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Cherie Currie's Cleopatra Records homecoming, Richie Kotzen's L.A.-inspired new single, and Voivod's canceled U.S. tour headline a week where California's metal infrastructure — labels, venues, and touring economics — takes center stage.
From Candlemass recruiting a Chilean vocalist for their Australian run to Anette Olzon's orchestral return to Nightwish songs in São Paulo, this week's metal news proves the global scene's borders are more porous than ever.
Alice Cooper's halftime theatrics and candid talk about building a persona offer a timely lens for revisiting Ohio's underrated heavy metal and NWOTHM underground, alongside news from The Callous Daoboys, Wage War, Anthrax, and Amon Amarth.
From Hetfield's kiss cam moment to Alice Cooper's halftime show and Chuck Billy's memoir tour, this week's legacy-act news says a lot about longevity — and Pennsylvania's heavy metal underground is taking notes.
Florida Metal Index's data shows new-band formation peaked at 35 in 2021 before dropping to 13 in 2025 and 7 in 2026 — but that recent decline is likely a data-lag artifact, not a shrinking scene, with Death Metal still accounting for 120 of the index's 550 bands.
Chad Gray cancels two California solo shows with vocal issues, Aftershock Sacramento's radio-row interviews with Atreyu and Killswitch Engage keep making waves, and Tom Morello's festival delivers a surprise Geezer Butler cameo.
This week's metal news ranges from Rock For People's stacked 2027 lineup to Type O Negative's TikTok-fueled resurgence and SepticFlesh's touring setback — a snapshot of just how wide-ranging the global metal scene has become.
From Alice Cooper's candid new memoir to Fear Factory's vocalist stepping into Burton C. Bell's shoes, this week's metal news is all about legacy, succession, and the underground scenes keeping it honest.
Motionless In White's new career retrospective gets the skeptical-dad treatment nationally while Type O Negative's TikTok resurgence and Mark Tremonti's Philly radio comments point to the same lesson: longevity pays off for Pennsylvania's gothic, industrial, and heavy metal underground.
Amon Amarth bassist Ted Lundström's 'slow but steady' philosophy echoes the patient grind that built Florida's death metal legacy, while Turnstile's SNL moment, Rock For People's 2027 lineup, and a Type O Negative TikTok resurgence all point to the same lesson for the state's underserved NWOTHM underground.
From SepticFlesh's touring injury to All Shall Perish's grindcore comeback and Zebra's 50th anniversary, this week's national metal headlines all trace back to New York's own underground — grind, experimental, and heavy metal lifers included.
California Metal Index's database shows Death Metal leading the state with 654 bands — 33% of all 1,991 indexed acts — ahead of Black Metal (436) and Thrash Metal (423).
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