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From Justin Broadrick's surprise appearance on Phoebe Bridgers' new album to Slipknot, Anthrax, My Dying Bride, and Nevermore all grappling with lineup upheaval, this week's metal news is a masterclass in unexpected crossovers and hard reckonings.
Waylon Reavis goes pop with a Weeknd cover, If These Trees Could Talk gets the Disgruntled Dad treatment, and a wave of national lineup drama — from Sid Wilson to Joey Belladonna to Aaron Stainthorpe — puts Ohio's own metal history in perspective.
CKY honors the late Brent Hinds with a posthumous solo feature just before his one-year anniversary, while national lineup shakeups at Slipknot, Nevermore, and My Dying Bride offer lessons for Pennsylvania's own thrash, doom, and speed metal underground.
STRYFE's new Candlepower Records deal headlines a week that also touches on Sepultura's warning about art under authoritarianism, Aaron Stainthorpe's post-My Dying Bride doom project, and California's overlooked technical death metal and crust punk underground.
From Alex Terrible's unhinged Korn cover to Abbath's two-minute onstage collapse in Tampere, and Doro Pesch's case for metal-fueled longevity against Saxon's steady 2027 comeback, this week shows Europe's metal scene stretched across every generation at once.
Doro Pesch and Dave Mustaine reflect on survival and legacy while Haywire, Plush, and LA's Stryfe sign new deals — plus Abbath's onstage meltdown and Gene Hoglan's legal fight offer a cautionary tale for the business side of US metal.
Andi Deris, Geddy Lee, and Doro Pesch make the case for playing it straight after decades on stage, while Abbath's Finnish festival meltdown shows what happens when the road wins — all filtered through Ohio's own post-metal, gothic, and thrash underground.
Metal Injection's ranking of the greatest Rivers of Nihil songs puts Reading's progressive death metal scene back in the national spotlight, while Pennsylvania's black metal underground and this week's national headlines offer plenty else to unpack.
Florida metalcore act Wage War lands a new video while Saxon's studio update and Slash's comments on young guitarists offer a lens into the state's traditional metal, thrash, and death metal underground.
Slipknot's confirmed-then-deleted Sid Wilson exit and a bitter Dee Snider/Kelly Osbourne feud dominate headlines this week, but Europe's raw black metal, grindcore, and death metal underground keeps quietly grinding on regardless.
US Metal Index tracks 14,970 bands and 1,446 venues, but only 538 upcoming shows — meaning roughly 3.6% of all indexed bands currently have a date on the books, with Denver converting bands to shows at the highest rate of any major city.
From Pain Of Truth's national breakout to Dee Snider's Long Island roots getting dragged into an Ozzy Osbourne feud, this week's metal headlines kept circling back to New York — with Slash, Helloween, and Slipknot's messy lineup shakeup along for the ride.
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