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  • Blind Guardian Hope To Begin Recording New Album In Early 2027

    Blind Guardian frontman Hansi Kürsch has offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group are hoping to begin the recording process in early 2027.

    Kürsch commented:

    “Hello, everybody. This is a short message from Blind Guardian. We just wanna give you a heads up where we are at and what we are thinking about at the moment.

    Right now, we are just back from being completely lazy. We dived into songwriting very carefully. We are not too far yet. Allow us another, let’s say, four or five months before I can be more precise in terms of the songwriting and into which direction it goes.

    We did some songwriting during the touring period, but we took that aside and, yeah, maybe [we’ll] use it later on. But for now, we are having fresh minds — surprise, surprise. The aim is to have a pre-production ready to go at the end of 2026. I’m pretty sure we can keep that, and then there should be a full production in the beginning of 2027.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Drowning Pool’s C.J. Pierce Says South American Tour Cancellation Was Related To Logistical Issues

    Drowning Pool guitarist C.J. Pierce has commented on the cancellation of the band’s South American tour. According to him, the dates were scrapped due to logistical issues. This news comes after organizers blamed the cancellation on low ticket sales.

    Pierce told Teaser Talk the following:

    “Well, we were gonna be doing South America. That just got put on hold yesterday. We were looking forward to going. Just the timing with it — I’m hoping that that comes back up towards the end of the year, ’cause that’s supposed to be a week and a half from now, and all the logistics weren’t put together for us to get there in time. There’s a lot of red tape and stuff like that. And just we didn’t meet the deadline for it. So I’m hoping to go back. I love South America. We really wanna play there. I wanna go so bad. But yeah, that’s gonna be pushed off.”

    Singer Ryan McCombs continued:

    “Yeah, we’re definitely, definitely pushing towards making it happen. ‘Cause when you’ve been allowed to do this this long, when people have kept you in the game this long, one side of that is it’s very rare that you see something come up on your calendar that you haven’t done before. And there was several countries there that we had never — I know I’d never been to before, so I was really looking forward to that. So we’re definitely pushing towards that coming to fruition.”

    Pierce added:

    “We’re trying to make it happen. Sorry, South America. We’re trying to get there.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Static Dress Cancel Immediate Live Dates Due To Family Emergency

    Static Dress have dropped off their shows with Knocked Loose and the European Slam Dunk festivals. The band were forced to scrap the dates due to a family emergency.

    The group commented:

    “DUE TO A FAMILY EMERGENCY, WE UNFORTUNATELY WILL NO LONGER BE APPEARING ON THE UPCOMING KNOCKED LOOSE DATES OR OUR SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL EUROPE APPEARANCES.

    THIS SITUATION IS PREVENTING US FROM BEING ABLE TO LEAVE THE UK AGAIN FOLLOWING OUR RETURN FROM AUSTRALIA. WE’RE INCREDIBLY SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO WAS PLANNING TO SEE US AND APPRECIATE YOUR UNDERSTANDING WHILE WE PRIORITISE BEING HOME WITH OUR FAMILY.

    WE ASK FOR SENSITIVITY WITH THIS MATTER AND THAT YOU PLEASE RESPECT OUR PRIVACY AT THIS TIME. WE’RE BEYOND EXCITED TO STILL SEE EVERYONE AT SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL UK AND AT OUR PANIC ROOM V4 SHOWS.

    THANK YOU TO KNOCKED LOOSE AND THE SLAM DUNK TEAM FOR HAVING US, AND WE HOPE TO MAKE IT BACK AS SOON AS WE CAN.

    WE’LL BE BACK IN EUROPE REALLY SOON, WE PROMISE.”

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  • Orthodox Announce Summer Headlining Shows

    Orthodox have announced some summer headlining shows. Here’s the dates:

    06/26 Birmingham, AL – Workplay
    06/28 Chattanooga, TN – Barrelhouse Ballroom
    06/29 Asheville, NC – Sly Grog Lounge
    06/30 Lynchburg, VA – Super Rad Arcade
    07/01 Dunbar, WV – Live At The Shop
    07/03 Jackson Township, NJ – Hellfest

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  • Young Widows Announce October European Tour

    Young Widows have announced an October European tour with Aicher. Here’s the dates:

    10/01 Berlin, GER – Kantine Am Berghain
    10/02 Leipzig, GER – UT Connewitz
    10/03 Brno, CZE – Kabinet Muz
    10/04 Poznan, POL – LAS
    10/06 Jena, GER – Kuba
    10/06 Luxembourg, LUX – Rotondes
    10/07 Besancon, FRA – Le Bastion
    10/08 Paris, FRA – Le Chinois
    10/09 Brussels, BEL – Magasin 4
    10/10 Nijmegen, NET – Soulcrusher Festival

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  • Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe Spends Time With Fan Battling Cancer And Lets Her Shave His Head At Welcome To Rockville

    Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe recently partnered with the Living The Dream Foundation to give a cancer-striken fan named Jessyca a unique experience at the Welcome To Rockville festival in Daytona Beach, FL. You can find a video on their time together below. The following was said about Jessyca’s story:

    “Meet Jessyca, a single mother courageously battling Stage 4 Breast Cancer. Despite living with pain every day, she fights for her son and family. For her Dream Day at Welcome To Rockville, she got to hang backstage with ‪Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe..After hearing that both Jessyca and Kody shaved their heads together when she began chemotherapy, Randy offered to let Jessyca shave his head in solidarity – a moment they will never forget. To end the night she hung out side stage, where Randy gave a heartfelt shoutout and led the crowd in a powerful chant of “F*CK CANCER” in her honor.”

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  • Erik Grönwall Releases “To Hell & Back” Mini-Documentary

    Erik Grönwall (ex-Skid Row, etc.) has released a new mini-documentary titled “To Hell & Back.” You can check that out below. Here’s a synopsis:

    “After years of fronting some of rock’s most iconic acts, Erik Grönwall now opens the door to his most personal chapter yet. ‘To Hell & Back’ is following the journey leading up to the release of Erik’s new album ‘BAD BONES’ [out May 22] – a story about survival and rediscovering the love for music and songwriting. From the highest highs to the darkest moments.”

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  • Watch Tosh Peterson (Lady Gaga, Etc.) Add His Own Drum Parts To Death’s “Crystal Mountain”

    Tosh Peterson (Lady Gaga, etc.) recently covered Death’s “Crystal Mountain” on drums after hearing it for the first time without percussion. You can see footage of him adding his own drum parts to the song in the below video from Drumeo:

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  • Six Feet Under Announce August Tour With Fuming Mouth And Flesher

    Six Feet Under have announced an August tour with Fuming Mouth and Flesher. Here’s the dates:

    08/12 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
    08/13 Des Moines, IA – XBK
    08/14 Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle
    08/15 Manitowoc, WI – Petskull Brewing
    08/16 Cadillac, MI – The Venue
    08/18 New Kensington, PA – Preserving (no Fuming Mouth)
    08/19 Rochester, NY – Photo City Music Hall
    08/20 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
    08/21 Harrisburg, PA – Capitol City Music Hall
    08/22 Cleveland, OH – No Class

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  • Alien Ant Farm Announce Two More UK Shows

    Alien Ant Farm have added two more dates to their UK tour. Here’s the updated schedule:

    10/30 Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy (feat. Skindred, Spineshank, & Orgy)
    10/31 London, UK – Alexandra Palace (feat. Skindred, Spineshank, & Orgy)
    11/03 Leeds, UK – Stylus
    11/04 Edinburgh, UK – Liquid Rooms
    11/06 Dublin, IRE – 3Olympia (feat. Skindred)
    11/07 Belfast, IRE – Telegraph Building (feat. Skindred)
    11/13 Glasgow, UK – Barrowlands

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