A concert film of Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath‘s legendary ‘Back To The Beginning’ show will hit cinemas worldwide this October.
Produced by Mercury Studios, the world’s leading music-focused content studio, the concert film will be shown in cinemas globally beginning on October 28.
You can view the poster below.
Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes and Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante have teamed up to perform the 2026 VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Anthem.
Joining forces with longtime VALORANT collaborator Grabbitz, has returned for his fourth anthem as writer and producer, the song is titled ‘If The Sun Burns Out Tonight’.
On the track Sykes has said:
“I’ve always been drawn to projects that blur the lines between storytelling and music, so working with Riot Games, alongside Grabbitz and Courtney, and becoming part of the Valorant World felt like a really natural fit.”
Returning for her second collaboration with Riot Games – following her performance of ‘Ties That Bind’ for 2XKO last year – Courtney has shared:
“Oli has given me the opportunity to perform live with BMTH many times over the years, and we’re finally debuting something we worked on together. Grabbitz produced such a great atmosphere and a song tailored to all three of our voices, and Oli went in right away and made it a true collaboration.”
Check out ‘If The Sun Burns Out Tonight’ below.
Trivium have dropped a ferocious new single ahead of their huge co-headline tour with In Flames.
With their latest era now begun for the metal legends, their latest track is titled ‘Dead Inside Of Me’, and it’s an absolute rager.
Powered by gnarly modern thrash riffs, an insatiable bass line, and some ridiculously powerful grooves, it serves as our first taste of the band’s forthcoming eleventh studio album.
Speaking on the track, bassist Paolo Gregoletto has shared:
“‘Dead Inside Of Me’ was a song that came together at the end of a long day of writing new music last summer. It started with a riff I’d had kicking around for five or six years called ‘Slam,’ looping over a simple groove. A lot of the most fun song ideas come from blending two contrasting ideas together. Take a death metal riff and play it like a stadium rock song. Let the screaming and singing weave together until they feel like one voice. Being able to explain the idea that simply as the song was coming together helped keep us laser-focused and on track to see the vision through to the end. The song was loosely inspired by the Japanese concept of honne and tatemae — the tension between your true inner feelings and the mask you present to the outside world to hide them.”
Check out the video for ‘Dead Inside Of Me’ directed by Pavel Trebukhin below.
Arankai has given us another taste of his upcoming album, the very vulnerable, ‘Convince Me’
With Arankai’s second album ‘The Shape Of Blue’ set to be released on October 30 via Hopeless Records, the crushing new track is titled ‘Convince Me’.
Largely written about the musician’s relationship with his wife, the song centres on what it means to accept help form those around us, and how those moments can actually bring us closer together.
Speaking about ‘Convince Me’, Arankai has said:
“‘Convince Me’ is a song that deals with insecurity and instability, relying on the love of another to carry you through. In my personal life I’ve struggled a lot with mental health, and I found comfort and compassion in the arms of my now wife. It’s a humbling experience when you need to rely on someone else. But I think there’s a beauty in frailty, and a lot can be learned about yourself and others in moments of desperation.”
Take a listen below.
Mirrortalk have shared all the details of their latest EP, set to be released via the band’s new label home Hassle Records.
Set to drop on November 27, the s upcoming release is titled ‘Where Does Everyone Go When I Need Them Most’.
With previously shared dark, devastating single ‘Circle The Drain’ and the crushing ‘Wait My Turn’ included on the track listing, the EP will also feature the freshly released ‘Forget My Name’.
Speaking on ‘Forget My Name, vocalist Mat Coffey has said:
“Forget My Name ‘talks to those who fight with themselves. When you don’t like who you are, the easiest mistake to make is to push people away, even if you know you need them. This song is about what it feels like when you want people to forget you.”
Mat has also spoken about the process of creating the band’s latest EP, and what we can expect from ‘Where Does Everyone Go When I Need Them Most’ :
“Mirrortalk has always been built on a desire to combine all the music we loved growing up; but ‘Where Does Everyone Go When I Need Them Most’ is our greatest nod to that yet. Elements of metal and hardcore, shoegaze, and pure rock have gone into every track, making it feel like a new offering that is grounded in some familiarity for people who are fans of the same music as us.
“The recording was done at Lower Lane Studios by our good friend Jonny Price, and if there’s one thing we took seriously while tracking, it was guitar tone. We wanted the release to be driven by the guitar, and throughout the process we dialled in and layered some sounds we feel are hitting the nail on the head for what Mirrortalk wants to sound like.
“Throughout our other releases we have tackled a lot of topics around mental health and self-battling. This continues through this release, but also touches on some other personal notes we hope people can feel connected to. “Where Does Everyone Go When I Need Them Most” is the best reflection of our direction, and we just hope people want to come along”
Check out the EP Cover Art below and the track, ‘Forget My Name’ below.
Date: 08/09/26
First Direct Arena, Leeds
Support: K.Flay, Poppy.
All Images by: Seanen Middleton
Evanescence’s defiant live performances continue to prove that why they truly are one of the greatest modern heavy bands around today.
When I first saw this lineup, I had to pinch myself! Every audience automatically won with the lineup (K.Flay, Nova Twins & Poppy but location dependant) and I could hardly contain my excitement. In all honesty, I got goosebumps the day of the show because I couldn’t quite believe this tour was actually happening!
First up on the evening: K.Flay. This is an artist born for arena shows with every note hitting every single corner of the venue where the new material (the fantastic track ‘Ants’) mixed fluently with the older (the spine tingling ‘Blood In The Cut’).. You always know what to expect with K.Flay and that is the artist whom is a powerhouse levelling up massively with an audience along for the ride. What’s more is that this audience was the first to get a taste of the aforementioned ‘Ants’ which belnded spectacularly with the heavier crowd tonight albeit with a bit more of a punkier tone compared to the rest of the lineup. Hopefully by the next time we see her live, this is a staple in her set.
Secondly Poppy. My instant reaction? Breathless. That’s how she left a majority of the audience based on the glances of those around me and some in the standing section as I looked down. We’ve had punk and metal princesses before but Poppy transcends a lot of those artists. Moving between metallic aggression and deceptively bright melodies in ballad form, songs including “Scary Mask”, “crystallized”, “V.A.N” and “new way out” showcased an artist increasingly comfortable occupying the space between and breaking out of the cage of expectation as to what people whom are unfamiliar with her material see her as at a first glance.
Now for Evanescence. This is a moment, I’ve waited quite a while for and if you haven’t heard Amy Lee’s vocals live, then it’s a bucket list thing to do because her’s is the most pristine vocals I’ve ever heard at a show to date.
Appearing on a very simplistic stage setup rather than something overly zealous and blinding compared to other large arena level playing bands, the quintet offer a smoke filled stage with a large backdrop that transformed the whole thing into a gothic church. From the first note, the hauntingly beautiful vocals to the blaring backing of the guitars, bass and drums filled everything in the room to ‘Sanctuary’, ‘Tell Me When You’ve Had Enough’, ‘Afterlif’e and ‘Rapture’, it was proof that their new material was as powerful as ever but in all honesty, everywhere you look in the crowd was in awe of the performance.
Headlining into one of their biggest hits to date, ‘Going Under’ was met with the deafening screams from the audience as Amy Lee encouraged everyone to join. There were a few times where a hole did open up on stage leaving a few audience members confused but for the fans whom has seen them before, you know exactly what’s coming: a giant piano! This could only mean one of a few things and of course one of them is the heartbreaking: ‘Lithium’. Watching Amy Lee supported by nothing but that in the moment is nothing short of incredible, the emotion you hear reduced a fair few in the crowd to tears and built the song up as something more intimate with everyone in the room.
It’s after this song there was a reflection where Lee announced it had been twenty years since the release of their album, ‘The Open Door’ (released back in 2006). In celebration, for this run, they played something they have never done previously and that was the track, ‘Like You’. It’s a deeper cut to the more seasoned listeners in the room but a welcomed one nevertheless. What came after was more pyro making appearances througout the set with the members of the band at times elevated into the air for all to see in their glory.
The energy came up and down for the rest of the show but that elevated when we were graced with the presence of the opener K.Flay for ‘Fight Like A Girl’ which they had recorded together. Seeing these two artists come together in this way was awe inspiring and a joy to to watch.
Everything reached a fever pitch when their arguably most well known track ‘Bring Me To Life’ came into play. As expected this was the track which gained the most audience participation where you could hear many voices in the audience blaring their own vocals to the nu0metal anthem.. Shortly after, we were graced for a live debut with their other fantastic support Poppy in the highly emotive ‘End Of You’. I do have to say this is the cherry on top of the performance tonight because rarely we see one guest appearance (especially on a northern date of any major band) but we get the second?! We are truly blessed tonight.
Heading into the final stretch Evanescence graced us further with the highly emotional ‘My Immortal’ on piano and a white backdrop. As the track built up, the rest of the band became visible behind as they became silhouettes behind the sheet in this rendition of the track and then ending with he final track off their latest album, ‘Wide Open Heart’.
With over two decades of experiences, Evanescence could easily create a show baiting people with nostalgic tracks but there’s more than enough evidence in this Leeds show to show they are more than that, they are a band moving forward with their best written material and a true fanbase behind them.
Rating:5/5.
Love Is Noise have announced the details of their new EP titled ‘The space between happiness and heartache’, following up their 2025 debut album ‘To live in a different way’.
The EP is set to drop on October 09 via Bloodblast, and is set to be a concept piece about an unnamed character crafting an artificial world as a means of escaping their real feelings.
Vocalist Cam Humphrey explains:
“The more we wrote this record, the more we realised it wasn’t really about one person’s story — it’s about how people create versions of themselves just to get through modern life. We wanted to make something that felt real. Not polished to the point where it loses its humanity, but honest about the things that people don’t always want to talk about.
“The character has built this entire world to escape how they actually feel, but we never tell you exactly why. That’s really important to us. We don’t want to give the listener a beginning, middle, and end and tell them what it means. We want people to find themselves somewhere inside it.”
Check out the Artwork, track listing and the track ‘Smile’ featuring Casper Frisk of PALESKIN.
1. smile.
2. the rain that follows me.
3. crying in the dark.
4. fury.
MOTHER has dropped her new track ‘MOTIONS’.
The track picks up where the debut track ‘UNHOLY’ left off, and immediately ups the ante when it comes to the beauty and brutality. Atmospherically stirring, fizzing with electronic energy and with plenty of metalcore bludgeoning through in for good measure, it’s modern metal at its most crisp and cathartic.
If MOTHER continues down this path, we may be onto quite the future phenomenon.
MOTHER had this to say about the tune:
“’MOTIONS’ is about becoming conscious of the cycles we knowingly submit ourselves to – the relationships, behaviours and patterns that hurt us, but somehow still feel impossible to leave. Our nervous systems can mistake familiarity for safety, even when what’s familiar is a living hell. ‘Live in the pain and call it a spark’ — that strange way we can romanticise pain or mistake intensity for something meaningful because it’s what we know. There’s a conflict running through the lyrics between desperately wanting out and being terrified of what exists on the other side.
And then added about the concept of the video:
“The video takes that internal struggle and makes it physical. MOTHER is gradually bound by cables and pulled towards the television, as if her own nervous system is taking control of her body. The BDSM imagery plays into the contradiction at the centre of it too – submission, pain and the uncomfortable possibility of finding pleasure or comfort in something that is hurting you. But by the end, that power dynamic has inverted. MOTHER is no longer the submissive; she becomes the dominant presence inside this darker internal world, while versions of herself stare and sing back through the screens. I deliberately didn’t want to explain whether that transformation is good or bad. Are those the voices in her head? Has she finally broken the cycle, or just found a new position within it? Is she confronting the darkness, becoming it, or realising some part of her has wanted it all along? Maybe healing and becoming your own monster aren’t always as different as we’d like them to be.“
Check out ‘MOTIONS’ below.
James Marriott has announced a massive show taking place next month in the UK, and it’s going to be a one-off.
James will be playing the iconic Brixton Academy in London on September 17th, with support coming from Chloe Slater and Hannah Grae.
On the announcement, Marriot states, ““Brixton has been my dream venue for many years now, having seen a multitude of artists there that are so so important to me (including Tyler the Creator’s first show back in the UK). Years ago it was teased that we’d support another artist there and I remember crying with a member of the band thinking about playing on that stage.
To think now, a matter of years later, we’re not only playing it, but headlining it, is astoundingly special to me. It’s been in the works for a while now, and I couldn’t be happier to be sharing the news with people. It’ll be a celebration of everything that brought me here, and multiple pointers to the future of my solo project.”
Tickets will go on sale September 4th.
Carrie Okay, the brand new supergroup from LØLØ, salem ilese and Alna, have unveiled their first song, and it is very much on brand for the trio.
‘High In A Drugstore’, it is a return to the early 00’s era of soft pop-rock, but with a modern twist. It’s flowery, breezy and beautiful, but littered with heartbreak and anguish. The sort of song that finds you in your life at the right time and right place, and makes you realise you’re not the only person going through such pain.
The band had this to say about it:
Heartbreak makes us do the strangest things. We’ve all had those nights where we’re convinced leaving the house will fix everything, and somehow, we end up in a random place having an existential crisis. Whether it’s hallucinating an ex at your local Denny’s or taking a gummy and ending up out of your mind at a 7-Eleven, you never know where a broken heart will take you. The irony of ending up high in a drugstore… a place where people often go to find a cure, only to realize there’s nothing on those shelves for missing somebody. After writing ‘High in a Drugstore,’ we realized we loved the song way too much to try to pitch it to another artist. So we did what any reasonable girl would do in that moment… start a girl band. We’ve loved every second of creating Carrie Okay and feel so lucky to work with each other and the amazing Andrew Goldstein on creating such a fun project.”
Check out ‘High In A Drugstore’ below.
The Callous Daoboys have returned with a brand new track, ‘Watching Us Kiss’.
A crushing, unrelenting, vicious slice of metalcore fury, it pushes the band to a point of heaviness that they inhabit so wonderfully. Bludgeoning breakdowns, banshee screams and brain-melting refrains, it is an absolute belter. One that further cements the band’s place as one of the most unpredictable and unhinged assets to the scene currently.
Vocalist Carson Pace had this to say about it:
‘Watching Us Kiss’ is sort of the answer to every question you’ve had in your entire life. Return to music.”
Check out ‘Watching Us Kiss’ below.
The band will support Enter Shikari on their UK tour this November. Check out the dates below.
November 2026
13 – NOTTINGHAM Motorpoint Arena
14 – CARDIFF Utilita Arena
15 – HULL Connexin Live
18 – GLASGOW Hydro
19 – MANCHESTER Co-op Live
20 – LONDON Alexandra Palace
21 – LONDON Alexandra Palace
Aussie faves The Amity Affliction have announced the details of a headlining run across the UK/EU.
The metalcore outfit have announced the House Of Cards EU/UK 2026 Tour in support of their new album, House Of Cards. The run will see the band joined by SILENT PLANET, VARIALS and ORTHODOX.
Check out the touring dates below.
September 18th – Wiesbaden, DE @ Schlachthof
September 19th – Cologne, DE @ Palladium
September 20th – Hamburg, DE @ Große Freiheit 36
September 22nd – Stockholm, SE @ Fållan
September 24th – Helsinki, FI @ Ääniwalli
September 26th – Oslo, NO @ Rockefeller
September 27th – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
September 28th – Berlin, DE @ Huxleys
September 29th – Warsaw, PL @ Progresja
October 1st – Prague, CZ @ Roxy
October 2nd – Vienna, AT @ Gasometer
October 3rd – Munich, DE @ Tonhalle
October 5th – Zürich, CH @ Komplex 457
October 6th – Paris, FR @ Élysée Montmartre
October 7th – Antwerp, BE @ Zappa
October 8th – Tilburg, NL @ 013
October 10th – Manchester, UK @ O2 Ritz
October 11th – London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
October 12th – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
October 13th – Bristol, UK @ O2 Academy
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