Time for the next edition of Metal Anarchy’s “new music showcase,” the feature where I introduce you to artists that readers of this site may find interesting. This time I have a Q&A with Karnage Through Crossing.
METAL ANARCHY: Tell me a little about your band:
KARNAGE THROUGH CROSSING: Karnage Through Crossing is a gritty, empowering, melodic, old school Heavy Metal Modern Crossover. Formed out of the development of a band from 2018-2021 called Nova 1 Featuring ex members of speed metal bands, Death Metal and Metalcore bands, founded by Rhyse Tremel and his partner, a lead guitarist who use to play during the first lineup of a now touring speed metal band from Calgary. Strained tensions from unsuccessful recruiting and member dropouts during Covid lead to the disintegration of the band in 2022, where Ashton Lal was training to become the next Drummer. With Rhyse and Ashton remaining in the band, Rhyse took his songs from Nova 1, recruited and trained bass guitarists until someone stuck, and started recording with the crew.
METAL ANARCHY: Who are your main influences?
KARNAGE THROUGH CROSSING: Judas Priest, Megadeth, Iced Earth, Skullfist, and Death Angel.
METAL ANARCHY: What is your latest release and why should readers of this site check it out?
KARNAGE THROUGH CROSSING: On September 5th we released our latest single, “THE UNDERGROUND,” featuring blistering speed rhythms, melodic Heavy Metal licks, screaming solos, soaring highs, and thundering Growls. It’s got everything! To add, this song and our single before it, which we recorded at the same time, have the highest quality production in our discography, taking us out of the local scene and into a professional league. This latest single has something for everyone and you’re going to love the energy!
METAL ANARCHY: What can people expect when they go to your live shows?
KARNAGE THROUGH CROSSING: On stage, KTX live up to our word of going BIG. Think full-stack amps, custom‑built steel props wrapped in barbed wire and chrome, leather and ripped denim, massive drum kits, the blazing strobes and fog of heavy metal’s golden age.
METAL ANARCHY: Where do you see your band heading in 5 years?
KARNAGE THROUGH CROSSING: We expect to be regularly touring, playing both American and European festivals, on our 4th album recording with nominations for Junos. We are dead serious, and we don’t think this is overselling at all, Rhyse is probably one of the most committed, hardest working heavy metal musicians, with the best image in our region. We look forward to bringing heavy metal to the world.
Watain have revealed that they are planning to call it quits. The group will disband in three years following the release of their eighth studio album.
The band commented:
“Ladies and gentlemen, followers, allies and supporters, this is a solemn transmission from the Temple of WATAIN.
We hereby announce that in III years’ time — upon our 30th anniversary — WATAIN’s eighth and final full-length album will be released. The album will mark the closure of a thirty-year-long magical Work, the last crossroad of WATAIN, after which the band will cease to exist. The ending of a triad of decades during which we have shared our sacred path through this strange world with you, our loyal audience, on a steady course towards the beckoning darkness of The End.
Over the course of the next three years, the reasons for this will be spoken of and accounted for. But for now we just want to say this: Have our songs and our art not always dealt with finitude and mortality, with DEATH and the beyond? Now it is time to claim our own conclusion, and shape it as we have shaped our stage and our songs, in the fires of will. Instead of being consumed by the jaws of time, or broken upon the wheel of circumstance, we choose to let WATAIN return, unbowed and undefeated, back into the primordial chaos that once gave it life.
And so we stand on the threshold to our final chapter, and III years of Work remain. III liminal years in the borderlands between the living and the dead, during which new music will be written and shared, concerts will take place, and other things, that will be revealed in due time, will emanate, with the certainty of DEATH, from the Temple of WATAIN.
Take this message not as a farewell, but as the first note of a sacrificial requiem, as well as your invitation to partake in shaping these last years into something beyond compare.
Praise be to the Devilgod by whom our path is blessed, and upon whose altar we now place this our humble offering.
To the DEATH and far beyond!”
System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian is streaming a new song titled “Things Unspoken.” The track, which features Bic Runga, will appear on the frontman’s new album, “Covers, Collaborations & Collages,” which will be released on October 24. Tankian commented:
“Welcome to Week 5 of my ‘Covers, Collaborations & Collages’ song releases. Today, I’m excited to share ‘Things Unspoken’ – a beautiful duet with my dear friend and incredible songwriter from New Zealand, Bic Runga. ‘Things Unspoken’ began its roots on a piano at the Watergate Hotel during a moment of limbo at the start of Ozzfest many years ago and bloomed into this duet, in collaboration with Bic about a dozen years ago while she was in LA.”
During a recent interview with Misplaced Straws, Overkill bassist D.D. Verni offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the effort will be released in 2026.
Verni said the following:
“We are demoing stuff right now. We probably have maybe nine or 10 songs kind of scratched out that I gave to Blitz [OVERKILL singer Bobby Ellsworth] a little while ago. Usually the process is I’ll demo everything up musically [and] then I’ll give it to Blitz. He’ll spend some time with it and kind of do his thing with them. Then we get everybody together, kind of that. So I gave it to Blitz maybe not too long ago.”
He also added the following about release plans:
“I would think next year, for sure. Just when will it be — spring? Will it be fall? Somewhere in there. But [in] ’26 [there] will definitely be a new OVERKILL record.”
[via Blabbermouth]
My Chemical Romance will be headlining next year’s Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, and Louder Than Life festivals. The sets will find the band performing “The Black Parade” in full. Here’s the dates for the upcoming festivals:
05/07-10 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville
05/14-17 Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple
TBA – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life
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