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Today, Stand Atlantic announce an Australian tour, The Godbreath Tour, hitting iconic venues across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth this October and November. The tour follows recent news of the band’s forthcoming album, GODBREATH, out Friday, October 23 via Virgin Music Group. Presale commences at 9AM local time on Monday 17 August, followed by […]

Royal Blood, one of the most important British rock bands of their generation, return today with an explosive new single Ten Over Ten and announce their long-awaited fifth studio album, Dead Company, released via Warner Records on November 13. Dead Company marks a powerful new chapter for the duo, who last released an album in […]

Mastodon have just shared In The Ruins, a song from their highly anticipated new album Marrow Deep (out August 28 via Loma Vista Recordings) and inspired by the devastating impact of Hurricane Helene and the personal havoc it wreaked upon bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders and his family. The catastrophic storm severely flooded their home and destroyed […]

Listen to the best in new, heavy music every week with HEAVY‘s new weekly HEAVY AUDIO MAG, featuring music from our weekly cover artist plus new premieres, hit predictions, and killer tracks we just know you want to listen to from bands featured over both digimags and some just because we want to put them […]

Swedish metalcore phenomenon thrown return with critic, a ferocious new single out now via Arising Empire. Sharp-tongued, crushingly heavy and unapologetically confrontational, the track takes aim at self-appointed tastemakers, performative outrage and the endless cycle of online commentary, proving once again that thrown thrive where others merely make noise. Fuelled by venomous vocals, bone-crushing grooves […]

Formed in England in the late 1970s, The Police and bands like Blondie, The Knack, and The Cars were among the first new-wave bands to achieve mainstream success. New Wave is quite hard to categorize, but broadly speaking, it is a subgenre of rock, similar to punk, that incorporates elements of pop, disco, and electronic music. The Police were also fond of using reggae sounds in their work. For much of their career, the band was made up of Sting (real name Gordon Sumner, lead vocals, bass), Andy Summers (guitar), and Stewart Copeland (drums). The band first met when Copeland,

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If there was ever any doubt that the American festival circuit has become a battleground for sheer volume, ambition, and absurdly stacked lineups, Louder Than Life 2026 is here to settle the argument.

Returning to the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville from September 17–20, the festival’s 12th edition is shaping up to be its biggest yet: four days, seven stages, and more than 200 bands. The newly announced set times reveal a schedule that isn’t merely packed—it is almost aggressively overstuffed with metal, hard rock, punk, and everything that exists in the gloriously blurry territory between them. And for metalheads, that’s precisely the point.

Thursday alone could qualify as a festival unto itself. Iron Maiden closes the Louder Stage at 8:45 p.m., while Pantera headlines the Life Stage at 7:30. Before either of those titans takes the stage, fans can work their way through Megadeth, Alice Cooper, Anthrax, Sabaton, Machine Head, Suicidal Tendencies, Metal Church, GWAR, and Danzig. That’s a declaration of intent.

The heavier underground and modern-metal contingent gets its own considerable firepower, with Fit For A King, Chelsea Grin, Currents, ERRA, After The Burial, The Acacia Strain, Emmure, Born Of Osiris, Signs Of The Swarm and others spread across the festival’s additional stages.

Then Friday shifts gears without letting up. My Chemical Romance takes the Louder Stage at 9:25 p.m., with Pierce The Veil closing the Life Stage shortly after 8. But the real appeal for anyone who grew up with heavy music running through the veins is what happens throughout the day: A Day To Remember, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Coheed And Cambria, Loathe, The Warning, Cavalera, Soulfly, Mushroomhead, Butcher Babies, Angel Du$t, Twitching Tongues and more.

And Cavalera isn’t simply another name on a festival poster. The band is scheduled to perform Roots in its entirety, marking the first time in nearly a decade that the iconic Sepultura album will receive this treatment.

Saturday may be the day when the festival’s crossover DNA becomes most obvious. Limp Bizkit headlines the Louder Stage, with Papa Roach on the Life Stage, while Sublime, Babymetal, Ice Nine Kills, Tom Morello, Nothing More, P.O.D. and others fill out the upper reaches of the bill.

But once again, the deeper stages are where the adventurous listener can disappear for hours. Kublai Khan TX, Blood For Blood, Boundaries, Spite, Agnostic Front, Madball, H2O, Peeling Flesh and Many Eyes offer a crash course in hardcore and modern heaviness.

Sunday, however, is where Louder Than Life makes its strongest case as a destination for serious metal fans.

TOOL closes the festival at 9:25 p.m., with Gojira preceding them on the Life Stage. Mastodon, The Mars Volta, Black Label Society, Ministry, Dethklok, Animals As Leaders, Between The Buried And Me, Killswitch Engage, Underoath, Thrice, Haste The Day and 200 Stab Wounds are among the many acts scattered throughout the day’s schedule. That lineup alone would make Sunday worth the trip.

But Louder Than Life 2026 is much more than just the headline names. The festival has deliberately built an event around moments that are unlikely to be repeated. Pantera will play its only U.S. show of 2026, while Megadeth is scheduled for one of its final farewell performances. Danny Elfman will make his first show in the eastern half of the United States in nearly a decade, and several reunions (including Metal Church, Circa Survive, Get Scared, Blood For Blood, Primer 55, Sent By Ravens and 40 Below Summer) add another layer of historical significance.

There is also a healthy dose of anniversary worship, because apparently 2026 has decided that our collective youth is now officially old enough to celebrate. Jimmy Eat World will mark 25 years of Bleed American, while Sleeping With Sirens celebrates 15 years of Let’s Cheers To This. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Alien Ant Farm will commemorate 20 and 25 years, respectively, of Don’t You Fake It and ANThology.

For a festival this enormous, the danger is obvious: choice paralysis. That’s the Louder Than Life experience.

Seven stages mean that seeing everything you want is impossible. At any given moment, something else worth watching is happening somewhere else on the grounds. Thursday offers Iron Maiden and Skillet simultaneously. Sunday puts The Prodigy and Gojira in the same time frame. And buried underneath those headliners are dozens of bands that could easily become the surprise discovery of the weekend.

The festival drew more than 240,000 fans in 2025, and organizers say the 2026 edition represents the biggest lineup in the event’s history. The scale is now almost comically large, but the lineup suggests that the organizers understand something important: a festival isn’t memorable simply because it has enormous headliners. It becomes memorable when the space between those headliners is worth exploring. Louder Than Life 2026 appears determined to make every minute between the big names count.

And if you’re a metal fan, you’d better start planning now. The gates open at 10:45 AM each day, which means the serious business begins long before the headliners arrive.

Louder Than Life 2026 isn’t asking whether you can handle four days of heavy music. It’s asking how much of it you can survive without missing something.

All pass types are on sale now, including General Admission, VIP & Angel’s Envy Top Shelf VIP. Visit here to grab yours!

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Finnish metal veterans Soulgrind have officially released their tenth studio album, Ad Pulchram Mortem, via Inverse Records. Marking their return after a fifteen-year hiatus, the record draws heavily from Finnish folklore and the ancient mythology of Tuonela, the realm of the dead. Translating from Latin as “toward beautiful death,” Ad Pulchram Mortem weaves together crushing … Continue reading Soulgrind return from fifteen-year hiatus with new album ‘Ad Pulchram Mortem’

Day 1 of Bloodstock (or any festival where you’re camping) and it’s always a relief to actually get to start, y’know, watching bands! Without wanting to get totally sidetracked, getting a tent up on ground that had been baked solid for weeks is no easy task! It does make that first festival beer go down … Continue reading Festival Review: Bloodstock 2026 – Thursday (WeeG’s view)

Aerial Salad mean business on this track. They’re going for the jugular with a punk as fuck track straying away from the Manc indie with a full on assault of bang on noise that detracts from your usual noise from the run of the mill indie bollocks. They look indie but are straying away from […]

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