Nickelback have digitally released their song “Bones For The Crows.” The track was originally recorded for the 2023 video game “Dungeon Hunter 6.”
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Foo Fighters Premiere New Song “Caught In The Echo”
Foo Fighters have premiered a new song titled “Caught In The Echo.” This track is from the band’s new album, “Your Favorite Toy,“ which will be released on April 24.
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Jungle Rot To Release New Album “Cruel Face Of War” In May, Share “Apocalyptic Dawn” Music Video
Jungle Rot will be releasing a new album, titled “Cruel Face Of War,” on May 15. A video for the first single, “Apocalyptic Dawn,” can be found below:
“Cruel Face Of War” Track Listing:
01. “Intro”
02. “Apocalyptic Dawn”
03. “Cruel Face Of War”
04. “Maniacal”
05. “Suffer In Silence”
06. “Radicalized”
07. “Blade Of Betrayal”
08. “When The Elders Rise”
09. “Horrors Vile” (feat. David Ingram of Benediction)
10. “Legacy Of The Damned”
11. “Rot Riffs”
12. “Hollow Husk”Frontman Dave Matrise commented:
“Let’s start off by saying what an amazing accomplishment it is to hit 12 releases in my career. Never would I think I’d still be doing this 30+ years later. I guess be careful what you wish for.
I’m very grateful to all of our fans that have supported us for so many years and for never giving up on us.
To my bandmates for all of their hard work and dedication to me and JRot over all these years.
‘Cruel Face Of War’ will not disappoint.
It’s full of crushing grooves and violent hooks that will surely break anyone’s neck.”
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2026 C.Y. Fest Officially Cancelled
This year’s C.Y. Fest at The Belasco in Los Angeles, CA has officially been cancelled. This news comes after multiple bands and promoters dropped off the event in response to sexual assault allegations leveled against founder Ignacio “Nacho Corrupted” Rodriguera. Tankcrimes owner Scotty Heath initially tried to step in to save the show, but later pulled out.
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Metallica’s Partnership With Red Cross Helped Collect 40,000 Blood Donations
Metallica’s partnership with Red Cross has proven to be a success. The initiative helped collect 40,000 lifesaving blood donations worldwide. Fan who participated received a limited edition shirt and an entry into a contest for a signed guitar.
Darren Irby, Red Cross executive director for national partnerships, commented:
“What Metallica and their fans have accomplished this year is truly monumental ─ inspiring people to give blood for the first time while also energizing teens and young adults about the donation process. There is no substitute for blood ─ volunteer blood donors are the only source, and the Red Cross is deeply grateful for the significant impact this partnership has made for those facing cancer treatment, surgeries and traumatic situations.”
Drummer Lars Ulrich continued:
“A hallmark mission of the All Within My Hands Foundation is to support critical care and communities, encouraging fans and friends to take action. We’re thrilled the Metallica family recognizes the importance of blood donation and didn’t hesitate to rally behind this lifesaving effort. Their enthusiasm has made a real difference, and we’re honored to stand alongside them.”
The band also added:
“We are blown away by the Metallica Family’s generous participation across last year’s collaboration with the American Red Cross! Since launching in April 2025, more than 25,000 blood donations have been collected across the U.S. through the Red Cross x Metallica blood drives. We also had the privilege of taking this campaign international during the Australian leg of the M72 World Tour. Including the drives hosted by Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, the total number of blood donations collected rises to nearly 40,000!
We cannot thank the fans enough for rolling up their sleeves and joining us in this campaign to save lives, including thousands of first-time donors.
Whether you joined an official M72 Tour blood drive or participated in the following Give Where You Live campaign, you made a huge difference, and many of you now have the t-shirt to prove it.
The 2026 American Red Cross Gala is this weekend in San Francisco, and we are proud to be named the Visionary Partner of the Year. We are so appreciative to partner with an organization as respected and invaluable as the Red Cross and to support the critical work they do year-round.
If you’d like to learn more or donate to give blood near you, visit redcrossblood.org.”
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SOiL’s Tim King: “New Music Is Almost Ready To Go”
It looks like SOiL are almost finished with their next release. According to bassist Tim King, “new music is almost ready to go.”
King told Super Cool Radio the following:
“We did a U.K. and European tour in the end of 2024, and we pretty much took all of 2025 to write new music. We went in the studio, recorded new music. All that’s almost done. We’re going to go back and finish up a couple of songs. But new music is almost ready to go. We’re talking probably a couple months, and we’re gonna be setting up a release schedule for that.
We didn’t tour at all in 2025, so we’re making up for it here in 2026. [We’re] going out with our buddies in NONPOINT for a small little USA run. There’s a couple of sprinkled headline dates that are in there. And then we’re going to be hitting a lot of the great festivals this year, like Sonic Temple, Louder Than Life. We’re going back to the U.K. We’re actually in the works of setting up some more USA dates as we speak, and we’re gonna give the announcement for the new material, the release date for that.”
He also discussed the creative process:
“We definitely changed it up. Our original way that we always wrote, just because of how long we’ve been around, is sweating it out in the rehearsal space. Somebody would come with a riff or an idea, and we’d start building around it and see if we had something. We had the dry eraseboard up and we’d start cataloging songs and record ’em on the boombox. And as we got around, into Pro Tools and stuff like that with a little setup. But this time around we did everything by Zoom. ‘Cause me and Adam [Zadel, SOIL guitarist] still live in Chicago where the band was originally based, but everybody else is scattered. So we did a lot of Zoom writing, which was very new for us. We’d never done that before. We did a lot of trading back and forth with music and riffs and ideas and things like that. So it was definitely a new experience for us. And then, when we got in the studio is where everything, all the pegs started fitting into the proper holes. It’s, like, ‘Okay, we’re all together. We all know where we’re at.’ And me and Adam have very specific tones, so I came with my bass that I’ve recorded on every album except for our very first album, ‘Throttle Junkies’. I came in with that, came in with my effects and stuff like that, that I use on every record. It’s my SOIL sound. I basically didn’t give any leeway. I said, ‘I want this, I want that, I want this and that,’ and plugged it all in, did it, all that. And the producer’s, like, ‘Yep. I see what you mean about the SOIL sound. It’s right there. We’re not changing anything.’ And Adam uses his Kemper, which is a programmable amp. He just walked in with that, which looks like a deranged lunchbox, and plugged that into the control board, and we were good to go on tones. We definitely have our SOIL sound, so to speak, which we kind of just came in like a bowl in a china shop and said, ‘Here’s what our sound is, here’s what we’re using,’ plugged it in, and it worked again.”
[via Blabbermouth]
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