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  • Vicious Rumors Premiere “Abusement Park” Music Video, Announce Tour

    Vicious Rumors have premiered a new video for their song “Abusement Park.” This track is from the band’s latest album “The Devil’s Asylum.”

    Guitarist Geoff Thorpe commented:

    “In your face! Catchy riffs! Blistering solos, with a heavy metal and punk rock attitude! The new Vicious Rumors single ‘Abusement Park’ from ‘The Devil’s Asylum’ album has the band at the top of its craft! The idea of a nightmare theme park gone horror that is ‘Abusement Park’ came together during a recording session for the new album with me and Jimmie Evans. ‘Abusement Park’ is the fourth single from our current album ‘The Devil’s Asylum.’

    The song is one of many standout tracks on the album. Filmed on location in Germany, Sweden, Florida and Kentucky and edited by Ingo Spörl. We thought this song had great potential with its machine gun guitars and kick drums with a melodic and harmony filled chorus in true Vicious Rumors style…after being forced to push back the tours due to my broken shoulder the guys and I are looking forward to getting the band back on the road. So come and celebrate Heavy Metal with us performing classics, deep cuts and new album tracks live worldwide in 2026.”

    In other news, the band have also announced a 2026 tour. Here’s the dates:

    02/25 Orlando, FL – West End Trading Co.
    02/26 Tampa, FL – The Brass Mug
    02/27 Fort Myers, FL – Stet’s Bar
    03/01 Atlanta, GA – 529
    03/03 Wichita, KS – John Barleycorn’s
    03/04 Oklahoma City, OK – 89th Street
    03/05 Dallas, TX – Haltom Theater
    03/06 Austin, TX – Kickbutt Coffee
    03/07 San Antonio, TX – Fitzgerald’s
    03/09 Albuquerque, NM – El Rey Theater
    03/10 Phoenix, AZ – Rhythm Room
    03/12 San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge
    03/13 Reno, NV – Alturas Center Stage
    03/14 Salt Lake City, UT – Aces High Saloon
    03/15 Colorado Springs, CO – LuLu’s Downtown
    03/17 Lincoln, NE – 1867 Bar
    03/18 Iowa City, IA – Wildwood
    03/19 Chicago, IL – Reggie’s
    03/21 Kent, OH – The Outpost
    03/24 Providence, RI – Alchemy
    03/25 Rochester, NY – Photo City
    03/26 Catonsville, MD – Morseburgers Tavern
    03/27 Newark, NJ – Halftime Sports Bar
    03/28 Bristol, CT – Bleachers
    03/29 Harrisburg, PA – HMAC
    05/08 Freiburg, GER – Skullcrusher Festival
    05/09 Cham, GER – LA
    05/13 Selb, GER – Rock Club Nordbayern
    05/14 Essen, GER – Don’t Panic
    05/15 Lichtenfels, GER – Paunchy Cats
    05/16 Brno, CZE – Kabinet Mus
    05/17 Zilina, SLO – Smer Club 77
    05/18 Kosice, SLO – Colosseum
    05/20 Munich, GER – Backstage
    05/22 Plozevet, FRA – Courts Of Chaos Festival
    05/28 Portugalete, SPA – Groove Room
    05/29 Madrid, SPA – Sala Silikona
    05/30 Barcelona, SPA – Lennon ‘s Club
    05/31 Valencia, SPA – Sala Zulu
    06/03 Velden, AUT – Bluesiana
    06/05 Modena, ITA – Vibra Club
    06/06 Vicenza, ITA – Super Metalfest VIII
    06/09 Stuttgart, GER – Der Schwarze Keiler
    06/10 Hamburg, GER – Logo
    06/11 Kassel, GER – Goldgrube
    06/12 Den Haag, NET – Musicon
    06/13 Breda, NET – Sound Dog
    06/14 Oldenburg, GER – MTS
    06/18 Osnabrück, GER – Bastard Club
    06/19 Düsseldorf, GER – The Pitcher
    06/20 Dessel, BEL – Graspop Metal Meeting
    09/12 Brooklyn, NY – Rage Of Armageddon Festival
    09/18 Madison, WI – Blades Of Steel Festival

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  • Andy Biersack On Upcoming Black Veil Brides Album: “This Record Is What You Might Call A Darker Or Heavier Record”

    During a recent interview with Rock Feed, Black Veil Brides frontman Andy Biersack discussed the band’s uocoming album. According to him, “this record is what you might call a darker or heavier record.”

    Biersack said the following about the group’s latest single “Certainty”:

    “A lot of times I think this happens, and I don’t know why it is. We do the whole record and then we feel like there’s a missing song. And this was the quote-unquote missing song. Jake [Pitts, guitar] and I did this song. Jake had an idea; he sent it to me. I wrote on it. We tracked it. It was one of those everything-came-together — bam, bam, bam — very quick sort of songs, ’cause we knew exactly what we wanted to do. And I knew lyrically what I wanted to say with it. And so it came together really quickly, and it was the last song for the record. Everything else had already been recorded. And it just felt like a real sort of mission statement for the album — from a lyrical perspective, from the musical perspective.”

    He also commented on the band’s decision to self-produce their new album:

    “This record is one that we’ve made on our own. Obviously, we have a label and we’re very supported by that label, and we were very fortunate to be in that position. But when it came down to it, this record was primarily made here in Florida by the band. Jake and I produced it. And it’s the kind of record that we wanted to make without any other cooks in the kitchen. And I think it’s really representative of where we’re at as a band.”

    He also added the following when asked about the strong fan response:

    “Well, it’s fantastic. I think we’re the kind of band that, for better or for worse, people don’t necess[arily]… There’s a version of the band that people have in their mind, most of which is primarily based on maybe when they first heard the band or what they think of the band. A lot of people who don’t even know what the band sounds like have a version of the band in their mind, so it’s been very interesting, having made this record on our own, very much committed sonically to the style that we wanted to pursue, playing these festivals and having people discover the band through these songs that maybe didn’t otherwise give it a shot beforehand.

    We’ve talked about this before. We’re kind of the little engine that could in that way. A lot of people dismiss the band outright, don’t really know what we sound like, sort of associate an image that they saw in their mind of like 2010, of us looking like MÖTLEY [CRÜE] or whatever, which is fine. That’s part of our history, but they don’t really necessarily know what it is that we do. And so it’s been fun to kind of — I guess in some ways so far these songs seem to have kind of snuck up on people in a way. And it’s fun to surprise people this many years into our career with, tonally, what we do because people hear the singles and primarily the singles from records were sometimes outside your control, but they’re the big anthem songs. So people’s assumption is that the totality of our records, if they’ve never dug into the catalog, is 12 songs that sound like ‘Fallen Angels’ on every record or ‘In The End’ or whatever else. And while I love those songs, that is much less representative of the totality of our catalog as opposed to like things that are much more kind of guitar-oriented and heavy. And certainly moving forward, this record is what you might call a darker or heavier record in that way.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Koyo And Speed Of Light Added To Rise Against And Destroy Boys’ North American Tour

    Koyo and Speed Of Light have been added to select dates of Rise Against and Destroy Boys’ North American tour. That trek will kick off in March.

    Tour Dates:

    With Koyo:

    03/03 Providence, RI – The Strand
    03/05 Montreal, QC – L’Olympia
    03/06 Montreal, QC – L’Olympia
    03/08 Ottawa, ON – Hard Rock Casino
    03/10 Toronto, ON – History
    03/11 Toronto, ON – History
    03/13 Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
    03/14 Mt. Pleasant, MI – Soaring Eagle Casino (no Koyo)
    03/15 Madison, WI – The Sylvee
    03/18 Prior Lake, MN – Mystic Lake Casino
    03/19 Fargo, ND – Fargo Civic Center
    03/21 Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
    03/22 Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
    03/24 Edmonton, AB – Convention Centre
    03/25 Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Event Centre

    With Speed Of Light:

    03/27 Penticton, BC – Trade & Convention Centre
    03/28 Vancouver, BC – PNE Forum
    03/30 Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory
    03/31 Boise, ID – Treefort Music Hall
    04/03 Reno, NV – Grand Theatre at Grand Sierra Resort
    04/04 Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live

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  • Jack Osbourne Says Ozzy Osbourne And Black Sabbath’s “Back To The Beginning” Concert Raised Less Than $10 Million

    During a recent appearance on “Painful Lessons: Punk Rock Sober“, Jack Osbourne revealed that his late father Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath raised less than $10 million for charity during their farewell show in Birmingham, UK. This news comes after his mother Sharon previously said the reports of $190 million raised were inaccurate and that the real number was about $11 million.

    Jack said the following:

    “The number was complete bullshit. This is how you know the news is probably 90% bullshit, ’cause it was, like, CNN and New York Times was saying ‘Ozzy raised $150 million.’ And it wasn’t that. I think what it came down to was, like, when all was said and done, because it was a charity gig, you still have to pay for the actual gig. No bands got paid, and most of the crew donated their time. But I think when all said [was] and done, each charity got, like, one and a half or two million pounds [approximately $2.7 million] each. So, it was, I think, six or seven million pounds [approximately $9.4 million]. That’s what was donated to the three charities. I mean, we would’ve loved it if it was hundreds of millions. We would have been, like, ‘Fuck yeah.’”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Harley Flanagan On The Possibility Of Reuniting With Former Cro-Mags Members: “I’ve Always Been Open To Any Kind Of Communication”

    During a recent appearance on Lipps Service With Scott Lipps, Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan was asked about the possibility of a classic lineup reunion. He responded by saying he has “always been open to any kind of communication.”

    Flanagan said the following:

    “For whatever it’s worth, man, I’ve always been open to any kind of communication with any of those guys about whatever, and always have been. But sometimes people just get so dug in on shit that they lose sight… Honestly, I can’t say that fans really would give a fuck about me playing with any of those guys again at this point, because we’re doing well, we’re touring a lot, life is great, but if the fans really wanted it, and more so if those guys ever wanted to give those fans what they wanted, I’m always open for the conversation. Because at the end of the day, as a musician, you’re an entertainer, right? I mean, that’s what you’re getting paid to do, is to make people feel good or get some steam off or whatever that emotion is — that’s your job. So if that means that you gotta get on stage and do that, and you know you can do it with these guys and people are gonna be super pumped, then what the fuck, man? I mean, I just don’t see the big fucking deal [of] just playing with people that you may not necessarily love just for the sake of, you wanna make fans happy, you wanna make people happy. But fortunately for me, I feel like I’m doing that right now any goddamn way.”

    He also reflected on a 2012 incident in which he was arrested and charged with attacking members of the Cro-Mags during the CBGB Festival in New York:

    “I talk about it in the film [the recently released ‘Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos’ documentary, which charts his tumultuous life and survival] pretty extensively. I don’t think I can ever say I’m good with it now, ’cause how do you get good with getting set up by people that you know and assaulted.

    We don’t gotta get into the entire thing. I went to go see my old singer [John Joseph] who at the time was playing under the name CRO-MAGS. It was illegal; they weren’t supposed to be using the name. Whatever. Longer story, irrelevant. I went to go see the show. Some part of my brain thought that I would see these guys and there would be some rekindling of the bromance. They’d be, like, ‘Oh, really? You fucking asshole. Ah, fuck you too. Ah, come on. You wanna come up and play a couple [of songs]?’ Some fucking dumb part of me was, like, ‘Come on, man.’ We used to fucking live in squats together, man. We used to have to fucking shoplift food together. We were fucking homeless kids… Anyway, so I was, like, ‘All right.’ I went. And ironically, I was texting the woman who’s now my wife on my way there, like, ‘Do you think I should go? I’m thinking about going. There was this whole series of texts, and I was, like, ‘Yeah, yeah, fuck it. I’ll go.’ And I actually got put on the guest list… So, anyway, I go. I have tickets. And everybody knew I was coming. And I got invited backstage, and the fucking door got pulled shut, and I got jumped by a room full of people. And I heard a lot of different things that were happening inside that room before I went in from different people, but it’s all hearsay. I’m not witness to it, so I’m not gonna repeat what other people told me. It doesn’t matter anymore. What the end outcome was, I wound up getting like 40-something stitches. I got stuck with something. I put three guys in the hospital. And then it just turned into this whole thing where they all started accusing me of going in there and attacking everybody, which was complete and total fucking nonsense.

    “[Eventually the case] got thrown out, [but] I did go to Rikers Island [New York City’s notorious jail complex], and that’s where things got kind of weird because that’s where my old singer was going in the New York Post and all these different newspapers and saying a lot of, basically… I get really uncomfortable even talking about this shit. Like, [he was] basically putting a fucking target on my ass, calling me a snitch, saying I’m a skinhead, I’m a racist, I’m this, I’m that, all kinds of shit that in any kind of a lockup situation would possibly get you fucked up by someone who totally just wants to get some credibility. And it was not cool, man… This big black dude comes in my cell and throws the paper on my bed and says, ‘[Is] that you?’ And I’m reading all this shit and I’m, like, ‘Wow.’ And I’m just shaking my head, like smirking to myself, just like, ‘This motherfucker. Unbelievable.’ So I can’t say I’ll ever be good with it.”

    He also added that he ended up spending about “10 days” at Rikers Island:

    “It wasn’t shit,” he explained. “But I was having a hard time raising bail, and I was looking at up to three years for nothing. So it was a very unnerving minute, especially with all that shit in the papers, because I was, like, ‘Somebody’s gonna try to do some shit,’ whatever, whatever. Anyway, it doesn’t matter. This shit’s old news. I’m kind of past all that, the experience, but that shit bothers me. It does. It does bother me that things had to come to that, that somebody would pull some shit like that.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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  • Guitarist Ken Susi (Ex-Unearth) Joins All That Remains

    All That Remains have officially recruited Ken Susi (ex-Unearth, ex-As I Lay Dying) as their new guitarist. He will be taking over for Jason Richardson (ex-Born Of Osiris, etc.), who exited the band last year.

    Susi commented:

    “I’m incredibly honored to be joining All That Remains as their new guitarist. My connection to this band goes back to the late ’90s, when I first met Mike, Oli and Phil at underground shows in Western Massachusetts. Those early days shaped so much of who I am, and coming back together now truly feels full circle.

    I’m also deeply honored to step in for my late friend Oli Herbert. Oli was not only an extraordinary musician, but a close friend whose presence and influence will always be felt. His shoes can never truly be filled, and I carry his spirit with me every time I pick up the guitar.

    After decades of friendship, shared history, and mutual support, it means everything to get on stage with this band and contribute to a project I genuinely believe in. I can’t wait to hit the road and share what we’ve been working on with all of you.

    See you out there.”

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  • Kid Rock, Creed, Shinedown, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Etc. Set For 2026 Rock The Country Festival

    The lineup has been revealed for this year’s Rock The Country festival. The tour will feature the following: Kid Rock, Creed, Shinedown, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aaron Lewis (Staind), Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria), Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Jelly Roll, Hank Williams Jr., Ludacris, Nelly, and more at select shows. Here’s the dates:

    05/01-02 Bellville, TX – Austin County Fairgrounds
    05/29-30 Bloomingdale, GA – Ottawa Farms
    06/27-28 Sioux Falls, SD – W.H. Fairgrounds
    07/10-11 Ashland, KY – Boyd County Fairgrounds
    07/25-26 Anderson, SC – Anderson Sports & Entertainment Center
    08/08-09 Hastings, MI – Barry Expo Center
    08/28-29 Ocala, FL – Florida Horsepark
    09/11-12 Hamburg, NY – Erie County Fairgrounds

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  • Jinjer’s Tatiana Shmayluk On “Female-Fronted” Label: “We Are Still Getting Compared To Artists That Have Nothing To Do With Us”

    During a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Jinjer vocalist Tatiana Shmayluk shared her thoughts on sexism in metal and the “female-fronted” label. The singer says her band “are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with” them.

    Shmayluk said the following:

    “We’re still going through this bullshit today. We are still getting compared to artists that have nothing to do with us. And not always good or talented artists, and I feel very, very fucking offended by that. Because some people, they cannot sing, they don’t hit the notes! Then I get people saying, ‘Oh, she’s doing better than you, she does it better than you, she has this personality, she has…’ Oh my god! Leave me alone! That kind of stuff really pisses me off.”

    She went on to say that she initially took inspiration from Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe, but she kept being compared to women:

    “I get a lot of comparisons and comments comparing me with [former Arch Enemy vocalist] Angela Gossow. I never wanted to sound like her. Some people told me, ‘Why don’t you colour your hair? Why don’t you dye your hair blue like Alissa [White-Gluz, former Arch Enemy vocalist]?’ But why would I? I don’t get it.”

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  • Black Label Society Announce New Album “Engines Of Demolition”

    Black Label Society have revealed the details for their new album “Engines Of Demolition.” The effort will be available on March 27 and it will feature 15 tracks including “Ozzy’s Song,” which seemingly serves as a tribute for the late great Ozzy Osbourne.

    “Engines Of Demolition” Track Listing:

    01. “Name In Blood“
    02. “Gatherer Of Souls“
    03. “The Hand Of Tomorrows Grave“
    04. “Better Days & Wiser Times“
    05. “Broken And Blind“
    06. “The Gallows“
    07. “Above & Below“
    08. “Back To Me“
    09. “Lord Humungus“
    10. “Pedal To The Floor“
    11. “Broken Pieces“
    12. “The Stranger“
    13. “Ozzy’s Song“
    14. “Name In Blood” (Unblackened)
    15. “Lord Humungus” (Unblackened)

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  • MØL Premiere “CRUSH” Video

    MØL have premiered a new video for their new song “CRUSH.” This track is from the band’s new album, “DREAMCRUSH,” which will be released on January 30. Guitarist Nicolai Busse commented:

    “‘CRUSH‘ encapsulates in many ways the dichotomy we as a band always have sought to balance, the journey between melancholy and jubilee, uplifting beauty and devastation. It is a gradual change or undoing of the known over time. The gravitational push and pull between the individual and the world. An acceptance of the many grey days, the mundane. Right there in the embrace of the chaos within the nuances of blues and yellows – we might discover small hints of slow emerging greens. Of beginning growth.”

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