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New York City’s Vexillary understands that pressure alters matter. On 1000X, mastermind Reza Seirafi treats EBM less as a fixed code than as a volatile compound, something to be heated, split, recombined, and sent back into the room with a different charge in its blood. Loosely inspired by Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, the track twists the mythic journey inward, turning the archetypal quest into something more intimate, more physical, and far more dangerous. Arriving ahead of Digital Suspiria, due March 20, it feels built for impact: a hard-driving body-mover with steel in its spine, desire on its lips, and a female vocal that cuts through the mix like a blade drawn slowly across silk.

The beat lands with club-floor certainty, but around it Seirafi stacks details that give the song its bite: synth lines with a sleek, poisonous sheen, bass pressure that keeps the whole thing pinned to the ground, and a sense of momentum that never lets the air settle. What emerges is one of Vexillary’s most dancefloor-ready transmissions, channeling sexual tension, twisted affection, and driving rhythm into something venomous and vulnerable at once. There is pleasure here, certainly, though it comes with teeth.

The coy female vocal, channeling both Shirley Manson and First Band on the Moon-era Nina Persson, drives the song’s psychic weather, giving shape to its themes of revenge, power, and erotic ruin. The track plays like a sharp-edged duet between pain and pleasure, with Seirafi folding industrial, darkwave, and techno into something lean, fevered, and faintly dangerous.

The video extends that atmosphere into a violent fever vision. Self-directed by Seirafi and starring Sarah Trotter, it frames vengeance through a female point of view, intercutting bodily performance with scenes from the natural world, collapsing male figures, and a collision of practical effects and digital manipulation. The visual language is restless and feral, somewhere between nightclub panic and hunt sequence, with TERMSECT’s editing and VFX pushing everything toward a state of ecstatic rupture.

Watch below:

Across releases for Blaq Records, through Full Frontal Lunacy, Crash and Yearn, and Horror in Dub, Seirafi has shown a knack for taking familiar materials and rendering them newly unstable. 1000X continues that run with real force. It is sleek, severe, and sensuous, a track that understands the body as both laboratory and battleground, and desire as a form of transformation.

Listen to 1000x below and order the single here.

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Could Sepultura Reunite With Max And Igor Cavalera?

Right now there is no confirmed reunion, but the band’s farewell era and the continued success of the Cavalera brothers performing classic material have reignited one of metal’s longest-running debates.

TL;DR

• Sepultura’s farewell tour is expected to conclude the band’s career around 2026.
• Max Cavalera left the band in 1996 after internal tensions.
• Igor Cavalera later departed in 2006.
• Fans have long hoped for a full reunion of the classic lineup.
• The Loaded Radio video below breaks down whether that could realistically happen.

Why Fans Still Talk About A Sepultura Reunion

The video above (which can also be viewed on YouTube at this location) explores the question metal fans have debated for nearly three decades:

Could the classic Sepultura lineup ever reunite?

Because when you look at the history, it’s easy to understand why people keep asking.

See Sepultura Live in 2026 before they call it quits with tickets available at this location.

The Break That Changed Metal History

Sepultura were one of the most important heavy bands of the early 1990s.

Albums like Beneath The Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D., and Roots didn’t just succeed commercially — they pushed metal into entirely new territory.

Then everything collapsed.

In 1996, vocalist and founding member Max Cavalera left the band following tensions around management and internal disagreements.

For many fans, that moment felt like the end of Sepultura as they knew it.

The Second Split

The story became even more complicated a decade later.

Drummer Igor Cavalera — Max’s brother and the other founding member — left the band in 2006.

That departure effectively ended any realistic possibility of the original lineup reuniting at the time.

But time has a way of changing things.

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Why The Reunion Question Won’t Go Away

Several factors have kept the reunion conversation alive.

First, Max and Igor have spent years performing classic Sepultura albums live together through their Cavalera Conspiracy project.

Second, the band themselves have entered a farewell era celebrating 40 years of the band.

Whenever a legendary group announces a final chapter, reunion speculation always follows.

And in this case, the demand from fans is enormous.

The Real Roadblocks

Despite the fan interest, the situation isn’t simple.

Guitarist Andreas Kisser has repeatedly expressed that Sepultura’s current lineup deserves recognition for its decades of work.

Meanwhile, Max Cavalera has continued building his own musical path with projects like Soulfly and Cavalera.

Those realities make a full reunion complicated.

Not impossible.

But complicated.

Why Sepultura’s Legacy Still Feels Bigger Than The Drama

Even without a reunion, the group’s influence on metal is undeniable.

They helped bring extreme metal out of Brazil and onto the global stage.

They fused tribal rhythms, groove metal, thrash and hardcore in ways few bands had attempted before.

And they helped prove that heavy music could be a truly international movement.

That legacy doesn’t disappear with a breakup.

In fact, it may be exactly why fans still hope to see the classic lineup share a stage again — even if just once.

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FAQ

Is A Classic Sepultura Reunion Confirmed?

No. There are currently no confirmed plans for a reunion involving Max Cavalera and the current Sepultura lineup.

Why Did Max Cavalera Leave Sepultura?

Max left the band in 1996 following internal tensions and disagreements surrounding management.

Why Did Igor Cavalera Leave Sepultura?

Igor departed in 2006 after tensions over the band’s direction and touring schedule.

When Does Sepultura’s Farewell Tour End?

The band has indicated their farewell run could conclude around 2026 as part of their 40-year celebration.

Sepultura Band Bio

Sepultura formed in Belo Horizonte, Brazil in 1984 and quickly became one of the most important heavy metal bands to emerge outside North America and Europe. Founded by brothers Max Cavalera (vocals/guitar) and Igor Cavalera (drums), the band initially built its reputation in the global thrash and death metal underground before breaking through internationally in the late 1980s.

Their early run of albums — Beneath The Remains (1989) and Arise (1991) — established Sepultura as one of the most aggressive and technically precise bands in metal. By the mid-1990s the group expanded its sound dramatically, incorporating groove metal, hardcore, and Brazilian tribal rhythms into landmark releases like Chaos A.D. (1993) and Roots (1996).

Internal tensions led to Max Cavalera leaving the band in 1996, followed by Igor Cavalera’s departure in 2006. Despite the lineup changes, Sepultura continued forward with guitarist Andreas Kisser as its central creative figure and vocalist Derrick Green joining in 1997.

Over four decades, Sepultura has sold millions of records worldwide and helped transform heavy metal into a truly global genre — influencing generations of bands across thrash, groove, and extreme metal.

Current lineup:
Derrick Green — vocals
Andreas Kisser — guitar
Paulo Jr. — bass
Greyson Nekrutman — drums

The post Could Sepultura Reunite With Max And Igor Cavalera? The Question Metal Fans Won’t Stop Asking appeared first on Loaded Radio.

XMusic are proud to announce Brisbane’s Runt as the latest signing to their every growing roster. Runt is built around lead guitarist/singer songwriter Jesse Attard, who after years touring the UK and Europe as a hired gun for international artists has turned his focus to his own material. While working on the road, Attard quietly […]

Although he wasn’t blind, he sang in three different gospel groups known as the Blind Boys before making a splash on the R&B and pop charts.

Adrian Smith has seen the upcoming Iron Maiden documentary — and says fans are in for a few surprises.

Speaking to Brazil’s Kazagastão, the guitarist weighed in on Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition, which hits theaters for a limited run starting 05/07. “Yeah, I have [seen it]. And I really enjoyed it, which might sound funny, but when there’s something on a big screen about you, it can be a bit — you wanna hide behind the chairs,” he said. “But I think it’s a good document of the band, and I think fans will enjoy it. There are a few things in there that have never come to light before, and it goes into depth on a few things. So I think people are really gonna enjoy it,” Smith said (via Blabbermouth)

Smith also touched on Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams – The Official Visual History, the hardcover book published globally in autumn 2025, covering the band’s first five decades. For Smith, the most compelling material is the mundane stuff — the kind that puts 100 million records sold into perspective.

“I love some of the old photos,” he said. “It’s almost like a different life back in the ’80s when I was in the band, a different person. But I love the stuff in it, like [Maiden founder] Steve Harris‘s diary, talking about getting just a couple of bucks to do a show and having to buy guitar strings and petrol and counting all the pennies. Stuff like that is priceless. It’s great that he’s kept that stuff.”

Asked whether he and Bruce Dickinson took the band to another level when they came on board, Smith deflected on his own behalf but was direct about Dickinson‘s impact. “I can’t really talk about myself, but Bruce definitely did, because as much as we love [former Iron Maiden singer] Paul [Di’Anno], I don’t think he had the same mindset as Bruce, the same determination to succeed, commitment,” he said.

“Bruce was all about commitment and professionalism, and he could sing night after night after night. And that’s what the band needed to do. They needed to go on the road — they needed to go on the road for six, eight months at a stretch. And that’s what rock bands have to do. No one’s gonna hand them success with, ‘Okay, we’ll play you on the radio. You’ll be stars.’ There’s none of that.”

On his own contributions, Smith pointed to his songwriting track record. “I’ve been a part of it. I think we all worked hard to get to another level. Maybe, hopefully, my contributions, writing-wise, helped,” he said. “A lot of the singles that we used, ‘Flight Of Icarus’ and ‘Wasted Years’ and stuff like that, were my ideas, my songs — ‘2 Minutes To Midnight’ — co-writes, really. So, I feel like I hopefully contributed in that way, or do contribute.”

Directed by Malcolm Venville (Churchill At War) and produced by Dominic Freeman (Spirits In The Forest – A Depeche Mode Film), Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition traces the band’s five-decade run and features on-camera appearances from Javier Bardem, Lars Ulrich, and Chuck D.

The film arrives as Iron Maiden continues its two-year “Run For Your Lives” world tour, with over 50 shows planned for 2026 — including EddFest, a one-off celebration at Knebworth Park, England on 07/11.

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S8NT ELEKTRIC will be releasing their debut album, OFF THE EDGE, on March 20 via Long Branch Records. Based in Los Angeles and led by vocalist Bri Carbajal and guitarist Niko Tsangaris, the group has already hit the European circuit opening for acts like Wolfmother and Mammoth WVH. The band slams catchy melodies into heavy metal music.

They have already released the singles “PEACE OF MYSELF,” “MIRROR_IMAGE,” “TAR,” and “XTC” from the upcoming record. Check out their music and follow the band through the links below.

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In 1977, rock and roll fans were greeted by many great new bands arriving on the music scene from all shores. Many bands from the United States and Britain were celebrating the new sounds of punk and eventually new wave. Dire Straits arrived in 1977 and sounded nothing like the newer bands. The band led by Mark Knopfler featured brilliant, virtuoso, original-sounding guitar playing, well-written lyrics, and beautiful melodies. The sound was slick, but not overproduced. When I first heard the band, they reminded me of a mix of Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and, in a way, Ennio Morricone. It was a band that was all substance.

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Both are set to arrive in October.

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