Metal Anarchy

  • Cobra Spell To Go On “Indefinite Hiatus”

    Cobra Spell have revealed that they are going on “an indefinite hiatus.” As such, all of the band’s dates for 2026 have been cancelled.

    The group commented:

    “Dear fans,

    Today we have to share some news with you that fills our hearts with sadness.

    After a long period of reflection, as a band we have reached a point of no return that leads us to completely stop our musical activity (including all shows planned for 2026).

    The core and backbone of the project needs to pause, and we believe that the best way to go through this moment is to put Cobra Spell on an indefinite hiatus.

    We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all these years — If we have been able to create music, tour, and live unforgettable experiences, it has been largely thanks to you.

    From the very first day Cobra Spell existed until today, every word, every message, every gesture of support and every smile we saw in front of the stage made this entire journey truly worth it.

    We would like to deeply thank everyone in the industry who has accompanied us along the way — promoters, venues, technical crews, media, managers, photographers, and all the bands we had the chance to share the stage with.

    We want to thank each and every musician who has been part of the band at some point throughout this journey.

    Everything that begins eventually comes to an end, and today we have to say goodbye — at least for now.

    Of course, our paths as musicians do not stop here.

    We encourage you to keep following our continued musical career paths. We are soniaanubis, afunerailles and krisvega_ on any new projects and many beautiful things that are still to come.

    Thank you for being part of this story.
    We will always carry you with us. ❤️

    Forever yours,
    Cobra Spell 🐍”

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  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Enter Shikari, Etc. Added To 2026 Vans Warped Tour

    The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Enter Shikari, Fame On Fire, The Paradox, and South Arcade have been added to this year’s Vans Warped Tour. You can check out the updated lineups below.

    Tour Dates:

    06/13-14 Washington, DC – Festival Grounds at RFK Campus:

    3OH!3
    All That Remains
    Anberlin
    Bad Cop/Bad Cop
    Bayside
    Big Ass Truck I.E.
    Boston Manor
    Breathe Carolina
    Bryce Vine
    Coheed And Cambria
    Crown The Empire
    Daisy Grenade
    Dance Gavin Dance
    DeathbyRomy
    Drop Dead, Gorgeous
    Elijah
    Enter Shikari
    Fame On Fire
    Flogging Molly
    Fluorescents
    Free Throw
    Girlfriends
    Glassjaw
    Grandson
    GWAR
    Hawthorne Heights
    Holy Wars
    Honey Revenge
    Hoobastank
    Hot Chelle Rae
    Hot Mulligan
    I Set My Friends On Fire
    Initiate
    Jimmy Eat World
    KennyHoopla
    LØLØ
    Meet Me @ The Altar
    Millington
    New Found Glory
    Norma Jean
    Of Mice & Men
    Pain Of Truth
    People R Ugly
    sace6
    Saturdays At Your Place
    Story Of The Year
    Super Sometimes
    The Academy Is…
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The Early November
    The Ghost Inside
    The Menzingers
    The Paradox
    The Story So Far
    The Used
    The Wrecks
    Third Eye Blind
    tiLLie
    Vienna Vienna

    07/25-26 Long Beach, CA – Shoreline Waterfront:

    3OH!3
    Acceptance
    Alexisonfire
    All Time Low
    Allison
    Bad Cop/Bad Cop
    Bayside
    Bear vs. Shark
    Big Ass Truck I.E.
    Blnko
    Boston Manor
    Brayton
    Breathe Carolina
    Chase Petra
    Crown The Empire
    Daisy Grenade
    Dance Gavin Dance
    DeathbyRomy
    DENM
    Drop Dead, Gorgeous
    Dying Wish
    Emery
    Escape The Fate
    Fame On Fire
    Flogging Molly
    Free Throw
    G-Eazy
    Games We Play
    Girlfriends
    Glassjaw
    Good Terms
    Grandson
    Guilt Trip
    Haywire
    Hepcat
    Holy Wars
    Honey Revenge
    Hoobastank
    Hot Chelle Rae
    I Set My Friends On Fire
    Jimmy Eat World
    KennyHoopla
    letlive.
    Lø Spirit
    LØLØ
    Magnolia Park
    Mayday Parade
    Meet Me @ The Altar
    Millington
    Motion City Soundtrack
    Norma Jean
    Pain Of Truth
    Papa Roach
    PeelingFlesh
    People R Ugly
    Phantom Planet
    sace6
    Sammy Adams
    Scary Kids Scaring Kids
    Set It Off
    Simple Plan
    South Arcade
    Stand Atlantic
    Start Today
    Story Of The Year
    The Academy Is…
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The Early November
    The Expendables
    The Ghost Inside
    The Paradox
    The Starting Line
    The Story So Far
    The Used
    The Wrecks
    tiLLie
    Vienna Vienna
    WesGhost
    Whispers
    Winona Fighter
    Yelawolf

    08/21-22 Montreal, QC – Parc Jean-Drapeau:

    3OH!3
    A Day To Remember
    All Time Low
    Atreyu
    Bad Cop/Bad Cop
    Big Ass Truck I.E.
    Boston Manor
    Chase Petra
    Counterparts
    Despised Icon
    Flogging Molly
    Four Year Strong
    Good Riddance
    Hawthorne Heights
    Ice Nine Kills
    Initiate
    Jimmy Eat World
    letlive.
    LØLØ
    Mayday Parade
    Microwave
    Nothing,Nowhere
    Of Mice & Men
    Peer Pressure
    Simple Plan
    Sleep Theory
    Spike And The Gimme Gimmes
    Strung Out
    Sublime
    The Anti-Queens
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The Menzingers
    The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

    09/12-13 Mexico City, MX – Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez:

    2 Minutos
    Alexisonfire
    All Time Low
    Atreyu
    Bad Cop/Bad Cop
    Basement
    Blnko
    Breathe Carolina
    DeathbyRomy
    Don Tetto
    Elli Noise
    Emery
    Escape The Fate
    Flogging Molly
    Four Year Strong
    Girlfriends
    Glassjaw
    Hawthorne Heights
    Here Comes The Kraken
    Jimmy Eat World
    Less Than Jake
    letlive.
    LØLØ
    Magnolia Park
    Mayday Parade
    Microwave
    Motion City Soundtrack
    Movements
    New Found Glory
    Of Mice & Men
    Papa Roach
    Pedro Y El Lobo
    sace6
    Saosin
    San Venus
    Say Ocean
    Sgt. Papers
    Simple Plan
    Sleep Theory
    State Champs
    Story Of The Year
    The All-American Rejects
    The Aquabats
    The Devil Wears Prada
    The Starting Line
    The Story So Far
    The Wrecks
    Tungas
    Winona Fighter

    11/14-15 Orlando, FL – Camping World Stadium Campus:

    3OH!3
    Alexisonfire
    Allison
    Anthony Green
    Atmosphere
    Bad Cop/Bad Cop
    Bayside
    Ben Quad
    Big Ass Truck I.E.
    Boston Manor
    Brayton
    Breathe Carolina
    Broadside
    Bryce Vine
    Cartel
    Counterparts
    Daisy Grenade
    Dance Gavin Dance
    DeathbyRomy
    Drop Dead, Gorgeous
    Dying Wish
    Elijah
    Emery
    Emmure
    Family Force 5
    Fireworks
    Flogging Molly
    Free Throw
    Games We Play
    GANG!
    garbagebarbie
    Girlfriends
    Glassjaw
    Good Terms
    Grandson
    Hawthorne Heights
    Haywire
    Holy Wars
    Honey Revenge
    Hoobastank
    Hot Chelle Rae
    Hot Mulligan
    I Set My Friends On Fire
    Initiate
    Jimmy Eat World
    KennyHoopla
    Losers Club
    Millington
    Motion City Soundtrack
    New Found Glory
    Niis
    Norma Jean
    Pain Of Truth
    People R Ugly
    Phantom Planet
    Rain City Drive
    sace6
    Saint Blonde
    Scary Kids Scaring Kids
    Set It Off
    Simple Plan
    Sitting On Saturn
    South Arcade
    Stand Atlantic
    Super Sometimes
    The Early November
    The Paradox
    The Starting Line
    The Used
    The Wrecks
    Third Eye Blind
    tiLLie
    Vienna Vienna
    WesGhost

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  • Rush Share New Mix Of “Distant Early Warning”

    Rush have shared Terry Brown’s 2025 mix of “Distant Early Warning.” The updated track will appear on the 40th anniversary edition of “Grace Under Pressure.” That expanded effort will be released on March 13 and more details on it can be found HERE.

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  • Crashdïet Premiere New Song “Sick Enough For Me”

    Crashdïet have premiered a new song titled “Sick Enough For Me.” You can check that out below. The track is taken from the band’s new album, “Art Of Chaos,” which will be released on May 8.

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  • Ghost Singer Tobias Forge On Upcoming Break: “Physically And Mentally I Need To Be Home”

    During a recent interview with Full Metal Jackie, Ghost frontman Tobias Forge further explained his decision to take a break following the completion of the band’s current tour. He says “physically and mentally [he] need[s] to be home.”

    Forge said the following when asked if he has hobbies or places he likes to go during downtime:

    “All the above. Yeah. One, I have my family. Duh. Of course, everybody knows that. I’ve had two kids waiting at home with my wife for 15 years, and maybe that says something about me that it wasn’t a pushing enough factor during those years. Believe me, I felt bad, but I’ve definitely come to a point where not only do I need — I feel physically and mentally I need to be home, simply because they’re 17; they’re not gonna be around for an eon. And then the most acute factor here is the fact… Imagine you being a house builder, and you draw up houses, great ideas, but you’re also doing the permits and you’re also doing the tiles and you’re building everything and you’re sewing up all that [shit] and putting it all together. I don’t simply have an idea. And I’m out of tiles. I’m out of wood. I just don’t have it. So the only way for me to come up with a new idea and get some new inspiration is to just step away. It is as simple as that. But it doesn’t mean that I’m not doing anything. I have two film projects that I’m working on. Just before I left for tour, I was recording another album with another thing. So I have tons of stuff lined up for me [for] the coming years. And also hobbies that I have put aside a little, just because for the last 15 years GHOST has obviously been force majeure. Luckily, my family has been very supportive of that. They know that in order to sort of make this happen, I need to do this. And over the years I’ve been very worried about momentum and just keeping it going because I have so many ideas and I don’t wanna lose speed. And I just came to a point where I’m, like, I’m actually fine if the momentum is not there. It’s cool. I’m good. I feel good about that. If I lose it, okay.”

    He continued when asked if his children understand the scope of what he’s doing:

    “Of course. They’re 17. Of course they know what I’m doing. Of course they’re aware of… And we are very connected. We’re very good friends. We speak about anything. And they’re very aware of my thought processes and where I am, how I feel about things. And they’re big enough and vocalizing enough to be able to explain. And we can have a conversation about how they felt as kids, me being away a lot. But now they’re the ones sort of pushing me, like, ‘Yeah, it’s only three weeks left,’ whereas in the past it was always, like, when I was gonna be away for seven weeks or nine weeks, it was hard for them to fathom, of course, what that timeframe is. And there were a lot of moments where you had to sort of sneak out before they woke up and have one screaming child on the balcony, sort of, when you jump into the car. And that was not easy. But when you’re driven by a conviction, and I was convinced, and I am still convinced, that I did the right thing, of course. And luckily, now there’s no resentment that I know of me having done that. But now they’re the ones who are reasonable, and, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let’s do that when you come home.’ Which is really encouraging, but that again is just… Well, again, it just happened to coincide with where I am mentally in life. It just feels like a good time to sort of, like, ‘All right. When I come back, we’ll start this new chapter, this new reality.’”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • GWAR, The Pretty Reckless, And Vana Added To 2026 Louder Than Life Festival

    GWAR, The Pretty Reckless, and Vana are the latest artists to be confirmed for this year’s Louder Than Life festival. That event will be held at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, KY on September 17-20 and it will also feature: Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Killswitch Engage, Jimmy Eat World, Ice Nine Kills, Bilmuri, Dance Gavin Dance, Chad Gray (Mudvayne, etc.), President, Loathe, Volumes, Sabaton, Hot Mulligan, Bowling For Soup, Sleep Theory, Spite, Get Scared, Sunami, Josey Scott (ex-Saliva), etc. Further artists are pending. The full lineup will be announced tomorrow (February 23).

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  • Former Arch Enemy Vocalist Angela Gossow Praises New Singer Lauren Hart, Says She’s “Down For Doing Single Shows”

    Former Arch Enemy frontwoman Angela Gossow has taken to social media to praise the band’s new singer Lauren Hart (ex-Once Human). Notably, she also mentioned that she would be “down for doing single shows” with the band.

    Gossow said the following:

    “@ohlaurenhart My sister at🖤 Such a warm and genuine human. We share the same taste in music, the same vocal technique and dedication to music, people and fitness. We have known each other personally since many years. Been following her journey with Once Human, was hoping for her breakthrough. Then I crossed my fingers for her joining another known metal band. Didn’t work out. She never gave up! Then I was looking into putting a new band together for her – thinking a cross over between Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy/ In Flames and Machine Head/ Once Human style. I asked her to send in various cover tracks to get a full picture on her vocal skills ( she crushed!) and started scouting for musicians fitting her talent. And then things happened in the Arch Enemy camp. I thought hard about rejoining the band. I looked at my life, my age, my still young children, my workload as the manager for @archenemyofficial. And the answer was no. Both emotionally and also rationally. We received many applications from great vocalists all over the world. I put Lauren forward to the guys. Michael connected. She recorded vocals in December 2025. She rose. Like a Phoenix to the sky. So intense. So glorious. She is Angela reincarnate. Exceeding my skills. Ready to last for decades. I am honoured and humbled to be working with her. Finally. 🖤 PS: All the best to Alissa! She is gonna kill it with her solo album! Wanted to do it since 2016. She has got some great female talent at her side and will leave her mark in the world of metal for sure:) PPS: yes, I am down for doing single shows😉😉😉”

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  • Signs Of The Swarm Announce Spring Headlining Shows

    Signs Of The Swarm have booked two headlining shows around their tour with Lorna Shore and Paleface Swiss. Here’s the dates:

    04/28 St. Paul, MN – Amsterdam Bar And Hall
    05/10 Greenville, SC – The Radio Room

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  • Moodring Tease Song From “Death Fetish” Follow-Up

    Moodring will be releasing a new album, titled “Death Fetish,” on March 27, but it looks like fans have even more music to look forward to. Hunter Young recently took to social media to tease a song from the record’s follow-up. You can check that out below:

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  • Foo Fighters Announce UK/Ireland Shows

    Foo Fighters have announced some last-minute shows in the UK and Ireland. Here’s the dates:

    02/23 Dublin, IRE – The Academy
    02/25 London, UK – O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
    02/27 Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz

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