Bad Optix (Operation Ivy, Etc.) Premiere New Song “Raid”

Bad Optix, the new project featuring Tim Armstrong (Operation Ivy, Rancid), Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy), Joey Castillo (Circle Jerks, The Bronx), and Spencer Pollard (Trash Talk), have premiered a new song titled “Raid.” The track was released as part of the Hellcat Singles Club. Michaels commented:

“’Raid’ is about every person’s spiritual autonomy from the powers that be, regardless of who they are or what their particular struggle is. Like many of the tracks we have worked on, I heard the music and wrote the lyrics very quickly, almost on the spot. This was only the second song we did but it felt hot immediately and just flowed so we thought it would be a good way to introduce the new band to the world.”

The Bronx Announce 20th Anniversary European/UK Tour

The Bronx will be celebrating their 20th anniversary on a European/UK tour. The trek will include headlining dates, festival appearances, and several shows with Rancid.

Tour Dates:

06/02 Rimini, ITA – Slamdunk Italy
06/03 Ljubljana, SLO – VPK Media Center (feat. Rancid)
06/05 Vienna, AUT – B72
06/06 Warsaw, POL – Letnia Scena Progresji (feat. Rancid)
06/08 Donington, UK – Download Festival
06/10 Stockholm, SWE – Annexet (feat. Rancid)
06/12 Berlin, GER – Columbiahalle (feat. Rancid)
06/13 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof (feat. Rancid)
06/15 Lyon, FRA – Ninkasi Kao
06/17 Zurich, SWI – Obenuese Fest
06/18 Belfore, FRA – La Poudriere
06/20 London, UK – Brixton O2 Academy (feat. Rancid)
06/21 Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse (feat. Rancid)
06/23 Oslo, NOR – Tons Of Rock
06/24 Ferropolis, GER – With Full Force
06/25 Tabor, CZE – Mighty Sounds Festival
06/27 Munich, GER – Kranhalle
06/29 Paris, FRA – Le Trabendo
06/30 Vannes, FRA – L’Echonova
07/02 Hunxe, GER – Ruhrpott Rodeo
07/04 Nottingham, UK – Rescue Rooms
07/05 London, UK – New Cross Inn
07/06 Cheltenham, UK – 2000Trees
07/07 Southampton, UK – Joiners
07/09 Gierle, BEL – Sjock Festival

Foo Fighters, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, Green Day, Etc. Set For 2023 Louder Than Life Festival

The lineup has been revealed for this year’s Louder Than Life festival. The event will take place at the Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY on September 21-24 and it will feature the following daily lineups:

September 21: Foo Fighters, Weezer, Rancid, 311, Coheed And Cambria, Royal Blood, Code Orange, White Reaper, L7, Deafheaven, Nothing But Thieves, Sueco, Movements, The Bronx, Nothing,Nowhere., Mannequin Pussy, Beauty School Dropout, Pinkshift, Bob Vylan, Starcrawler, Starbenders, Kyng, Tigercub, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Guerilla Warfare, and Asava.

September 22: Tool, Godsmack, Limp Bizkit, Megadeth, Corey Taylor, Dance Gavin Dance, Bad Omens, Wage War, Avatar, Fever 333, Kittie, Enter Shikari, Miss May I, Fame On Fire, Dead Poet Society, Rain City Drive, Austin Meade, SIM, Tallah, Cassyette, Ten56., HANABIE., Gnome, Fox Lake, Widow7, and Luna Aura.

September 23: Avenged Sevenfold, Pantera, Falling In Reverse, Pierce The Veil, Parkway Drive, BABYMETAL, Asking Alexandria, Dethklok, The Hu, The Amity Affliction, Memphis May Fire, Suicide Silence, Sleep Token, Whitechapel, Zero 9:36, Gideon, Strange Kids, Dragged Under, Jesus Piece, Afterlife, Another Day Dawns, Ithaca, Devil’s Cut, Reach NYC, Feast For The Crows, and Dissonation.

September 24: Green Day, Queens Of The Stone Age, Turnstile, Run The Jewels, Flogging Molly, The Interrupters, AWOLNATION, Rival Sons, Billy Talent, Mayday Parade, You Me At Six, Senses Fail, Viagra Boys, Boston Manor, DeathbyRomy, Jehnny Beth, The Emo Night Tour, Call Me Karizma, Ryan Oakes, Thousand Below, Holy Wars, Reddstar, Letdown., As You Were, Death Valley Dreams, and JVK.

Avenged Sevenfold, Tool, Korn, Guns N’ Roses, Pantera, Limp Bizkit, Etc. Set For 2023 Aftershock Festival

The lineup has been revealed for this year’s Aftershock Festival. The event will take place at Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA on October 5-8 and it will feature the following daily lineups:

October 5: Avenged Sevenfold, Incubus, Turnstile, The Cult, AFI, Pennywise, Nothing But Thieves, L7, White Reaper, Senses Fail, Don Broco, The Bronx, Nothing,Nowhere., DeathByRomy, Beauty School Dropout, Bob Vylan, Holding Absence, Pinkshift, Thousand Below, Starbenders, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Static Dress, and Letdown.

October 6: Tool, Godsmack, Limp Bizkit, Megadeth, Coheed And Cambria, Skillet, Bad Omens, The Hu, Deafheaven, Memphis May Fire, Converge, Fire From The Gods, Polaris, Rain City Drive, Gideon, Currents, Varials, Strange Kids, Dragged Under, Tallah, Hanabie., Widow7, and Death Valley Dreams.

October 7: Korn, Pantera, 311, Corey Taylor, Parkway Drive, Babymetal, Polyphia, Dethklok, Avatar, Fever 333, The Amity Affliction, Sleep Token, Escape the Fate, Boston Manor, Fame On Fire, Catch Your Breath, Ten56., Reddstar, Holy Wars, ’68, Ithaca, Devil’s Cut, Traitors, Fox Lake, All Waves, and As You Were.

October 8: Guns N’ Roses, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rancid, I Prevail, Dance Gavin Dance, Daughtry, Badflower, Billy Talent, Mayday Parade, Suicide Silence, Movements, Ayron Jones, You Me At Six, Dead Poet Society, Austin Meade, Alpha Wolf, Jehnny Beth, Redlight King, Tigercub, Call Me, Karizma, Ryan Oakes, Gnome, Luna Aura, and Asava.

Iron Maiden, KISS, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Etc. Set For 2023 Hellfest

The lineup has been revealed for next year’s Hellfest. That event will take place on June 15-18 in Clisson, France.

Here’s the lineup:

  • Iron Maiden
  • KISS
  • Mötley Crüe
  • Def Leppard
  • Slipknot
  • Pantera
  • Hollywood Vampires
  • Alter Bridge
  • Porcupine Tree
  • Generation Sex
  • Amon Amarth
  • Parkway Drive
  • Sum 41
  • Within Temptation
  • Coheed And Cambria
  • Skid Row
  • Elegant Weapons
  • British Lion
  • The Quireboys
  • P-Troll
  • Carpenter Brut
  • Puscifer
  • Beast In Black
  • Riverside
  • Evergrey
  • Scarlean
  • Hatebreed
  • Hollywood Undead
  • Ho99o9
  • Florence Black
  • Do Or Die
  • Architects
  • In Flames
  • I Prevail
  • Code Orange
  • Machine Gun Kelly
  • Papa Roach
  • Motionless In White
  • Eths
  • Nothing More
  • Mod Sun
  • Escape The Fate
  • Vended
  • Powerwolf
  • Arch Enemy
  • Seether
  • Asking Alexandria
  • Fever 333
  • Bloodywood
  • Cobra The Impaler
  • Tenacious D
  • Incubus
  • Electric Callboy
  • Halestorm
  • The Distillers
  • Thundermother
  • Skynd
  • Fishbone
  • Svinhels
  • Ludwig Von 88
  • Poesie Zero
  • Voice Of Hell Contest
  • Rancid
  • Flogging Molly
  • Gogol Bordello
  • Less Than Jake
  • Cochney Rejects
  • The Chats
  • Homintern Sect
  • Peter Pan Speedrock
  • Syndrome 81
  • Black Flag
  • Municipal Waste
  • Stray From The Path
  • Pro-Pain
  •  Soul Glo
  •  Mindforce
  • SpiritWorld
  •  Zulu
  • Hard Mind
  • The Ghost Inside
  • Rise Of The Northstar
  • The Amity Affliction
  • Cane Hill
  • Paleface
  • END
  • Resolve
  • Beyond The Styx
  •  Amenra
  • The Soft Moon
  • Birds In Row
  • Celeste
  • Today Is The Day
  •  The Cult
  •  Greg Puciato
  • Primitive Man
  • Weedeater
  •  Helms Alee
  • Bongripper
  • LLNN
  • My Dilligence
  •  Clutch
  •  Monster Magnet
  • Earthless
  • The Obsessed
  •  Stoned Jesus
  • Crowbar
  •  King Buffalo
  • Spirit Adrift
  •  Decasia
  •  Melvins
  • Dance With The Dead
  •  Legion Of Doom
  • Mutoid Man
  • Empire State Bastard
  •  Wonvennest
  • Doodseshader
  • Katatonia
  • Hypocrisy
  • Candlemass
  • Nightfall
  • Aephanemer
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Suffocation
  •  Bloodbath
  • Aborted
  • Unearth
  •  Full Of Hell
  • Nostromo
  • Candy
  • Venefixion
  • Meshuggah
  • Voivod
  •  Lorna Shore
  • Born Of Osiris
  • Gorod
  • Loathe
  • Ten56.
  • The Dali Thundering Concept
  • Pestifer
  • Testament
  •  Dark Angel
  • Exodus
  • Holy Moses
  • Vektor
  • Evil Invaders
  • Schizophrenia
  • Aleister
  • Behemoth
  • Dark Funeral
  • Harakiri For The Sky
  •  Imperial Triumphant
  • Blackbraid
  • Venom Inc.
  • Gorgoroth
  • 1349
  • Vreid
  • Der Weg Einer Freiheit
  • 1914
  • ACOD
  • Beleds, Hetquertzen
  •  The HU
  • Faun
  • Finntroll
  • Myrath
  • Saor
  • Svalbard
  •  Halandra
  •  White Ward
  •  Nature Morte
  • Fields Of The Nephilim
  • Paradise Lost
  • Lord Of The Lost
  • She Past Away
  • Treponem Pal
  •  The Old Dead Tree
  • Strigoi
  •  Blod

Rancid Announce European/UK Tour

Rancid have announced a European/UK tour. The Bronx and Grade 2 will open on select dates.

Tour Dates:

06/02 Rimini, ITA – Slamdunk
06/03 Ljubljana, SLO – Media Center Cvetlicarna (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/04 Linz, AUT – Slamdunk
06/06 Warsaw, POL – Letnia Scena Progresji (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/08 Hyvinkaa, FIN – Rockfest
06/10 Stockholm, SWE – Annexet (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/12 Berlin, GER – Columbiahalle (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/13 Wiesbaden, GER – Schlachthof (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/15 Vitoria, SPA – Azkena Rock
06/16 TBA
06/17 Dessel, BEL – Graspop
06/20 London, UK – Brixton O2 Academy (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/21 Manchester, UK – O2 Victoria Warehouse (with The Bronx and Grade 2)
06/23 Ysselsteyn, NET – Jera On Air
06/24 Munster, GER – Vainstream
06/25 Tabor, CZE – Mighty Sounds

Pantera, Disturbed, Arch Enemy, Etc. Added To 2023 Graspop Metal Meeting Festival

Over 100 more artists have been added to next year’s Graspop Metal Meeting festival. The event will be held in Dessel, Belgium on June 15-18 and the updated lineup can be found below.

Lineup:

  • Def Leppard
  • Mötley Crüe
  • Slipknot
  • Pantera
  • Ghost
  • Gojira
  • Parkway Drive
  • 1914
  • Agnostic Front
  • Amon Amarth
  • Anti-Flag
  • Antimatter
  • Any Given Day
  • Arch Enemy
  • Architects
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Asking Alexandria
  • At The Gates
  • Avatar
  • Beast In Black
  • Behemoth
  • Billy Talent
  • Black Mirrors
  • Bloodywood
  • Butcher Babies
  • Cane Hill
  • Carpenter Brut
  • Clutch
  • Cradle Of Filth
  • Crowbar
  • Cyclone
  • Danko Jones
  • Dark Angel
  • Deathstars
  • Delain
  • Dieth
  • Dirkschneider
  • Disturbed
  • Draconian
  • Eluveitie
  • End
  • Enter Shikari
  • Epica
  • Escape The Fate
  • Evergrey
  • Exodus
  • Fever 333
  • Fields Of The Nephilim
  • Finntroll
  • Greg Puciato
  • Halestorm
  • Hatebreed
  • Heidevolk
  • Hippotraktor
  • Hollywood Undead
  • Hollywood Vampires
  • I Prevail
  • In Flames
  • Insomnium
  • Katatonia
  • Kissin’ Dynamite
  • Korpiklaani
  • Kreator
  • Landmvrks
  • Legion Of The Damned
  • Less Than Jake
  • Life Of Agony
  • Lionheart
  • Loathe
  • Lorna Shore
  • Marduk
  • Meshuggah
  • Molybaron
  • Monster Magnet
  • Motionless In White
  • Novelists
  • Oceans
  • Orange Goblin
  • Orbit Culture
  • Papa Roach
  • Polaris
  • Rancid
  • Russkaja
  • Seether
  • Septicflesh
  • Sick Of It All
  • Skindred
  • Sleep Token
  • Soen
  • Sólstafir
  • Spiritbox
  • Stand Atlantic
  • Stray From The Path
  • Testament
  • The Amity Affliction
  • The Answer
  • The Chats
  • The Ghost Inside
  • The Halo Effect
  • The Luka State
  • The Menzingers
  • The Raven Age
  • The Winery Dogs
  • Three Days Grace
  • Thundermother
  • Unearth
  • Vicious Rumours
  • Voivod
  • Watain

Rancid, Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, Etc. Set For 2023 Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival

The lineup has been revealed for next year’s Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival. The event will take place in Las Vegas, NV on May 26-29 and it will feature the following: Rancid, Bad Religion, Dropkick Murphys, The Interrupters, Suicidal Tendencies, The Damned, L7, Me First And The Gimmie Gimmes, Face To Face, GBH, The Exploited, Fishbone, Agnostic Front, Cockney Rejects, The Slackers, Roy Ellis, T.S.O.L., Anti-Heros, Hepcat, Surfbort, The Chisel, CH3, Noi!se, Ultra Bomb, Fea, The Crowd, Sloppy Seconds, End It, Suzi Moon, Svetlanas, Playboy Manbaby, Doki Doki, The Venomous Pinks, Rough Kids, The Dollheads, Dee Skusting & The Rodents, Speed Of Light, Infamous Stiffs, Rat Fuck, The Madam Bombs, and Desert Island Boys.

Watch Rich Ward (Fozzy) And Rancid Perform At AEW’s “Double Or Nothing” Pay-Per-View Wrestling Event

Fozzy guitarist Rich Ward and Rancid took the stage at yesterday’s (May 29) AEW “Double Or Nothing” pay-per-view event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ward was recruited to perform Britt Baker’s entrance theme, while Rancid were recruited to perform Ruby Soho’s entrance theme. You can see footage of that below: