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Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes and Spiritbox singer Courtney LaPlante are collaborating on a new, original track called If The Sun Burns Out Tonight.

The song is due to come out at an unspecified date in the autumn and was written and produced by American DJ/composer Grabbitz. It will serve as the theme of this year’s Valorant Champions Tour, an annual esports tournament where teams compete on 2020 first-person shooter videogame Valorant.

It will mark LaPlante’s second collaboration with developer Riot Games, after she lent her voice to the electro-metal track Ties That Bind for their fighting game 2XKO last year. Grabbitz has worked with the company on three previous singles, including collaborations with Ashnikko and bbno$.

Grabbitz teases that If The Sun Burns Out Tonight “sits effortlessly between my electronic world and the heavy landscapes of Bring Me The Horizon and Spiritbox. The three of us just clicked – and the result is what I believe to be the best Valorant anthem to date.”

Sykes comments: “I’ve always been drawn to projects that blur the lines between storytelling and music, so working with Riot Games, alongside Grabbitz and Courtney, and becoming part of the Valorant world felt like a really natural fit.”

LaPlante adds: “I cannot wait to release this song! Oli has given me the opportunity to perform live with BMTH many times over the years, and we’re finally debuting something we worked on together. Grabbitz produced such a great atmosphere and a song tailored to all three of our voices, and Oli went in right away and made it a true collaboration.”

LaPlante has been a guest at multiple Bring Me shows. In May 2022, she joined the British pop-metal band at their self-curated festival in Malta and sang their song Chelsea Smile. The following year, she appeared during a gig in Budapest for 2020’s One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be in Your Chest As You March Towards Your Death (singing parts originally performed by Evanescence’s Amy Lee) and 2019’s Nihilist Blues (filling in for Grimes).

Bring Me released a re-recorded version of their 2006 debut album, Count Your Blessings, last month. They will wrap up their European festival tour with a show at Sziget festival in Budapest on Friday (August 14) and will play Rick In Rio in Brazil on September 5. They’ll play a run of US and Canadian shows from September to October.

Spiritbox released their second album, Tsunami Sea, last year. The Canadian metalcore band will headline a tour of Europe, supported by Jinjer and Dying Wish, from September to October. They’ll support Metallica at an intimate show at Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Arena on November 21 before touring Australia in December.

The 2026 Valorant Champions Tour is currently in its second stage. The final, champions’ stage will take place in Shanghai from September 24 to October 18. The grand prize money is $2,250,000 (£1,666,226).

Riot Games have previously worked with such metal titans as Polyphia, who performed the official 2XKO theme song Let’s Go, and Linkin Park, whose single Heavy Is The Crown was the theme for the 2024 League Of Legends World Championship.

The event’s organizers would not say whether that included Israel, but its participation has been a matter of contention during the war in Gaza.

In June, LA’s Mal Not Bad announced their sophomore LP Sophomore, slated for September. It looks like it’s been pushed to early 2027, but we’re getting another preview today with the new single “DHF” and a music video that involves a dance choreography in a church.

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Microtonal cardboard duo Angine de Poitrine are following their United States live concert debut at last month’s Newport Jazz Festival with their completely sold-out, first-ever US tour. The upcoming run includes multiple shows in a number of cities due to overwhelming popular demand. Dates begin tonight, with a sold-out two-night stand at Denver, CO’s Ogden Theatre August 12-13, and then continue into December.

Highlights include sold-out shows at Los Angeles, CA’s Teragram Ballroom (August 17-18), New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge (September 9-10), Washington, DC’s The Atlantis (September 15) and Lincoln Theater (September 17), Brooklyn, NY’s Brooklyn Bowl (November 16-18), Chicago, IL’s The Salt Shed (November 29-30), Minneapolis, MN’s First Avenue (December 1-2), Los Angeles, CA’s The Wiltern (December 4-5), Portland, OR’s McMenamins Crystal Ballroom (December 10-11), and Seattle, WA’s Showbox SoDo (December 12) and Paramount Theatre (December 13). For waitlists and complete information, please visit here.

With a chosen mission to support and champion the vibrant and largely undiscovered music scene of their home province, Angine De Poitrine will feature a rotating lineup of Quebec artists as opening acts throughout the fall, including psychedelic rockers Population II, electronic singer-songwriter Annie-Claude Deschênes, high-energy noise rock trio zouz, and Montreal guitarist, composer, and improviser René Lussier.

The eagerly awaited US tour continues an epic 2026 international live schedule for Angine de Poitrine that also features sold-out headline dates, festival performances, and more across the US, Canada, Japan, Europe, and the United Kingdom. US festival appearances include King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Field of Vision II in Buena Vista, CO (August 14), Seattle, WA’s The KEXP BBQ (August 22), Elizabethtown, NY’s Otis Mountain Get Down (September 11), Austin, TX’s Levitation (September 12), Chicago, IL’s Riot Fest (September 19), and Richmond, VA’s Iron Blossom Festival (September 20).

The sold-out US headline tour continues a momentous 2026 for Angine de Poitrine, a landmark year that has also seen the acclaimed release of the duo’s second full-length album, Vol. II, available here now. Following the highly anticipated U.S. physical releases of Vol. I and Vol. II in June, the band debuted at No. 1 on nine Billboard charts, including No. 3 on Top Album Sales, No. 2 on Vinyl Albums, and No. 2 on Indie Store Album Sales. Since their release, the albums have held the number 1 slot on the Indie Store Album chart for eight consecutive weeks.

Vol. II stretches the boundaries of Angine de Poitrine’s brisk, high-voltage approach with even bolder, more dynamic structures. Once again, three essential forces fuel the duo’s inspiration: acid techno, disco, and rock. Vol. II includes such fan favorites as “Fabienk,” which, true to Les Frères de Poitrine’s style, revolves around a single microtonal guitar loop that repeats, doubles, and evolves through a groove that is both insistent and liberating.

Hailed by The Guardian for their “hypnotic riffs and grooves, whose proggy time shifts are all in astonishing lockstep, making this as much party music as it is prog,” the Mantra-Rock Dada Pythagorean-Cubist Orchestra known as Angine de Poitrine gaze in wonder at hot dogs, pyramids, and rock music in all its glorious excess. In just two years, time-traveling space-voyagers Khn de Poitrine (microtonal guitars, vocals) and Klek de Poitrine (percussion, vocals) have surpassed the earthly rock stars they once emulated, earning critical acclaim, millions of streams, and countless new fans worldwide. Structured around a dynamic interplay of adding and removing sound patterns in a constant state of metamorphosis, Angine de Poitrine’s repertoire makes hearts race and bodies move with ecstatic abandon. Through tight, pulsing drum grooves and intricate tangles of double-necked microtonal guitar, the noble brothers summon swirling vortices of hypnotic sound and vision.

Having spent much of the past two years in the eye of an ever-growing storm of enthusiasm from audiences and critics thanks to their asymmetrical, dissonant music and electrifying performances – including a stunning Live on KEXP session that has quickly amassed over 18M views and counting – Angine de Poitrine unveiled Vol. II in April 2026 to worldwide applause from such prestigious publications as the New York Times, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Paste, and more. The duo marked the album’s arrival with virtually non-stop touring around the globe, selling out venues worldwide within minutes, often months in advance. Highlights thus far include a one-night-only show supporting Jack White at Toronto, ON’s RBC Amphitheatre and a free headline show during the Montreal International Jazz Festival, which drew record turnout in excess of 80,000 fans.

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The band revisited their debut album for a live in-studio performance that was issued earlier this year.

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French ritualists Skáld lift the veil to reveal another glimpse into our ancient destiny. “Himinbjǫrg,” the second single off of their upcoming album, Ørlǫg coming on September 25 via Napalm Records, reaches far out to the edge of Asgard, the realm of the Gods. At the eponymous castle in the sky, Heimdall keeps watch for invaders at the rainbow bridge, Bifröst. Skáld lend Asgard’s guardian an assertive voice, letting the song serve as an emphatic yet reassuring guide through our sometimes-clouded destiny. The drum-driven song extends the folk musicians’ invitation to step into ancient times and dance among reawakened spirits.

Skáld comments about “Himinbjǫrg”: “‘Himinbjǫrg’ invites us to step onto the threshold, to the gateway at the edge of the sky, to face the guardian’s gaze—are we ready to be judged as we reach the end of the bridge? These cliffs in the sky are a mirror of our actions, our ambitions, our Ørlǫg; it is a long journey toward something greater — let us ride on without fear.”

Ancient spirits come alive as Skáld extend an invitation into times long gone but not forgotten. Ørlǫg, coming September 25, 2026, is their first album via Napalm Records, and it is our destiny. As the Norns weave our future, this album is a fascinating passageway into our pristine origins and the consequences of our choices. Ten new songs as stepping stones, Ørlǫg is an offering to listen, to dwell, to reflect—and to find something within yourself previously unknown. Skáld don’t just play music; they awaken ancient ways.

A staple band in the genre, Skáld delivers a striking work of art with their latest album, deferentially using their sources to keep old spirits alive and form the enchanting world of Ørlǫg. The language might sound unfamiliar, but the music still touches the soul.

Skáld comments about the album: “Ørlǫg is the cosmic web that influences the world and every person. Part of our Ørlǫg is determined by our birth, our past actions, and our upbringing, but Ørlǫg is not set in stone; our daily choices are constantly shaping it. What we do now and what we have done in the past determines what will happen to us in the future; we cannot escape the consequences of our actions. This album makes us question our choices—both individual and collective—and the patterns we accept or reject. The Norns weave our destiny, but we can take control of certain things: travel, ride worlds, and grow. Each song on this album describes a situation, a place, a choice to be made. Let’s take hold of our Ørlǫg.”

The atmospheric journey to claim direction starts within the dreamscapes of “Draumakona,” an expressive look at the female side of shamanic prophecy. The French band constructs their Nordic folk melodies to be particularly catchy, shifting powerfully between female lead singing and multilayered vocal arrangements to create an antiphony between individuum and community. Inspired by Skaldic poetry, Skáld use instruments fitting of the time: Ørlǫg is shaped by Nordic fiddles, different forms of harps and lyres, horns, kannels, and whistles, among others, as well as three lead vocalists to bring the arrangements to life. “Myrkviðr” picks up on the opening track’s persuasive energy, with male vocals taking the lead this time.

Further spreading their message is “Ratatoskr,” intonated by clattering sounds and throat singing, channeled into hauntingly repetitive chants of the eponymous squirrel’s name. For “Dǫkksalir,” Skáld unwind their melodies to form a gentle song, sweet-talking almost like a lullaby—and therefore fitting the concept of the charming yet also frightening sirens lurking in the dark. “Útgarðr” contrasts the different voices compellingly by the passages being sung simultaneously with alternating focus and a goosebump-inducing climax—instantly opposed by “Ek skald rida” which makes use of similar techniques, but is the most tranquil track on the album. “Himinbjǫrg” reaches far out to the edge of Asgard, where Heimdall guards the rainbow bridge, Bifröst.

Skáld lends him an assertive voice, so the song serves as an emphatic yet reassuring guide through our sometimes-clouded destiny. “Heiemo og Nykkjen,” a rendition of a traditional medieval folk ballad from what is now Norway, takes a more provident approach to both instrumentation and vocal delivery, while “Veit barnit” calls upon the knowledge of children and uses a child’s voice alongside their usual harmonies to reflect that. The grim finale, “Eldr ok iss,” Old Norse for “fire and ice,” again calls on contrasts as well as referencing part of the creation myth in which the primordial being Ymir emerged from Muspelheim—the realm of fire—colliding with icy Nilfheim in the beginning of times. SKÁLD build an appropriate arc of suspense with a formidably sinister atmosphere.

Ørlǫg will be available here in the following formats:

• 1LP Gatefold Whitelabel / Testpressing, incl. LP-Sized Booklet, Covercard (numbered), Certificate of Authenticity (numbered, dated) – Napalm ROW exclusive (strictly limited to 50 copies)
• 1LP Gatefold Splattered Milk Black Orange, incl. LP-Sized Booklet – Napalm Records exclusive (strictly limited to 300 copies)
• Bundle: 1LP Gatefold Translucent Yellow & Logo Shirt – Napalm Records exclusive
• Bundle: Digipack & Shirt – Napalm Records exclusive
• 1LP Gatefold Marbled Translucent Orange – Band Only Exclusive (strictly limited to 300 copies)
• 1LP Gatefold Clear Indie USA (strictly limited to 200 copies)
• 1LP Gatefold Translucent Yellow
• 1LP Gatefold Gold – France Exclusive (strictly limited to 500 copies)
• 1CD Digipack, incl. 6p Digipack
• Digital Album

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M. Shadows went on to provide backup vocals.

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We still have a couple months until Fenne Lily releases her Big Picture followup Win Win. The Brooklyn-via-UK singer-songwriter has unveiled compelling previews with “Uh Huh” and “Thank You Sorry,” and now she’s sharing the exquisite single “Sleeping.”

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Produced by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy Award-winning drummer Matt Sorum, the 2,000-copy collector’s edition benefits Adopt the Arts Foundation while preserving an unforgettable night of legendary performances.

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame legends Paul Rodgers and Geezer Butler are honored on Sound & Vision Live, a limited-edition all-star double vinyl album recorded during the inaugural Palm Springs Sound & Vision Awards at the historic Plaza Theatre on March 2, 2026.

Today (August 12), Adopt the Arts Foundation announced the release of Sound & Vision Live, along with the official pre-sale and details for the Sound & Vision Live Record Release Celebration & Concert Film Screenings, taking place Sunday, September 13, 2026, at the Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs.

The recording features performances by Paul Rodgers (Free, Bad Company) and Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath), joined by an all-star lineup including Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Lzzy Hale (Halestorm), Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple), Nuno Bettencourt (Extreme), Charlie Starr (BlackBerry Smoke), Phil X (Bon Jovi), Steve Stevens (Billy Idol), Matt Sorum (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Robert DeLeo (Stone Temple Pilots), Stevie Salas (Mick Jagger), Mike Mangan (The Cult), and Paul Ill (Alicia Keys).

Every participating artist donated their time and talent in support of Adopt the Arts Foundation and its mission to restore and sustain music education in underserved public elementary schools.

“I never went into that night thinking we were making a record,” said Matt Sorum. “I originally had the show recorded and filmed because I wanted to preserve the experience for myself. But when I listened back, I realized we had captured something truly magical—the energy in the room, the performances, and the spirit of all these incredible artists coming together for the kids. Through Experience Vinyl, we had an opportunity to turn that moment into something people could hold onto while raising meaningful support for music education.”

The initial pressing will be limited to 2,000 double-vinyl albums, priced at $99.98. Sound & Vision is available to pre-order here.

Of the total pressing, 250 Plaza Theatre Collector’s Editions will be available for the September 13 Record Release Celebration. Pressed on color vinyl, these collectible editions feature artwork unavailable on the standard online release.

The remaining albums will be available exclusively through Experience Vinyl, with the official pre-sale beginning August 3, 2026.

Experience Vinyl is donating its services so that proceeds from album sales directly benefit Adopt the Arts Foundation. Philanthropic supporters also provided the funding necessary to mix, master, and complete the album and companion concert film.

“Experience Vinyl is about preserving the moments in music that deserve to live beyond a single night,” said Seth Frank, Founder of Experience Vinyl. “From the performances to the purpose behind them, Sound & Vision Live is exactly the kind of project we want to help bring into the world. We are proud to donate our work and platform so that proceeds directly support Adopt the Arts and help provide children with access to music education.”

The album was recorded by Kemble Walters and Miguel Sosa, mixed by Walters at Goodnoise Studios in Palm Springs, and mastered for vinyl by Grammy-winning mastering engineer Howie Weinberg and Will Borza.

Internationally acclaimed photographer and creative director Glen Wexler created the album artwork and liner notes. The deluxe package features archival photography, original artwork, and extensive liner notes celebrating the performances and the enduring legacies of Paul Rodgers and Geezer Butler.

The project was made possible through the generous support of Executive Producers Jackie and Joby Pritzker and Co-Executive Producers Dale Lawrence, James Malachowski, and Sam Senigaglia.

More than a celebration of rock history, Sound & Vision Live helps create the next generation of musicians.

Founded in 2012 by Matt Sorum and Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch, Adopt the Arts Foundation restores and sustains music education in underserved public elementary schools.

Today, the Foundation serves more than 4,000 students annually throughout Los Angeles and the Coachella Valley by providing music instruction, instruments, curriculum, teacher support, artist mentorship, and meaningful performance opportunities.

“Every artist who stepped onto that stage understood why we were there,” Sorum said. “We came together to celebrate two legends, but the real encore is every child who discovers music because of this record.”

Sound & Vision Live Information:

Format: Limited-edition all-star double vinyl album
Pressing: Limited to 2,000 copies
Price: $99.98
Pre-Sale Begins: August 3, 2026
Record Release Celebration: September 13, 2026
Online Availability: Exclusively through Experience Vinyl
Beneficiary: Adopt the Arts Foundation

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