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  • Havok Premiere New Single & Music Video “The Ultimate Weapon”

    Colorado-based thrash metal outfit Havok have premiered a music video for their brand new single “The Ultimate Weapon“. K. Hunter Lamar directed the clip, which arrives through the band’s latest label home, BLKIIBLK. The group collectively commented on the track: Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • MOVEMENTS: ‘Happier Now’

    Dave Griffiths reviews Movements brand new album – Happier Now.
  • Premiere: ION SKY ‘The Dirt Will Humble You’

    Returning with a brand new hit of ferocity, Melbourne’s ION SKY deliver fresh music in THE DIRT WILL HUMBLE YOU. Their first release for 2026, the track serves as a potent reminder of the band’s tenacity as a group, while offering fresh insight into the exciting nature of ION SKY’s next chapter of music. Recorded […]
  • Enterprise Earth Premiere New Single & Music Video “Neo-Promethean”

    Enterprise Earth‘s new single “Neo-Promethean” just landed online streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below. The deathcore outfit’s own guitarist Gabe Mangold handled every aspect of production on the new track, which marks their first fresh material of the year. Continuing that DIY approach, the band also directed and produced the ac… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • The Violent Hour (Ex-Butcher Babies) Premiere New Single & Music Video “Screenager”

    The Violent Hour have just premiered an official music video for their latest single, “Screenager“. The outfit are fronted by ex-Butcher Babies vocalist Carla Harvey, while her husband Charlie Benante (Anthrax, Pantera) contributed as a co-writer behind the scenes. Attila Vörös lays down guest guitar on the track, which is set to appear on The … Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • Hippotraktor Premiere New Single & Music Video “Builder Of Eden”- Ex-The Ocean Vocalist Loïc Rossetti Guests

    Loïc Rossetti, former vocalist of German post-metal collective The Ocean, lends his vocals to the newly released Hippotraktor track “Builder Of Eden“. A music video for the collaboration has now premiered below, marking the third single overall from Hippotraktor‘s forthcoming album “Annihilist“, which is due out October 2nd via Pelagic Records…. Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com
  • The mysterious woman who appeared on the cover of Black Sabbath’s debut album has released a rock opera

    Louisa Livingstone, the woman whose ghostly figure adorns the cover of Black Sabbath‘s debut album, has released a rock opera based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books. Livingstone was identified as the model on the cover of Black Sabbath in 2020, after five decades of silence.

    Earlier this year, Livingstone – who records music under the name Indreba (short for Incredible Dream Band) – released a pair of songs celebrating her place in history, with Witch Woman alluding to her iconic appearance and The Woman By The Mill referencing the location of the photograph, at Mapledurham Watermill in Oxfordshire.

    “Witch Woman came out of nowhere as a sudden idea of what I could do,” she tells Rolling Stone. “Black Sabbath fans loved the songs, which was gratifying as it was aimed at them and definitely deliberately in the metal genre for that reason.”

    Now Livingstone has released Alice, an AI-assisted five-track EP she describes as “a psychedelic rock opera featuring Alice who returns to explore the crazy 2026 world of the internet and AI.”

    “Tracks one to five tell the story in sequence with an abundance of captivating musical changes,” she adds. “The lyrics are a key element in this rollercoaster ride of a music trip.”

    “I used to be very judgmental about AI like many people,” she tells Rolling Stone, “but it’s a tool that you can use to create either absolute rubbish or ‘slop’ as it’s called, to something really good and interesting.”

    The songs include the opening Feed Your Head, which takes Jefferson Airplane’s own Alice In Wonderland-themed classic White Rabbit as its starting point, but updates the lyrics to include lines like “One pill makes you scroll for hours” and “If you go chasing white rabbits / down the algorithms of your mind.”

    Alice is available via Bandcamp.

  • Review SPACE CHASER “Razorblade Bay”

    When Space Chaser emerged in 2011 and delivered a highly promising debut with Watch the Skies!, it was clear that the next generation of German thrash metal bands was already waiting in the wings. A major turning point came in 2023, when frontman Siegfried Rudzynski left the band and Space Chaser had to find a replacement…. Continue Reading →
  • AMORPHIS Announce North American Co-Headline Tour With INSOMNIUM This November

    Finnish metal visionaries AMORPHIS are set to join forces with melodic death metal pioneers INSOMNIUM for the North American co-headline tour, with support from US melodic death/doom metal act HINAYANA. Beginning in Boston, MA, on November 17, the bands prepare to bring powerful storytelling and haunting heaviness to audiences as the winter months draw near. 

    The tour sees AMORPHIS continue celebrations in aid of their latest full-length Borderland. Released via RPM in September 2025, the album marks a milestone in the band’s 35‑year evolution, blending melodic depth and dynamic narratives with a refreshed creative spark borne from their first collaboration with producer Jacob Hansen.

    [Photo: Anne Swallow]

    AMORPHIS x INSOMNIUM Tour Dates:

    11/17 — Boston, MA — Paradise Rock Club
    11/18 — Montreal, QC — Theatre Beanfield
    11/19 — Toronto, ON — The Concert Hall
    11/20 — Columbus, OH — The King of Clubs
    11/21 — Detroit, MI — Magic Stick
    11/23 — Chicago, IL — House of Blues
    11/24 — Minneapolis, MN — Varsity Theater
    11/25 — Lincoln, NE — Bourbon Theatre
    11/27 — Denver, CO — The Gothic Theatre
    11/28 — Salt Lake City, UT — Metro Music Hall
    11/30 — Vancouver, BC — Rickshaw Theatre
    12/01 — Portland, OR — Hawthorne Theatre
    12/02 — Seattle, WA — The Showbox Market
    12/04 — Berkeley, CA — The UC Theatre
    12/05 — Los Angeles, CA — The Regent Theater
    12/06 — Mesa, AZ — The Nile Theater
    12/08 — Austin, TX — Come And Take It Live
    12/09 — Dallas, TX — Granada Theater
    12/11 — Orlando, FL — The Abbey
    12/12 — Jacksonville, FL — The Albatross
    12/13 — Atlanta, GA — The Masquerade
    12/15 — Richmond, VA — The Canal Club
    12/16 — Baltimore, MD — Baltimore Soundstage
    12/18 — Reading, PA — Reverb
    12/19 — New York, NY — Irving Plaza

    AMORPHIS are:

    Tomi Joutsen | vocals

    Esa Holopainen | guitars

    Tomi Koivusaari | guitars

    Olli-Pekka “Oppu” Laine | bass

    Santeri Kallio | keys

    Jan Rechberger | drums & percussion

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    Source: C Squared Music