Green Day will be performing during the opening ceremony at this year’s Super Bowl. That event will take place at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, CA on February 8. The band’s set is expected to feature a medley composed of their greatest hits.
Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong commented:
“We are super hyped to open Super Bowl 60 right in our backyard! We are honored to welcome the MVPs who’ve shaped the game and open the night for fans all over the world. Let’s have fun! Let’s get loud!”
Tim Tubito, the NFL’s senior director of event and game presentation, added:
“Celebrating 60 years of Super Bowl history with Green Day as a hometown band, while honoring the NFL legends who’ve helped define this sport, is an incredibly powerful way to kick off Super Bowl LX. As we work alongside NBC Sports for this opening ceremony, we look forward to creating a collective celebration for fans in the stadium and around the world.”
In other news, Green Day will also be playing a pre-Super Bowl concert with Counting Crows at Pier 29 in San Francisco, CA on February 6. That invite-only show will be sponsored by FanDuel and Spotify.
Poison’s Rikki Rockett is planning to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Look What The Cat Dragged In” during a tour with his Rockett Mafia project. This news comes after the drummer recently revealed that Poison’s touring plans were scrapped due to a financial dispute. Rockett commented:
“Playing Poison’s first album with The Rockett Mafia is a full-circle moment for me. It’s raw, it’s fun, and it’s exactly how those songs were meant to be heard. Celebrating the 40th anniversary is really about giving the fans a chance to relive that moment with us.”
Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to bands that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with Alun Davies of Before The Sirens.
METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:
DAVIES: Hi! Nice to meet you. I’m Alun from Before the Sirens, a classic metalcore band from Hertfordshire, UK. We’ve been playing together in various bands since we were at school (so in some cases nearly 30 years!) but have been playing in this band together since 2021. We have previously been called a classic metalcore band and to be honest this is the closest definition I have heard when trying to place us in a genre. But we have been described as heavy metal, melodic metalcore, hard rock and, my personal favourite, the heaviest rock band you will ever hear!
METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?
DAVIES: Our music stems from our influences in early 2000s metalcore and those ‘Kerrang’ era Nu-Metal bands that form the foundation of our sound. We list ourselves as ‘for fans of Killswitch Engage, Alter Bridge, Breaking Benjamin & Metallica’.
METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?
DAVIES: Our new EP ‘As It Is Above, So It Is Below’ is released in December last year. We really feel like this EP builds on the sonic foundation laid by (our debut EP) Desolate Seas & Darkened Skies. The new EP feels like a step up for us in terms of musical ambition. If you like your music heavy with plenty of hook laden riffs, buckets of vocal melody and s good smattering of vicious breakdowns, this might just be worth a listen.
METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?
DAVIES: We love playing live together and we hope that is infectious when people come out to see us at a show. But we are there to have a good time and to entertain, so in amongst the unbelievably loud heavy music we play, we bring a lot of humour and positive energy.
METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?
DAVIES: We’ll continue to write the music we love writing. Our predominant agenda with this band is enjoy making the music we want to make. It’s heavy, it’s aggressive, it’s got bucket loads of melody in the vocals, but it has to sound like us. To be honest, we want to continue to be the band we are and get out on the road to see as many of you as possible as that is where we are at our best.
Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to bands that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with The Trousers.
METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:
THE TROUSERS: The Trousers are garage rock/hard rock band from Budapest since 2005. The members are Zoltán Kőváry (vocals, guitar), Péter Locke (guitar), András Lázár (bass), Samu Antal Gulyás (drums). We have released seven albums so far, on “Freakbeat” (2013) we had Nicke Andersson from The Hellacopters as a guest-guitarist on one song. The albums have had very good reviews all over the world, usually 7-9/10 rating. The band has played in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Austria, Slovenia, Czehia, Slovakia in the recent years, and supported bands like Black Stone Cherry, MC5, Tygers of Pan Tang, Dirty Honey, Atomic Bitchwax, etc…
METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?
THE TROUSERS: From the 60’s: The Rolling Stones, MC5, Iggy & The Stooges, Stax/Motown soul
From the 70’s: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Motörhead, Sex Pistols
From the 80’s: Judas Priest, The Cult, Metallica, Mötley Crüe
From the 90’s: Alice in Chains, The Black Crowes, Oasis
Form the 00’s: The Hellacopters, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Wolfmother
METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?
THE TROUSERS: We have released “Necessary Evil” in 2025 November. I think it’s very diverse and unified at the same time, integrating all our influences as musicians and everyday people. The Trousers is a hard, riff-driven band but the songs are very melodic and sound like a hit at the same time. We always try to write albums with ten singles 😊 I think in the 70’s and 80’s rock bands wrote big hits while they didn’t give up their identity as a rock n roll band and they remained raw and heavy. Motörhead, AC/DC or Judas Priest used to play in Top of the Pops in Britain for example, or Guns n Roses videos were in heavy rotation on MTV. Things will never be the same again, but we try to follow this tradition artistically.
METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?
THE TROUSERS: Real rock attitude… We play rock n roll with the intensity of a classic thrash metal band. Usually 50-60 minutes, with the best songs from our albums and some covers. Last year we released an EP of covers under the title “Garage Nights Revisited”. Sometimes we play a few songs from this too.
METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?
THE TROUSERS: It also depends on the international context, because we don’t play too much in Hungary expect from Budapest. It’s getting harder to get gigs for a band like us. We will keep on making albums for sure, so in five years there will be at least two more albums in our catalogue, but the tours and the concerts depend on a lot of factors. We do what we can!
The Black Crowes have premiered a new video for their song “Profane Prophecy.” This track is from the band’s new album, “A Pound Of Feathers,” which will be released on March 13.
Frontman Chris Robinson commented:
“‘Profane Prophecy’ is about the devil you know, the devil you never knew, the devil inside of me and devil inside of you. The mischief and madness in the beautiful expression that is rock n roll… and you can dance to it.”
Director Dagger Polyester added:
“In the video for ‘Profane Prophecy,’ the Black Crowes have conjured seven devils (representing each deadly sin) to wreak havoc on this little fairytale world of stark morality and harsh retribution. In creating this world, we leaned into uncanniness with hyper-unrealistic theatrical set pieces and life size dioramas.
Everyone in the cast and crew are integral members of our little underground, experimental art scene here in Los Angeles. We rely on one another to make music, movies and art with virtually no budget. As a community, we don’t usually have clearly defined roles; for example, I’m usually doing makeup, costumes, choreography, lighting, you name it. It was a huge opportunity for us to work with the Crowes, especially in a time where the real hero-freaks of the underground go largely unsung.”
During their January 16 show at the O2 Academy Brixton in London, England, Slaughter To Prevail were joined onstage by Slipknot bassist Alessandro “Vman” Venturella for a performance of “Viking.” You can see fan-filmed footage of that below:
Poison have cancelled their plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of “Look What The Cat Dragged In” on tour this year. Drummer Rikki Rockett says the trek never came to fruition because frontman Bret Michaels “wanted the lion’s share of the money.”
“We had a great offer, I thought. But we left the table. It didn’t work.”
Really what it came to was [guitarist] C.C. [DeVille], [bassist] Bobby [Dall], and I were all in, and I thought Bret was, but he wanted the lion’s share of the money, to the point where it makes it not possible to even do it. It’s like $6 to every one of our dollars. You just can’t work that way.
I don’t do this just for the money. I do have a love for this, absolutely. But at the same time, you don’t want to go out and work really hard just to make somebody else a bunch of money.”
Despite this, he confirmed that he’s not angry:
“Every member of this band has given me so much privilege in life. It’s like hating your parents.”
He also added the following when asked about the possibility of recruiting a new singer:
“It’s not out of the question. But doing that is like surgery: it’s the last resort. I don’t want to do that. I’m not quarreling with Bret… We just didn’t come to agreement. I don’t like it, and I’ll say that, but it’s not like, ‘Let’s put up our dukes.’ I don’t think there’s a better frontman for Poison.”
311’s Nick Hexum recently tried out some metal screams as part of a new song idea. You can see footage of that below. The track came about following a joke about a network error.
During an interview with Audacy, Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group currently have “about 25-ish songs” in the works.
Bathory said the following:
“There’s always bits and pieces in the vault, so that’s kind of, like, when you have ideas… Today’s technology allows you to just grab whatever you want, and it’s in a pretty decent quality, usable quality, basically. So, we’ve been capturing things, ideas and this and that. And right now — I just went through the folder of what we have, [and] we have about 25-ish songs that eventually are gonna get chopped down to the ones that gonna make it. But that’s where we are. Maybe two or three of them have vocals on it already, to some degree. So, we’re working on it. And this is still the demoing phase, kind of. Actually, I don’t even say ‘demo’, because we don’t really demo [music]. That’s what I meant by technology is there now that you can start recording and it’s keepers [for the album]. But we are going to the proper studio probably somewhere in February.”
He also commented on the musical direction:
“The new record has a little bit of this soundtrack quality. The songs that we are writing, almost all of them has a little bit of that. It was actually sort of a goal to kind of… We don’t wanna write a concept album, but it has a little bit of a soundtracky vibe to it.”
The Halo Effect (ex-In Flames, etc.) have started work on their next album. Frontman Mikael Stanne confirmed the news to Futuro.
Stanne said the following when asked about the band’s current live plans:
“No real plans right now, but we are working on our third album right now, so as soon as that is out, like by the end of the year or something like that, it’s gonna be time to tour again, of course. So, I hope we can come [to Chile] and do a proper tour.”
He continued when asked about his working relationship with his bandmates:
“It’s super fun. I mean, it really is like a passion project among friends. So, to get to travel together with my friends who I’ve known since I was a teenager, it’s pretty awesome. And the new album is shaping up to be incredible. I just heard one song today, and, yeah, it’s gonna be fantastic. So I hope we can come [to Chile after the LP is released].”
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