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The heavy metal “battleship” is back. On May 15, 2026, Five Finger Death Punch officially detonated their brand-new single, “Eye Of The Storm,” marking the first glimpse into the band’s landmark tenth studio album.

Currently being tracked in Los Angeles, the new record serves as a visceral cornerstone for the group’s 20th anniversary. From a “soundtrack” sonic quality to the reclaiming of their independent legacy through re-recorded hits, the Las Vegas juggernauts are moving into their third decade with more aggression than they’ve shown in years.

Back to the Roots: The Aggression of the 10th Studio Album

The wait for new Five Finger Death Punch material has ended with a return to the grit, bite, and aggression of the band’s early era. Having spent three years living with the new tracks, founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory confirmed the band trimmed nearly 30 songs down to a surgical 14 or 15 for the final tracklist.

“The new music has been turning out heavier than anything we’ve done in years, with a cinematic undertone running beneath it,” Bathory commented. He noted that while the record isn’t a concept album, it possesses a “soundtracky vibe” that pushes their signature sound into new territories. Vocalist Ivan Moody’s voice is reportedly sounding “huge” on the tracks, providing the emotional weight to match the band’s instrumental intensity.

The 20th Anniversary World Tour: Cody Jinks and Team USA

To celebrate two decades of music, Five Finger Death Punch is launching a massive 48-city world tour beginning July 20, 2026, in Camden, New Jersey. The tour features a high-velocity lineup including platinum outlaw country star Cody Jinks and rock rising stars Eva Under Fire.

Continuing their legacy of massive charitable outreach, the band has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Team USA. A portion of ticket sales from the 2026 tour will directly benefit high-performance programs for U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes as they prepare for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Bathory has personally selected USA Judo as his beneficiary, while Moody is directing funds toward USA Cycling’s BMX teams.

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Reclaiming the Legacy: Best Of Volumes 1 & 2

The lead-up to the new album has been defined by the band’s move to reclaim their catalog. Following the sale of their original masters without their knowledge, the band re-recorded their biggest hits for Best Of – Volume 1 and Volume 2. These releases have already made global history, with “The End” (featuring Babymetal) becoming the first song with Japanese lyrics to reach number one at U.S. rock radio.

FAQ: Five Finger Death Punch 2026 Updates

When is the new Five Finger Death Punch album coming out?

The 10th studio album is currently being recorded in Los Angeles and is slated for release in late 2026.

Who is supporting Five Finger Death Punch on their 2026 tour?

Cody Jinks and Eva Under Fire are supporting the North American leg. The 2027 European leg will feature Lamb of God and Bleed From Within.

What is the meaning of “Eye Of The Storm”?

According to Zoltan Bathory, the song represents the band’s “roots” energy—combining early-era grit with modern cinematic production.

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Band Bio: Five Finger Death Punch

Formed in 2005, Five Finger Death Punch has amassed over 15 billion global streams and 13 consecutive number one singles—the longest streak in the history of Mainstream Rock Airplay. Known as “The Battleship,” the band has released nine consecutive Gold or Platinum albums and remains one of the most charitable forces in the music industry.

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TL;DR:

Five Finger Death Punch has released “Eye Of The Storm,” the lead single from their upcoming 10th album, and announced a 20th-anniversary tour benefiting Team USA.

With the 10th album promising a return to the grit of the first two records, is ‘Eye Of The Storm’ the definitive 5FDP anthem for the next decade? Let us know in the comments.

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Multi-GRAMMY Award-nominated New York Heavy Metal titans Anthrax have announced their long-awaited 12th studio album, Cursum Perficio, set for release on 18 September 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records and Megaforce Records in North America.

The new album marks the band’s first studio release in ten years since 2016’s For All Kings, which debuted in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. The phrase “Cursum Perficio” is Latin for “My journey has come to an end” or “I complete my journey”, a fitting title for what the band describe as one of their most complete works to date.

Anthrax, Scott Ian, Charlie Benante, Frank Bello, Joey Belladonna and Jonathan Donais, recorded the album at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. Produced by Jay Ruston alongside the band, the album promises the aggressive, fast-paced energy fans have come to expect from Anthrax.

Leading the charge is the first single, It’s For The Kids, a blistering slice of Heavy Metal packed with razor-sharp riffs, explosive drumming and an anthemic chorus designed for the live stage.

Scott Ian said A friend of mine said, It’s For The Kids is a straight-up love letter to your fans. That’s exactly what I wanted it to be.”

Charlie Benante added, “This basically is Anthrax at its best. Fast paced, thrashing, melodic fucking Metal.”

Frank Bello described the new material as the sound of a band still hungrier than ever, while Joey Belladonna praised the single’s “fire and punch”.

The accompanying video for It’s For The Kids also pays tribute to the band’s classic Madhouse era, featuring Anthrax fans prominently throughout the clip.

“It was quite a journey from the inception of this album to its completion,” Scott Ian said. “We were supposed to make this in 2020, but the universe had other plans for everyone.

“After the Pandemic, we got to be a band again. When we started working on the record, we were just happy to be in a room together. It was so exciting that it was like being reborn in a way.

“All of that energy and emotion went into the music. The fear of being forced out of our lives and the joy of coming back together are present. The title, Cursum Perficio, feels like Anthrax. It resembled what we went through to get to the point of finishing the record.”

Anthrax – Cursum Perficio Tracklisting

– Persistence of Memory
– The Long Goodbye
– It’s For The Kids
– Everybody’s Got A Plan
– The Edge Of Perfection
– Infectious
– NYC93
– Cursum Perficio
– T.O.M.B
– Watch It Go
– My Victory

Anthrax say the album represents a major milestone in their 45-year career, delivering a record that is “powerful, pummeling, and poetic” in equal measure. Pre-orders are available from anthrax.bfan.link/cplp

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Clairo is inspired, and it’s a beautiful thing. The pop artist is in the thick of making her fourth album, the follow-up to 2024’s Charm. In TikTok posts, she vlogged about the music she’s working on, while currently on a recording trip, the third of the recording process so far. Across three videos she talked about the importance of documenting inspired moments, considering that there’s usually years of waiting for a spark to catch. They’re all lovely snippets that will have you feeling hopeful about the creative drudge.

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It’s been almost exactly four years since Ibeyi, the duo of French-Cuban twin sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, released Spell31, their last album. The two sisters have been living apart from each other in recent years, but they came back together to record the upcoming Offering, their first LP since going independent. Where their past…

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Long before joining the Eagles and stepping onto some of the biggest stages in the world, Walsh was already developing his style through years of club work, garage bands, and relentless touring. He was born Joseph Fidler Walsh on November 20, 1947, in Wichita, Kansas, and spent much of his childhood moving because of his stepfather’s military career before eventually settling in Columbus, Ohio. Music became central to his life during his teenage years, especially after he first heard the Beatles. He learned several instruments before focusing heavily on guitar, playing in local Ohio bands while attending Kent State University.

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Voivod has released the second single from its upcoming live album Symphonique, out June 5, 2026, via Century Media Records. “The End of Dormancy (Symphonique)” is now streaming across DSPs, accompanied by an official visualizer from Cloud Motion Design. The first single, “Forgotten in Space (Symphonique),” is also available.

Symphonique captures Voivod‘s June 4, 2025, performance at the Grand Théâtre in Québec City alongside the Orchestre Symphonique De Québec — a collaboration that fused the band’s pioneering futuristic metal with a full symphony orchestra across 12 songs and 73 minutes. Century Media describes the record as functioning like “an epic piece of cinema.”

Guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain on “The End of Dormancy (Symphonique)”: “This one is very special to me. I wrote the riffs imagining Roman naval battles with a full orchestra, like the movies from the ’50s and ’60s. It has a very dramatic vibe. Little did I know that what we synthesized for a four-piece band would eventually explode into its primary, original imagined form. It’s one of the most orchestral pieces on the album, and I remember the crowd’s reaction after the grand finale. It was one of these rare life’s perfect moments. I’m very grateful for that incredible experience.”

Drummer and founding member Michel “Away” Langevin said, “This live album with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra is a longtime dream turned reality. Thankfully, we will experience it again in 2027 with the Orchestre Symphonique du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, right in the region where Voivod formed back in 1983. We wish to take this show across the globe with local orchestras one day, but in the meantime, I hope you will enjoy this epic release. It’s the closest we’ve ever come to sounding like a dystopian sci-fi movie soundtrack, another dream of ours!”

The path that brought the collaboration to life was characteristically unlikely. In a December 2024 interview with The Metal Voice, Langevin recalled the odd chain of events: “It came through a strange chain of circumstances, where I did an interview for the magazine L’Itinéraire, for homeless people selling magazines on the street, and then I did an interview with one of the journalists for the magazine, and it ended up being published online by La Presse. And then the people directing the orchestra, the organization, they were made aware of that by one of the musicians from the orchestra, who is a metal dude and he’s a fan.”

Langevin continued: “It’s funny because since my cousin Richard Langevin is married to Diane Dufresne, a famous singer from Montreal, and she had done the orchestra before, so they got in touch with him, because I was mentioning him in the article because he showed me how to draw. [Laughs] And anyhow, they phoned Richard, my cousin, and he phoned my mother. [Laughs] And when I came back from touring with Voivod, I had a message on my answering machine saying that the orchestra were looking for us. So, quite amazing.” He added: “We didn’t approach [the orchestra], but we always talked about either doing symphonic shows or doing a soundtrack for a sci-fi movie or something like that. It’s part of the dreams we have.”

Mongrain, who previously arranged material for a brass quintet that performed with Voivod at the 2019 Montreal International Jazz Festival, worked closely with orchestrator Hugo Bégin on adapting the band’s music: “My help with the project was to provide the music sheets to the arranger, Hugo Bégin. He did an amazing job. He took the music sheet that I wrote for guitar and bass. So he had a template to work on. And so he orchestrated it for the whole orchestra and added his own color to it. And it’s very efficient. It’s like a movie soundtrack, like the movie we used to watch, like ‘Planet Of The Apes’ and ‘Ben-Hur’ and ‘Mad Max’ and all that. Voivod has been influenced since the beginning by those movies, so you can hear it, but with the whole orchestra, it’s very exciting… It’s gonna be grandiose.”

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Last November Band To Watch alums Twin Peaks announced a few 10th anniversary shows for their 2016 album Down In Heaven at Thalia Hall in their hometown of Chicago, which has ballooned into an eight-night run featuring opening sets from a range of locals and friends of the band including Lifeguard, V.V. Lightbody, Post Animal, Finn Wolfhard, and more. Last night, after an opening set from rock ‘n’ roll peers Ne-Hi, they returned to the stage for their first show in six years.

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Reckoners sophomore album, Where the Hell Am I?, is out on May 15th. They’ve been releasing a steady stream of singles over the last couple months, but for my money, some of the best tracks are still in store for blues rock listeners when the record hits. Simply put, this record is damn near perfect. There are a couple moments where a track or two don’t quite measure up to the overall extreme quality of the others, but I didn’t give a single song less than an eight out of 10.

Reckoners are a Boston-based five-piece soul and roots rock outfit with a lot of classic rock in their DNA. This is their first record with an organized label and they’ve been coming up the blues rock circuit touring with bands like the Tedeschi Trucks Band, The Wallflowers, and Bonnie Raitt. The band is made up of: Tim Gearan on vocals and guitar, Johnny Trama on guitar, Thomas Arey on drums, Darby Wolf on keys, and Marc Hickox on bass. Also credited for guest support on Where the Hell Am I? are Sonya Rae Taylor on vocals and guitar, Ryan Taylor on guitar, and Kevin Barry on guitar and lap steel.

Where the Hell Am I? is a musically and thematically interesting record. There are times where the songs delve into contemplative or even existential lyrical material, but for the most part both the musical structure and the lyrical themes are upbeat, hopeful,  romantic, and inspiring. It’s a feel-good record that is genuinely touching and entertaining. Reckoners’ sound on Where the Hell Am I? is best characterized as lighthearted, optimistic guitar-driven hard rock riffs and solos with interesting drum choices and excellent, epic feeling organ work on keys. There’s a bit of soul and southern rock in there as well. The production and mixing are first rate and the band sounds excellent; I was continuously impressed with the musicianship on display in every song.

The record is divided up into 10 total tracks, all of which are fun and high quality. The real standout tracks are “We Saw It All,” “Don’t Look Down,” “Consuelo,” and ‘Not to Worry.” Please note that out of 10 tracks I gave four of them (almost half) a perfect 10/10 score. “We Saw It All” has a nice crunchy church organ sound with a fun bassline under it that builds out a bouncy and fun romantic tune that describes a day in the life with a lover and how love itself can make the world seem more interesting and delightful. 

“Don’t Look Down” is a more country feeling tune (the spirit of ZZ Top is present) that is fast and rambling with upbeat lyrics about falling in love, and features a very nice drum break about halfway through, followed by a big keys and guitar part that feels bluesy and rocking, creating a very profound moment just over 2/3 through the record. 

“Consuelo” is a significantly slower and bluesier number than the previous two I mentioned, with a light piano part that manages to balance a tale of heartbreak with a hopefulness for future love. The final(and best) track on the album is “Not to Worry.” It’s big and funky at times almost feels like Parliament-Funkadelic with a big soul chorus, rocking funky breaks in between, and the best guitar solo on the album.

There are only really two tracks on the record that didn’t feel nearly perfect to me: the first track, “Second Skin” which feels a little bit unoriginal, even if it does achieve its goals, and the fifth track, “Silver Stallion,” which at times can feel torn somewhere between a James Taylor song and a ’90s indie song. There’s nothing wrong with either of these tracks, but they don’t achieve the perfection or near perfection of the other three quarters of the record.

So there it is! Where the Hell Am I? is a nearly perfect record from a newer blues rock band that is making their first foray into publishing with an organized label. If there’s any justice in the world, and with a little bit of luck, the quality of this record, along with their touring work will help Reckoners become staples of our genre. If this is the quality of music we can expect from up-and-coming blues rock bands for the rest of the year and looking forward, then the genre is very well positioned indeed. I can’t wait to hear more from them. 

The Review: 9/10

Can’t Miss Tracks

– We Saw It  All
– Don’t Look Down
– Consuelo
– Not to Worry

The Big Hit

– Not to Worry

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For nearly a year now, Drake has been teasing his unfortunately titled new album Iceman, but things really escalated in April when he hid the release date for the project inside a giant block of ice in Toronto. This led to a melee and, ultimately, the reveal that the album would drop today, May 15.…

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