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Jim Root has clarified one thing about Slipknot‘s new song “Arsenal”: it’s not going to appear on their next album. A user took a screenshot of a few Instagram exchanges between Root and fans yesterday (Sept. 9) and shared it to the Slipknot Reddit page. In the first dialogue, the fan mentioned they’d seen a lot

The complete soundtrack to EA Sports FC 27 has been revealed, with Royal Blood, The Strokes, Blossoms, Yard Act and more all featuring in the latest installment of the long-running sports game. EA Sports FC 27 launches later this month (September 25) but fans who pre-ordered special editions of the football title can play from

You can count both fiction and nonfiction literature as being inspiration for the names of some of the biggest rock and metal bands. At least 23 recognizable names originated as either book titles or characters within their pages. And while some of the band names might be familiar, the books behind them are sometimes not

My Chemical Romance have announced an expanded 20th anniversary reissue of ‘The Black Parade’. Check out the 2007 live recording of ‘The Sharpest Lives’ which has been made available to stream for the first time. Set to arrive on October 23 via Reprise Records, the reissue of the four-times platinum album celebrates two decades since

The AC/DC concert scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 16 in Toronto has been canceled after a severe thunderstorm caused “significant damage” to Rogers Stadium last week. As you can see in the video and photos below, the Sept. 2 storm caused buckling and major damage to large sections of the stadium’s seating area. The Australian rock legends were scheduled

Slipknot have marked their return with the jarring surprise new single ‘Arsenal’, their first new music in three years and since the departure of Sid Wilson. Launched with a typically nightmarish music video directed by M Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan and starring Jackson White to match the harsh fever dream of the track itself, with frontman

It’s that time of year again as Trans-Siberian Orchestra are adding a heavy, atmospheric touch to the holiday season with their annual touring spectacular. Now celebrating their 30th anniversary year, Trans-Siberian Orchestra will be bringing their exceptional stage show to 56 cities across North America during the months of November and December. Where Are Trans-Siberian

David Byrne’s Night – a Talking Heads/Robert Burns tribute act – has announced plans for a 2027 UK tour, and it will include members of English Teacher, The Pogues and more. The shows come as a celebration of two Scottish icons, Robert Burns and David Byrne, and started with a one-off show at Hackney’s MOTH

A “big memorial” is in the works to honor the life of ex-Every Time I Die guitarist and wrestler Andy Williams. The 48-year-old who wrestled as “The Butcher” died Sept. 5 after collapsing during a wrestling event in Pennsylvania. Hana DeVore, Williams’ wife, announced the memorial in a social media update earlier today. “Please keep

Spiritbox have shared their anthemic new single ‘Mourning’ – their first since the release of the band’s second studio album ‘Tsunami Sea’ last year. The track, which you can listen to below, is a more subdued but melodic than their previous material with fiery guitar riffs throughout. It comes after frontwoman Courtney LaPlante, Bring Me

We’ve got a tough one for you this week as we’re asking you to vote which band that came to prominence in the ’90s had the better three-album streak. Was it Alice in Chains, who gave us Facelift, Dirt and their self-titled album or Pearl Jam who dropped Ten, Vs. and Vitalogy in succession? That’s

Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker has told fans he will no longer be signing autographs after learning that “aggressive” hounds were “using kids” as a tactic to get signatures. READ MORE: Tame Impala – ‘Deadbeat’ review: lyrical inertia bogs down Kevin Parker’s psych-rave meditation on adulthood Parker is currently out on the North American leg of the ‘Deadbeat’

Here are five great prog metal bands who only released one album! It frequently takes multiple LPs for a band to prove that they’re truly great. As Loudwire already highlighted with our list of five great prog rock bands who only released one album, though, sometimes a group comes out of nowhere, blows you away with their

A week of events ahead of this year’s Mercury Prize has been announced across Newcastle. The winner will be revealed on October 22 at Newcastle’s Utilita Arena, returning after hometown hero Sam Fender bagged the prize last year for his third album ‘People Watching‘. The shortlist for the Mercury Prize 2026 includes Paul McCartney, JADE,

Here are the jobs over 20 rock and metal musicians had before they were famous. Remember when Blink-182 said, “Work sucks / I know”? Their job may not suck anymore as one of pop-punk’s biggest bands, but everyone has worked at least one crappy job, right? Even your favorite musicians started somewhere and we’ve all

The premiere and MUBI release date for Cameron Winter‘s Live At Carnegie Hall film have been confirmed. Check out all the details below. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson – the acclaimed Oscar-winning director, known for One Battle After Another, There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread – the film captures the the Geese frontman live

Iron Maiden‘s Run For Your Lives 50th anniversary tour finally touched down in the U.S. last night (Sept. 5) at the Sports Illustrated Stadium (yes — a stadium) in Harrison, New Jersey. Despite not yet being 40, I’ve been a fan of the band’s professional recording era (which starts in 1980) for half of their

Art Garfunkel has admitted that he is considering “leaving America” due to global warming and Donald Trump. Speaking in a new interview with The Guardian, Garfunkel expressed his dismay over the current administration in the United States under President Trump. “I don’t like America’s position at all. I’m not aboard, and I’m thinking of leaving the