Mother of Graves preview «The Silent Weight Of The Stars» and set a date for their third record
Mother of Graves’s «The Light That Keeps Us» is out 16 October via Profound Lore, with Dan Swanö mastering and guesting on vocals.
Notícies Fresques
Anciients re-record «Humanist» fifteen years on, two weeks before playing Barcelona
Anciients re-record their 2011 track «Humanist» ahead of a European tour stopping at Razzmatazz 3 on 13 October.
Steve Hackett brings his Genesis repertoire to Paral·lel 62 in November 2027, tickets on sale Friday
Hackett’s «Best of Genesis & Solo Gems» tour stops only in Madrid and Barcelona in Spain; tickets open Friday at 11am.
Söndörgő release «In Residence at Müpa», featuring three Snarky Puppy musicians and the Balanescu Quartet
Söndörgő’s Budapest residency across folk, classical and jazz nights becomes a record, with guests from Snarky Puppy and the Balanescu Quartet.
Cheetah Chrome, guitarist of the Dead Boys and Rocket from the Tombs, dies at 71
Tributes from Duff McKagan and his Dead Boys bandmates for Cheetah Chrome, a founding figure of American punk.
Tony Iommi explains he turned down a final Black Sabbath record with the original line-up
Iommi tells Classic Rock he passed on producer Andrew Watt’s pitch for one more Sabbath album after «13» (2013).
Johan Längqvist hospitalised, misses Candlemass’s London show
Candlemass played London Metalfest with a guest vocalist after singer Johan Längqvist was hospitalised following a medical emergency.
Haken release «In a Fever Dream» instrumentals and unveil the making-of, ten days before playing Barcelona
Haken’s deluxe EP edition adds instrumental versions of all five tracks, ahead of a European tour opening at Razzmatazz 2 on 23 September.
Krokofant set a date for «7», the record they close out without drummer Axel Skalstad
Krokofant’s double record «7», out 27 November, is a tribute to drummer Axel Skalstad, who died in an accident in 2025.
Brent Hinds’s estate sues Mastodon, who deny any wrongdoing
The lawsuit disputes Hinds’s unsold stake in the band, the use of his likeness on «Marrow Deep», and details shared in their documentary.
Kiefer previews «BusyForYa» from his debut Blue Note record, out 25 September
Kiefer’s «Memory Bomb», his first record for Blue Note, is previewed by «BusyForYa», featuring Planet Giza and producer Shibo.
Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves rework the Coltrane and Hartman standards for the saxophonist’s centenary
«Dedicated to You» revisits the 1963 Coltrane/Hartman standards for John Coltrane’s centenary, with a Barcelona date at the Palau de la Música.
Steven Wilson will release «Requiem for a Village» on 6 November, previewing the title track on video
Wilson’s ninth solo album features narration by Andy Partridge read by David Tennant, and comes with two Royal Albert Hall shows in October.
Firewind announce «Gods, Myths & Titans» for February 2027 and preview «The Legend of Achilles»
Gus G’s Firewind announce a twelve-track Greek-mythology concept album for February 2027, previewed by «The Legend of Achilles».
High Parasite unveil «The Screams That Come», a standalone single while they work on their second record
Aaron Stainthorpe’s High Parasite preview a 2027 second album with a standalone single produced by Paradise Lost’s Gregor Mackintosh.
Caspian set a date for their sixth, self-titled record and preview «Remain»
Caspian’s self-titled sixth album is out 16 October via Wax Bodega, their first new material since «On Circles» (2020).
Green Lung release «Necropolitan», the record they’ve drawn from London’s seven Victorian cemeteries
Green Lung’s fourth record «Necropolitan» is built around London’s Magnificent Seven garden cemeteries and the Necropolis Railway.
Spiritbox surprise-release «Mourning», their first new song since «Tsunami Sea»
Spiritbox drop «Mourning» with no announcement, mid-tour in Europe with Jinjer and Dying Wish, and with no third record yet confirmed.
Gåte preview «Mi Jord» and set a date for «Sigil», out 25 September via Season of Mist
Norwegian folk-metal band Gåte’s «Sigil», their first record for Season of Mist, follows their 2024 Eurovision entry «Ulveham».
Alcest announce European tour with Agriculture for March and April 2027, with no dates in Spain
Alcest’s spring 2027 tour runs from Annecy to Porto with Agriculture in support, still touring behind «Les Chants de l’Aurore».
Costin Chioreanu turns At the Gates’s «The Ghost of a Future Dead» into a full-length animated film
Century Media release a continuous animated film covering At the Gates’s full album, built around Tomas Lindberg’s final vocal takes before his death.
Anthrax debut three «Cursum Perficio» songs at a Brooklyn club and cover Sick Of It All
Anthrax previewed their first record in ten years at a sold-out Saint Vitus Bar show, including a surprise Sick Of It All cover.
Eric Forrest sings with Voivod again twenty-five years later: «One of the best tours of my life»
Eric Forrest stepped in for Denis «Snake» Bélanger and ended up playing Voivod’s entire European tour, twenty-five years after leaving the band.
Brann Dailor explains why «The Mastodon In The Room» addresses Brent Hinds’s death: «I was torn about it»
Dailor discusses the documentary released ahead of «Marrow Deep», Mastodon’s first record without founding guitarist Brent Hinds.
Blue Medusa, Alissa White-Gluz’s band after Arch Enemy, debut live in Berlin
White-Gluz’s new all-female band Blue Medusa played their first show at a sold-out Berlin club night alongside Kreator and Heaven Shall Burn.
System Of A Down release «Johnny» digitally for the first time, twenty-five years after «Toxicity»
«Toxicity»’s 25th-anniversary reissue finally gives «Johnny» a proper digital release and fixes the hidden track’s twenty-five-year-old title error.
Andy Williams, founding guitarist of Every Time I Die, dies at 48
Andy Williams, Every Time I Die’s founding guitarist and a professional wrestler, has died after collapsing during a wrestling event in Pittsburgh.
Andy Sheppard releases «Salt Catchers», the new trio with Rita Marcotulli and Michel Benita
Andy Sheppard’s drumless ECM trio with Rita Marcotulli and Michel Benita is out 11 September; he also revisits his years busking in Paris.
All Shall Perish return with their first new song in fifteen years and a crowdfunder to pay for the record
«Be As Kings, Be As Gods» is All Shall Perish’s first new song since 2011, backed by a $75,000 crowdfunding campaign for the full record.
Slayer open 2026 playing «Reign in Blood» in full, forty years on
Slayer’s first show in a year featured the full «Reign in Blood» album on its fortieth anniversary, plus tracks unheard live since as far back as 2014.
Bob Catley explains why he decided to keep Magnum going without Tony Clarkin
Catley credits Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia tour with getting him back on stage, and former guitar tech Brendon Riley with filling Clarkin’s spot.
Kim Thayil describes Soundgarden’s posthumous record: «a lullaby paired with psychedelia»
Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd are rebuilding Soundgarden’s final record from Chris Cornell’s last sessions, delayed nine years by a legal dispute.
Behemoth preview «In League With Satan», the Venom cover featuring Shagrath, from «I, Scvlptor»
Behemoth’s «I, Scvlptor» pairs re-recorded early material with tributes to Venom and Bathory, featuring Shagrath and Sakis Tolis as guests.
Scorpions postpone all their remaining 2026 dates to 2027
Scorpions push their Mexico shows and Las Vegas residency to 2027, citing «unforeseen circumstances» and promising European dates for the same tour.
Bill Ward is mastering an eighteen-track album and says two or three more are already finished
Black Sabbath’s original drummer tells Drum Talk TV about a near-finished, genre-blurring new record and two or three more waiting behind it.
Jordan Rudess debuts jam_bot at MIT, the AI trained on his own playing style
Rudess plays two shows at MIT Future Fest with jam_bot, an AI trained on his playing, including a world-premiere improvisation with the MIT Chamber Chorus.
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai release «The Sea of Emotion» on 6 November, their first record together
SATCHVAI’s «The Sea of Emotion» is out 6 November via earMUSIC, with Kenny Aronoff, Mike Mangini and Billy Sheehan guesting.
Iron Maiden mark 40 years of «Somewhere in Time» with a vinyl reissue
Iron Maiden reissue «Somewhere in Time» on oxblood vinyl on 4 December, plus a nine-album box set marking the band’s fiftieth anniversary.
Cassandra Wilson, jazz singer and composer, dies aged 70
Cassandra Wilson, the contralto who reinvented vocal jazz with «Blue Light ‘til Dawn», has died at her home in Jackson, Mississippi.
Be Prog! 2025
Be Prog! My Friend returns to La Carpa at Poble Espanyol on 26-27 September 2025, headlined by TesseracT and The Pineapple Thief.