Metal Anarchy

  • I Promised The World Announce European/UK Tour With Rosasharin

    I Promised The World have announced an October European/UK tour with Rosasharin. Here’s the dates:

    10/13 Ghent, BEL – Asgaard Gentbrugge
    10/14 Hamburg, GER – Betty
    10/15 Berlin, GER – Privatclub
    10/16 Cologne, GER – Garagen
    10/17 Paris, FRA – Glazart
    10/18 Utrecht, NET – DB’s
    10/20 Brighton, UK – Daltons
    10/21 London, UK – New Cross Inn
    10/22 Birmingham, UK – The Flapper
    10/23 Leeds, UK – Boom
    10/24 Manchester, UK – The White Hotel
    10/25 Glasgow, UK – Classic Grand
    10/27 Newcastle, UK – The Grove
    10/28 Bristol, UK – Exchange

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  • Flat Black Working On New Album At Studio 606

    Flat Black, the project featuring former Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Jason Hook, are currently working on a new album at Foo Fighters’ Studio 606 with producer Jay Ruston. The band shared the below footage from recent drum sessions:

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  • Shaun Glass (Repentance, Ex-SOiL, Etc.) Passes Away

    Shaun Glass has sadly passed away. The guitarist was a member of Repentance and a former member of SOiL, Broken Hope, Dirge Within, and more.

    SOiL said the following:

    “We’d like to take a moment to say goodbye to our former guitarist Shaun Glass who passed away earlier today. Although we have been estranged and not on good terms since his departure in 2007, he was still an integral part of SOiL in the early years. And for a long time he was a good friend and comrade. We had many laughs and many good times back in the day. We will look back at those times with fond memories and smiles. It’s sad to hear of his passing and we would like to send his family our condolences during this time of grief.”

    Nonpoint‘s Robb Rivera also commented:

    “Today we lost one of the biggest metal lifers I’ve ever known… my metal brother, Shaun Glass
    For the last 12–15 years, we talked damn near every single day. Most mornings started with a text around 6:30 a.m., and before I’d even had my coffee we were already deep into conversations about metal, thrash, hardcore, rock, the music business, our families, our kids, and whatever insane story was happening in our world that day.

    Shaun was my newswire for everything heavy. He was always the first to send me a new band I needed to hear, a record I had to check out, or some breaking news from the metal world. Hell, he’s the guy who texted me at 6:30 in the morning that Metallica was playing the Metro, and because of him I was able to get tickets. That’s who he was. He lived this music every single day.

    What I’ll miss the most isn’t just the conversations about riffs, drummers, records, or debates over albums. I’ll miss my friend. I’ll miss those early morning texts. I’ll miss hearing how proud he was of Maddux and talking about family. I’ll miss having my metal brother on the other end of the phone.

    Shaun had friends everywhere because he was one of the genuine ones. His passion for heavy music was contagious, and I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever met anyone who loved metal more than he did.

    My heart goes out to Michelle, Maddux, his entire family, his friends, his bandmates, and the countless fans whose lives he touched around the world.

    Metal didn’t just lose an incredible musician. We lost a truly great human being.
    I fucking love you, Shaun.

    Rest easy, my metal brother. Until we meet again”

    Machine Head’s Robb Flynn shared a tribute as well:

    “My world lost a legend today.
    A lot of people reading this won’t know who Shaun Glass was, but to everyone who did, Shaun was a fucking legend. A star who burned so goddamn bright, it was impossible not to love him.

    I’m honestly just shocked and numb that I’m writing these words.

    I met Shaun when I was 19 years old. He was standing outside The Stone in San Francisco on Broadway waiting to get into a thrash show. He’d flown out just to be there. I can’t even remember which show it was anymore – it’s possible it was my old band Vio-Lence – but from that day on he became a constant in my life. Always at the Chicago and Milwaukee shows, always down for the hang

    For decades there wasn’t a week that went by without an email, text, or phone call from him. A new band I needed to hear. Industry gossip. Pictures of him proudly wearing Machine Head or Killers & Kings merch. Riffs he’d written. Songs he’d just finished. Photos of him on vacation with his son Maddux, who he absolutely adored.

    The dude lived and fucking breathed metal, punk, hardcore and hard rock. Since our birthdays were only two weeks apart, we shared the same love for ’80s and ’90s thrash.

    My nickname for him was “Glasshole”, which was nickname Borivoj gave him that was so goddamned funny it stuck. Shaun never got bent out of shape about it – in fact, I think he secretly liked it!

    Dude was a LIFER. He never stopped creating. New songs. New bands. New records. No matter what life threw at him, he just making music.

    He was hilarious. One of the biggest ball-busters I’ve ever known. And underneath all of that, one of the sweetest human beings I’ve ever had the privilege of calling my friend.

    Like any friendship that lasts nearly 40 years, we had a wobble somewhere in the middle. I honestly can’t even remember what I was upset about anymore. Something involving some demos 12 years ago. Shaun was the one who reached out to smooth it out. He was the bigger man. I’m grateful he did, because in the last decade we grew closer than we’d ever been.

    When you’re young, you think you have all the time in the world to repair relationships. The older you get, you realize time can take that opportunity away in the blink of an eye.

    I found out from Dino that Shaun had suffered a stroke on the first day of our U.S. tour in Pittsburgh. The fact that four weeks later I’m sitting here writing a tribute to him makes me physically sick with grief.

    You were truly one in a million.

    I’m going to miss you terribly, brother.

    My deepest condolences to Michelle, Maddux, his Repentance bandmates, his family, and the countless friends whose lives were made better by knowing him.

    Love you forever, Shaun.”

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  • Held. Share New Short Film, Announce UK Tour

    Held., the project featuring Coheed And Cambria’s Josh Eppard and The Sleeping’s Douglas Robinson and Sal Mignaro, have released a new short film. The clip is titled “Negative Of Nurture” and it features the videos for “NEW YOU ANTHEM” (feat. My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero), “CONSTANT TENSION,” and “KNIFEPOINT” (feat. High Vis’ Graham Sayle). The tracks are from the band’s latest album “GREY.” In other news, the group have also booked a UK tour for this November. Here’s the dates:

    11/21 Liverpool, UK – Loud & Clear Festival
    11/22 Glasgow, UK – Nice N Sleazy
    11/24 Cardiff, UK – Clwb Ifor Bach
    11/25 Birmingham, UK – O2 Institute 3
    11/26 London, UK – The Barfly

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  • Split Chain Recruit Roman Candle And False Reality Members For New Versions Of “Headway” And “SPIT”

    Split Chain have shared two more tracks from the deluxe edition of “motionblur.” You can check out “Headway” [DLX] (feat. Roman Candle) and “SPIT” [DLX] (feat. False Reality) below. The expanded record will be released on September 11.

    The group commented:

    “Asking both Piper and Rachel to feature on these songs was an absolute no brainer for us. We’re all such big fans of what they do in their own bands and we were so excited to see how they would interpret these songs. Not only that, but being able to have features from bands in both the US and UK scenes is so sick.

    They both have such distinctive, dynamic and incredible voices and hearing how their own natural flair sits so well in these songs is legitimately insane.

    They’ve genuinely done the songs an incredible amount of justice, and their unique takes on each have really elevated the songs to a point where they now sit comfortably as their definitive versions. We couldn’t be happier with how the songs have turned out, and we’re so excited to be able to tour with them in September.”

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  • Bring Me The Horizon Were Warned About “Career Ending Consequences” For Waving Palestinian Flags Onstage

    During last year’s Reading and Leeds festivals in the UK, Bring Me The Horizon decided to show support for Palestine by waving the country’s flag onstage. The band were warned that the move could carry “career ending consequences,” but they refused to back down. Notably, the noble gesture has since gone on to inspire their latest single “Dehumanized.”

    Frontman Oli Sykes commented:

    “This video was actually inspired by this book I’m reading rn called ‘Tender Is The Flesh.’ It’s fucked, have a read if you can…

    [‘Dehumanized‘] was born from an event that happened last year. I was told that peacefully raising a flag on stage in recognition of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding where children were being killed would most likely carry career ending consequences.

    It made me realise how we are silently we’re conditioned to suppress our humanity. We think were are free, conscious beings, when in truth we are driven by forces we barely understand.

    ‘Some of us are butchers, some of us are lambs, sennd me to the abbatoir, let’s find out which I am,’ is the crux of this song.

    The abbatoir is a metphor for being put in a place where my very livelihood is facing execution.

    When empathy becomes an act [of] anarchy, then u discover whether your values are real.

    I want this video to take that central theme to the worst imaginable conclusion.

    A fully operational human slaughterhouse.

    Let’s ask the viewer at what point does suffering become unacceptable to u?

    At what point do you draw the line?

    Every time we’re taught to look away or stay quiet, we live a little bit more of who we are.

    So the slaughter house is analogy for modern civ.

    On top of that many of the lyrics reference this kind of setting…”

    “Dehumanized“ will appear on the 20th anniversary re-recorded version of “Count Your Blessings.“ That effort is titled “Count Your Blessings | Repented” and it will be released on July 10.

    [via The PRP]

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  • High On Fire, Whores., Etc. Added To 2026 RPM Fest

    More bands have been added to the 2026 RPM Fest. The event will take place at Millers Falls Rod and Gun Club in Montague, MA on September 4-6 and it will now feature the following:

    September 4: Monolord, Dopethrone, Khemmis, Ecstatic Vision, Problem With Dragons, Antagonizör, Lesotho, Pegzilla, North Star The Wanderer, Earthlore, and The Outlourdes.

    September 5: High On Fire, Acid Witch, Leather Lung, Intercourse, Dysentery, Mother Iron Horse, Horse Grave, Graveripper, Castle, Western Massacre, Xenosis, Atomic Witch, Gravewraith, Afghan Haze, Karate Steve, Accursed, and Swamphead.

    September 6: Whores., Dwarves, Squid Pisser, The Rumours, Void, Goblet, Phantom, Nott, Miracle Blood, Street Trash, Dead Street Dreamers, Grip Bite, The Prozacs, and Rock Shop.

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  • No Cure Premiere “When The Spasms Cease” Video

    No Cure have premiered a new video for their new song “When The Spasms Cease.” This track is from the band’s new album, “It Is Going To Get Dark,” which will be released on July 10.

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  • Obituary Announce Summer Tour

    Obituary have announced some summer shows. This includes two dates supporting Megadeth.

    Tour Dates:

    07/24 Pensacola, FL – Handlebar
    07/25 Atlanta, GA – 529
    07/26 Memphis, TN – Growlers
    07/28 Bloomington, IL – Castle Theatre
    07/30 Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen

    With Megadeth:

    07/31 La Crosse, WI – Oktoberfest Grounds
    08/01 Green Bay, WI – Capitol Credit Union Park

    Obituary:

    08/03 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar
    08/04 Asheville, NC – Revival
    08/15-16 Los Angeles, CA – Sound And Fury
    08/21 New York, NY – The Rooftop at Pier 17 (feat. Acid Bath & Thou)

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  • The Mars Volta Announce New Live Album “Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business”

    The Mars Volta have announced a new live album titled “Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business.” The effort features recordings that were voted on by fans and it will receive a digital release on September 4 and a physical release on October 16. It will be available in standard audio and Dolby Atmos formats. The first single, a live take on “Cue The Sun/Alba del Orate,” can be found below. Pre-orders can be found HERE.

    “Lucro Sucio; Unfinished Business” Track Listing:

    01. “Fin”
    02. “Reina Tormenta / Enlazan Las Timeblas”
    03. “Mictlan”
    04. “The Iron Rose”
    05. “Cue the Sun / Albe Del Orate”
    06. “Voice in My Knives / Poseedora De Mi Sombra”
    07. “Celaje”
    08. “Vocifero”
    09. “Mito De Los Trece Cielos”
    10. “Un Disparo Al Vacio / Detras De La Puerta”
    11. “Dorada”
    12. “Maullidos”
    13. “Morgana / Cue the Sun” (Reprise)
    14. “Lucro Sucio”

    Omar Rodríguez-López told Spin the following:

    “I guess a good place to start is for the context of it. The creation of a live album can be particularly difficult for a project like ours, where the performances or the expressions change a lot from night to night. It becomes a matter of emotional states and feelings, and they don’t oscillate from listen to listen. It becomes an issue of practicality when there’s too much information. I’ve recorded every show since 2004, so I’ve come to realize an abundance of material becomes a poverty of choice. All this is rooted in the fact that the project itself was conceived primarily as a live entity. The shifting, changing elements and extreme variation is a foundational principle baked into the DNA.

    Our mantra has always been prioritizing the concern and care of real life — what we’re actually experiencing and protecting at all costs. In contrast, the albums are highly stylized, meticulously performed and edited. Those serve the function of a documentation or a staged picture of the actual life as it was lived. But then that takes us to the live experience, which is a completely unique thing. This whole last year of 2025 started with Defones and then it went into our own tour, performing Lucro Sucio. Maybe this is subjective, but this was unquestionably our favorite tour in 31 years of touring — no competition. We came away from it feeling this level of spiritual and emotional fulfillment that’s really hard to reach and completely impossible to manufacture. The feeling from technicians to the touring party was that it was a magical experience. I had never experienced this before.

    When that happens, everything becomes very, very clear. It starts to transcend rational or intellectual analysis of a repeat performance to produce what can only be described as a perfect show. Meaning, connecting deeply with the audience to the point of a congenial fracture of time and space. I hate to use the word perfect, but that’s how I feel. It’s this rare dynamic — this co-equal, co-eternal trinity between the creative spirit, the performers and the audience becoming one thing in one moment in space. That’s the best way I could describe it.”

    He also added the following about the fan vote:

    “The initial idea for this album was that I was going to ask our current management to relay me what fans thought the top three shows were on the tour of Lucro Sucio, and I’ll cut between them to make a live album. But what happened was that I was on my weekly call with my very close friend and business partner, and I was telling him about this. He’s one of those empathetic, tuned in, highly proficient, perceptive prototypes of a new human, and he came up with this really wonderful idea: why don’t we break it down even further and actually have the fans vote on moments throughout the performance of all 25 nights?

    It’s with the exception of Philadelphia, because that one was just lost to the recording gods. This truly gets to the matter of creating an album in direct collaboration with the fans, where I’d cut all these pieces together and make them flow into one performance that embodies the spirit of everything. My friend and his brother actually created the web site to house the material. My engineers and I were turning these around as quickly as possible, bootleg-style — five MP3 references that wouldn’t slow down the site.

    As the voting came in, we were cutting together the performances and the flow, then handing them off to Robert Carranza, who was mixing everything that day in stereo and Atmos. It has been a lot of complicated and challenging work, but I love this lightning speed thing. It’s not so much about losing some things in exchange for others. It’s not so much about the level of precision and control that I’m used to in making an album.

    The projects that challenge you take you to a new place of skill and understanding, so they’re the most fulfilling. This is all thanks to the fans, because I don’t think I could even decide [the track list] anyways because of my own emotional attachment to what I was trying to describe with the actual experience. To me, this is the perfect collaboration between us and our fans. I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did.”

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