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Solitude Aeturnus welcomes new singer James-Paul Luna as Texas doom enters a new era, while a death metal touring surge, veteran metal news from Tony Iommi to Slash, and a hardcore community rallying around Harm's Way round out this week's regional metal roundup.
From Solitude Aeturnus recruiting a new frontman to Sigh's chaos-courting collaboration with Mikael Åkerfeldt, plus Xentrix, Dragonland, Eleine, and Lacrimas Profundere all pushing new material — this week's global metal roundup covers the scene's restless middle ground between legacy and reinvention.
Avenged Sevenfold declares full independence from record labels while dropping a surprise alter-ego EP, Slipknot's Sid Wilson situation stirs uncertainty, and a new generation of American metalcore bands pushes forward.
Inkcarceration 2026 locks in its return to the Ohio State Reformatory, Ohio deathcore act Suffer lands alongside Tony Iommi and Tom Morello in a national roundup, and Slipknot's reported firing of Sid Wilson sends shockwaves through the metal world with real implications for Ohio's touring calendar.
Cinderella's Fred Coury signals he's ready for a reunion while Slipknot loses original member Sid Wilson — two stories that ripple straight back into Pennsylvania's glam, metalcore, and gothic metal scenes.
Slipknot's Sid Wilson firing and Silvertomb's gothic doom comeback dominate national metal headlines this week, giving us the perfect excuse to spotlight Florida's underrated doom, metalcore, NWOTHM, and crust punk scenes.
As of 2026-08-01, New York Metal Index tracks 20 actively touring New York bands with 67 combined upcoming shows — but The Pretty Reckless alone accounts for 18 of them, and not one band's next date is in New York.
Avenged Sevenfold's label independence, Gary Holt's thrash myth-busting, and Walls Of Jericho's decade-long comeback all echo lessons South America's death, black, thrash, and heavy metal underground already lives by.
From Richard Patrick's new side project to Silvertomb's gothic-hardcore supergroup return and Adrian Vandenberg's tour cancellation, this week's metal news shows both the momentum and the wear-and-tear of the American heavy music scene.
MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa tops Florida Metal Index's venue rankings with 3 indexed shows, but a naming quirk suggests its real total may be even higher — and Orlando quietly dominates the rest of the list with four venues in the top 14.
Ozzy gets a Halloween Horror Nights haunted house at Universal Studios Hollywood, Bruce Dickinson relives his San Diego stage-crash with Billie Joe Armstrong's The Coverups, and the hardcore scene mourns two of its own — all while California's underground keeps building in the background.
From Tony Iommi's new solo album and Geezer Butler's reflections on Heaven and Hell to Candlemass demoing doom, Kamelot's grandiose new single, and Megadeth's Savage Lands teaming with Brutal Assault, this week's metal news traces a direct line between the genre's founders and its next generation.
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