Adema have officially addressed the absence of drummer Kris Kohls. The band said the following:
“Kris recorded drums for the album. He didn’t want to tour this year. We do. So we’re doing that. That’s all that’s happening right now. When we have more to say, we will.”
[via Blabbermouth]
The first set of bands have been revealed for the 2026 Rain City Doom Fest. The event will be held at El Corazon and Funhouse in Seattle, Washington on December 18-19 and it will feature sets from YOB, King Woman, Earthless, Christian Mistress, etc.
The Claypool Lennon Delirium, the band featuring Les Claypool (Primus) and Sean Lennon (The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger), have shared a new promo video for their latest album, “The Great Parrot-Ox And The Golden Egg Of Empathy,” and their new comic book. The animated clip finds “What We Do In The Shadows” star Matt Berry voicing King Manatee and it can be seen below:
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]
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]
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.”
Metal Anarchy 
You must be logged in to post a comment.