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  • Metallica’s Partnership With Red Cross Helped Collect 40,000 Blood Donations

    Metallica’s partnership with Red Cross has proven to be a success. The initiative helped collect 40,000 lifesaving blood donations worldwide. Fan who participated received a limited edition shirt and an entry into a contest for a signed guitar.

    Darren Irby, Red Cross executive director for national partnerships, commented:

    “What Metallica and their fans have accomplished this year is truly monumental ─ inspiring people to give blood for the first time while also energizing teens and young adults about the donation process. There is no substitute for blood ─ volunteer blood donors are the only source, and the Red Cross is deeply grateful for the significant impact this partnership has made for those facing cancer treatment, surgeries and traumatic situations.”

    Drummer Lars Ulrich continued:

    “A hallmark mission of the All Within My Hands Foundation is to support critical care and communities, encouraging fans and friends to take action. We’re thrilled the Metallica family recognizes the importance of blood donation and didn’t hesitate to rally behind this lifesaving effort. Their enthusiasm has made a real difference, and we’re honored to stand alongside them.”

    The band also added:

    “We are blown away by the Metallica Family’s generous participation across last year’s collaboration with the American Red Cross! Since launching in April 2025, more than 25,000 blood donations have been collected across the U.S. through the Red Cross x Metallica blood drives. We also had the privilege of taking this campaign international during the Australian leg of the M72 World Tour. Including the drives hosted by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, the total number of blood donations collected rises to nearly 40,000!

    We cannot thank the fans enough for rolling up their sleeves and joining us in this campaign to save lives, including thousands of first-time donors.

    Whether you joined an official M72 Tour blood drive or participated in the following Give Where You Live campaign, you made a huge difference, and many of you now have the t-shirt to prove it.

    The 2026 American Red Cross Gala is this weekend in San Francisco, and we are proud to be named the Visionary Partner of the Year. We are so appreciative to partner with an organization as respected and invaluable as the Red Cross and to support the critical work they do year-round.

    If you’d like to learn more or donate to give blood near you, visit redcrossblood.org.”

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  • SOiL’s Tim King: “New Music Is Almost Ready To Go”

    It looks like SOiL are almost finished with their next release. According to bassist Tim King, “new music is almost ready to go.”

    King told Super Cool Radio the following:

    “We did a U.K. and European tour in the end of 2024, and we pretty much took all of 2025 to write new music. We went in the studio, recorded new music. All that’s almost done. We’re going to go back and finish up a couple of songs. But new music is almost ready to go. We’re talking probably a couple months, and we’re gonna be setting up a release schedule for that.

    We didn’t tour at all in 2025, so we’re making up for it here in 2026. [We’re] going out with our buddies in NONPOINT for a small little USA run. There’s a couple of sprinkled headline dates that are in there. And then we’re going to be hitting a lot of the great festivals this year, like Sonic Temple, Louder Than Life. We’re going back to the U.K. We’re actually in the works of setting up some more USA dates as we speak, and we’re gonna give the announcement for the new material, the release date for that.”

    He also discussed the creative process:

    “We definitely changed it up. Our original way that we always wrote, just because of how long we’ve been around, is sweating it out in the rehearsal space. Somebody would come with a riff or an idea, and we’d start building around it and see if we had something. We had the dry eraseboard up and we’d start cataloging songs and record ’em on the boombox. And as we got around, into Pro Tools and stuff like that with a little setup. But this time around we did everything by Zoom. ‘Cause me and Adam [Zadel, SOIL guitarist] still live in Chicago where the band was originally based, but everybody else is scattered. So we did a lot of Zoom writing, which was very new for us. We’d never done that before. We did a lot of trading back and forth with music and riffs and ideas and things like that. So it was definitely a new experience for us. And then, when we got in the studio is where everything, all the pegs started fitting into the proper holes. It’s, like, ‘Okay, we’re all together. We all know where we’re at.’ And me and Adam have very specific tones, so I came with my bass that I’ve recorded on every album except for our very first album, ‘Throttle Junkies’. I came in with that, came in with my effects and stuff like that, that I use on every record. It’s my SOIL sound. I basically didn’t give any leeway. I said, ‘I want this, I want that, I want this and that,’ and plugged it all in, did it, all that. And the producer’s, like, ‘Yep. I see what you mean about the SOIL sound. It’s right there. We’re not changing anything.’ And Adam uses his Kemper, which is a programmable amp. He just walked in with that, which looks like a deranged lunchbox, and plugged that into the control board, and we were good to go on tones. We definitely have our SOIL sound, so to speak, which we kind of just came in like a bowl in a china shop and said, ‘Here’s what our sound is, here’s what we’re using,’ plugged it in, and it worked again.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Rotting Christ To Reissue “Der Perfekte Traum” On Vinyl

    Rotting Christ will be reissuing their “Der Perfekte Traum” EP on vinyl on May 15 via Season Of Mist. Two pressings, standard black and gold, orange and black marbled, can be pre-ordered HERE.

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  • Static Dress Announce Phone-Free “A Live Death Display” Event

    Static Dress will be hosting “A Live Death Display” in London, England on March 31. The mysterious event will be a phone and camera free experience.

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  • Hawthorne Heights Announce Second Leg Of “If Only You Were Lonely” 20th Anniversary Tour

    Hawthorne Heights have added another leg of dates to their “If Only You Were Lonely” 20th anniversary tour. letlive. and Creeper will serve as support.

    Tour Dates:

    10/21 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
    10/22 Boston, MA – House of Blues
    10/23 Portland, ME – Aura
    10/24 New York, NY – Irving Plaza
    10/25 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
    10/27 Philadelphia, PA – Brooklyn Bowl
    10/30 Virginia Beach, VA – Elevation 27
    10/31 Charlotte, NC – The Underground
    11/01 Charleston, SC – Charleston Music Hall
    11/03 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel
    11/04 Louisville, KY – Mercury Ballroom
    11/05 Nashville, TN – Cannery Hall
    11/06 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade
    11/07 Birmingham, AL – Iron City
    11/08 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues
    11/10 Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
    11/12 St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live
    11/13 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution Live
    11/14-11/15 Orlando, FL – Vans Warped Tour
    11/17 Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue
    11/20 Fort Wayne, IN – Clyde Theatre
    11/21 Grand Rapids, MI – Elevation
    11/22 Detroit, MI – Saint Andrew’s Hall
    11/23 Kansas City, MO – Warehouse on Broadway
    11/24 Tulsa, OK – The Vanguard
    11/25 St. Louis, MO – The Hawthorn

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  • Carnivore A.D. Premiere New Song “I Stand Alone”

    Carnivore A.D. (Crumbsuckers, ex-Sheer Terror, etc.) have premiered a new song titled “I Stand Alone.” This track is from their new EP, “Transmutation,” which will be released on March 27.

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  • Gus G. Shares Lyric Video For “Nothing Can Break Me” Featuring Doro Pesch

    Gus G. (Firewind, etc.) has shared a lyric video for his new song “Nothing Can Break Me.” The track, which features Doro Pesch, is from the guitarist’s new album, “Steel Burner,” which will be released on April 24. Doro commented:

    “It was awesome to work with Gus. We’re friends for a long time. He’s such an amazing guitar player. We always planned to do something together, and now it finally happened. I’m totally excited about the song.”

    Gus added:

    “Doro is an icon, the metal queen. Everybody knows that. Having the opportunity to collaborate with her on a track is something I wished would happen for a long time. ‘Nothing Can Break Me’ is a powerful metal anthem about perseverance. I’m really proud of this one.”

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  • Filter’s New Album Is “Pretty Much Almost Done”

    During a recent interview with Matt Bingham of Z93, Filter frontman Richard Patrick offered an update on the band’s new album “The Antidote.” According to him, the effort is “pretty much almost done.”

    Patrick said the following:

    “‘The Antidote’ is pretty much almost done. I’m cutting it down from, like, 18 songs to probably 12. It’s a hard decision because there’s so many great songs on the record. But it’s in the final stages, and I’m super proud of it. It’s really a great record. It’s probably gonna come out this fall.”

    He also discussed the writing process:

    “It’s weird. There’s a song called ‘Snakes In The Grass’, which was entirely by myself. And then there’s songs that I write with Sam Tinnesz. He’s a good friend of mine; he’s one of my best friends. And we wrote a song called ‘Hell In My Head’ as well as another one called ‘Panic Mode’. I just love working with Sam. He’s just a great lyricist. He’s a great songwriter. And I do love collaboration. That’s why I do guest vocal spots with other people. And any opportunity to just make some great art is kind of my M.O.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • AC/DC’s Stevie Young Hospitalized In Argentina

    AC/DC guitarist Stevie Young has been hospitalized in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This news comes as the band are preparing for three shows in the city. The following statement was issued to Reuters:

    “Out of an abundance of caution, [Stevie] was admitted to a local hospital where he is undergoing a full battery of tests. Stevie is doing well and is in good spirits. He is looking forward to getting on stage on Monday.”

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  • The Hate Project Premiere “Metamorphosis” Music Video

    The Hate Project have premiered a new video for their new song “Metamorphosis.” You can check that out below:

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