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Bad Wolves has released a new version of “Jolene” that finally features the voice of the woman who wrote it. The hard rock band’s take on Dolly Parton‘s 1974 hit now includes Parton‘s own vocals, and her estate approved the project. It arrives through Better Noise Music, and just like the band’s original cover from Aug. 31, proceeds go to Parton‘s Imagination Library, a program built around early childhood literacy.

Parton heard the band’s cover while she was alive, and her team later supplied previously recorded vocal stems, which Kent Wells mixed for this release. Earlier this month, Bad Wolves and Better Noise Music sat down with Parton‘s people at NOZ Studios to hear the finished track together for the first time. The session gave the band an idea: bring students from Nashville’s School Of Rock into the official video.

Allen Kovac, chairman of Better Noise Music, said the band and the students played the song with “raw passion, heavy grit, and zero compromise,” a fit for the independent streak Parton used to get the Imagination Library off the ground. He pointed to her father’s struggle with illiteracy as the spark for the program and urged other artists to use their own platforms to back it.

John Boecklin, the band’s founder, drummer and songwriter, said raising money for Parton‘s charity and working with the Nashville students were both highlights for the group. Angie McCreight, owner of Nashville School Of Rock, said Parton has long been a favorite among her students and staff, and that supporting the Imagination Library was a fitting way to honor her. The kids threw themselves into the shoot, according to McCreight, who added that Parton will always be a rock star at the school.

“Jolene With Dolly Parton” is available now on all major streaming and download platforms, and every stream or download helps put books in front of more children.

Parton launched the Imagination Library in 1995 in Sevier County, Tenn. It is the flagship effort of The Dollywood Foundation, and it has since gifted more than 300 million free books across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Republic of Ireland. Over three million books go out each month, with each enrolled child receiving one monthly from birth to age five at no cost to families.

When the cover was first announced in August, Boecklin explained that the band’s singer is a Parton fan who had posted clips of her performing the song, which pushed the group toward a metal version for its next album. Label CEO Dan Waite sent the finished demo to Parton‘s manager, Danny Nozell, and asked whether she would guest on it. Nozell played it for her, she liked what she heard, and she planned to head into the studio soon. The band sent stems to her engineers, then the news of her passing arrived. Boecklin said the group would donate proceeds to the Imagination Library in her honor.

Nozell added that Parton listened to the arrangement weeks earlier, gave it her full blessing and was excited to collaborate. Putting the track out on a Monday as a tribute, with proceeds going to the Imagination Library, was “exactly what Dolly and her team wanted,” he said.

On the lineup front, original singer Tommy Vext left Bad Wolves in 2021 and was replaced by Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz. Laskiewicz later departed to play bass for Falling In Reverse, and Sara “Killboy” Skinner took over vocals earlier this year.

This is not the band’s first charity tribute. In January 2018, Bad Wolves released a cover of The Cranberries‘ “Zombie” four days after the death of frontwoman Dolores O’Riordan, with proceeds going to her three children. O’Riordan was scheduled to record vocals for the track the day she died.

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“For this record, we really focused on writing towards something that would translate live really well.” That aim helped shape Born From Darkness Absolute, the third album from Sydney’s GOLGOTHAN REMAINS. Following live appearances including a tour with Dead Congregation and Concrete Winds, the quartet wanted to carry that physical intensity into their new material. […]

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Burning Witches is shopping for a new vocalist. The international power metal outfit announced Friday (Oct. 23) that singer Laura Guldemond has left after seven years. Jennifer Gruber of Fireborn will cover vocals on the road for now, and no permanent replacement has been named.

In a statement posted to social media, the band said it tried to find a way forward with Guldemond but ended up accepting her choice. The group thanked her for the shows, albums and memories, then made clear the machine keeps moving, with all announced dates staying on the calendar and Gruber taking the mic for the year-end run. Auditions for a full-time frontwoman are already underway.

The statement also stressed that “all announced shows will go ahead as planned.”

Guldemond posted her own message, saying she is proud of the four albums she made with the band and has no hard feelings. She told fans she stepped aside because “sometimes it’s simply time for a change when visions no longer fully align.” Her focus now shifts to her own music.

Burning Witches returns to the stage Nov. 7 at the Metal At Lust festival in Malta.

Guldemond, formerly of Dutch symphonic act Shadowrise, took over lead vocals in June 2019 after Seraina Telliexited that same month. Her live debut came at Sweden Rock Festival in Sölvesborg, Sweden, that June.

The band’s most recent release is its sixth album, Inquisition, which arrived in August 2025 through Napalm Records. Damir Eskic of Destruction and V.O. Pulver (Pro-Pain, Destruction) produced it, and founding guitarist Romana Kalkuhl shaped the songwriting.

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A not so lone U.S. date for 2027.

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Helping others without expecting recognition is at the heart of ‘Good To The Bone’, the new single and video from CRYSTAL BALL. Its message centres on kindness, resilience and staying true to yourself when circumstances become difficult. The release announcement presents the song as an uplifting expression of the Swiss band’s melodic hard rock, pairing […]

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LENG TCH’E’s return to recording now has its second half. Following September’s title track, ‘Voided’ completes Hammered Into Collapse, the Belgian band’s new EP, out today, 23 October 2026 via Season of Mist. The complete release runs for 4:55: The two songs develop a shared theme of collapse. According to the release announcement, ‘Hammered Into […]

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Filmed during the October 08th stop of their ‘Life Burns Faster’ residency.

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The horn introduction to CALLIDER’s ‘One Note’ became substantial enough to earn a track of its own. On the newly released The Explorer, it appears as ‘Stars, Wind and Sails (Embarking of the Hōkūleʻa)’, immediately before the song it originally introduced. “The arrangement starts with a long horn section intro which we split off into […]

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The group had the support of Parton’s estate for this latest version.

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