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Obituary bassist Terry Butler's teaser about a potential new album puts Florida's death metal lineage back in the spotlight, while Alissa White-Gluz's candid thoughts on mortality and Tobias Forge's death metal past underline just how much the genre's Florida roots still shape heavy music today.
New York Metal Index tracks 281 death metal bands statewide, but only 2 logged shows in the entire genre — both from Suffocation, the lone band with any show history on record.
Slash confirms Guns N' Roses will spend 2027 writing instead of touring while his own Conspirators album drops the same quarter, Duff McKagan reopens old Velvet Revolver wounds, and the emo, prog, and black metal underground keeps proving longevity takes reinvention.
From Phil Collen's AI comments on Argentine radio to VOIVOD's new video game and Guns N' Roses' 2027 touring break, this week's global metal headlines all have something to say about South America's thrash, death, black, heavy, and stoner underground.
Tetrarch's Diamond Rowe goes prime time on Sunday Night Football, Beartooth's Caleb Shomo opens up about coming out, and Judas Priest's Ian Hill retires as Heathen, Slash, and the underground US scene push forward.
From Yngwie Malmsteen's near-miss with David Lee Roth to Sleeping With Sirens landing Sonic Temple 2027, this week's metal news keeps circling back to Florida's deep and often underappreciated influence on heavy music.
Ian Hill's retirement from Judas Priest, Heathen's thrash comeback, and Gloryhammer's latest absurdity all point back to New York's own heavy metal, thrash, and progressive underground — plus touring news from Guns N' Roses, Sonic Temple, and a Sully Erna-organized mental health benefit show.
Marilyn Manson's Fort Lauderdale origins resurface amid a new album review, while Castle Rat and Dregen reignite interest in classic heavy metal theatrics — a perfect excuse to spotlight Florida's underappreciated NWOTHM underground and the scene's ongoing reckoning with accountability.
Sick Of It All's Richie Cip faces a pancreatic cancer diagnosis as the hardcore community rallies around him, while national conversations about mosh pit safety and band accountability echo issues New York's own scene has been quietly wrestling with for years.
This week's national metal headlines — from abuse allegations to Frank Carter's women-only mosh pit stance to Dregen's Iron Maiden daydream — carry lessons and parallels for California's own metal and hardcore communities.
From Tom Morello's push for political metal to escalating abuse allegations against VCTMS, plus Journey's Deen Castronovo playing through a medical emergency and Devin Townsend's ambient pivot, the US metal scene is having a week defined by accountability and resilience.
From Triumph's hairless comeback and Dillinger Escape Plan's first-ever vinyl reissue to Devin Townsend's ambient mental-health project, this week's national headlines all circle back to New York's own progressive and experimental underground.
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