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Since first emerging from the underground with their distinctive blend of shoegaze, grunge, alternative rock and hardcore, Fleshwater have become one of the most talked-about bands in heavy music. This November, the Massachusetts outfit return to Australia for a national tour following a huge twelve months that has seen them release their acclaimed second album […]

Listen to the best in new, heavy music every week with HEAVY‘s new weekly HEAVY AUDIO MAG, featuring music from our weekly cover artist plus new premieres, hit predictions, and killer tracks we just know you want to listen to from bands featured over both digimags and some just because we want to put them […]

An early 2027 campaign has been booked.

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The band’s 2026 plans have been scrapped in turn.

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Our Top 10 Imagine Dragons Songs list features the best Imagine Dragons songs, including “Radioactive,” “Believer,” “It’s Time,” and more. Fellow Brigham Young University students Dan Reynolds and Andrew Tolman recruited Andrew Beck, Aurora Florence, and Dave Lemke in 2008 to form a rock band while they were in Provo, Utah. Together, they released their first extended play, Speak to Me, before Beck and Florence departed the band to pursue other interests. In 2009, Tolman brought Wayne Sermon on board as the band’s guitarist, along with Tolman’s wife, Brittany. When Lemke left, Sermon brought in Ben McKee, a fellow Berklee

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THE TITANIC DEBUT SELF-TITLED STUDIO ALBUM OF HEAVY ROCK AND METAL TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 9th, 2026

“UNBORN” THE DEBUT SINGLE & VIDEO OUT NOW!

Recently unveiled Norwegian Heavy Metal juggernaut-in-the-making AVRAK was founded in November 2023 by guitarists Anders Hegna (Nød, El Kayenne, Svidd Grevling) and Ted Skjellum; notable for being half of legendary duo, Darkthrone. The pair had known each other for many years, and with a mutual passion for old, classic rock and metal they finally embarked upon this new journey together under the banner of AVRAK.

It quickly became evident that both were on the same page, with AVRAK’s first compositions taking shape within just 5 days. Ted had declared from the beginning that he would not carry out main vocal duties in the band, and so it was Anders, with his own vocal grit a comfortable match anyway, who assumed the role. Several weeks later, Terje Kråbøl (Gjendød, Sarke, Faustcoven) was brought in on the drums and, from there-on, with his percussive presence backing up some thunderous riffing, the creative work accelerated, culminating in the self-titled, hook-laden and doom-laced rock debut, ‘AVRAK’.

“UNBORN” – THE DEBUT SINGLE – OUT NOW
STREAM / DOWNLOAD AND WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE

Suitably and epically defined as a monumental “Heavy Metal voyage from the peak of the mountains to the depths of the seas”, and delivering themes relating to empowerment in the face of increasingly corrupt times, ‘AVRAK’ is a combination of a vast multitude of influences, as the eclectic, deceptively nuanced nine track offering features a classic heavy metal and doom rock backbone, with further experimentation including synth passages, and even some traces of black metal riffing in its DNA.

PRE-ORDER ‘AVRAK’  HERE

‘AVRAK’ was recorded, mixed and mastered in Mølla Studio by Knut Magne Valle, in February 2026.

AVRAK subsequently held its debut show in their local town of Porsgrunn in late April 2026, backed by new bassist & final piece of the puzzle, Steinar Gundersen (Khold, Sarke, Satyricon), with more live shows intended in future to support the release.

1. Forever Mountain (04:45)
2. Unborn (04:45)
3. Long May The Lums Reek (05:22)
4. Rot (01:07)
5. Varde (04:31)
6. Cloaks Of Power (03:45)
7. The Lonely Shadow (05:32)
8. The Rift (05:55)
9. Hav (02:47)

AVRAK’ is to be released on 9^thOctober on CD, classic black vinyl LP,
silver vinyl LP & digitally

PRE-ORDERS ARE AVILABLE NOW HERE

AVRAK:
Anders Hegna – Guitars, vocals, bass
Ted Skjellum – Guitars, Moog guitar/synthesizer, additional vocals, effects
Terje Kråbøl– Drums
Steinar Gundersen – bassuitars, vocals, bass
Ted Skjellum – Guitars, Moog guitar/synthesizer, additional vocals, effects
Terje Kråbøl– Drums
Steinar Gundersen – bass

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Alt-pop favourites PARK RD have today announced that their highly-anticipated second studio album Boyhood will be released on Friday November 6. They’ve also shared another taste of what’s to come from the record with Fatal, which sees them teaming up with fellow Sydney-based musician Molly Millington. Boyhood is a collection of eleven songs that embrace […]

Multi-million streaming, UK-based collective PRESIDENT have today announced their first Australian headline tour. The announcement follows the recent reveal of the band’s debut full-length album, BLOOD OF YOUR EMPIRE, arriving September 4. Launching in 2025 and operating under the cloak of minimalism and anonymity, PRESIDENT have been cultivating intrigue with each single and live performance. […]

Grief has a strange relationship with distance. The dead may be unreachable in any practical sense, yet the mind keeps inventing routes toward them: dreams, remembered voices, photographs, coincidences that briefly acquire the weight of messages. Frankie Rose describes that nocturnal search with the rueful humour of someone who knows how unreliable the equipment can be.

Her latest single, Return To Dust, has intense emotional gravity. Drawn from Rose’s forthcoming album Hila, the song treats grief as a condition in which perception grows unstable, opening possibilities that daylight tends to dismiss. Rose’s voice hangs high in the arrangement, cool and clear against drums and synthesizers with considerable physical force beneath them. There are echoes of Enya’s suspended grandeur, PJ Harvey’s severity, the private ache of Cat Power, and the voluptuous gloom of Portishead; elsewhere, the guitar and vocal textures recall Cocteau Twins and the ceremonial grandeur of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

Rose has spent much of the past fifteen years refining her ability to make scale and solitude coexist. On Return To Dust, enormous spaces seem to open around a voice that remains remarkably intimate. The production has breadth without sacrificing detail, with each layer contributing to an impression of drifting farther from familiar coordinates while carrying something painfully terrestrial along for the ride.

“In my dreams I travel the cosmos and the astral realm looking for ones I’ve lost,” says Frankie Rose. “But I’m a pretty bad receiver, and I am pretty sure I keep missing what they’re trying to tell me.”

The self-directed video literalizes Rose’s celestial preoccupations with a playful montage that sends her wandering through the cosmos. She floats among stars and planetary vistas, appearing less like an astronaut conquering unknown territory than a traveller amusing herself while attempting an impossible form of correspondence. The homemade theatricality is crucial. Rather than turning bereavement into solemn science fiction, Rose permits herself whimsy, introducing the peculiar comedy of trying to locate the dead somewhere beyond the visible universe.

The video’s cosmic scenery therefore feels less like escape than an extension of mourning itself. Loss can make ordinary reality seem insufficient, sending the imagination searching for some hidden frequency on which absence might become communication. Rose understands the absurdity in that desire and allows it to remain absurd without diminishing its emotional force. Somewhere beyond the planets, perhaps, a message is being transmitted. For now, she is still turning the dial.

Watch the video for Return To Dust below:

The tension between wonder and uncertainty runs throughout Frankie Rose’s forthcoming album Hila. “Hila is a record about loss,” she says. “What persists beyond the range of ordinary perception? The place mourning keeps returning to — not quite transcendence, not quite doubt. The edge of what we can see.”

Self-produced in Rose’s home studio after extensive touring with The Jesus & Mary Chain and Swervedriver, the album also features drummer Justin Welch, known for his work with Elastica and Lush. Its darker passages draw from the esoteric menace of later Coil, the bodily propulsion of Skinny Puppy, and the otherworldly pop vocabulary associated with Cocteau Twins. Yet Return To Dust suggests that Rose’s fascination with these references has become increasingly personal. Genre provides the architecture; bereavement supplies the strange new physics.

Listen to Return To Dust below and order the single here. Hila is out September 18 via Born Losers Records worldwide outside the EU and UK, and Night School Records in the EU and UK. Order vinyl here.

North American Tour Dates:

• 9/5 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues %
• 9/6 – Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon $
• 9n – San Francisco, CA – Castro Theater %
• 9/10 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom %
• 9/11 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom %
• 9/12 – Seattle, WA – The Showbox %
• 9/5 – Minneapolis, MN – Cloudland Theater $
• 9/17 – Chicago, IL – Park West %
• 9/19 – Detroit, MI – El Club %
• 9/20 – Toronto, ON – Danforth Music Hall %
• 9/21 – Montreal, QC – Fairmont Theatre %
• 9/22 – Boston, MA – The Paradise Rock Club %
• 9/23 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer %
• 9/25 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring %
• 9/26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel %

% With The Charlatans, $ = Frankie Rose Headline

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Acclaimed musician, songwriter, and multidisciplinary artist Chelsea Wolfe today releases her acclaimed 9th studio album The Dark via Loma Vista Recordings. CD and vinyl editions will follow on September 18. The album release is accompanied by the thundering new single and video Seethe. Following a spellbinding, intimate, sold out show at London’s The Dome on […]