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Hellenic black metal outfit Yoth Iria presents their new video for "Harut, Government, Fallen." The track appears on the band's stellar third album, "Gone With The Devil," out now on Metal Blade Records. Comments bassist Jim Mutilator, "My path into occultism began in the late ‘80s, shaped by revelations from my own demonic frequencies. This tra… Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

One of three in-studio performances Turnstile laid down for BBC Radio 1.

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Uncompromising duo Into The Grave have returned with their latest full-length assault, Bury Them All. Featuring nine tracks of relentless old-school Swedish death metal, the album balances savage brutality with the dark melodies and heavy “death grooves” synonymous with the genre’s legendary pioneers. Lyrically, the record serves as a loose concept album centered on the … Continue reading Into The Grave channel Swedish death metal brutality on new album ‘Bury Them All’

Glasslands unleashes another new single, ‘Blood In The Water’ was originally published on HM Magazine by Nao Glover.

Glasslands continues to build momentum with another new single, “Blood In The Water,” as Josh Kincheloe carves out a self-defined sound in the alternative space. On “Blood In The Water,” Josh Kincheloe pushes Glasslands further into industrial leanings, dialing into an era that’s more instinct-driven. It’s not immediate or explosive. It simmers. There’s a lingering […]

Glasslands unleashes another new single, ‘Blood In The Water’ was originally published on HM Magazine by Nao Glover.

Jack Douglas, a producer and engineer who helped craft more than his share of classic albums, passed away on Monday, as Variety reports. No cause of death has been reported. Douglas was 80.

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Look for it to begin in early September.

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Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson made his position on AI-generated music clear in a new interview with Andres Violante of Rock En La Trinchera — and he’s not buying what it’s selling.

“To me, it’s just that — it’s artificial,” Ellefson said (transcribed by Blabbermouth). “And I don’t know how intelligent it really is. It’s just artificial.”

He drew a clear line between digital recording tools and AI generation proper. “Every record I make, if it’s using digital processing, it’s still our humans performing and me,” Ellefson explained. “It’s us playing. And that’s important, that it’s not just stuff taken from somewhere else, that what you’re hearing is real human performances. ‘Cause it’s the human performance that connects with the human listener.”

“That’s my problem with artificial intelligence, it’s not that intelligent, and it’s artificial,” Ellefson continued. “And that’s never gonna connect emotionally. You’ll never have an emotional connection. Humans connect emotionally, ’cause we’re animals. That’s why we connect with our cats and our dogs and our birds and our pets, because we have a beating heart, we have a pulse, there’s an emotional connection. And things that are created on a computer, they don’t have emotion to them. They may be smart, but they don’t have a heart. And it’s the heart that really connects.”

Since his exit from Megadeth in 2021, Ellefson has kept himself in near-constant motion across multiple fronts. He has continued touring and recording with Kings of Thrash, the group he formed alongside former Megadeth guitarist Jeff Young that performs early Megadeth material, and released To Hell and Back in June 2023 with death-thrash outfit Dieth.

In April 2024, he stepped in to cover for D.D. Verni during Overkill‘s Latin American tour while Verni recovered from shoulder surgery. He also launched the Ellefson-Soto project (which has two albums already released) and hosts his own podcast, The David Ellefson Show. Most recently, he joined classic heavy metal act Metal Church as their new permanent bassist in November 2025, performing on their fourteenth studio album Dead to Rights, released in April 2026.

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We named Caroline Rose an Artist To Watch way back in 2018, but their new single out today dates back even farther. Rose wrote the rowdy, poppy, psychobilly-infused “Yip Yip Yow” a decade ago and has been performing it in concert for years. Today they’ve finally put out a studio version in conjunction with the…

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Words and photos by: Joshua Stroud There are some albums that just become part of people’s lives and Opera Oblivia is absolutely one of them. Seeing Hellions bring this record back for a 10 year anniversary tour felt less like going to a gig and more like stepping back into a very specific time in […]

Nicko McBrain is putting his story on paper. Harper Nonfiction will publish Hello Boys And Girls!, the Iron Maiden drummer’s autobiography, on October 22, 2026, in hardback, ebook, and audio formats.

McBrain joined Iron Maiden in December 1982, replacing Clive Burr ahead of the Piece of Mind album and tour — a connection that had already been established when his former band Trust supported Maiden on the “Killers” U.K. leg in 1981. Where Burr had a punk-inflected, hard-hitting style, McBrain brought dexterity and flair, giving primary songwriter Steve Harris the rhythmic latitude to take the band into more adventurous territory. He wound up the third-longest-serving member behind Harris and guitarist Dave Murray.

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“I’m very excited and honoured to be working with the wonderful Harper Nonfiction team on my very own book full of lots of fun stories, anecdotes, and of course my incredible experiences with some of the greatest musicians and performers from the ’70s, ’80s and beyond!” McBrain said. “I am blessed to be able to finally share my path to where I am today, in my own words, with the world.”

The 73-year-old British musician announced his retirement on December 7, 2024, with his final Maiden performance that same night at Allianz Parque in São Paulo, Brazil. His replacement, Simon Dawson, was a session drummer and longtime collaborator with Harris in British Lion. Health had been the defining factor in the decision: McBrain suffered a stroke in August 2023 that temporarily left him partially paralyzed, and had been diagnosed with stage 1 laryngeal cancer in 2018 — a diagnosis he kept largely quiet until 2021.

Speaking about his exit in a July 2025 interview, McBrain was candid about the toll: “I had my health issues, which were one of the primary reasons that I decided to hang it up with the guys. And I wasn’t doing the songs justice because of the handicap that I had. And it wasn’t fair to everybody else in the band either. They supported me 100 percent through the ‘The Future Past Tour’, and that was fantastic. I couldn’t have asked for a better bunch of brothers to support me through my darkest hour.”

He addressed the performance specifics head-on: “I actually got told off at rehearsals [in 2024] because I was playing the songs too fast, ’cause I’d been playing with [my Florida-based side project] Titanium Tart before I went off and did the rehearsals in Australia with Maiden.” The real issue, as he described it, was finesse rather than tempo — the drum fills he had executed for 42 years were no longer landing the way they needed to. The decision followed.

Hello Boys And Girls! promises backstage stories, tour tales, and the kind of unfiltered candor that tends to separate the good rock memoirs from the rest.

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