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.
Notícies Fresques
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.
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.
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.
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.
Solidarity Concert for Those Affected by the Valencia DANA Floods
Sixstring and Vincent Black Shadow play a solidarity concert on 30 November at the Calàbria 66 Auditorium, with all ticket proceeds going to the Catalan Red Cross’s DANA appeal.
The Current State of Music and Live Music: An In-Depth Analysis
An in-depth look at tribute bands, mega-festivals and streaming economics, and why Tótum Revolútum bans tribute acts from its own concerts.
Tótum Revolútum 2024: first concerts
The Associació Musical Tótum Revolútum announces the dates for the first half of 2024, held at the Calàbria 66 auditorium.
Steve Hackett to release new studio album «The Circus And The Nightwhale»
Steve Hackett’s 13-track concept album «The Circus And The Nightwhale» arrives 16 February 2024 via InsideOut Music, with Nad Sylvan, Jonas Reingold and Amanda Lehmann among the guests.
Devin Townsend unveils his multimedia project «The Puzzle»
Devin Townsend explains «The Puzzle», the lockdown-born multimedia project visualising an inner dialogue and its resolution.
Opeth’s «Damnation» turns 20
Opeth have put together a special vinyl reissue to mark the 20th anniversary of «Damnation» (2003). Pre-orders are open now.
FORQ announce new album and prepare 2024 tour
Michael League’s instrumental outfit FORQ announce a new album for spring 2024 alongside plans for next year’s tour.
Mariusz Duda returns with fourth solo album «AFR AI D»
Riverside’s Mariusz Duda explores AI as a disruptor on «AFR AI D», his fourth solo album, out 17 November through Kscope.
Mike Portnoy returns to Dream Theater
Dream Theater announce the return of founding drummer Mike Portnoy, reuniting the band’s classic line-up for their sixteenth studio album.
Tauk announce new album for 27 October
Tauk announce «Equalizer», seven new high-energy tracks out 27 October 2023, described by the band as a return to their formative writing style.
Ozric Tentacles announce new album «Lotus Unfolding»
Ozric Tentacles return with «Lotus Unfolding», six new tracks recorded at their own Blue Bubble studio, out 20 October through Kscope.
Marillion return to Barcelona in June 2027 for a two-day Weekend at L’Auditori
Marillion return to Barcelona on 25-26 June 2027 for a Marillion Weekend at L’Auditori — the promoter grew out of the band’s own Spanish fan club.
Sue Foley closes her Christmas album with an AC/DC cover, out 30 October
Sue Foley releases her Christmas album «alone (together) A Holiday Companion» on 30 October, closing it with a blues-inflected cover of AC/DC’s «Ride On».