Stitched Up Heart has released a new song called "BEAST," featuring guest vocals from Nonpoint frontman Elias Soriano.

The track will appear on the upcoming Stitched Up Heart album, MEDUSA. You can watch the "BEAST" lyric video on YouTube.

MEDUSA is due out June 12. Stitched Up Heart will launch a U.S. tour in May.

Nonpoint, meanwhile, will kick off a U.S. tour Saturday in Tampa, Florida.

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The new Skindred album You Got This has got this, by which we mean their first-ever #1 record in the U.K.

The Welsh band's latest effort has debuted at the top of the U.K. Official Albums Chart.

"All of us in the band are absolutely blown away by the amazing reaction and support to our new album," Skindred tells Official Charts. "We want to say thank you to everyone that came out this week to buy a copy, especially all of those in our extended family in the rock and metal communities."

The title of You Got This reflects "a positive message to everyone going through a tough time, or suffering with their mental health," Skindred says.

"It's a message also of belief, to hopefully help empower every young band or artist, and to help them to keep going and push on through," Skindred says. "So to be the first Welsh Ragga Metal Punk band from Newport to hit Number 1 really is a special moment. It really is a Fairytale of Newport."

You Got This was released on April 17. Its title track charted on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay tally.

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Theory of a Deadman has premiered a new single called "Barricade."

The song is apparently not about trying to get the front row of a concert — instead, frontman Tyler Connolly sings, "I gotta find a way to break down your barricade."

You can watch the video for "Barricade" on YouTube.

"Barricade" follows Theory's 2023 album, Dinosaur.

Theory of a Deadman will be performing at the 2026 Aftershock festival in October.

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Sleeping with Sirens has announced a new album called An Ending in Itself.

The eighth studio effort from Kellin Quinn and company arrives June 12. It's the follow-up to 2022's Complete Collapse.

An Ending in Itself includes the previously released title track, which dropped in March. A second cut, called "Forever/Always," is out now alongside a video, which you can watch on YouTube.

You can catch Sleeping with Sirens live at a number of upcoming festivals, including Welcome to Rockville, Inkcarceration, Louder than Life, Aftershock and select Warped Tour dates. 

Here's the An Ending in Itself track list:
"An Ending in Itself"
"Forever/Always"
"God in My Head"
"Need You Here"
"Left on Repeat"
"House of Matches"
"Waiting for You"
"Paralyzed"
"Process"
"PTSD"
"Looking Back at Me"
"Storm Clouds"

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Foo Fighters have premiered the video for "Window," a track off their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy.

The clip stars English actor Craig Parkinson as the window cleaner for a high-rise building, inadvertently giving him a view into the lives of the residents, including one who's watching the "Everlong" video on a TV.

The "Window" video is now streaming on YouTube.

Your Favorite Toy is out now. It's the follow-up to 2023's But Here We Are and is the first Foo Fighters album to feature new drummer Ilan Rubin.

Foo Fighters will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They'll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

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Sharon Osbourne says that a settlement has been reached over Black Sabbath's early recordings when their band name was Earth.

In 2025, news surfaced that the label Big Bear Recordings, founded by early Sabbath manager Jim Simpson, was set to release an album of Earth recordings. Sharon, the widow and manager of late Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne, later posted a statement along with emails to Simpson saying that the band members agreed that they did not want the Earth recordings to be released.

In the latest episode of The Osbournes Podcast, Sharon says, "We settled with Jim Simpson and the band now have their demos back."

"All four of them own it, which is where it should be," Sharon adds, presumably referring to the Sabbath members. "All of that stuff should be theirs."

As for what will happen with the recordings, Sharon says, "We're gonna talk about what everybody wants to do with it, and we'll go from there."

"Thank you to Jim, he did the right thing," Sharon continues. "At the end of the day he did the right thing for the band."

Elsewhere in the podcast, Sharon says that tickets for the return of Ozzfest, which is expected to happen in 2027, are set to go on sale in November.

The long-running festival was last held on New Year's Eve 2018, which marked Ozzy's final full-live performance before the 2025 Back to the Beginning concert, during which he performed solo and reunited with Sabbath. Ozzy died just over two weeks after Back to the Beginning at age 76.

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Metallica has shared a tribute to late conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who passed away on Wednesday.

The metal legends had collaborated with Thomas on their 2019 S&M2 concerts, which featured them performing alongside the Thomas-conducted San Francisco Symphony.

"It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of legendary conductor Michael Tilson Thomas," Metallica writes in a Facebook post. "A towering figure in classical music, many of you became familiar with the man known as MTT when he worked with us as a major driving force in the development and live performances of the S&M2 shows in San Francisco in September of 2019."

"We cherished our time with MTT and learned so much working with him to prepare the S&M2 performances," the post continues. "It was a very high honor to have him on the podium for our shows. He will be sorely missed."

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Mother, tell your children not to walk my way, and also tell Andy Biersack how to play a rock show.

The Black Veil Brides frontman tells ABC Audio that he was inspired by the video for the Danzig classic "Mother" in approaching his band's upcoming U.S. tour, kicking off Saturday in Riverside, California.

"What we really wanted for this tour was to stylistically bring back a feeling of kind of a classic rock show in a tangible way," Biersack says. "I love the LED walls and all of the kinda modern technology, but there's something that I miss about, like, fabricated big a** logos and stacks of amps and all that kind of stuff."

"It feels like everybody's in a race to find out what the new screen that they can put onstage is," he continues. "So we took the time to have somebody fabricate a gigantic metal logo and build all these staging amps and all this stuff. So the idea is to give people a very earnest, tangible and tactile rock show in that way."

The tour will support the upcoming Black Veil Brides album, VINDICATE, and Biersack says you can expect to hear a lot of new songs during the shows.

"I think this is the most new material we've ever done on a tour to support a record," Biersack says.

Still, they don't plan to skimp on the classics.

"We're not a band that likes to screw over our fans, we like to play the songs that they wanna hear," Biersack says. "[It'll be] a nice, big, long set list with a lot of new songs, as well."

VINDICATE is due out May 8.

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Muse has premiered a new song called "Cryogen," a track off the band's upcoming album, The Wow! Signal.

"After a squelching intro, Muse let loose a sky-scraping spiral of guitar before plunging into a roiling pool of smashing drums, grinding bass, and dramatic vocals," a press release says of "Cryogen." "Throughout it all, [frontman] Matt Bellamy paints a vivid picture of a man so deep in the thrall of another that he’s envisioned his tormentor as a frozen moon of Jupiter, and himself as a lost speck on the surface."

To hear exactly what that sounds like, "Cryogen" is out now via digital outlets. A video is "landing soon," Muse says.

The Wow! Signal, the follow-up to 2022's Will of the People, is due out June 26. It also includes the singles "Be With You" and "Unravelling."

Muse will launch a U.S. tour in July.

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No need to ask a friend, we can tell you that the new Foo Fighters album is here.

Your Favorite Toy, the 12th studio effort from the "Everlong" outfit, is out now. It's the follow-up to 2023's But Here We Are, and arrives after a couple tumultuous years for Dave Grohl and company.

In September 2024, Grohl shared that he'd fathered a child outside his marriage, and the Foos canceled their remaining scheduled show. Then in May 2025, drummer Josh Freese, who'd joined Foo Fighters in 2023 following the 2022 death of Taylor Hawkins, announced that he'd been fired from the band.

The Foos officially reemerged in July 2025 with the single "Today's Song." They returned to the live stage in September 2025, which marked the debut of their new drummer, Ilan Rubin, formerly of Nine Inch Nails.

Another new song, "Asking for a Friend," arrived in October 2025, before the Foos finally announced Your Favorite Toy in February and released its shouty title track. Two more songs, "Caught in the Echo" and "Of All People," followed.

In addition to working through the tumult in new music, Grohl says he started going to therapy.

"I've been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks," Grohl told The Guardian in an interview published in March. "I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions."

Foo Fighters will celebrate the arrival of Your Favorite Toy on Saturday with a performance on Saturday Night Live UK. They will play a one-off show in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on April 28, followed by headlining sets at the Welcome to Rockville and BottleRock Napa festivals in May. They'll launch a full North American stadium tour in August.

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Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka has announced a new signature guitar with Gibson.

The Jake Kiszka SG Standard is inspired by Kiszka's own beloved 1961 SG.

"The '61, this particular model, has defined me as a player, and I think I've defined it in return," Kiszka says in a statement.

You can watch Kiszka rock his signature guitar in a video for Gibson, now on YouTube. He'll also be celebrating the launch with a Q&A event Thursday at the Gibson Garage in Nashville.

The Jake Kiszka SG Standard is on sale for $2,499. For more info, visit Gibson.com.

Greta Van Fleet's most recent album is 2023's Starcatcher. Kiszka has since launched a side project called Mirador, which released their debut album in 2025.

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A new documentary about blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is set to premiere on Hulu.

The film is called Travis Barker: Louder than Fear and is due out in the summer.

"Travis personally called about this doc to say, 'I want to tell this story … I was in this plane crash that I walked away from, and it fundamentally changed me,'" Disney executive Rob Mills tells TheWrap.

Barker was a passenger on a plane that crashed in 2008, killing four people. He and his friend Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein were the only survivors. Goldstein later died in 2009.

Barker suffered burns and underwent multiple surgeries. He also developed PTSD from the crash, and dealt with survivor's guilt.

For a long time after the crash Barker refused to fly and would even take boats to international gigs. Barker's since started flying again and has credited his wife, Kourtney Kardashian, for the encouragement.

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Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the Ramones' self-titled debut album, and the milestone will be celebrated throughout the year.

One of those celebrations is the July 4 world premiere of the only authorized exhibition dedicated to the Ramones at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas. The exhibit was organized and curated by the museum in collaboration with Linda Ramone, wife of the late Johnny Ramone, and Ramones Productions Inc. It will include performances, artist conversations and interactive experiences.

According to a press release, the exhibit "connects audiences to the Ramones' legacy, cultural impact, and continuing aftershock across music, art, design, and public memory."

The upcoming year will also include physical Ramones releases and reissues from Rhino. In addition, newly remastered videos for “I Wanna Be Sedated,” “Rock N Roll High School,” “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker" and more have now been released on the Ramones' official YouTube page.

Released April 23, 1976, Ramones was recorded in one week, opening with what would become a Ramones classic: “Blitzkrieg Bop.” While Ramones wasn't a commercial success, only making it to #111 on the Billboard charts, it was a hit with critics and went on to be considered one of the most influential punk records in the U.S. It has also landed on several best-of lists, including Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

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Black Veil Brides have premiered a new song called "Revenger," a track off the band's upcoming album, VINDICATE.

"Revenger" features guest vocals from Robb Flynn of Machine Head.

"I have always been interested in the sort of ethical dilemma that we have culturally of cheering for justice," says BVB frontman Andy Biersack in a statement. "I thought it would be an interesting exercise to write lyrics from the perspective of someone who is trying to seek out the ultimate form of justice."

Biersack continues, "Because I was writing from someone else's voice, this felt like the kind of song that would be best served by having someone else's voice on the song. So, we brought in Robb Flynn of Machine Head."

VINDICATE, the seventh Black Veil Brides album, is due out May 8. It also includes the previously released songs "Certainty," "Bleeders," "Hallelujah" and the title track.

Black Veil Brides will launch a U.S. tour Saturday in Riverside, California.

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Korn has premiered a new single called "Reward the Scars."

The track is inspired by the upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion to the Diablo IV video game, which will be released April 28.

"Reward the Scars" marks the first new material from Korn to follow their 2022 album, Requiem, which spawned the singles "Start the Healing" and "Worst Is on Its Way."

Korn will headline Saturday's Sick New World festival in Las Vegas. Their upcoming live schedule also includes dates in Latin America and Europe.

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Live Nation has announced its Summer of Live promotion, which offers tickets for the all-in price of $30 to over 4,000 shows for artists including Guns N' Roses, Shinedown, Evanescence and mgk.

Other participating tours include Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte, Iron Maiden, 311 and Dirty Heads, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson, Sammy Hagar, The Black Crowes, Kaleo, Breaking Benjamin, Staind, Empire of the Sun, Motionless in White, Five Finger Death Punch, Mötley Crüe, Mt. Joy, Godsmack, Young the Giant and HARDY.

The promotion runs from April 29 to May 5 at LiveNation.com/SummerofLive. After picking a show, there will be the option for tickets labeled "Summer of Live Promotion," to add to your cart.

Presales for Live Nation All Access and T-Mobile members will begin Thursday, April 23, at 10 a.m. local time and Tuesday, April 28, at 10 a.m. local time, respectively.

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Slayer has added a second Reign in Blood anniversary show in Los Angeles for Nov. 14 after the previously announced Nov. 13 show sold out on presale.

A presale for the Nov. 14 concert takes place Thursday at 9 a.m. PT. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. PT, if there are any left.

The Reign in Blood shows will feature a full-album performance of the seminal 1986 thrash record in honor of its 40th anniversary.

Slayer will also play a Reign in Blood show Sept. 4 in Shakopee, Minnesota. Their upcoming headlining sets at the 2026 Rocklahoma and Sick New World Texas festivals are billed as Reign in Blood performances, as well.

Slayer concluded what they called their final tour in 2019. They reunited in 2024 and have since played a number of one-off shows.

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Turnstile will be turning double plays with the Baltimore Orioles.

The hardcore outfit's hometown baseball team has announced Turnstile Night, taking place July 10 at Baltimore's Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The game will feature the Orioles taking on the visiting Kansas City Royals.

If you purchase a special ticket package to the game, you'll receive a limited-edition Turnstile-themed Orioles jersey.

Turnstile previously threw out the first pitch at an Orioles game in 2023, and their connection to Baltimore has been a big part of the band's identity. After winning two awards at the 2026 Grammys, Turnstile posted a statement reading, "Thank you to Baltimore for giving us a stage."

Turnstile is coming off performances at Coachella's two weekends. Their upcoming live schedule includes sets at Welcome to Rockville, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, among other festivals.

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Alter Bridge will launch a U.S. tour Saturday in Orlando, Florida. The band will be supporting their new, self-titled album, which means Myles Kennedy and company now have 12 more songs they could possibly add to the set list.

"You have songs as a fan you're gonna wanna hear, we can't not play 'Blackbird,'" Kennedy tells ABC Audio. "But when you have now eight records, it's a delicate dance. How do you incorporate all those tracks with some new tracks?"

For this tour, Kennedy says Alter Bridge will likely be leaning on the very new and the very old.

"What we're gonna do is we're gonna play obviously some of the newer stuff," Kennedy says. "We're also gonna go back and do some real old stuff that we haven't done in a long time, kinda pepper those in the set."

Kennedy also hopes the shows will feature some new visual elements reflective of the Alter Bridge album.

"You're always just trying to make it interesting," Kennedy says. "Especially [because] we have such an incredible, die-hard fanbase." 

The album Alter Bridge is out now. It includes the single "Silent Divide."

Openers for Alter Bridge's tour include Filter, Sevendust and Tim Montana, depending on the date.

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Skid Row bassist Rachel Bolan has released a new song called "Anything But You," a track off his upcoming debut solo album, Gargoyle of the Garden State.

"Anything But You" features Bolan's Skid Row bandmate Rob Hammersmith on drums. You can watch its accompanying video on YouTube.

Gargoyle of the Garden State, which also includes the previously released single "At War with Myself," is due out June 12. Other guests on the record include Slipknot's Corey Taylor, Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt, and Skid Row's Scotti Hill and Dave "Snake" Sabo.

Skid Row, meanwhile, announced in February that they were launching a worldwide audition process to find the band's next singer. Their most recent vocalist, Erik Grönwall, left Skid Row in 2024, after which Halestorm's Lzzy Hale fronted the band for a run of live shows.

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