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Posted on May 14th 2026, 3:30p.m.

Right now, the world is absolutely awash in heavy shoegaze bands. They aren’t all worth your attention, but Bristol’s Split Chain at least deserve some credit for bringing some vigor and excitement to the task of kind of sounding like the Deftones. Split Chain’s full-length debut motionblur drops this summer, and we’ve already posted their…

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Sepultura vocalist Derrick Green spoke with The Razor’s Edge about drummer Eloy Casagrande‘s abrupt February 2024 departure — an exit that landed barely a week before the start of Sepultura‘s farewell tour. Casagrande has since joined Slipknot, with Greyson Nekrutman, formerly of Suicidal Tendencies, stepping in to drum the remainder of the tour.

Green told The Razor’s Edge (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “Yeah, in the moment [when Eloy told us he was leaving Sepultura], it was shocking because we had no idea [he had auditioned for Slipknot and eventually got the gig]. And it was also a week out, maybe a week and a half, before even starting the tour. I was literally packing my things to go to Brazil to start rehearsals that we had all set up and agreed upon. So, yeah, it sucked. It sucks when anyone decides to leave, and the way that it happened.”

On Casagrande having since landed in Slipknot — a band Eloy had long called the one he always wanted to join — Green said: “I’m happy for him. I understand the opportunity. I think we all did. It was just the fact of how everything really rolled out was not the greatest. These things happen. Now looking back, it’s in the past. It’s, like, everything worked out the way that it was supposed to, honestly. And, of course, it was very difficult to see that at the time. It just seemed like, ‘Oh, man. Here’s another big surprise coming out of nowhere. How are we gonna be able to survive through this?’ We’ve had so many throughout the history of the band.

So, we were able to really push forward quickly. And we’re very lucky and very fortunate, that Greyson was available to do it, and down to do it. And the fact that we got along is another thing, personality-wise. This is also an incredible factor that many people probably don’t think of when it comes to creating a band or keeping a band together — the communication and the ability to get along with another person. So, all those boxes were checked with Greyson, and we were very lucky that we were able to find somebody to fill out the farewell tour at the very last minute — literally. That day we were already searching [for a new drummer] when we found out [that Eloy was leaving]. So, yeah, I think everything worked out the way that it is. I hope Eloy‘s happy where he’s at. I’m sure he is. And we’re definitely happy with the way the tour has been going.”

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Each year since 2002, the Library Of Congress has selected a handful of recordings to be archived in the National Recording Registry. The criteria are that the recordings “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States,” that the recording is at least 10 years old, and that a copy of the recording still exists. That means anything from Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) to Brian Eno’s “Microsoft Sound” is theoretically eligible. This year, Weezer are headed to Congress.

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Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear

Megadeth drummer Dirk Verbeuren marked his 10th anniversary in the band this month with a new interview with Brazil’s TV Braba, touching on everything from his stunned reaction to first being asked to fill in, to why he considers frontman Dave Mustaine the architect of thrash metal.

“[Laughs] I didn’t believe it. My first reaction, of course, was disbelief,” Verbeuren said (transcribed by Blabbermouth). “But initially I was just filling in — the plan was that I was gonna do about a month of shows. And then, in typical Dave Mustaine fashion, after a week or so of shows, Dave comes to me on the tour bus, and he goes, ‘So when are you telling the guys in Soilwork that you’re my drummer now?’ That was his way of saying, ‘I want you to play in the band.’”

“So, of course, it was a very exciting time, and kind of bittersweet at the same time, because I’d been with Soilwork for 12 years and they were good friends of mine, but everybody was, of course, like, ‘Of course you have to do this.’ And, yeah, so it was a very special experience. And to this day, it’s been now — actually, this month it’s gonna be 10 years since I played my first show in Megadeth, and it’s still surreal to this day.”

“You have to know that I went to see Megadeth live in 1990, so I was, like, 15 years old at the time. It was one of the first shows I ever saw — it was ‘Clash Of The Titans’ with Megadeth, Slayer, Testament, and Suicidal Tendencies in Europe, where I lived in France at the time. And now to be in the band for 10 years and to kind of continue the legacy with great music — everything Dave has done is iconic, but also the amazing drum work of [former Megadeth drummers] Nick Menza, Gar Samuelson, Chuck Behler, all the guys that have been in the band since then, it’s truly an honor. In metal music, you can’t really go much higher than that legacy. And to me, Dave is the guy who invented thrash metal. He wrote a lot of the iconic early stuff that kind of defined what that genre sounded like, and you can recognize his riffs among a million riffs. He has such a unique style of playing to this day on the guitar that, to me, Dave is the ultimate rock god. Absolutely.”

Asked which Megadeth songs are hardest to play, Verbeuren pointed to the debut era. “I would say that all the songs on Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good! are quite difficult because not only are they played at breakneck speed, but Gar Samuelson, who was the band’s drummer at that time, had a very improvisational style, and so if you wanna replicate that, it’s quite difficult,” he said. Though he added: “People sometimes have the impression, like, ‘Oh, it must be so easy to play ‘Symphony Of Destruction’…’ No, they all have their own difficulties. When you play an hour-and-a-half set like we usually do, it’s truly a test of endurance and stamina.”

The full-circle Paris story is one Verbeuren keeps coming back to. “I saw Megadeth on the ‘Clash Of The Titans’ tour at Le Zénith in Paris,” he recalled. “And I have since now three times played with the band at that very venue. Every time I go there, it blows my mind because I’m, like, ‘I can’t believe I was here as a teenager seeing the band I’m now a part of.’”

On actually contributing music: in a September 2022 interview, Verbeuren revealed he brought riff ideas into the writing sessions for The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead! that Mustaine actively encouraged — resulting in the song “Life In Hell” being built from one of his demos, with a riff of his also landing in “Night Stalkers.” “I didn’t anticipate that any of my stuff would go anywhere, because, I mean, c’mon, this is Dave Mustaine we’re talking about,” Dirk said. “Who am I on guitar compared to Dave Mustaine?”

Megadeth‘s self-titled album — Verbeuren‘s second full-length with the band — was released in January via Mustaine‘s Tradecraft imprint on Frontiers Label Group‘s BLKIIBLK label. Prior to Verbeuren joining, former Lamb of God drummer Chris Adler had recorded the drums on 2016’s Dystopia.

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All throughout their new album Green World Image, Seattle post-punks Telehealth pull off a brilliant pastiche of B-52s-style party-time new wave, weaving their oblong neon punk-funk grooves full of extremely topical lyrics about the plight of living in our degraded modern culture. There’s more than a little Devo in their sound and their worldview. You…

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Heavy-hearted indie rock trio the Pines Of Rome started in Providence, Rhode Island in the late ’90s. They released a couple of albums and played shows with like-minded acts like Songs: Ohia, Silkworm, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy before breaking up in the early ’00s. During the pandemic, the former bandmates got back in touch and…

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You’ve no doubt heard the saying, popularized by author Thomas Wolfe, “you can’t go home again.” There are an endless number of dissections about what that really means, but the gist is that nostalgia has colored memories enough that the home you remember wasn’t exactly like that. So it was with some curiosity I listened […]