and effective. Their debut record, As the Body Flies, is on its way and Decibel has a preview of the album with “Unwind,” the latest single.

Stretched out over nearly eight minutes, “Unwind” coils and swirls as much as it embraces riff-first doom, recalling Queens of the Stone Age, Uncle Acid, Mastodon and Melvins all at once. Conner Poole sets the tone with his guitar playing, leaving plenty of room for the song to breathe, while Chris Poole builds and releases tension with his drumming.

“’Unwind’ serves as the mantra of As The Body Flies,” Materializer relay to Decibel. “A unique track that flirts with total dissonance and drone, while delivering some of the record’s heaviest moments.”

Speaking more generally about writing the album and making their first record as a duo, Materializer add:

“As The Body Flies is a cathartic release for us. The first record of a new project and a vulnerable look inside the years leading up to the beginning of Materializer. Putting this together has been an exciting and often puzzling experience figuring out a new writing process as a duo, and letting the songs lead the way. That process has led us to new song structures, new gear, and new sounds. We wanted to create the heaviest record we’ve been a part of while also leaning into our roots of melodic vocals, emphasizing on compression and release, chaos and serenity, and balancing the light and dark in a way that feels in harmony with the world around us.”

Wrapped up with some slick production, “Unwind” is a powerful statement of intent from the fledgling Materializer. Check it out below (along with a video made by the band) and hit their Bandcamp to hear more. As the Body Flies is out on October 2.

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We haven’t heard from Seattle’s Spiral XP since their 2024 full-length debut, I Wish I Was A Rat. The band is back today, announcing a new lineup and a forthcoming EP titled Blue Earth.

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US-based rising instrumental progressive metallers, Sometime In February, are excited to release a brand-new track titled “Nightlight”. Coming off the back of a string of Summer US live dates, the track is an exciting taste of what is to come.

Tristan Auman comments: “’Nightlight’ was written in a headspace similar to our 2024 single “Hiding Place.” While in the trenches of writing our next record, we wanted to stretch our legs and write something free from the bounds of a bigger picture, and lean into styles that we may only dip our toes into. For this single, it was early-2010s era progressive metal/djent, something we appreciate but usually avoid when writing. In true SIF fashion, it also includes fun and upbeat highs, melodramatic lows, and singable hooks that might make you forget we’re an instrumental band.”

In 2023, the band introduced themselves with their first single under InsideOut, titled “Hiding Place”, which showcased their melodic approach. Now, with a full album of new material, Sometime in February presents 11 captivating tracks, from the fusion-metal opener “Palantir” to the progressive complexity of “Outside In” to the blues-infused, prog-metal closer “Funeral House”.

The trio’s connections extend into the progressive music world, featuring collaborations with Between the Buried and Me members Paul Waggoner and Dan Briggs. Tristan had been working for Waggoner in a local coffee shop. After getting to know Tristan, he went to see the band and was impressed by their live performance. He later invited Auman to fill in alongside Paul on BTBAM gigs. In return, Waggoner contributed to the track “The Bad Fight” and appeared in the music video. “I had a part open for him on the song,” Auman recalls. “He sent over some ideas, and they were perfect, as expected.”

Briggs added a unique touch, playing textural elements and additional instruments like mandolin, rather than bass. The BTBAM connection also extended to the album’s mixing, handled by engineer Jamie King, who previously worked with Scott’s former band, Trees on Mars. “Tristan knew right away he wanted to work with Jamie, and I was all for it,” Scott says. “Jamie was great in the studio with a positive vibe the whole time.”

To enhance the album’s sound design, the band brought in Eric Guenther, keyboardist for The Contortionist. “We discussed sound design, and The Contortionist was at the top of our list,” Morgan explains. “Eric was our first choice, and he was on board right away. He had seen Tristan on the BTBAM tour, and he elevated the entire project with his contributions.”

For Tristan, Where Mountains Hide represents a step forward, with an uplifting and optimistic feel. “For this album, I wanted the songs to stand alone more, instead of making everything flow together like typical prog albums. But in the end, it naturally felt cohesive. The album has a grand and fantastical vibe, and with instrumental music, it can be challenging to create a specific atmosphere, but that’s what I aimed for.”

Where Mountains Hide is available as a Limited CD Digipak, Limited Edition Coloured Vinyl (both including bonus track) & as a Digital Album. It can now be ordered here.

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The circularity continues.

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Don’t you know I could love you better

Be your release when you’re under pressure

All that you hold, we could hold together

I could be, I would be if you let me 

Somewhere inside I Could Love You is a person pacing around a room, rehearsing the case for why somebody ought to love them back. Every argument has already been prepared: I understand you, I can carry some of this weight, I can protect you, I can give you something better. None of it changes the verdict. With this new single, Midniter takes us somewhere between genuine tenderness and the dangerous confidence of believing you know what another person needs.

Nic Pugh sings it without burying himself beneath theatrical anguish. The melody keeps drawing him toward the same impossible proposition, while piano and synthesizers give the track a strange openness, almost too much room for these thoughts to wander around unchecked. You can hear why Pugh calls it a ballad, although its emotional center feels closer to fixation slowly becoming aware of itself.

“I Could Love You came from an old piano tune that I never finished,” Pugh reflects. “The bookends of the song are directly from that idea, with the middle evolving into a more synthpop direction for Midniter. To me, it’s a pretty standard ballad about unrequited love – a tale as old as time that everyone can understand.”

The interesting part is how quickly “I could love you” changes meaning when repeated often enough. At first it sounds generous. Later it begins carrying frustration, entitlement, bargaining, hope, and the awful knowledge that intimacy cannot be argued into existence. Pugh keeps returning to the same emotional doorstep because leaving would require admitting that closeness has limits, and that another person can feel affection without crossing the line you desperately want erased.

The video carries on this uncertainty, and wisely leaves plenty unexplained. Dustie Bayer moves through quiet Charlotte locations while dancers Audrey Baran, Faith Centa, and Donovan Granville turn physical proximity into something unstable. Bodies meet, separate, lean toward one another, then occupy their own space again. Pugh appears with Joe Boyland and Dan Hitzelberger behind a backlit white bedsheet, reduced to silhouettes, as though desire itself has flattened everyone involved into shapes onto which meaning can be projected.

“The video is more ambiguous, playing with the question, ‘Is this about desire, obsession, or both?’ It’s ultimately your call to make. Our goal with this video was to focus more on mood than narrative. It was more important to live in these feelings of distance and longing than explain why they linger. The dancers, our friends from Baran Dance, were instrumental in carrying those moods throughout the video with their choreography. Our main actress Dustie Bayer was also incredible in her debut.”

Watch below:

Loving somebody from afar can feel noble when told from inside your own head. Midniter lets enough doubt creep into the room to make that certainty increasingly difficult to trust.

I Could Love You is out now, coinciding with the launch of vinyl LP pre-orders for Xeno through SugarTank! Records’ new website. Xeno will be released on 27 October 2026. Listen to I Could Love You below and order the track here.

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Kelly Osbourne has given the most open interview of her life, and at the center of it is a conversation she had with her father three days before he died. Ozzy sat her down, told her he knew he wasn’t going to be around forever, and said something she’s now repeated in public for the first time. She also revealed that in the months after losing him she fell apart completely — and that she is now eight months sober.

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What Ozzy told her

Speaking to Paul C. Brunson on the We Need to Talk podcast, Kelly said her father knew he was going to die.

About three days before his death on July 22, 2025, he sat her down for a talk.

Her account of what he said:

“I need you to know something… No matter what happens in this life, you can live the rest of your life knowing that there was one man on this planet that truly loved you for every single thing that you are. And that man is me.”

He reminded her he wasn’t going to be alive forever. And — this is the part that tells you he’d thought about it — he acknowledged that she had struggled with feeling loved.

She cried through the conversation. He died three days later.

Her verdict on it now: everything he told her would happen has happened. Every warning, every person he told her to stay away from, all of it.

That’s not a man saying goodbye. That’s a man doing one last piece of work for his daughter, knowing he had days left, and making sure the one thing she’d need to hear for the rest of her life was said out loud while he could still say it.

He knew

The other thing Kelly confirmed is the part fans have wondered about since July 2025.

He knew.

She praised her mother Sharon for putting together Back To The Beginning, the Black Sabbath farewell concert at Villa Park that took place seventeen days before he died.

Her words: her mum allowed him to die the happiest she’d ever seen him. All he wanted before he left this planet was one last show — one more chance to let his fans know how grateful he was for the life they’d allowed him to have, and how much he loved them. And to say goodbye.

And then the detail that recontextualises that entire evening.

She knew he was ready to die. Which is why he sang despite his doctors warning him it would probably kill him.

He did it anyway.

Kelly described watching him struggle for so long — the Parkinson’s, the injuries from years before — as insufferable. He was 76.

Anyone who watched that Villa Park footage and felt something they couldn’t name — that’s what it was. Everyone on that stage and most of the people in that stadium understood what they were watching, and he went out and did it regardless.

What happened to her afterwards

This is the part that takes some courage to say out loud, and she says it without any hedging at all.

Her opening line on it is remarkable: losing her father taught her that there is an honour in grief, because it meant she had loved, and was capable of loving, someone so much that she lost her mind.

Then the plain version. She was a shell of herself. She couldn’t speak, couldn’t eat, couldn’t do anything. Empty, broken in every way a human can be broken, and completely unable to take care of herself.

“I was at ground zero. I started drinking again. I lost my mind. I couldn’t handle it.”

And then, in the same breath:

“I can honestly say today that I’m eight months sober and I have the most incredible people around me.”

Eight months. Counted, and said in public on a podcast, which is not a small thing to do.

She’s also been clear-eyed about what it cost her socially. She closed her circle, and she lost a lot of friends — because, as she put it, people don’t like sadness. They expected her to be over it.

“I’ll never be over it. I’ll never ever be over it.”

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The BRIT Awards, and what people did

Worth covering because she raised it, and because what happened was genuinely indefensible.

In the middle of all of that, Kelly joined Sharon on stage at the BRIT Awards to accept a lifetime achievement award for Ozzy. It should have been a night about her father.

Instead the internet spent it commenting on how she looked.

Her account is difficult to read. She says she didn’t know what she looked like — she didn’t see it, she was so unwell that she didn’t see it. Then she saw the pictures.

And then the observation that should stop anyone who joined in:

“If I had cancer, people would be like, ‘You look great, bravo. How brave of you.’ But no, what I was suffering from was mental health issues and grief. And I got literally assassinated over something that should’ve been about my dad and his legacy.”

She said it makes her sad to see the state of the world — that people could be so cruel, and how does that make them feel good.

She also said, fairly, that it did one useful thing: it let her see what other people were seeing, and it was a wake-up call. But there was a great deal more going on in her life that she can’t talk about.

I’d add one thing to that as someone who’s worked in this industry a long time. The people who type that stuff have no idea what’s happening in the life of the person they’re typing about, and they never stop to wonder. She was burying her father. That was the whole story, and it was available to anyone who thought for two seconds.

Where she is now

Eight months sober. A closed circle. And a stated intention to stop letting other people define her.

On what she’s learned about herself: she’s good enough on her own. She doesn’t need to just be Ozzy Osbourne’s daughter. She’s her own person, she can do it alone, and she never relied on her parents for that.

And on the narrative: she’s sick of everyone else trying to control the story of who she is. She gets to say who she is. And if she gets it wrong, she’ll own it and move on.

She’s also making a three-part documentary about her grief and her mental health in the wake of Ozzy’s death — which, given how openly she’s talking about all of this already, is likely to be a considerably more useful piece of work than most celebrity documentaries.

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The thing worth sitting with

Ozzy Osbourne spent fifty-odd years being the most cartooned man in rock music. The bat, the ants, the reality show, the mumbling, the myth. Most of the stories people tell about him are about chaos.

And in the last week of his life, knowing exactly what was coming, what he did was sit his daughter down and make sure she knew somebody had loved her completely.

He’d already done the show. He’d already said goodbye to the band and to the fans, on a stage in Birmingham, against medical advice, because he wanted to. That was the public work.

Then he did the private work. Three days out. One conversation. One sentence she’ll carry for the rest of her life.

That’s not the Prince of Darkness. That’s a dad.

TL;DR

• Kelly Osbourne, speaking on the We Need to Talk podcast with Paul C. Brunson, has revealed a conversation she had with Ozzy roughly three days before his death on July 22, 2025.
• What he told her: that no matter what happened in her life, she could live the rest of it knowing there was one man on the planet who truly loved her for every single thing she is — and that man was him.
• He knew he was going to die, according to Kelly, and acknowledged in that conversation that she had struggled with feeling loved.
• She credits Sharon with organising Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning concert seventeen days before his death, saying it allowed him to die the happiest she’d ever seen him.
• He performed despite doctors warning him it would likely kill him — Kelly says she knew he was ready.
• She fell apart afterwards, describing herself as a shell of herself and unable to take care of herself, and said she started drinking again.
• She is now eight months sober, with a closed circle of people around her.
• On the BRIT Awards body shaming: she noted that if she’d had cancer people would have called her brave, but because she was suffering from grief and mental health issues she was torn apart instead.
• She is making a three-part documentary about her grief and mental health.

FAQ

If you or someone you know is struggling, support is available. In the US, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free and available 24/7 by calling or texting 988. SAMHSA’s National Helpline for substance use is 1-800-662-4357.

Three days out, knowing exactly what was coming, and what he chose to do was make sure his daughter knew. Rest easy, Ozzy. And keep it locked on the Loaded Radio stream — follow Loaded Radio for daily rock and metal news.

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200 Stab Wounds is coming back in 2027 with Lowest Form, set for release Feb. 19 via Metal Blade Records. The eight-track follow-up to the acclaimed Manual Manic Procedures was produced, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk(Power Trip, Cavalera), with artwork from James Bousema (Municipal Waste, Frozen Soul), and finds the band sharpening its signature blend of brutal death metal, monster riffs and hooks that actually stick.

Built on the same old-school brutality that’s defined 200 Stab Wounds since day one, Lowest Form trims the fat, tightens the dynamics and widens the atmosphere without dulling any of the intensity.

Since arriving on the scene, 200 Stab Wounds has carved out a spot as one of modern death metal’s most exciting forces, driven by relentless touring, a punishing live show and songs built to stick around. With Lowest Form, Steve Buhl (vocals, guitars), Raymond Macdonald (guitars), Todd Thompson (bass) and Owen Pooley (drums) deliver their strongest batch of songs yet, mixing full-throttle aggression with sharper pacing, arrangements that stand out and a tension that only gets better on replay.

The bones are still unmistakably 200 Stab Wounds, but Lowest Form shows a band writing with more confidence across the board. The riffs land harder because they’re given space, the pacing swings naturally between chaos and quiet tension, and every track carries its own identity while still feeding into the record as a whole. Atmospheric synth interludes add texture without crowding out the guitars, and a spoken-word passage on “Symbolic In Glory” shows the band’s willingness to stretch its sound in service of the song rather than just for the sake of it. The end result stays rooted in classic death metal while pushing the band’s songwriting into sharper, more focused territory.

“We are very excited to finally release Lowest Form to the world,” the band says. “We’ve worked harder on this record than anything else in our lives. We’re really proud of this one, and we hope you guys enjoy it as much as we do. See you somewhere in the world. Here’s to a new chapter.”

That new chapter opens with lead single “Pangs Of Conscience,” a track that balances the record’s aggression with a heavier dose of introspection. Driven by the band’s usual ferocity while digging into self-reflection, accountability and growth, the song sets the tone for an album that pairs trademark heaviness with more dynamic contrast and more personal lyrics.

“This song is about entering a point in your life where you find yourself sometimes making mistakes that go against who you really are as a human, and having to find yourself again,” the band explains. “This song is one of the most dynamic musically and lyrically that we’ve done, and we’re really proud of it.”

200 Stab Wounds is:

Steve Buhl / Vocals and Guitars
Raymond Macdonald / Guitars
Todd Thompson / Bass
Owen Pooley / Drums

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The sideshow schedule for this year’s ‘Good Things Festival’ is in.

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