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Beartooth has detailed the U.S. leg of its “Pure Ecstasy” world tour — 23 dates with Don Broco, Magnolia Park and Windwaker on board for every show. Promoted by Live Nation, the run opens Nov. 11 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston and closes Dec. 19 at Hard Rock Live in Wheatland, California. It follows the band’s announcement of Pure Ecstasy, their upcoming album due Aug. 28 via Fearless Records.

Beartooth was formed in 2013 when vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Shomo, then recovering from a difficult stint in the heavy music world as a teenager, locked himself in a basement studio and recorded an entire batch of songs entirely by himself. What emerged was a band built on raw emotional honesty and melodic intensity. Across six albums, the band has piled up chart-topping results — 2023’s The Surface debuted at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Hard Rock Albums chart and delivered back-to-back No. 1 singles at both Active Rock and Mainstream Rock radio. The catalog has cleared 1.3 billion streams worldwide, including one RIAA-certified platinum single and one gold single.

Beartooth “Pure Ecstasy” fall 2026 U.S. tour dates (all dates with Don Broco, Magnolia Park and Windwaker):

• 11/11 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway
• 11/12 — New York, NY — Hammerstein Ballroom
• 11/13 — Philadelphia, PA — Franklin Music Hall
• 11/15 — Washington, DC — The Theater at MGM National Harbor
• 11/18 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE
• 11/20 — Chicago, IL — Aragon Ballroom
• 11/21 — St. Paul, MN — Myth
• 11/22 — Omaha, NE — Steelhouse Omaha
• 11/28 — Nashville, TN — The Truth
• 11/29 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy
• 12/01 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte
• 12/02 — Charleston, SC — The Refinery
• 12/04 — St. Augustine, FL — The St. Augustine Amphitheatre
• 12/05 — Ft. Lauderdale, FL — FTL War Memorial Auditorium
• 12/07 — New Orleans, LA — The Fillmore New Orleans
• 12/09 — Austin, TX — ACL Live at the Moody Theater
• 12/10 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom
• 12/12 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium
• 12/13 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union Event Center
• 12/15 — Albuquerque, NM — Revel Entertainment Center
• 12/16 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre
• 12/18 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium
• 12/19 — Wheatland, CA — Hard Rock Live

Beartooth “Pure Ecstasy” Australian tour dates (with Silverstein, Fit for a King and Volumes):

• 01/26 — Adelaide, AUS — Thebarton Theatre
• 01/28 — Melbourne, AUS — Festival Hall
• 01/30 — Sydney, AUS — Hordern Pavilion
• 01/31 — Brisbane, AUS — Fortitude Music Hall

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Kings of Thrash has released “Bullets Ready” via Cleopatra Records, a new original single featuring a vocal duet between guitarist and vocalist Chaz Leon and Gabriel Connor, frontman of Los Angeles theatrical rock act Red Devil Vortex. Former Exodus vocalist Steve “Zetro” Souza also appears on the track. The single was mixed by Grammy-winning producer Cameron Webb, known for his work with Motörhead, Danzig and Godsmack. Guitarist Jeff Young spoke about the song’s origins with The Entertainment Outlet.

“Well, we recorded ‘Bullets Ready’, and the great news is no one can say it’s A.I., ’cause there was no A.I. when we wrote ‘Bullets Ready’ three, four years ago, when we started writing originals,” Young told The Entertainment Outlet (transcribed by Blabbermouth). “I came in with two [songs]. We demoed them. A couple of months later, David came back to L.A. with two [songs]. We finished those off, demoed them. So that all happened before [we launched] Kings of Thrash.”

On why the song sat unreleased while the band spent years performing Megadeth catalog material, Young said: “We never planned on playing any Megadeth. We just wanted to make an EP of new originals. So that song’s been sitting on the back burner just… You gotta let songs write themselves. You can’t force it. You can’t put your ego on it and try to mold and shape it. You gotta just allow, allow, allow, allow. And so we kind of got sidetracked with the whole Megadeth thing and doing — learning all these albums in their entirety is no small chore. But now that we’ve been out doing that, and then [the Kings of Thrash single] ‘Lockdown’ came out [in May 2025], of course. Chaz wrote most of that. And that was a great first experience for him, and I think he did a great job. That was actually written after the first four. So ‘Bullets Ready’ was written long ago. We put the newest song out first. Now we’ve gone back, and ‘Bullets Ready’ just seemed, lyrically, with everything that’s going on in the world, it seemed so timely and apropos that we couldn’t resist.”

The song’s connection to Red Devil Vortex‘s Connor grew out of a touring relationship. Young said: “We were out on tour with Red Devil Vortex opening for us, and Ace Frehley had just died, and Gabriel Connor, the singer-bass player for Red Devil Vortex, a huge Kiss fan, we kept bringing him out every night on the tour for ‘Cold Gin’. And so his participation in the song grew organically out of our Kiss jams every night on tour. And as a matter of fact, we’re gonna be dropping a live video on Kings of Thrash YouTube of the ‘Cold Gin’ track in a week or two.”

When “Bullets Ready” was first released, Young revealed the unusual origin of the track’s rhythmic foundation: “During the making of the [former Megadeth drummer] Nick Menza [documentary] film, I acquired several demo recordings of Nick playing various drum progressions. In essence, the introduction, verses and chorus of ‘Bullets Ready’ came from playing along to one of Nick‘s energetic grooves. During [Megadeth‘s] So Far, So Good… So What! tour, it was often David, Nick and myself that would conduct the soundchecks. It was a surreal and nostalgic feeling to be playing along and writing riffs with my long-lost friend. Nick‘s playing inspired so much of this song and his spirit is forever encapsulated inside this recording.”

Kings of Thrash formed in April 2022 after Ellefson and Young performed three classic Megadeth songs alongside Leon at “Ultimate Jam Night” at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood. The event was honoring the Big Four of thrash metal. The chemistry from that night led directly to the band’s formation. Kings of Thrash has since built its live set around celebrating the Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good! and So Far, So Good… So What! era of Megadeth‘s catalog, with Ellefson and Young joined by Leon and drummer Fred Aching of Dead Groove and formerly of Bulletboys.

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Walk alone, reflections in glass

Head down, feel the glare staring back

It sees, receives and it leads

I’ve got angels watching over me 

Neo Dimes’ Alone arrives with its teeth bared and its heart sealed inside a panic room. Stephen Edmunds, the Denver musician behind the project, has made a debut full-length steeped in industrial rock, dark synth tension, and bruised private terror: the dread machinery of Nine Inch Nails, the devotional grandeur of Songs of Faith and Devotion-era Depeche Mode, the narcotic pressure of Massive Attack, and the dread of a man confronting fatherhood as the public world grows meaner, colder, and more automated.

Alone studies addiction, technology, ideology, romance, grief, and memory as interlocking systems of control. These songs describe a life under constant surveillance: trained, tempted, sorted, sold, and finally abandoned. The album’s deepest fear, however, is older than any device or algorithm: it is the terror of being left alone inside your own head, reaching outward, and finding no hand reaching back.

Beasts retreats from the judging outside world into a hidden interior where alienation hardens into appetite. Hope collapses into instinct, and the self becomes something fed by its own exile. Angels is sharper still, recasting guardianship as surveillance. Glass, screens, and invisible networks replace divine protection, turning guidance into control and attention into captivity. The song understands how modern life sells convenience while quietly narrowing the room. God’s Perfect Meme savages hypocrisy, grift, and cultural exhaustion, where lies become performance and everyone is too numb or compromised to challenge them. The song glimpses escape, change, and grace slipping further out of reach.

Trigger turns alcohol into the spark that sets addiction, anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation in motion, but Edmunds locates the deeper wound with painful clarity: “Alcohol is the trigger that brings on all kinds of other issues (addiction, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation), but all of that pales in comparison to how terrifying loneliness and both physical and emotional isolation is to me,” he admits. The song moves through shame, self-sabotage, and the brutal mercy of truth, where revelation can only offer deliverance after it has cut through every lie once used for survival.

Directed by Ty Borkowski, the video extends that private terror into the public realm, tracing the impact of mass media through the image of an authoritarian figure commanding the masses from the glow of broadcast television. It channels an Orwellian nightmare in which isolation is exploited, fear becomes programming, and control arrives disguised as communication.

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Don’t Think pushes that fear into the public square, attacking groupthink, propaganda, and apocalyptic obedience. Authority twists language until lies feel liberating and cruelty starts passing for clarity. Edmunds hears the machinery that pulls disillusioned people toward extremism: give them grievance, give them enemies, give them a script, then call surrender awakening.

The political charge grows from a personal crisis. “I recently lost a career right as my daughter came into…a world where she has fewer rights than her mother did and where tyranny is creeping into every facet of life,” Edmunds reflects. “We’re addicted to the technology in our pockets that opens us to the world by consuming us entirely. It’s omnipresent and inescapable, and I’m pissed off.”

Obsidian confronts guilt, false purity, and the ruin left by deception, while One Thing turns betrayal into sleepless obsession, where freedom depends on an answer that may never arrive. How To Love lowers its guard, pleading for patience, trust, and the chance to repair what fear has damaged. It Comes and Goes sits with grief as a recurring force, carrying regret, drinking, spiritual exhaustion, and the stubborn will to move forward anyway. Ending with Dear Ghosts, the album reaches toward renewal through wreckage, finding no easy absolution, only the hard work of staying alive when the ghosts keep calling.

Even the release strategy comes with a raised fist. Physical copies of Alone arrive on vinyl and cassette a month before the digital version, a pointed act against the scroll-and-discard economy that turns songs into passing data. “The single covers convey the album’s story, with each song’s cover serving as a chapter and visual representation of paranoia, persuasion, control, and acceptance that fuse together to form the final album cover,” says Edmunds.

Edmunds is blunt about the intent: “The album concept and the release itself is a fuck you to the tech overlords and the world they have foisted on all of us.” That anger gives the album its charge, but the pain underneath gives it weight. All things considered, a strong debut from Neo Dimes.

Listen to Alone below and order the album here.

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Z2 has announced The Mandrake Project: Year Two, the next installment of the graphic novel saga co-created by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson and writer Tony Lee. The 184-page volume picks up where the first book left off, sending Necropolis into a near-death experience that propels him into a parallel world where the dark secrets of his family tree — and the forces controlling his fate — come into full, disorienting focus.

Dickinson teased the new volume: “Oh, just hold on to your proverbial hats, folks… This one gets REALLY weird!” Lee added: “You thought the first book was going to get us sued and bring out the pitchforks? You haven’t seen anything yet!”

Beyond the graphic narrative itself, Year Two includes an extensive series of interviews and essays documenting Dickinson‘s 2025 solo tour in support of The Mandrake Project album, along with behind-the-scenes insight from the creative team on how this chapter of the saga developed. The book opens with an introduction by Sacha Gervasi, director of Anvil! The Story of Anvil. It also contains a feature article on Wilhelm Reich, the sociologist and mystic whose controversial work led to his imprisonment by the FBI; Reich died in federal custody in 1957.

The oversized 12″x12″ deluxe and platinum editions are housed in a die-cut slipcase bound with a sealing ribbon and gilt paper edging, and include four new foil collector cards and a new edition of the antiqued metal “Mandrake Project” medallion. Both signed editions will be available directly from Z2 here. A standard 9″x9″ hardcover edition without slipcase will be available through Z2‘s retail partners, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, HMV UK, and independent comic and music shops worldwide.

Z2 editor-in-chief Rantz Hoseley said: “I thought I knew the limits and boundaries of Bruce‘s mad vision for this world, but one thing ‘Year Two’ has made brutally clear… there are no limits to where the story will go! And, let me just say, we are all the luckier for it!”

Dickinson is the vocalist of Iron Maiden and a multidisciplinary figure whose work outside music includes a career as a commercial airline pilot — flying three configurations of Iron Maiden‘s Ed Force One, including a 747 — as well as a BBC radio show, a podcast, television documentaries, films, novels, memoirs, film scripts and comics. He has also competed internationally in fencing and co-created a multi-million-selling beer with Robinsons Brewery. He has developed the mythology behind The Mandrake Project for over a decade.

Lee is a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author and comics writer with credits at DC, Marvel, Hachette, IDW, Del Rey and Z2. He is known for his long run on IDW’s Doctor Who comic beginning in 2008, the 2012 Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover series, audio dramas including Confessions of Dorian Gray and Robin of Sherwood, and writing for BBC One and ITV Studios. Pre-orders for The Mandrake Project: Year Two are available at Z2Comics.com/BruceDickinson.

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Arch Enemy and The Black Dahlia Murder will team up for a co-headlining North American tour, to be executed in October and November. ‘Wrath Across North America’ encompass 30 shows in total and feature support from Septicflesh, Crypta and Thrown Into Exile.
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Paul Rodgers carried the blues into hard rock with a voice built for weight, fire, and restraint. Born in Middlesbrough, England, on December 17, 1949, Rodgers began his professional path playing bass in the Roadrunners before moving into the lead vocal role. The band later became the Wildflowers, a lineup that included Micky Moody, later of Whitesnake, and Bruce Thomas, later of Elvis Costello and the Attractions. By 1968, Rodgers had joined Free as lead singer and songwriter, setting in motion a career that would move through Free, Bad Company, the Firm, the Law, Queen + Paul Rodgers, and a

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Canadian prog genius Devin Townsend has some good news for his fans. He’s just released a new double single and a video to go with it. It’s for the songs “Prepare For War / The Big Snit”. Devin recently announced the long-awaited release of his ambitious, orchestral-metal opus The Moth, out on May 29th 2026 via Inside Out Music, an album over a decade in the making.
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So far, Australia’s Swapmeet have shared “I Know!” and “Sand” from their upcoming debut album Mount Zero. The former is straight-up banger, whereas the latter is more of an evocative reverie. Today’s “2 C U” is both of those things, operating as an enrapturing anthem about infatuation. About the song, the quartet says, “2 C…

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Static-X has canceled its remaining tour dates for 2026, citing serious medical issues affecting an undisclosed member or members of the band. The announcement came via social media on Monday, May 18.

The band’s statement read: “Due to serious medical issues, Static-X will be forced to cancel our remaining tour dates in 2026. The situation is unavoidable and requires immediate attention. We are very sorry for the inconvenience, and we promise to return to the stage, bigger, stronger and faster in 2027. We appreciate your continued love and support and look forward to seeing you all again very soon! Sincerely, Static-X.”

Static-X‘s most recent releases are Project Regeneration Vol. 1 (July 2020) and Project Regeneration Vol. 2 (January 2024), both featuring the original lineup of Campos, drummer Ken Jay, and guitarist Koichi Fukuda alongside the masked frontman Xer0, widely believed to be Dope singer Edsel Dope. The lineup honors the memory of late Static-X frontman Wayne Static, who died in November 2014.

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Massacre Records is proud to announce a partnership with Polish extreme metal legends Behemoth for the worldwide physical edition of their exclusive release I, Scvlptor, featuring 8 unreleased songs. Due out September 4, 2026 on CD, LP, MC and Limited Edition Box Set.
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