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  • Is a New Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Collaboration Coming?

    Former Fleetwood Mac couple mended their relationship with last year's 'Buckingham Nicks' reissue. Continue reading…

  • Austin’s Sinclair Noire Confronts the Surveillance State and Digital Panopticon in Video for ‘Blackshore”

    Sinclair Noire comes stomping out of Austin with their latest video for Blackshore like they’ve been locked in a back room with a busted television, a stack of J.G. Ballard paperbacks, and a police scanner that won’t shut up. Somewhere in that splendid civic sickness, they’ve found a beat fit for the age. This is darkwave with a dirty mirror held up to the digital state, gothic rock with nightclub nerve, industrial percussion with enough blunt-force momentum to make your ribs feel like they’ve joined the argument. Ethan Stafford leads the charge with the kind of presence that suggests a man who has seen the wires behind the walls and come back with a grin that is equal parts warning and dare.

    The track itself moves with severe purpose. Cold synth lines spread out like fluorescent weather over Stephen Fernandez’s bass, which carries the tune with a lean, limber menace, while Von Dasa’s drums keep landing like steel doors slamming in some municipal basement where all the ugly truths get filed and forgotten. The guitars cut in at just the right moments, bent and needling, like somebody etching bad news into the side of a train. William Faith’s mix gives the whole thing a hard gleam without sanding off the abrasion, and that matters because Blackshore lives on abrasion. It feeds on it.

    What Stafford and company are chasing here is bigger than atmosphere and smarter than mere alarm. “Blackshore is our current moment,” says Ethan Stafford. “A parasocial macrocosm under constant watch, where even dissent is observed, indexed, and co-opted. The video captures the tension between chaos, altered states of consciousness, and the fragmentation of reality by technologies like artificial intelligence. From the streets, to the nightclub, to the stage; and the struggle to assert agency in a world that constantly erodes it with surveillance.”

    That could read like mere theory if the band didn’t make it feel so bodily, so bruising, so close to the skin. This track understands that modern control is slick, seductive, ridiculous, and rotten clear through.

    The video pushes that idea into a full-blown fever pageant. Stafford prowls city streets lit like a bad omen, wanders through protest wreckage, stares down a warped media circus populated by grotesques in Epstein and Charlie Kirk masks, then plunges into a nightclub chase that feels half pursuit, half possession. There’s a room scrawled with graffiti, a glitched rave, gang violence, cameras everywhere, and finally a purple-lit studio where power, lust, image, and authorship all get thrown into the same blender. By the time Von Dasa finds Stafford collapsed and the codename Blackshore flashes across every screen, the point has landed with ugly elegance: the machine can market your rebellion before you’ve even caught your breath.

    And then there’s that shouted line, “Our nation’s bloodied; the tempest’s fate!” – a grand, ragged cry that drags Shakespeare through the Epstein Files and somehow makes it sound appropriate for the republic we’ve built, this peep-show panopticon where every scandal gets swallowed, tagged, and sold back to us by morning.

    Watch the video for Blackshore below:

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  • Billy Morrison Debuts “Becoming” Featuring Godsmack’s Sully Erna & Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt

    A music video will be up in early April.

    The post Billy Morrison Debuts “Becoming” Featuring Godsmack’s Sully Erna & Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt appeared first on Theprp.com.

  • King Diamond Guitarist Andy La Rocque Says a 2026 Album Release is “Our Goal”

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    It feels like we’ve been talking about a new King Diamond record for a while now. Too long, really. At least since 2022, if not well before that. Well, it sounds like we might finally be getting closer to that album’s release, according to King Diamond guitarist Andy La Rocque.

    La Rocque recently appeared on the Pod Scum podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), where discussion fell onto the new record. When asked about a possible 2026 release, he was hopeful that things could end up that way.

    “I really hope so. That’s our goal. We have most of the songs. I sent [King Diamond], I think, eight songs, like, four years ago, and we decided to use three of those. And we actually played one live from those songs.

    “As soon as he’s done with this stuff — he’s gotta write five songs, I believe, and he’s got a lot of the stuff already written down, with the lyrics and everything. As soon as that’s recorded and arranged from his side, we can put the right guitars on, the right drums, bass, and everything. So I really hope it won’t take very long before we can continue working on that. And if that’s the case, we can start recording soon, and during the summer, then we have a chance for it to be released at the very end of the year.”

    Also during that interview, La Rocque explained how he tackles writing music for a King Diamond record versus how he does so for his own pieces.

    “It depends. Nowadays, King usually has a request for me to play the song the way he would like it to be played. So I probably play my songs a little bit differently than his songs, because I know that, for example, he doesn’t like when I play the rhythms with a vibrato kind of thing at the end of a riff or whatever, because that might be interacting with his vocals that come on later.

    “But on my songs, I just do what I feel is right to do. I mean, if it’s good for the song, it’s probably good. And if it doesn’t fit, when he puts the vocal on, I change it. But first of all, I just write what comes out of the heart. I don’t really care what other people think about the style or whatever. I just write my stuff, and it’s kind of based in the ’80s. I mean, standard tuning — we don’t tune down with King Diamond, so it’s standard tuning, pretty straightforward. And melodies are super essential. I think it’s so important to have melodies in the songs and create space for melodies, too, for the vocals. That’s really important.”

    Hopefully we’ll know more about a potential King Diamond album release. Fingers crossed that it happens this year… Finally…

    The post King Diamond Guitarist Andy La Rocque Says a 2026 Album Release is “Our Goal” appeared first on MetalSucks.

  • CATALYST CRIME Release Official Video For “Acquired Immunity”

    Cinematic symphonic metal collective CATALYST CRIME unveil the official video for “Acquired Immunity”, bringing a striking visual dimension to one of their most intense and genre-defying tracks to date. “Acquired Immunity” marks a turning point in the band’s evolving sound, showcasing a heavier, more aggressive and experimental direction. WATCH THE OFFICIAL VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/FvwhIjVymhw?si=1Uw0bx7NalNOL1_F STREAM THE SONG HERE: https://save-it.cc/massacre/acquired-immunity Driven by […]

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  • ARROGANZ unleash new video single ‘Under Scarred Skin’

    ARROGANZ reveal the next advance single ‘Under Scarred Skin‘ taken from the forthcoming new album “Death Doom Punks” in the shape of an eruptive music video. The seventh full-length of the German death doom punks has been slated for release on May 15, 2026. Pre-sale link: https://spkr.store/collections/arroganz ARROGANZ comment: “In terms of the music, this song is not just a tribute to such legends as Carcass, Dying Fetus, […]

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  • IRON SAVIOR Release New Album Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy ~ Unveil Video for “Maniac”

    Hamburg-based power metal veterans IRON SAVIOR return today with their brand-new album, Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy, out now via PERCEPTION–a division Of Reigning Phoenix Music. With this release, the band led by Piet Sielck transforms iconic ’80s hits into powerful, melodic metal anthems, blending nostalgia with the unmistakable IRON SAVIOR sound.

    The album is receiving strong praise: Rock Magazine writes it’s “surprisingly packed with strong hit potential!”, while Break Out Magazine confirms: “Damn powerful anthems, brilliantly executed by IRON SAVIOR!”. Stormbringer adds: “Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy is an album that proves one thing: nostalgia can sound pretty damn heavy when you run it through the IRON SAVIOR engine!”

    To celebrate the release, the band have also premiered a brand-new music video for their thunderous cover version of the Michael Sembello classic “Maniac”. The track perfectly showcases IRON SAVIOR’s ability to turn catchy pop structures into driving heavy metal, combining pulsating synth melodies with razor-sharp guitar riffs and a soaring, instantly memorable chorus. The result is an energetic reimagining that stays true to the spirit of the original while delivering a much heavier punch.

    Watch the new video for “Maniac” now streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVuLaJaKUEE

    After reigniting their cosmic engines with Machine World – Reforged in 2025, IRON SAVIOR embark on their boldest mission yet. With Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy, IRON SAVIOR tap into the heart of ’80s pop culture, combining nostalgia, passion and the band’s trademark precision and fire, proving that the past can shine brighter than ever when reforged in metal.

    Album Track Listing:
    01. Fame
    02. All I Need Is A Miracle
    03. When The Rain Begins To Fall
    04. Maniac
    05. Take On Me
    06. Relax
    07. What A Feeling
    08. Against All Odds
    09. Separate Ways
    10. Suburbia
    11. Here Comes The Rain Again
    12. She’s Like The Wind
    13. (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight
    14. Forever Young
    15. Since You Been Gone
    16. Call Me
    17. Catch Me I’m Falling

    “After the huge success of the 2002 Condition Red bonus track “Crazy” (SEAL), which was actually used in a HBO TV show, we have been asked by fans and medias almost constantly to do a complete cover tracks album,” Sielck recently said, and adds: “So… two decades later here we are!” quotes frontman Piet Sielck. “Awesome Anthems continues the transformation from pop-to-metal in IRON SAVIOR style as started with SEAL’s “Crazy” and EURYTHMICS’ “Sweet Dreams. We are absolutely proud of the outcome, which never loses the original vibe of the tracks but yet is 100% IRON SAVIOR. Just listen yourself… I guarantee a lot of smiles while doing so!” 

    From the electrifying rush of A-HA’s “Take On Me” and the thunderous drama of Phil Collins’ “Against All Odds” to the cinematic pulse of Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora’s “When The Rain Begins To Fall” and the adrenaline-fueled “Maniac”, IRON SAVIOR turn pop classics into heroic, melodic metal anthems. With Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy, IRON SAVIOR prove once more that great songs never age, they just get heavier!

    Order the album now at: https://ironsavior.rpm.link/awesomeanthemsPR

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  • MOONLIGHT HAZE “Moonlight Legion” video

    Moonlight Haze has released a video for “Moonlight Legion”, first single taken from the new EP “Interstellar Madness” to be released on May 22 by Scarlet Records. «We drew inspiration for “Moonlight Legion” from everything we’ve lived through over the years with the people who’ve been part of this band’s journey from day one. The […]

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  • Revisiting the Fender Telecaster Electric Guitar in 2026

    The Fender Telecaster felt big and heavy when I was a new guitar player. For the Fender 75th Anniversary sale, I gave it another shot.

    The post Revisiting the Fender Telecaster Electric Guitar in 2026 appeared first on Rockmommy.com.

  • March Madness Rd 3 – Vote for Best ’70s, ’80s, ’90s + ’00s Bands

    Vote now in the third round of Loudwire's March Madness: Decades of Destruction tournament Continue reading…