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Celebrating the 1st anniversary of “No One Was Driving The Car”.

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Last month, Elvis Costello announced a 49th anniversary edition of his debut album My Aim Is True, saying that the idea of a 50th anniversary edition struck him as “preposterous” and “made [his] teeth itch.” The five-CD box set features 104 tracks, 52 of which are previously unreleased. He shared a bunch of versions of his 1977 single “Watching The Detectives,” and now he’s releasing the original version of “I Turn Around.”

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Ahead of the September 18 release of their long-awaited 12th full-length studio album Cursum Perficio (Megaforce Records), Anthrax today have announced a collaboration with Dark Matter Coffee for a special limited-edition Dark Matter Coffee x Anthrax “Cursum Perficio” brew.

The base of the Cursum Perficio coffee is “a washed-process Catuai from Nicaragua that has been roasted with a little more heat to caramelize the sugars and bring out more toastiness, maintaining a sweet, nutty cup,” the company notes. “We paired the Catuai with coffee from the Pacas Family in El Salvador, a blend of Bourbon and Pacas beans that come from several farms in the Santa Ana region, which go through a washed process at the Cafe Tuxpal mill. This coffee has a lot of chocolatey notes in the cup, with a hint of citrus that comes through as it cools!”

Dark Matter Coffee x Anthrax “Cursum Perficio” is available in the following configurations:

• Bagged (Whole Bean, Drip Coffee Grind, Espresso Grind, Press Pot Grind, Pour Over Grind): 12oz

• Coffee Cold – 8 Pack

“With Cursum Perficio, we have a blend of Central American washed coffees from Nicaragua and El Salvador that produce a piping-hot mug of chocolatey and nutty notes balanced by a sweet citrus finish,” says Anthrax’s Charlie Benante. “This blend sits nicely next to my Schism and the Devil You Know blends from Dark Matter.”

Cursum Perficio, the multi-GRAMMY Award-nominated New York hard rock titans’ new album, marks the band’s first record 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,” “My journey is over,” or “I complete my journey.” It proves apropos for such a complete body of work.

It will be available as a standard CD; Target exclusive CD with a fabric patch of the album cover; standard black double LP with pop-up gatefold; Target exclusive double LP, red zoetrope with pop up gatefold; Amazon exclusive double LP, purple zoetrope LP with pop-up gatefold; merch exclusive lilac vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Metal Injection exclusive white vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Talk Shop Live exclusive signed with red ripple vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold; Indie exclusive – red, orange yellow vinyl double LP with pop-up gatefold. To pre-order/pre-save, click here.

The band—Scott Ian (guitar), Charlie Benante (drums), Frank Bello (bass), Joey Belladonna (vocals), and Jonathan Donais (guitar)—dove into recording Cursum Perficio in earnest during 2022, working out of Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. They carefully pieced together what would be this magnum opus, mining their history with reverence, delivering on fan expectations tenfold, and broadening the scope of their signature sound. Produced by Jay Ruston and Anthrax, the result is an album that’s as angry, aggressive, and alive as their most celebrated fare.

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(written by Islander) It’s a Bandcamp Friday. But you probably knew that. I failed to put it on my calendar but the engorgement of our in-box over the last 24 hours reminded me. So even though we’ve already published our usual three features for the day I decided to do this fourth one so I […]

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Polish extreme metal legends Behemoth, unleash “In League with Satan”, the second single from their new studio release, I, Scvlptor, which is out today via Nuclear Blast Records (digitally) and Massacre Records (physically). The music video for “In League with Satan” was produced by the acclaimed Polish production collective Grupa 13. The song and the video feature a very special guest, Shagrath of Dimmu Borgir.

Nergal commented on the new single: “When we were looking for a name for our tour with Dimmu Borgir, I thought it would be great to use a timeless slogan and basically quote the gods of satanic rock’n’roll — Venom and “In League with Satan” perfectly fit my vision. I honestly don’t remember what came first — the idea for the tour name or the idea of recording the song itself. What matters is that we recorded it on seven-string guitars with Shagrath from Dimmu as a guest vocalist. The song gained a massive weight and a completely new dimension. We’re planning to play it live and I think our version turned into something truly powerful.”

I, Scvlptor, which is out today, is an exclusive release featuring eight previously unreleased songs – seven new studio recordings and one live track. It is an autonomous body of work that bridges the band’s foundational past with their present creative fire. The release features brand-new studio material embodying the full force of Behemoth‘s live energy and intensity. Two tracks – “Rise of the Blackstorm of Evil” (from The Return of the Northern Moon, 1992) and “In Thy Pandemaeternum” (from Pandemonic Incantations, 1998) – are newly re-recorded versions of early Behemoth material, reshaped with modern sonics while preserving their original spirit; a tribute to the bands who had a huge influence on Behemoth – ‘In League With Satan’ (originally by Venom, feat. Shagrath of Dimmu Borgir) and ‘The Return of Darkness and Evil’ (originally by Bathory, feat. Sakis Tolis of Rotting Christ). Available on CD, LP, MC and Limited-Edition Box Set through Massacre Records worldwide and digitally via Nuclear Blast Records.

Nergal commented: “We’re fucking excited about the release of I, Scvlptor. Even though it’s not a regular studio album and is, in fact, more of a compilation, the mere fact that it contains songs nobody has ever heard before makes it a significant release for us. What’s more, some of these tracks are likely a little different from what we offered on our last album, The Shit Ov God. That’s why we see I,Scvlptor as an important record — a connecting piece, a bridge between where we are now and whatever may come next in the distant future.”

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The group are seeking to raise $75,000 for that effort.

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We recently had a chat with Yohanna, singer of the Greek metal band Passengers In Panic: In this interview we talked about the story of how she joined the band at a time of change and the deep personal significance of their second album, Amnesia. Yohanna also opened up about her pre-show rituals, the vocal struggles she faced in the studio, her deep respect for the late Chester Bennington, and the new extreme vocal techniques she is currently learning.

Highlights from the Interview

When asked about how she would describe the band in her own words, Yohanna said:

“I would describe Passengers in Panic as having a strong Greek identity with Greek traditional music, with Greek traditional elements in general. […] But I think you really understand the band and the mentality of the band when the line between the band and the audience just disappears. We are all part of the same experience. We are all passengers in panic at the end of the day.”

When asked about joining the band during an important chapter and taking over vocal duties, Yohanna said:

“I was incredibly happy because this was my dream and something that I had always wanted to do, but at the same time it was a huge risk, huge challenge for me because I was stepping into a band that had already started its journey and I was taking over the vocal duties from the original singer. So I had to find my own style and own way of doing things and make the role my own, and this was the hardest part of the whole experience, you know, the whole journey at first.”

When asked about what their powerful and emotional album Amnesia means to her personally, Yohanna said:

“Amnesia is very personal for me. It’s inspired by real experiences and stories that have affected us both personally and as a band. […] I think at its core, this album is also about what happens inside us when we live with so much pressure, uncertainty, noise around us. And sometimes we try to forget things that make us feel, you know, disappointment or anxiety, angry, every bad emotion, you know, we have in your soul if you want just to let it go, just to give it away. And actually in that way, when we try to forget bad things in our lives we experience our own kind of amnesia.”

When asked about the song that challenged her the most as a vocalist, Yohanna said:

“Well definitely without a doubt, Amnesia. You know, it probably challenged me the most, more than any other song from this album. And I was, you know, I was still figuring out my voice, my tone, what I wanted to do with that, how I wanted to express myself. And there were moments that I wasn’t sure how to translate what I was hearing into my voice and what I wanted to do.”

When asked about which artist in the world she would choose for a dream collaboration, Yohanna said:

“Well, it’s kind of an impossible collaboration because the one artist that I have on my mind right now and I always have in my mind actually is Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. […] There was so much power and vulnerability in the way he sung and I really admire every song that he sung with Linkin Park or without Linkin Park. […] I think that it’s maybe one reason that I’m here today and I’m doing music and I’m trying my best for that because of him, because of his voice.”

When asked about what fans would be surprised to learn about her, Yohanna said:

“I think that the one thing that they would be surprised to know about me is that I have recently started to learn how to do growls, you know, extreme vocal techniques, you know, which is completely new for me. […] You just feel like you are going to unlock a new part of what you are doing so far and it’s great because when I started learning how to do growls I realized that growling helps me a lot through my clean singing. And I felt that I started to do better in my clean singing.”

Watch the full interview below.

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Slow Pulp’s highly anticipated Yard followup Melodie comes out in exactly two weeks. So far the Chicago indie rock crew has shared “Better Man,” “Not For Nothing,” and “Spill,” and today they’re debuting two new tracks on The Adam Friedland Show.

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They’ll be trekking across the U.S. later this month.

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Six tracks landed this week and two of them arrived attached to releases out today. Polaris broke a three-year silence with the hardest song they’ll ever have to write. Saxon announced their twenty-fifth album. PRESIDENT’s debut arrived after a year of teasing, and the artist opening their tour tonight put out her first EP the same morning. Here’s everything worth your Friday.

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Polaris — “Without You”

The most important song on this list, and the hardest one the band will ever have to write.

“Without You” is Polaris’ first new music in three years, and it’s a tribute to guitarist Ryan Siew, who died in June 2023 at the age of 26.

The context matters. Siew’s death came less than three months before the release of Fatalism, an album he had already finished recording — his parts were completed beforehand and released posthumously. That record went to number one on the ARIA Albums Chart and won Best Independent Heavy Album at the 2024 AIR Awards. The band toured it hard, played Knotfest Australia, Download, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, and did not release a note of new music.

Until now.

Their statement is the only framing this song needs: they never imagined they’d one day have reason to write it, but three years on they find themselves still making sense of an immeasurable tragedy and what it has meant to be left in the wake. They describe it as the sound of crushing loss, shock, grief and heartache — and the beginning of learning how to share that with the world.

The video, made with Third Eye Visuals, shows the remaining members performing inside a stark, empty cathedral, with imagery from across the band’s history threaded through it.

It’s out via ADA in Australia and New Zealand and SharpTone Records everywhere else. And it isn’t only a tribute — the band have framed it as the start of their next chapter.

The Sydney band are in the UK and Europe from September 19, supporting I Prevail alongside Amira Elfeky. Vocalist Jamie Hails also appears on “Sonic Salvation” from August Burns Red’s new album.

Saxon — “Gods Of Thunder”

Album twenty-five. Read that again.

“Gods Of Thunder” is the title track of Saxon’s twenty-fifth studio album, announced Wednesday and due January 22 via Silver Lining Music. Ten tracks, produced by Biff Byford and mixed by Andy Sneap — the longtime Saxon collaborator who also plays guitar on tour with Judas Priest.

The song is a full-blooded piece of Celtic mythology, and Byford’s own pitch for it is exactly what you’d hope: a mighty tale packed with the spirit and power of true heavy metal, so turn it up and bang your head.

The album pulls on history, fantasy, horror, ancient mythology and pagan rites, which after fifty years is still Byford’s favourite territory. It follows 2024’s Hell, Fire And Damnation, and his verdict on it is short — they had great fun making it, and it’s going to be one to beat.

And there’s a genuinely good reason to be pleased about this one. Byford was treated for bowel cancer through 2025, completing his final round of chemotherapy in October. In January he confirmed a CT scan had come back clear, six months on from surgery, with nothing returned.

The band bring the album to the UK and Ireland in February 2027 — and they’re reviving the 30-foot mechanised Eagle, originally built in the early eighties for the Denim and Leather tour and the inspiration for the title of 1982’s The Eagle Has Landed. It’ll fly at every UK and Ireland date except Cardiff, where the venue won’t take it.

Barnsley’s finest, roughly 23 million albums deep, and still central to everything the NWOBHM built.

PRESIDENT — “Sleepwalker”

The masked English band’s debut album arrived today.

Blood of Your Empire is out via Atlantic — ten tracks, thirty-seven minutes, written and produced entirely by the band themselves. “Sleepwalker” is track six, and it’s one of the album cuts rather than one of the four singles that trailed it.

That trail was long: “Angel Wings” in February, “Mercy” in March, “Doom Loop” in May and “Dark Heaven” in July, following the King of Terrors EP in autumn 2025.

The frontman — identified only as the President — has described the record as born out of his own struggle with existential crisis, and with trying to make sense of belief, mortality and humanity’s relationship with faith. His observation is that religion has inspired incredible compassion, purpose and beauty, and has also been responsible for unimaginable suffering.

The band’s whole approach is a deliberate rejection of how the industry currently works. His words to Revolver: the music business has elements of fast fashion to it now, things come and go, everyone’s shouting for attention, and it becomes a conveyor belt. They wanted to step back from that — but if people want to enter the world they’ve built, they’ll be welcomed with open arms.

They played their first ever show at Download 2025, supported Bad Omens, and start their own sold-out North American headline run tonight in Nashville, wrapping October 14 in Dallas.

The Sleep Token comparisons have followed them since day one, which their vocalist has publicly pushed back on — and if you’re working through that corner of the genre, this is the record everyone’s arguing about.

Showing Teeth — “Make It Out”

And here’s the connection nobody else is making: Showing Teeth open that PRESIDENT tour tonight, and her debut EP came out this morning too.

A Fate Worse Than Loneliness is out via Republic Records and Spinefarm — seven tracks, with “Make It Out” arriving alongside a video.

The song is the most accessible thing on it. A glitchy opening riff gives way to palm-muted guitar and keys before a heavier refrain built around anxiety and self-defeat, with soaring guitars and a genuinely melodic vocal.

The backstory is the good part. Showing Teeth is essentially a solo project — Nashville-based artist Addison is the sole creative force behind it, with a full band for live shows. She started posting about heavy music on TikTok in 2023, sharing vocal practice clips and demos, then went to work in Nashville with producer Dan Book, multi-instrumentalist Zach Munowitz and Periphery drummer Matt Halpern.

“Labyrinth” landed in late 2025. Then a Spinefarm and Republic deal, an opening slot for Bring Me The Horizon in Manchester, an appearance onstage with Motionless In White, a Kerrang! cover, and a sold-out first-ever headline show in London in July — on the strength of two released songs.

From TikTok demos to a sold-out Camden headline and a major-label EP in under three years.

Wage War — “Landfall”

The title track of album six, premiered Wednesday night.

Landfall arrives October 9 via Fearless Records — thirteen tracks, produced by the band’s own Cody Quistad, which is worth flagging. They’ve been self-producing more and more and it’s clearly working.

The band’s framing of the song is about imminent danger and the moment you realise you aren’t in control. They’re a Florida band, so the hurricane imagery became the natural way in — that sense of being completely at the mercy of something bigger than you. They wanted the verses heavy and threatening and the chorus somber and inevitable.

That’s a good description of a hurricane and a better description of most of the last few years.

“Sweet Dreams,” “Blindfold” and “Song Of The Swamp” are already out and all three make the record.

They’re straight out on the road afterwards with We Came As Romans, Varials and Cane Hill — twenty-four dates from October 25 in San Antonio through to November 27 in Orlando, which for a Florida band making an album about hurricanes is the right place to finish.

Novelists — “Ravage”

The French melodic metalcore band premiered the video for “Ravage” on Wednesday, and the timing is deliberate.

Their North American tour with Bilmuri and Knuckle Puck kicks off today in Orlando, so the song lands with twenty-four hours to spare.

The video was directed by Bastien Sablé from a concept dreamed up by vocalist Camille Contreras — the band conceiving their own visuals is becoming a pattern across this list, alongside PRESIDENT and Showing Teeth.

Novelists have had a busy year. A member of the band won Bilmuri’s open call for a guest guitar solo on “WHERE TO FIND ME,” which is presumably how this tour came about, and they’re on a European and UK run this autumn with The Devil Wears Prada, 156/Silence and Oversize.

For a band who’ve spent a decade being one of the best European metalcore acts most Americans haven’t heard, this is the year that changes.

This week’s playlist

Polaris — “Without You”
Saxon — “Gods Of Thunder”
PRESIDENT — “Sleepwalker”
Showing Teeth — “Make It Out”
Wage War — “Landfall”
Novelists — “Ravage”

All six are in rotation on the Loaded Radio stream this weekend.

TL;DR

• Polaris — “Without You”: their first new music in three years, and a tribute to guitarist Ryan Siew, who died in June 2023 aged 26. Out via ADA and SharpTone, with a video by Third Eye Visuals.
• Saxon — “Gods Of Thunder”: title track of their twenty-fifth studio album, out January 22 via Silver Lining Music. Produced by Biff Byford, mixed by Andy Sneap.
• PRESIDENT — “Sleepwalker”: track six on debut album Blood of Your Empire, out today via Atlantic. Ten tracks, entirely self-written and self-produced.
• Showing Teeth — “Make It Out”: from debut EP A Fate Worse Than Loneliness, out today via Republic and Spinefarm. Showing Teeth open PRESIDENT’s sold-out US tour tonight in Nashville.
• Wage War — “Landfall”: title track of their sixth album, out October 9 via Fearless, produced by the band’s own Cody Quistad.
• Novelists — “Ravage”: video directed by Bastien Sablé from a concept by vocalist Camille Contreras, released a day before their US tour with Bilmuri and Knuckle Puck.

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