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Restless Spirit delivers their raw and authentic brand of heaviness with the music video "Red In Tooth And Claw" as the next advance single from their forthcoming self-titled album. You can check it out below. "Restless Spirit" is scheduled for release on May 8, 2026. "The track 'Red in Tooth and Claw' is one of the more straightforward songs th… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Sylosis has announced a formidable 6-date, co-headline run across the UK and Ireland in January 2027 with American deathcore bruisers Whitechapel. 200 Stab Wounds and Tribal Gaze will be joining as supports. This devastating package will also hit mainland Europe, with Whitechapel headlining these shows and Sylosis supporting. Sylosis stated: … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Live performances appear carefully planned, with security teams, stage crews, and safety systems working together to protect performers and audiences. 

Large productions often involve lighting rigs, pyrotechnics, heavy equipment, and massive crowds, all coordinated with strict timing.

Unexpected problems can still occur during concerts. 

Equipment failures, dangerous crowd behavior, and poorly timed stage effects have put artists in danger during performances before thousands of fans.

Well-known incidents nearly turned into deadly disasters. Musicians who spent years performing on major stages suddenly faced life-threatening situations while doing their jobs.

The examples we will provide today tell about onstage accidents in which famous performers barely escaped tragedy.

1. Frank Zappa – Casino Fire Caused by a Flare Gun

• Year: 1971
• Location: Montreux Casino, Switzerland.

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention performed inside the Montreux Casino during a concert that suddenly turned into chaos. During the show, an audience member fired a flare gun inside the venue.

Flare struck the ceiling and ignited part of the building. Flames quickly spread through the wooden structure of the casino. Smoke filled the concert hall while audience members rushed toward exits.

Zappa and his band stopped the performance immediately. Musicians, crew members, and concertgoers evacuated the building as fire continued to grow.

Fire destroyed the Montreux Casino completely. Musical equipment belonging to the band was lost in the blaze. No deaths occurred, though the destruction of the venue shocked the music world.

Smoke rising above Lake Geneva later inspired Deep Purple to write the famous song “Smoke on the Water,” turning a terrifying night into rock history.

2. James Hetfield – Metallica Pyrotechnic Explosion

• Year: 1992
• Tour: Guns N’ Roses and Metallica Stadium Tour in Montreal.

Metallica performed during a massive stadium tour stop in Montreal when a dangerous stage malfunction occurred. Pyrotechnic flame jets were programmed to erupt at specific moments during the show.

James Hetfield walked across the stage during a guitar part, unaware that the flames were about to fire. Pyrotechnics ignited earlier than expected.

A large fire burst directly in front of him, engulfing him in a sudden fireball. Flames burned his arm, hands, and parts of his face.

Crew members rushed to assist him while medical staff prepared emergency treatment. The concert stopped immediately as Hetfield was taken to a hospital for treatment of severe burns.

The incident became one of the most infamous accidents in rock concert history. The remaining members of Metallica could not continue performing that night.

Serious stage accidents like this sometimes lead victims to seek help from a PI lawyer to determine whether negligence or safety failures contributed to the incident.

3. Curtis Mayfield – Stage Lighting Collapse

• Year: 1990
• Location: Outdoor concert in Brooklyn.

 

Curtis Mayfield was prepared to perform during an outdoor concert when weather conditions suddenly changed. Strong winds and rain struck the event area.

Heavy lighting towers positioned above the stage began to sway. One lighting structure collapsed during the storm.

Falling rig struck Mayfield while he was onstage. The impact caused devastating spinal injuries.

Medical crews rushed him to a hospital. Doctors later confirmed that the accident left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Career as a live performer ended because of the injury. Despite the tragedy, Mayfield continued creating music and recording albums afterward.

4. Michael Jackson – Pyrotechnic Hair Fire

• Year: 1984
• Event: Filming of a Pepsi commercial designed to resemble a live concert.

Michael Jackson performed during the production of a commercial featuring stage lighting and pyrotechnic effects. Scene required fireworks to explode behind him as he walked down a set of stairs.

Pyrotechnics detonated too early during one take. Sparks ignited Jackson’s hair while cameras continued recording.

 

Flames burned his scalp before crew members rushed forward to extinguish the fire. Jackson suffered second-degree burns to his head.

Hospital treatment followed, along with several surgeries connected to the injury. The incident caused long-term physical effects and became one of the most widely reported accidents in entertainment history.

5. Keith Moon – Collapses During a Concert

• Date: 1973
• Band: The Who.

Keith Moon, legendary drummer of The Who, experienced a frightening medical emergency during a live concert. While performing behind his drum kit, he suddenly collapsed mid-song.

Music stopped as band members realized something was wrong. Crew members rushed onto the stage to assist him.

Medical attention was provided while the concert paused. The audience waited as band members considered how to continue.

After Moon was taken away for treatment, the band faced a difficult decision. A fan in the audience was invited onto the stage to help finish the set on drums.

The situation became one of the strangest emergency moments in rock concert history.

6. Ariana Grande – Dangerous Object Thrown From Crowd

• Date: 2025
• Location: “Wicked” movie promotional event

Pop concerts often place performers only a short distance away from large crowds. During one Ariana Grande performance, that proximity turned dangerous.

An object was thrown toward the stage by someone in the audience. Item struck Grande during the performance.

The moment shocked fans and interrupted the show. Security personnel reacted quickly and identified the source of the thrown object.

Performance resumed after the situation was controlled. The incident demonstrated how unpredictable crowd behavior can threaten performers during live events.

Artists regularly rely on security teams to prevent similar incidents during concerts attended by thousands of people.

7. Carl Perkins – Stage Fan Accident

• Year: 1962
• Location: Outdoor concert in Tennessee.

Rock and roll pioneer Carl Perkins faced a frightening situation during an outdoor performance. 

The stage area contained a large industrial metal fan used to cool equipment and performers.

The fan lacked a protective guard covering the spinning blades. Mechanical malfunction caused the fan to behave dangerously during the show.

Perkins came dangerously close to the exposed blades while performing. Serious injury could have occurred within seconds.

Quick reactions prevented a life-threatening accident. 

The situation demonstrated how poorly protected equipment can create major hazards during live shows.

Summary

Concert stages contain complex equipment, powerful lighting systems, and thousands of people gathered in one place.

Any mistake involving fire, structures, or crowd behavior can quickly turn a performance into a dangerous situation.

Several performers survived incidents that might have ended their careers or lives. 

Determination and passion for music often pushed them to continue performing even after terrifying accidents.

Do you ever hear a punk song and think, “Sure, I’d also like to overthrow the establishment, but couldn’t you learn to play guitar a bit better?” Have you ever found yourself embarrassed to be banging your head to a sick black metal riff written and performed by one of the world’s most repugnant lowlifes? Yes. So have thousands of our brethren in every squat and co-op from Greece to Iceland; and as is their wont, they have taken matters into their own grubby hands, pressing a huge variety of records that radiate out from the collision of metal and hardcore in every hue and shade, from the bilious How Hate is Hard to Define to the cerulean Archivist. Rosa Faenskap, unsurprisingly, fit themselves into the long-wavelength end of that rainbow.

Practicing a particularly dark and frostbitten form of Euro-Lefty-Black-Hardcore, Rosa Faenskap find themselves between the vicious pallor of Thurm and the sanguine rage of Svalbard, on occasion reflecting a few fleeting tones from the early Plebeian Grandstand records. Emil Vestre grinds out icy tremolo leads as jagged as they come, crashing and crackling in coupled cacaphony with vocalist Håvard Solli’s snarling bass; in the pre-breakdown chug and pick-scrape of “Faenskap for alltid,” you’d swear you were standing six feet away from their amplifier in a damp Oslo basement. Drummer Anders Jansvik’s performance is likewise big and booming. Whatever the trio might lack, it’s not energy.

Though Rosa Faenskap are pretty green, this sophomore record is remarkably focused, holding its space through force and fury, hammering a few riffs as harshly as possible before their close. “Den Svake Mannen” rides a rung-out arpeggio so continuously that you can still hear it when Vestre switches over to tremolos, but I’m never disappointed to hear them return to it halfway through the song. “Faenskap for Alltid” pursues a more straightforward black metal at first, expertly executing a couple of stock tremolo metal riffs with a panache that I’m surprised to hear outside of a Spectral Wound record before the band shift from blackened to bruising, stomping through a breakdown and proclaiming “faenskap for alltid!” again and again.

Ingenting Forblir’s success stands in part on the band’s canny writing, but is far more indebted to its quality of sound. The record’s production and mix, handled by the band in collaboration with Oskar Johnsen Ryd and Torfinn Sommerfeldt Lysne, respects the vitality of the material, sounding live and livid. My only complaint is that Jansvik’s drums can get buried during busy sections, in part due to a muffled snare tone. Despite a low-DR master, the record is dynamic where it needs to be; when the band leave Vestre alone and pensive with their guitar, the quiet registers, and I feel myself slipping a bit closer in towards the record.

“Jeg Våkner Snart” closes Ingenting Forblir as the band’s most ambitious and successful song, layering tremolo leads over gang vocals, retreating into quiet, reverberating melody, and ending in a boiling conflagration of noise. For a sophomore record leaner and meaner than the band’s 2023 debut, it’s just the right ending. Ingenting Forblir hardly breaks new musical ground, but Rosa Faenskap’s sour determination will likely propel it into my regular listening rotation this year. In practice, I might not be up for faenskap for alltid, but I’ll happily recommend faenskap for lenge.

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Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps MP3
Label: Fysisk Format
Websites: rosafaenskap.com | rosafaenskap.bandcamp.com
Releases Worldwide: March 6^th, 2026

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Takedown Festival have made an alteration to the line-up of the first day of their big weekender, and welcomed a legendary band to the party.

Due to an ongoing medical condition, Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons are no longer able to perform. And so, Therapy? have been brought into the fold. They will close out a day that will also see The Wildhearts, South of Salem, Kill The Light, InMe, Grumble Bee and more do their thing.

The festival’s own Kai Harris had this to say about the change: “As you will have heard, Phil Campbell has sadly had to withdraw from this year’s event. Phil’s health and family comes first of course and we are sure you will join all of us at Takedown Festival in wishing him a speedy recovery.”

Kai Harris continues to mention, “We are super grateful and beyond excited to announce a band very dear to our hearts that will be filling Phil Campbell & The Bastards sons very large boots. The very first band I saw at a big venue 34 years ago, purveyors of the finest bouncy riffage and hooks to die for, the mighty… THERAPY?”

The second day of the festival remains unchanged, with PRESIDENT headlining, joined by As It Is, Mouth Culture, Zetra, Vower, Lastelle, Artio, Graphic Nature, and loads more.

Takedown will be taking place on April 03 and 04 at the Guildhall in Portsmouth. Tickets are available now from right here.

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No false modesty here

Violet Grohl has announced the details of her debut full-length release and shared another taste of its timeless sound.

It’s going to be called ‘Be Sweet To Me’ and will be released on May 29 via Auroura Records / Republic Records / Island Records UK.

It’s a collection of songs that pulls from many of the bands from the 80s and 90s that Violet spent her childhood falling in love with, serving as a chance for her to pay tribute to the sounds that made her.

As she explains, “There’s something so powerful about that period of music, from the messaging to the visuals, it’s authentic and raw. Pixies, Soundgarden, Cocteau Twins, The Breeders, PJ Harvey, The Muffs, Björk, Alice in Chains, L7, Juliana Hatfield: I’ve listened to that stuff since I was a kid.”

The artwork looks like this:

Whilst the tracklisting looks like this:

1. THUM
2. 595
3. Bug In The Cake
4. Last Day I Loved You
5. Big Memory
6. Mobile Stars
7. Often Others
8. Applefish
9. Cool Buzz
10. Pool Of My Dream
11. Plastic Couch

You can also check out a taste of it right now in the form of ‘595’. A splattering of lo-fi grunge, delivering with the sort of irreverence and grit that is necessary, it’s a throwback to a vital turning point in music. Though despite pulling from a completely different point in time, it still feels wonderfully fresh and relevant, a skill that is often the hardest to master.

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Springsteen cover is the first single to be released from 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan

Posted on March 12th 2026, 11:10a.m.