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Metal project Blue Medusa has released their second single, “Flying Monkey,” across all digital streaming platforms. The track arrives alongside a music video and serves as the direct follow-up to the group’s debut release, “Checkmate.”

While White-Gluz recently took on the role of the co-vocalist for Dragonforce, she continues to push forward with this new project alongside the two guitarists, Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia.

Following the release of these first two tracks, the trio is currently writing and developing material for their upcoming debut full-length album.

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The wait is finally over for the disciples of technical and environmental metal. Gojira, the French powerhouse that has redefined the boundaries of the genre, has officially confirmed that their eighth studio album is slated for a late 2026 release. To celebrate the announcement, the band has unleashed a crushing new live session and confirmed they will be joining Metallica as special guests on the European leg of the M72 World Tour.

Drummer Mario Duplantier recently teased that the new material marks a return to the band’s heavier, more riff-driven roots while maintaining the atmospheric depth of their recent work. “It’s crucial for us to bring something fresh and powerful,” Duplantier shared. “We’ve taken the time to craft something that reflects where we are as musicians and as human beings in 2026.”

Dominating the Global Stage

The partnership with Metallica is set to be one of the most formidable touring packages of the decade. Starting in late May 2026, Gojira will bring their earth-shattering live performance to stadiums across Europe, including stops in Paris, London, and Berlin. This tour follows their historic performance at the Olympics, which solidified their status as a global cultural phenomenon.

Fans can expect a setlist that balances their legendary classics with the first glimpses of the upcoming record. The energy surrounding the band has never been higher, and this new chapter promises to be their most ambitious yet. As Joe Duplantier puts it, “The fire is burning brighter than ever.”

Stay tuned to MTVIEW for exclusive updates on the new album title and tracklist. The era of Gojira is far from over—it’s just entering its most powerful phase.

 

 

 

The wait is finally over for the disciples of technical and environmental metal. Gojira, the French powerhouse that has redefined the boundaries of the genre, has officially confirmed that their eighth studio album is slated for a late 2026 release. To celebrate the announcement, the band has unleashed a crushing new live session and confirmed they will be joining Metallica as special guests on the European leg of the M72 World Tour.

Drummer Mario Duplantier recently teased that the new material marks a return to the band’s heavier, more riff-driven roots while maintaining the atmospheric depth of their recent work. “It’s crucial for us to bring something fresh and powerful,” Duplantier shared. “We’ve taken the time to craft something that reflects where we are as musicians and as human beings in 2026.”

Dominating the Global Stage

The partnership with Metallica is set to be one of the most formidable touring packages of the decade. Starting in late May 2026, Gojira will bring their earth-shattering live performance to stadiums across Europe, including stops in Paris, London, and Berlin. This tour follows their historic performance at the Olympics, which solidified their status as a global cultural phenomenon.

Fans can expect a setlist that balances their legendary classics with the first glimpses of the upcoming record. The energy surrounding the band has never been higher, and this new chapter promises to be their most ambitious yet. As Joe Duplantier puts it, “The fire is burning brighter than ever.”

Stay tuned to MTVIEW for exclusive updates on the new album title and tracklist. The era of Gojira is far from over—it’s just entering its most powerful phase.

On May 15, rising rock artist Bailey Spinn released her new single, “voodoo.” Co-written and produced by Jon Lundin, the track leans into a moody rock soundscape built on pulsing production, gritty guitars, and a cathartic chorus that captures the intoxicating push-and-pull of parasocial relationships.

Known for her edgy lyrics and dynamic vocal performances, Bauley Spinn has quickly become a standout figure in the modern rock resurgence. Her sound blends contemporary rock energy with a hint of early Y2K nostalgia. Following the success of her 2025 debut album, loser, the artist has amassed tens of millions of streams and built a massive following by exploring heavy sonic territory and unapologetic songwriting.

“voodoo” follows a string of recent singles from Bailey Spinn, including “homicide” and “critical.” The new track serves as the latest taste of her current creative era, as the singer plans to release a steady stream of new music throughout the remainder of 2026.

Bailey lately talked with FemMetal about “voodoo” in an interview.

Interview | Bailey Spinn: “I like to put my feelings into songs to help myself move on.”

The post Bailey Spinn Releases New Single “voodoo” first appeared on FemMetal – Goddesses of Metal.

Modern metal act A COLD PARADISE have released a new music video for their latest single “Here I Rise”. The project is led by Antonio Calanna, known to many metal fans as the former vocalist of ALL FOR METAL. Marking a bold new chapter, the track combines modern heaviness, emotional intensity and soaring energy into a powerful statement of intent.

Driven by massive riffs, cinematic atmosphere and an uncompromising performance, “Here I Rise” perfectly captures the core identity of A COLD PARADISE. The song reflects themes of growth, resilience and transformation while channeling raw emotion into an explosive and deeply personal listening experience.

Calanna comments: “‘Here I Rise’ is a statement. After our first live shows, we felt the connection with the audience and knew this was just the beginning. This song captures exactly what A Cold Paradise stands for: the will to grow, to rise, and to turn emotion into something powerful. It’s raw, energetic, and unapologetically intense.”

Stream / Download “Here I Rise”: 

https://acp.rpm.link/risePR 

Watch the video clip streaming here:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKsOf3Tr_eQ

A COLD PARADISE is a modern alternative metal band founded in 2025 by Antonio Calanna, signed to Perception – A Division of Reigning Phoenix Music. The project was born from a desire to emphasize atmosphere, melody, and emotional depth within heavy music, without compromising its force.

Rooted in genuine feeling, A COLD PARADISE builds its sound from the inside out, letting emotion guide both songwriting and production. Heavy riffs collide with expressive melodies, cinematic atmospheres and carefully woven electronic elements that shape the emotional arc of each song.

The band works with a defined collective identity: music, lyrics, and visuals all feed into the same artistic world, where storytelling, contrast, and emotional weight matter as much as the breakdowns. Living in the tension between vulnerability and force, A COLD PARADISE blends modern metal and rock with immersive textures to create a dynamic, evocative, and unmistakably human sound.

A COLD PARADISE Artist Line-Up:
Antonio Calanna | vocals
Paolo Avanzini | guitars, vocals
Luca Birocco | guitars
Fortunato De Negri | bass
Daniele Motta | drums

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Blues Rock Weekly highlights new music from Duane Betts, Deep Purple, Bywater Call, and Troy Mercy.

The post Blues Rock Weekly – 5/15/26 appeared first on Blues Rock Review.

In her veins, the darkness pulls
In her blood the sorrow calls
In the silence of her fate
Echoes haunt her troubled reign

Montreal’s The City Gates return with Chimera, an eight-track record that treats post-punk, shoegaze, and darkwave as materials under pressure. The album moves through history, unrest, memory, and private collapse with a sense of architecture: basslines locked into grim forward motion, drums pushing the frame, guitars spreading into vast metallic sheets, and synths giving the songs a cold, spectral edge.

The title suits the record. Chimera feels like a creature assembled from competing impulses: urgency and drift, force and disintegration, intimacy and distance. The City Gates are working at scale, but the album never loses its physical charge. You hear the friction of strings, the mass of the rhythm section, the hum of equipment, and the sense of a band building pressure from the floor upward. Its best moments feel less like escape than confrontation, with each track moving through states of fracture, longing, and control.

Lyrically, the album circles isolation, emotional disconnection, distorted memory, and the strange loneliness of modern life. The voice often sits half-buried in the mix, less as confession than transmission, as if these songs are arriving through concrete, static, and old wounds. The imagery leans toward the urban and existential: people slipping out of reach, perception bending, private grief feeding into a larger social unease. The City Gates understand how to make distance feel bodily, how to turn absence into weight.

The Great Devourer sprawls across five and a half minutes like a cathedral built for bad news, all gorgeous shoegaze guitars, stacked vocals, and doomsday dread in its Sunday best. It is a lamentation with teeth: hunger, sacrifice, mothers crying dry, children held close while some great beast of appetite waits at the edge of the village. The song works because it keeps the horror plain. No grand mythology lesson, no ornate footnotes, just a warning bell rung over and over until fear starts looking like religion.

Pilgrimage takes exhaustion and gives it a pair of boots. This is the sound of someone walking away from the wreckage with no parade, no rescue party, and no clean moral to pin on the wall. Shelter, mercy, burial coins, fire, farewell: the song gathers these ritual objects like a person packing for a trip nobody survives unchanged. It has the feeling of a funeral procession folding inward, each step scraping away another layer of sleepless spiritual rot. Capitol Hill is all locked doors, buried damage, and the nasty little thrill of daring someone to dig too deep. The song circles a private ruin with a kind of poisoned intimacy, as if the past has been hidden somewhere close enough to smell but too dangerous to touch. Bitterness creeps through it, uncertainty gnaws at the frame, and by the end the band seem to define themselves through the only proof they trust: the noise they make together.

Mayfly is brief because it has to be. A tiny life opens its eyes and immediately gets walloped by sunlight, love, war, pain, and the knowledge that the clock has already started laughing. The song catches that first brutal astonishment of being alive, when every sensation arrives oversized and almost rude. Its beauty comes from limitation, from the way a life can burn hard simply because it has no time to waste. Radium Love turns romance into a glowing little death wish. Love here is luminous, poisonous, and probably wearing a nice dress while ruining your organs. The beloved becomes a guide through the horror show, but the light leads both ways: toward comfort, toward rot, toward the old industrial joke of calling poison a cure. It is tender in the way a fatal dosage can look tender from across the room.

Sing Coven Sing heads for the woods with a grin and a matchbook. The song is an initiation, a farewell to ordinary misery, and a leap into a stranger form of belonging. The coven calls, the town falls away, and the body starts answering before the brain can file a complaint. There is ritual here, yes, but also relief: the great pleasure of leaving the ruins behind and joining the dance nobody in polite society wants to admit they hear. Silence of Her Fate plays like a mountain folktale told by someone who knows where the bodies were hidden. A woman moves through curse, ritual, disappearance, and inherited damage, her body made into the meeting place between personal terror and an older, bloodier history. The song has ceremony in its bones, with vanished tribes, secret rites, and a doom that feels passed down rather than chosen.

It’s a Violent Life rides in from the frontier with a pistol, a spotlight, and a knife tucked somewhere beneath the costume. Johnny Barter and Kate O’Malley belong to the grand tradition of doomed lovers and dirty ballads, where romance buys you one more drink before the floorboards turn red. Crime, showbiz, vengeance, and devotion all get thrown into the same dusty saloon, and the result is a fatal little western where the curtain call comes with a body count.

Listen to Chimera, out now via Icy Cold Records and Velouria Recordz, below. You can order the album here.

Recorded, mixed, and produced at the band’s own Velouria Studios in Montreal, the album benefits from that self-contained process. Live drums, guitars and bass pushed through amps, and vintage synths give Chimera a tactile immediacy; the record feels handled, revised, and patiently sharpened rather than polished into sterility.

“Working in our own studio gave us the space to shape the sound at our own pace, letting each track’s atmosphere unfold as we recorded, mixed, and produced everything ourselves,” the band proudly states.

That patience is audible throughout. Chimera is a record of broken signals, blackened romance, and beauty caught inside systems of pressure. The City Gates build tension as structure, then let each song move through it with poise, force, and a bruised sense of grandeur.

In the past, The City Gates have shared stages with Chameleons, Trisomie 21, A Place to Bury Strangers, ACTORS, Hapax, Traitrs, Selofan, Solar Fake, Nothing, The March Violets, Ductape and more.  After doing a Canadian East Coast tour, the band will embark on a European tour from May 29 to June 6.

Tour dates:

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• 29 May, Berlin, Germany at Wild at Heart (with Cataphiles)
• 30 May, Holzminden, Germany at Horstberg 76 (with Golden Apes)
• 2 June, Paris, France at QG103
• 3 June, Gent, Belgium at The Crossover (with Fragment)
• 4 June, Rotterdam, Netherlands at SoundVille (with Death By Audio)
• 5 June, Wuppertal, Germany at Loch (with Us & I)
• 6 June, Modave, Belgium at Deux-Ours

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Taking place this December.

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Their debut demo is now available.

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