Don Broco have shared a video for their new single “Nightmare Tripping.” The song, which features Nickelback, serves as the title track of the band’s new album, which will be released on March 27.
Ignite have announced a European/UK tour. The trek will take place this spring/summer.
Tour Dates:
04/02 London, UK – The Underworld
04/03 Manchester, UK – Manchester Punk Fest
04/04 Hertsberge, BEL – Broekrock
04/05 Oberndorf am Neckar, GER – Easter Cross
04/30 Amberieux-en-Bugey, FRA – Tiplettes Social Club
05/01 Artonne, FRA – Le Gros Tonneau Festival
05/02 Marseille, FRA – Le Molotov
05/03 TUI Wildcat Tattoo Cruise
05/05 Valencia, SPA – Rock City
05/06 Toulouse, FRA – Le Metronum
05/07 Montbéliard, FRA – Atelier des Moles
05/08 Luxembourg, LUX – Rotondes
05/09 Limburg an der Lahn, GER – Limewood Festival
06/26 Ysselsteyn, NET – Jera on Air Festival
06/27 Kassel, GER – Goldgrube
06/28 Lindau, GER – Club Vaudeville
06/30 Barberaz, FRA – Le Brin de Zinc
07/01 Freiburg, GER – Crash
07/03 Enkirch, GER – Fallig Open Air
07/04 Leipzig, GER – Fettfest
08/14 Taarstedt, GER – Angeliter Open Air
08/20 Loburg, GER – Spirit Festival
08/22 Schöppenstedt, GER – Ackerfest
08/29 Apen, GER – Apen Air Festival
DragonForce have partnered with Gameloft for an “Asphalt Legends” collaboration. The partnership will include in-game music, custom decals, and more.
The following was said about the collaboration:
“This in-game collaboration sees the game updated with six DRAGONFORCE songs, a dedicated spotlight event, new custom decals and a DRAGONFORCE special-edition car.
New decals:
* Porsche 935 DragonForce Edition – An enhanced edition of the regular car, based on the “Inhuman Rampage” album
* Porsche 911 GTS Coupé – New DRAGONFORCE aesthetic
* BXR Bailey GT1 – Based on “Extreme Power Metal” album
* Nilu27 NILU (new car) – Based on the “Ultra Beatdown” albumNew music tracks:
* “Through The Fire And Flames”
* “Burning Heart” (feat. Alissa White-Gluz)”
* “Fury Of The Storm”
* “Heroes Of Our Time”
* “Cry Thunder”
* “Highway To Oblivion”New Rhythm Overdrive game mode:
Take to the track in an all-new racing mode that tasks you with outracing security opponents while picking up collectibles. Keep the race going and stay in sync with the beat or lose your rhythm with the screen going grey and the music beat bottom out.”
[via Blabbermouth]
Eric Forrest (E-Force, ex-Voivod) has revealed that he is currently battling prostate cancer. You can help him out by donating through GoFundMe.
Forrest said the following:
“Hello, My name is Eric Forrect musician/singer/composer/author/touring artist from the band E-FORCE (ex-VOIVOD)/Master’s ashes
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2024 /stage 3/psa 23/gleason7(3+4) Currently seeking financial aid to help my metobolic treatment medicine therapy ,expences.
Ive kept this pretty much private for many reasons.After many delays/RDV s/Scans/IRMs …..adminstration procedures…..I have been on a daily routine to advance my situation, (some days better than others).
However,maintaining a diciplined scheduled.format cycle.Plus ,some love and support from family and close friends.
To eliminate this problem ,Please help me generate support to continue my fight to kill this parasite! 100% .
Thanks for your support .
ERIC”
He also added:
“Hello, to all my friends and fans ….. Been keeping this one quiet for many reasons …. Anyway, sad but true …… But you know what? I’m gonna beat this parasite! 100%. Thanks for your love and support”
Evergrey have announced a new album titled “Architects Of A New Weave.” The effort will be released on June 5 and it can be pre-ordered HERE.
“Architects Of A New Weave” Track Listing:
01. “Welcome To The Pattern”
02. “The Shadow Self”
03. “Architects Of The New Weave”
04. “The World Is On Fire”
05. “Heaven”
06. “The Script”
07. “Leaving The Emptiness”
08. “Longing”
09. “A Burning Flame”
10. “Call Off Your Lions”
11. “Chains Of Shame”
12. “The Prophecy”
Select editions will also include six bonus tracks:
01. “Heights”
02. “Oxygen” (Album Mix)
03. “One Heart”
04. “Longing” (Demo Version)
05. “Falling From The Sun” (Live in Europe 2025)
06. “Leaving The Emptiness” (Instrumental)
Frontman Tom S. Englund commented:
“We’ve literally never had this much trouble picking singles. And honestly? That’s the best problem we could possibly have. Every song on this record is fighting to be the one you hear first — because we poured everything into making an album we’re flat-out obsessed with. Like always there are no fillers, no compromises, just twelve tracks we’re stupidly proud of and will be for the rest of our lives. Pre-order the album now and join the weave!”
During a recent interview with UnDinamo – La Última Radio De Rock, former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson confirmed that he is still open to taking part in the band’s farewell tour. According to him, he has “always said [he’s] available for that.”
Ellefson, who was fired from Megadeth following a sex video scandal, said the following:
“I have always said that I am available for that. And I would do it because I think any reason that I’m not there now is unfounded. It’s untruthful and it’s unfair because clearly there’s nothing wrong. So, I would hope and even pray to [God] that any misunderstanding, any bitterness would be removed, that that would somehow be dissipated.
It’s funny — you make your first record, you have no fans. You just make your first album. Then you start to get fans who [say], ‘Hey, give us more.’ So you make album two, like we do. And then at that point, you — I feel — have an obligation to listen to your fans. You don’t have to do everything they say, like, ‘Make ‘Rust In Peace Part II’,’ ’cause creatively the spirit leads you where it’s supposed to go. But I think, especially when you’re playing concerts — making albums is music business; playing concerts is show business. They’re two separate things that kind of come together. When the fans, who have made all of this possible, really, ’cause Capitol Records wouldn’t have signed us if we didn’t have fans. Live Nation doesn’t book the concert if there’s no fans. So, the fans are the entire reason that you live to have album two and beyond. Album two and beyond is because of fans. So, to me, you give them what they want. Even my little tour here [of South America], ‘Basstory’. It’s me telling a story of my life, but if there’s nobody to come and hear the story, I’m just sitting on a stool by myself. [Laughs]
So for me, yes. Marty [Friedman] — I can’t speak for anyone else, but Marty coming back to play a couple of shows [with MEGADETH in 2023] showed his willingness, which I think was great. I would wish that Dave [Mustaine]… Look, if it were just me and Dave sitting here, I’m sure everything would be fine, but there’s a lot of people with influences, and that can be sticky. So my hope is that the voice of the fans gets louder than any other voice that would tear it apart.”
[via Blabbermouth]
During a recent interview Hardlore, Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe explained the band’s logo change. According to him, the old logo had the group “looking like a falafel restaurant menu.”
Blythe said the following:
“Well, our logo, to be perfectly honest, needed changing. It’s the papyrus font [that we used for the old LAMB OF GOD logo]. And had we known 20-however many years ago that we would wind up looking like a falafel restaurant menu, we wouldn’t have used that. But that was before papyrus font was ubiquitous.”
On a related note, he also discussed the making of the band’s new album “Into Oblivion” (out March 13):
“Much in the same way we went about approaching album number nine, number eight, number seven.
I think the biggest difference with us as a band, particularly over the last — I don’t know — five or six years, is we have consciously tried to shelve the ego individual members have and try and keep in mind the greater whole. ‘Cause when you’re a younger band — and we’re five very different people — when you’re a younger band, it’s, like, nobody hands you a handbook, ‘This is how you be a band.’ But you’re so passionate and it’s so important to you, and what you put into the music is so personal that when someone says, ‘Eh, I don’t know about that,’ in the band, then you’re, like, [hurt]. And we were very contentious for a long time — writing was very contentious. Somehow in our old age, as we wander off into Alzheimer’s-riddled legacy territory, we’ve learned to get along better than we ever did. So we get along great now. And it’s because, I think, when we’re writing, we’re all, like… There’s a quote attributed to [American playwright and screenwriter] Tennessee Williams: ‘You must be willing to murder your darlings.’ Meaning your contribution, your art cannot be so precious that if someone else looks at it and is, like, ‘That doesn’t serve the greater whole,’ you gotta cut it. And it’s painful. So for us, we’ve kind of learned as a group to sort of shelve the individual egos and think more about the whole.
We have a saying: better is better. It sounds stupid, but it’s true. And me, just as much as any of the other dudes, have certainly been guilty of, like, ‘I love this, but this is how exactly it works.’ And then somebody [goes], ‘But what about this?’ And it’s a hard thing, when you care about something so much and you’ve put in so much time, to have someone be, like, ‘Eh. I don’t know.’ But better is better. So we try and say that to ourselves.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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