Yes put out “Aurora” with the whole record in instrumental form and premiere the “Ariadne” video
The digital deluxe edition came out on 2 October through InsideOut and adds the ten songs without vocals. The original album is from 12 June.
Notícies Fresques
Chuck Billy splits his memoir into an Old and a New Testament, out on 10 November
“Holding My Breath” comes out on Permuted Press, written with Dave Erickson. The first half is Bay Area thrash; the second, the cancer he got at 38.
The Scorpions film, “Wind of Change”, opens in German cinemas on 28 January
Alexander Dreymon plays Rudolf Schenker and Dominic West plays Doc McGhee. So far there is only a German date: no international release is announced.
Primavera Sound unveils the line-up for its twenty-fifth edition, with Turnstile, Pavement and Full Of Hell among 151 names
3 to 5 June at the Parc del Fòrum. Massive Attack make their festival debut after rain washed out their 2026 show, and tickets go on sale on the 9th.
Maybe Violet are recording a six-song EP in Dutch for early 2027
The duo of Jordi Prats and Monique van der Kolk, formed after Harvest, is recording a six-song EP sung entirely in Dutch, still untitled.
Joanne Shaw Taylor releases “You And Me (Rachel’s Song)”, written for her best friend
It is the ninth of the ten tracks on “The Trouble With Love”, out on 23 October through Journeyman and produced by Kevin Shirley.
Badlands bassist Greg Chaisson returns on 19 October with Atomic Kings’ second album
“Too” runs to nine songs and is sold from the band’s own site. It is out on FireRock Music Group and the advance track is “I’m A Mover”.
Twisted Sister’s five eighties albums come back together on 13 November, with a track that is only on the CD
“Totally Twisted” is out on BMG and Rhino as a five-colour-vinyl box and a five-CD box. It runs from “Under The Blade” (1982) to “Love Is For Suckers” (1987).
Tom Morello and Serj Tankian play “Like A Stone” for Chris Cornell at Morello’s festival
It happened on 3 October at Merriweather Post Pavilion. The song is Audioslave’s and the pro-shot video has been released in full.
Zombi’s Steve Moore releases the metal record he had wanted to make for years on 6 November, with The Sword’s rhythm section
Autumn Tomb are Moore with Bryan Richie and Jimmy Vela III. Five tracks on Spaceflight Records, cut in Albany and Texas, and the “Crumbling Thrones” visualiser is already out.
The record Dave Douglas, Marc Ribot and Susie Ibarra built one stave a month leaves the subscribers’ circle
Greenleaf Music has put the New Sanctuary Trio CD on general sale after years as a subscriber-only release. Twelve pieces named after the months of 2016.
Kavus Torabi closes a trilogy with “October by Name”, six songs he recorded on his own
Gong’s guitarist and singer put it out on 2 October through Believers Roast and Bad Omen. Thirty-three minutes, six tracks, and the bass always recorded last.
Zebra release their first album in twenty-three years on 13 November, with a single co-written with Paul Stanley
“Zebra V” is out on Flatiron Recordings with eleven songs, five of them produced by Jack Douglas. The New Orleans trio had not made a studio record since 2003.
Metallica bring back “Devil’s Dance” at the Sphere, eighteen years after the last time they played it
The second night of the residency came with an entirely different setlist from the first. “The Outlaw Torn” had not been played since 2019 either.
Oh Hiroshima start eleven European dates on 15 October with Barrens, and none of them is in Spain
From Warsaw to Hamburg in eleven days, touring “And The Dead Tree Gives No Shelter”, out on 5 June. Sweden’s Barrens join from the 20th.
Hypno5e share “Trame Noire”, the title track of the album out on 6 November
It is the third advance track, after “Lost Fires” and “Molecular Angel”. Five tracks on Pelagic Records, produced by Emmanuel Jessua and mixed by Chris Edrich.
W.A.S.P. cancel the Carteret show on the night and KK’s Priest play the headline set
The New Jersey venue announced it on 3 October in a three-line statement. No reason has been given and the tour carries on in Montreal on the 5th.
A documentary follows Orbit Culture through Summer Breeze and Niklas Karlsson goes over the band’s thirteen years
“Offstage with Orbit Culture”, by Scream Dudes, covers line-up changes, burnout and the labels that never wrote back. The band plays Sant Jordi Club on 13 November.
Deafheaven play “Hunter” for the first time in Chicago, from the EP they call the heaviest thing they have done
It happened on 2 October, on the North American tour with Mastodon and Alcest. The EP has no title and no date, and physical copies were on sale at the show.
Turnstile make their “Saturday Night Live” debut with “Birds” and an “I Care”/“Dull” medley
The 3 October episode was hosted by Dakota Johnson. According to Consequence, no hardcore band had played the show since Fear in 1981.
Devin Townsend explains he went back on stage after losing money on “The Moth” and splitting from his partner of thirty-six years
He said it on the “Sixty Scales And The Truth” podcast on 29 September. The acoustic Metamorphosis tour reaches Salamandra on 10 October.
Floor Jansen releases “Hytress” on 15 January and says she does not want to copy what Tuomas Holopainen writes
Twelve songs on REVAMP Music and Warner, her second solo album after “Paragon”. The European tour in January and February has no date in Spain.
Geezer Butler joins Jack Black’s band at Tom Morello’s festival to play “War Pigs”
Jack Sabbath opened with “Mr. Crowley” and “The Wizard”, with the sons of Tom Morello and Scott Ian on guitar and bass. Butler came out for the third.
The two Wilco men behind The Autumn Defense bring “Here And Nowhere” to Reus on 18 October and Barcelona on the 20th
John Stirratt and Pat Sansone play seven Spanish dates, two of them in Catalonia: the Festival Accents in Reus and the Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm with Delicatessen.
The Christmas record Steve Lukather cut in six days with Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and Slash reaches vinyl twenty-three years on
“Santamental” returns on 7 November on CD and digital, with vinyl to follow. It dates from 2003, had gone out of print and had never appeared on digital or vinyl.
The sampler The Clash sent to US radio in 1982 goes on sale for the first time
“The World According to The Clash” is out on 13 November with eleven remastered tracks. The 1982 promo had never been put on sale.
Mike McCready and Matt Cameron play “Loud Love”, “Outshined” and “Spoonman” with Taylor Momsen at Tom Morello’s festival
Three Soundgarden songs at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday 3 October, with the band’s original drummer and Pearl Jam’s guitarist. Morello joined them.
Forty-seven songs against the deportations: Kathleen Hanna, Tom Morello, Jello Biafra and Ad-Rock on a SoundsGood compilation
“Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT” came out on 2 October. The money goes to the day labourer network NDLON and to Unión del Barrio, and Lalo Alcaraz drew the cover.
Disillusion lose their guitarist and their keyboard player: Ben Haugg and Freddy Ruckert are out, and the announced dates stand
Haugg had been in since 2016 and Ruckert since 2018. The band say the decisions were a long time coming and that every announced show will go ahead.
Joe Bonamassa on the AI-generated blues artist: “Should those artists be in the same category as living people? No”
He said it at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin, asked about Eddie Dalton. His line is between using the tool and competing on the same chart as a living musician.
Kent Carter, the double bassist who backed Steve Lacy for almost twenty years, dies at 87
He died on Wednesday 30 September in Juillaguet, in the Charente, where he had lived since 1991 and ran an artists’ residence with his wife, the dancer Michala Marcus.
Sass Jordan dies at 65, two weeks after stepping away from everything for an illness that was never named
She died on Friday 2 October surrounded by her family. In September she had cleared the rest of the year for a “serious medical condition” that was never specified.
Voivod cancel all ten US dates and say they can’t commit to new ones
The run was to open on 8 October in Youngstown with BAT supporting. The band cite a family health emergency and offer no timetable for a return.
Mike Patton brings Mondo Cane to Mexico and opens the Cervantino festival today
On 1 October at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, with orchestra, choir and Mariachi Gama 1000 for the encore. Today he plays Guanajuato to open the 54th Cervantino.
James Blood Ulmer’s memorial brings the “Tales Of Captain Black” rhythm section back together in New York
Vernon Reid was musical director of the 29 September service at Saint Peter’s, with David Murray, Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Denardo Coleman. Ulmer died on 3 June, aged 86.
Induction re-cut “Gods Of Steel”, this time with Kai Hansen on vocals
Guitarist Tim Hansen puts his father, of Helloween and Gamma Ray, on a song from “Love Kills!”. The October tour takes Barcelona’s Kilmara along.
Fear Factory’s singer says he tried to sound like Burton C. Bell on “Roboticist”
Milo Silvestro talks about the first track with the current line-up. The album has ten songs, comes out through Nuclear Blast and still has no date.
Imminence release “Axis Mundi” and the January European tour skips Spain
Eleven tracks through Sumerian with Henrik Udd and Drew Fulk. The tour with August Burns Red covers nineteen announced cities between 8 January and 6 February, and not one is in Spain.
Quiet Riot have a new singer: John Torra, 23, picked from an open call with seven hundred entries
First show on 1 October in Oklahoma, fourteen songs, with Rudy Sarzo on bass. He replaces Jizzy Pearl, who left in July.
Molly Hatchet record their first album in sixteen years, “Lost Horizon”, at Abbey Road
Twelve tracks cut in Studio 2 at Abbey Road, the first album since “Justice” in 2010. Not one member of the band’s original line-up is still alive.