Metal Anarchy

  • Watch Refused Close Out Their Final Show With “New Noise”

    On December 21, Refused played their final live show at Väven in Umeå, Sweden. You can see fan-filmed footage of the closing track, “New Noise,” below. Dennis Lyxzén had the following to say about the concert:

    “The weekend is over and it’s been overwhelming to say the least. I need a couple of days to process everything and I will post more on the matter. But for now: thanks to everyone that came to the shows, or watch the live stream or just made all of this possible. I love you all. Refused is dead. Long live Refused.”

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  • Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible Is Planning To Launch A New Bare-Knuckle Fighting And Metal Festival

    Slaughter To Prevail’s Alex Terrible has revealed that he is preparing to launch a new festival featuring metal music and bare-knuckle fighting. The vocalist is working on the venture with Danny Wimmer Presents and the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. Notably, a July 17 date was teased.

    Terrible said the following:

    “As you might know guys, I got myself into this adventure called bare-knuckle fighting and December 27, my friend Kratos [Kalinin] will fight in the serious f*cking promotion called Top Dog in Russia against the serious fighter. But Kratos will win no matter what. And because of him I started to do this f*cking bare-knuckle sh*t. And next year with DWP, with BKFC, we’re gonna open this f*cking promotion called Blood 4 Blood and these guys will get involved in this f8cking event with bands playing f*cking heavy metal music and fighters do f8cking bare-knuckle fighting.

    That’s f*cking crazy. And I will get Kratos into this card. And I will get myself into this card. And I’m gonna f*cking play with Slaughter To Prevail in the same f*cking night. Is it crazy? It is crazy. And I’m f*cking crazy guy. Let’s f*cking go Kratos. You will win.”

    [via The PRP]

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  • Wargasm To Stream London Show

    Wargasm’s September 28 show in London, UK will be available to stream online this Friday (December 26). Fans can check that out via Lounges.

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  • Love Is Noise To Record New Album In Early 2026

    Love Is Noise are planning to record a new album early next year. Further details are still pending.

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  • Campaign Launched To Help American Head Charge’s Cameron Heacock Recover From Drug Addiction

    Holiday Kirk (The Nu Metal Agenda) has launched “The Something Beautiful Project” to assist American Head Charge vocalist Cameron Heacock amid his battle with drug addiction and homelessness. Fans can donate HERE.

    Kirk said the following in part:

    “I’m 33 years old and live in Los Angeles, California. I am the founder of The Nu Metal Agenda and run the @numetal_moment suite of social media accounts.

    ‘The War of Art’ by American Head Charge is my favorite album of all time.

    I’ve written on my admiration for this album at length but in short I believe it to be the strongest metal record of the 2000s and one of the greatest albums ever made.

    After several years off the grid their lead singer, Cameron Heacock, has resurfaced in Los Angeles. He is homeless and addicted to fentanyl.

    American Head Charge are as legendary for their bad luck as they are their music. A debut album dropped right before 9/11, a band dropped from their label not long after, two of their members have died, many more have left. It almost seems right that their singer would have fallen on such hard times. Maybe this is the way it is meant to be?

    No.

    Absolutely not. This is not how their story ends. We are going to find Cameron and offer to help him in any way we possibly can. We are going to put a happy ending on a sad story…”

    He has since confirmed that Heacock has been found:

    “We found him. While we work together to put together an organized treatment plan I am offering you the chance to contribute a small dollar donation while I buy Cam anything he needs for survival purposes. You can help us out by donating at this link, everything raised will be spent exclusively on Cam. I don’t have any way of guarenteeing you that but dammit you have to trust me. This is not something I would ever lie about, every penny that comes to me through that link will go to Cam.”

    [via The PRP]

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  • CKY Announce East Coast Shows

    CKY have announced some March 2026 East Coast shows. Here’s the dates:

    03/12 Washington DC – Pearl Street Warehouse
    03/13 Wilmington, DE – The Queen
    03/14 Red Lion, PA – Double Barrel Roadhouse
    03/15 Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes

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  • Flaw Working On New Music

    Flaw are currently working on new music. Vocalist Chris Volz said the following about that:

    ”It’s getting close to that time again folks! Can’t wait for you all to hear these new tunes!!!”

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  • Nazareth Announce New Vocalist

    Nazareth have recruited Gianni Pontillo as their new vocalist. He will be replacing Carl Sentance in the group.

    Bassist Pete Agnew commented:

    “Carl Sentance and Nazareth have come to a parting of the ways, and he is no longer with the band.

    We would like to introduce you now to our new lead singer, Gianni Pontillo. Those who have seen and heard Gianni will already know what an incredible voice he has, and those of you who haven’t are in for a wonderful surprise when you come to see us in 2026.

    Next year is going to be one of the busiest in Nazareth’s history, so there is a good chance to see the new lineup, and we can’t wait to introduce you to this man’s amazing talent.”

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  • Paul Di’Anno’s Upcoming Live Album Was Recorded “Less Than Two Months Before His Death”

    A new live album featuring former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno’s August 2024 set at the Stonedead festival in Newark-on-Trent, England will be released in 2026. The effort was recorded “less than two months before his death.”

    The following statement was issued:

    “Dear fans. Less than a month ago, we announced that the last Paul Di’Anno live album would be released in 2026, recorded on his last UK tour, specifically at the Stonedead Festival in 2024, less than two months before his death.

    We would like to thank the promoter Chris Sumby who gave us the audio files for free and made it possible for this album to finally see the light of day.

    Paul’s Norwegian backing band, together with the producers and the record label, is working diligently on this project, whose name and cover page we decided to reveal in the first months of 2026. At the same time, the record label will be announced, and in the meantime, Henrik Haugsnes Kaupang, Paul’s drummer, made a video in which he explains their motivations for releasing this album.

    We listened to your wishes and although the plan was to release only strictly unlimited vinyl, there will also be a smaller amount of CDs for sale for fans and collectors who want it. All of Paul’s rights and royalties arising from this album will, of course, be passed on to his legal heir.

    We wish you all pleasant holidays and a happy New Year. These days, the long-awaited third book from ‘The Beast’ trilogy entitled ‘The Last Days Of The Beast’ will be published, which you can order at www.maidencroatia.com.”

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  • Withering Scorn Finish New Album

    Withering Scorn (ex-Megadeth, ex-Fates Warning, etc.) have offered another update on their upcoming album “Sanctum Of The Depraved.” According to drummer Shawn Drover, “the record is completely done.”

    Drover said the following:

    “Hey, everybody. Happy holidays. Shawn Drover here from WITHERING SCORN. I haven’t posted anything in a while, although there has been some cool stuff going on.

    What we did was we had the record pretty much done, and there was one song that Glen [Drover] wasn’t vibing on in particular. Joe [DiBiase] and myself as well liked the song — not quite as much as the others. It was a little more commercial sounding or whatever, although it’s a complete metal track anyway. But Glen had this instrumental tune he was working on, and so we omitted the more commercial song and had to record and finish writing and record this instrumental track that he had. And I’m glad we did that, because it turns out to be a really cool track. It’s something different for the record, and I’m really glad that we did that in hindsight now. But that pretty much cost us four or five weeks of time.

    So anyway, the record is completely done. And also we had to change, with the liner notes of the artwork and all that stuff, the song title had to be changed and all this stuff, which took a little bit time. But the good news is Max Norman mastered the entire record. It sounds fantastic. We have all the artwork, everything ready to go. And after the holidays, beginning of the year, we’re gonna send it off, which takes about, I believe, 10 weeks or so. So realistically, we’re probably looking at somewhere mid to end March that we’ll get the physical vinyl, colored vinyl and CD in our hands. And, of course, I’ll keep you updated on that.

    But that’s where we’re at. ‘Sanctum Of The Depraved’ is a hundred percent completely done. And if you like the first record, you’re definitely gonna dig this one too. We’re really proud of it. And it’s taken some time, but the world’s not gonna blow up if you don’t get the WITHERING SCORN record in the next two weeks. We wanted it to be right, and I’m glad Glen made that judgment call to put the instrumental track on there. ‘Cause now the record’s even better.”

    [via Blabbermouth]

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