Jed Gordon, Parkway Drive’s merch guy and the brother of drummer Ben Gordon, has pleaded guilty after being charged with having sex with a minor. The victim was said to be “14 or over and under 16.”
Parkway Drive commented:
“We’ve recently learned that someone we’ve been associated with has pleaded guilty to an underage sex offence in 2002.
This is appalling and we condemn it. We’re gutted and we support the victim.
This happened before we were a band, however we bear moral responsibility for contracting him from 2003, on and off over the years.
While he hasn’t toured with us since 2017, more recently he’s been part of our Australian online merch team. When the band heard about this, we terminated his contract immediately. He’s no longer involved with Parkway Drive in any capacity.
This is heartbreaking on a very human scale.
This is still ongoing in the courts so we’re closing comments.”
Nothing More have cancelled their European tour. The band decided to scrap the dates so they can focus on their new album.
The group commented:
“To the Nothing More family in Europe:
After a lot of careful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to step away from our European festival tour this summer to focus on finishing our new album.
The ‘CARNAL’ era has taken us around the world for 193 shows, including three European tours and the biggest crowds of our career. It’s been incredible, but we need this time to recharge, be with our families, and make the best record we can.
Thank you for understanding. We’ll see you in 2027 with new music.
~ Jonny, Mark, Daniel and Ben”
Muse will be releasing a new album, titled “THE WOW! SIGNAL,” on June 26. A video for the effort’s first single, “Be With You,” can be found below:
“THE WOW! SIGNAL” Track Listing:
01. “The Dark Forest”
02. “Nightshift Superstar”
03. “Shimmering Scars”
04. “Cryogen”
05. “Be With You”
06. “Hexagons”
07. “The Sickness In You & I”
08. “Unravelling”
09. “Hush”
10. “Space Debris”
Notably, the record announcement was made from space. A press release said the following about that:
“In partnership with Sent Into Space, the band sent a specially-designed tablet 33km up into the atmosphere to premiere the ‘Be With You’ video, while a second package carried stickers for a limited-edition vinyl release to be claimed by fans.”
Futher details were shared on the album itself:
“‘THE WOW! SIGNAL’ takes its name from one of the most compelling interstellar mysteries of the last century: a powerful 72-second radio burst detected in 1977 originating from the constellation Sagittarius with a bandwidth and intensity that suggested a possible extraterrestrial source. The astronomer who discovered the anomaly famously circled the now-iconic sequence ‘6EQUJ5’ and wrote ‘WOW!’ on the printout beside it — giving the signal its name and cementing its place in scientific and pop-culture lore.”
Suicide Silence have been added to this year’s Hellfest in Jackson, NJ. That event will take place at The Dome at Adventure Crossing on July 3-5.
Here’s the updated lineup:
Hatebreed (“Satisfaction Is The Death Of Desire” & “Under The Knife” set)
Suicide Silence
Glassjaw
VOD
Elysia
Disembodied
First Blood (“20 Years Of Killafornia” set)
Haywire
Twitching Tongues
Bayway
Bleeding Through (“This Is Love, This Is Murderous” set)
Devourment
Earth Crisis
100 Demons
Turmoil
Shattered Realm
Recon
Balmora
For The Fallen Dreams (“Changes” set)
Weapon X
Sanction
Snuffed On Sight
I Promised The World
Gates To Hell
Volcano
Crush Your Soul
Old Wounds
Fatal Realm
OLTH
Years Spent Cold
Hold My Own
Inclination
Harvest
Laid 2 Rest
Big Boy
Advent
Too Pure To Die
Outta Pocket
In Loving Memory
Jerome
Holder
Sin Against Sin
Negative Force
The Distance
Azshara
Catalyst
Living Weapon
Nehemiah
Xseraphx
Face Yourself
Wings Of Scarlet
Bloodshed
Killing Me Softly
XL Bully
Impunity
Rosasharin
Fallen God
Dream Fatigue
Neolithic
Speechlessatgunpoint
Defy You
Point Of Contact
The Shape
Awaiting Eschiel
Anhedonia
Away With Words
Guilt
Wielded Steel
Seether will be releasing a new EP, titled “Beneath The Surface,” on April 17. Here’s the track listing:
01. “Into The Ground”
02. “Proud Daddy”
03. “Lost All Control” (live at SiriusXM Octane)
04. “Judas Mind” (live at SiriusXM Octane)
“Into The Ground” can be streamed below. Bassist Dale Stewart commented:
“I’m really stoked about our new EP. ‘Into The Ground’ really gets me pumped and ‘Proud Daddy’ is one of my favorite songs from the last sessions we did.”
Ellefson-Soto, the project featuring former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson and Sons Of Apollo singer Jeff Scott Soto, have released new covers of Fear’s “I Don’t Care About You” and Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock.” You can check those out below:
Ellefson commented:
“The band Fear has been a staple of our attitude and style of music from the beginning. And Elvis Presley has only become more legendary in recent years with so many films and documentaries about his iconic life. Let’s face it — he’s the one who showed us all how rock stardom was done from the start. So we thought it fitting to honor the king of rock and roll and the kings of punk rock at the same time.”
Soto added:
“We wanted as many tools as possible to lure you into our recent album ‘Unbreakable’ so we all met up in London to make a few more videos for ya! BUT these two songs are NOT on the album — instead they are two cover jams that gave us more reason to have fun together… familiar in the punk world, Fear’s ‘I Don’t Care About You’ and Elvis’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’, delivered with in-your-face, no-mercy power!”
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