Photo Ghost – Chapter 18: What A Fiasco! [YouTube]
Starting in April next year, Ghost will be back on the road for their “World Tour 2025,” featuring a series of concerts across Europe and the United States. Although the list is extensive, a few dates are still pending, to be announced by Ghost. You can find the tour dates below!
In addition, there’s a new chapter in the band’s history on YouTube: “Ghost – Chapter 18: What A Fiasco!”
“[MESSAGE FROM THE CLERGY]
We are pleased to announce that GHOST will take the world by storm in 2025.”
Tickets and Tour Dates:
General ticket sales for the tour begin on November 1, but you can also sign up for the mailing list to get presale information. Find the tour dates on the Ghost website!
Swedish melodic death metal rising stars THE HALO EFFECT has just dropped the official music video for their powerful new single, ‘March Of The Unheard’, the title track from their highly anticipated sophomore album, set to be released on January 10th, 2025.
The visually stunning video matches the intensity of the song, blending dark, atmospheric imagery with explosive performance shots, delivering a cinematic experience that complements the band’s signature sound.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting new material from THE HALO EFFECT. The upcoming album March Of The Unheard promises to showcase the band’s evolving artistry while staying true to the melodic death metal roots that their fans have come to love.
Guitarist Niclas Engelin comments on the song:”This song is based around the melody theme for the intro on all our ninety-six shows. I just got the idea of starting the whole album with this theme and building a full song around it. Mikael took the whole song to another level with his lyrics, which enlighten the need for our society to hear the voices of the unheard – the powerless.”
He continues: “We are all suckers for melancholic melodies in an up tempo beat, and add some harmonies to that, and we get a beautiful Halo song. Working with the mighty Gothenburg Marching band “Göta Lejon” just blew our minds both in the studio and live.. damn they are powerfull!!”
Shortly after the album´s release, the band will embark on their first ever headline tour across Europe. Industrial outfit and label mates PAIN will be special guest on this tour and to round up this great package, melo-death shooting stars from Finland, BLOODRED HOURGLASS, will join as support.
HALOS OVER EUROPE 2025 SPECIAL GUEST: PAIN SUPPORT: BLOODRED HOURGLAS 15.01. NO Oslo – Vulkan Arena (without PAIN) 16.01. DK Copenhagen – Amager Bio 17.01. DE Hamburg – Markthalle 18.01. DE Cologne – Essigfabrik 19.01. NL Haarlem – Patronaat 21.01. UK Bristol – The Fleece 22.01. UK Glasgow – Slay 23.01. UK Wolverhampton – KK´s Steel Mill 24.01. UK Manchester – Manchester Club Academy 25.01. UK London – Electric Ballroom 26.01. BE Antwerp – Trix 28.01. FR Paris – Bataclan 29.01. DE Frankfurt – Batschkapp 31.01. DE Stuttgart – LKA Longhorn 01.02. DE Munich – Backstage 02.02. CH Solothurn – Kulturfabrik Kofmehl 04.02. DE Berlin – Kulturbrauerei Kesselhaus 05.02. DE Leipzig – Hellraiser 06.02. AT Vienna – Arena Wien 07.02. HU Budapest – Barba Negra Blue Stage 08.02. CZ Brno – Sono Centrum 09.02. PL Warsaw – Progresja
without PAIN 11.02. FI Helsinki – Tavastia 12.02. FI Tampere – Tavara Asema 14.02. SE Stockholm – Fallan 15.02. SE Gothenburg – Gothenburg Studios
From New York out of Cleveland, the Dead Boys were the most incendiary of Manhattan’s first wave punk bands.
Louder than the Ramones, faster than Patti Smith, more feral than Television, and fronted by Stiv Bators, an unholy cross between Iggy Pop, David Johansen and all the Sex Pistols put together, the Dead Boys were also responsible for one of the all-defining anthems of the CBGBs era, “Sonic Reducer.” Not to mention two full albums that remain untouchable in terms of punk’s finest.
And if they were monstrous on record, they were almost brutal on stage. Touring relentlessly, the Dead Boys were a seething, dizzying blur of dynamic action and brain-charring volume that left audiences wilting and music critics gaping, powering through a repertoire that simply dripped with future classics… “Caught with the Meat In Your Mouth,” “Flame Thrower Love,” “Down in Flames” – they even immortalized one of New York City’s most feared serial killers, the Son of Sam, even as his reign of terror unfolded.
Another Dead Boys classic, “What Love Is” is out as the band’s latest single.
All these and more (to paraphrase the title of yet another Dead Boys masterpiece) are included on Live in San Francisco, a raw, verité recording of the band’s legendary November 1977 appearance at that city’s historic Old Waldorf – a gig later immortalized as one of the crucial landmarks in local punk rock lore.
Approved by guitarist Cheetah Chrome, this is the first ever official release of this wild and thrilling recording, an unforgettable firestorm that captures every drop of sweat, fleck of spittle and burst of crazed energy that made Dead Boys the kings of American punk rock!
And it wraps up with the Dead Boys’ signature slam through the Stooges’ “Search and Destroy,” a version that makes even the original sound tame.
In addition to this fantastic live album release, Ignorance In Action (The Rarities) is a treasure trove of Dead Boys rarities, including previously unreleased vintage demo sessions and live recordings; the rare 1987 reunion 12″ single; plus sessions from Kirk Yano’s After Dark studio in Cleveland from 1978!
Black Stone Cherry kick off their European headline tour today by sharing a rip-snorting cover of The Cult‘s hit song “American Horse” featuring their tour compadres Ayron Jones and Skillet‘s John Cooper.
The track was originally released in 1989, on The Cult‘s Sonic Temple album, which landed in the UK official album chart at #3 and went on to be certified platinum in the USA.
Black Stone Cherry enthuse, “We are extremely excited to be coming back to the UK and bringing Ayron Jones and Skillet with us. Talk about a badass package of riff rock! We are pumped to have a single out featuring all three bands, something we have never done before, and we hope it gets people as excited as we are!”
Ayron Jones says, “As an artist I believe it’s my duty to pay tribute to other great artist in my work. That’s why when BSC reached out to me to be on this track by The Cult I jumped at the opportunity. It was insanely fun to work on this tune and help put a spin on this classic. Did you need anything else for the moment?”
The tour begins today, October 29, in Berlin, Germany and calls through Luxembourg, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and the UK, finishing on 23 November in London. Ayron Jones will support them on the entire run with Skillet joining them for the UK leg of shows.
Talking about the tour the band said, “Our beloved Cherry Heads in Europe, we have seen your comments and read all of your messages which have kept us feelin’ fuzzy since the last time we saw you. With that said, it’s been too damn long, and we can’t wait to come back for a full headline tour in October and November!! We look forward to seeing your faces and hearing your voices! Let’s goo!!”
EU/UK tour dates: Tue 29 Oct – BERLIN Huxleys – Germany Wed 30 Oct – HAMBURG Grosse Freiheit 36 – Germany Thu 31 Oct – DRESDEN Reithalle – Germany Sat 2 Nov – FRANKFURT Batschkapp – Germany Sun 3 Nov – LUXEMBOURG Rockhal – Luxembourg Tue 5 Nov – EINDHOVEN Effenaar – The Netherlands Wed 6 Nov – PARIS Olympia – France Fri 8 Nov – ZURICH Komplex – Switzerland Sat 9 Nov – LAUSANNE Docks – Switzerland Sun 10 Nov – MILAN Alcatraz – Italy Tue 12 Nov – MUNICH Muffathalle – Germany Thu 14 Nov – COLOGNE Live Music Hall – Germany Fri 15 Nov – LEUVEN Depot – Belgium Sun 17 Nov – CARDIFF Utilita Arena – UK Mon 18 Nov – BIRMINGHAM Resorts World Arena – UK Wed 20 Nov – GLASGOW OVO Hydro – UK Fri 22 Nov – MANCHESTER AO Arena – UK Sat 23 Nov – LONDON OVO Arena Wembley – UK
Earlier this month, Black Stone Cherry shared a new version of “Out Of Pocket“, featuring Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage. The original recording has been streamed five million times, while cumulative plays across all DSPs of the tracks on latest album Screaming At The Sky now exceeds 25 million total streams. Total streams for the songs on prior album The Human Condition now exceed 80 million plays.
Screamin’ At The Sky features all-new material written collaboratively while the band was on tour. When it came time to record, BSC tried something they’ve always dreamed of doing: tracking an album at The Plaza Theater in Glasgow, Kentucky – a legendary 1020-seat venue built in 1934 that boasts meticulous acoustics. The result is nothing short of breath-taking – Black Stone Cherry at their finest.
With less than three months until the release of their sixth studio album, The End Will Show Us How, TREMONTI is back with another track for fans. “One More Time” is a driving track backed by Mark’s dark and brooding lyrics as he sings about the madness in the world brought upon so many differing opinions. Backed by Eric Friedman (guitars), Tanner Keegan (bass) and Ryan Bennett (drums), world-renowned guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Mark Tremonti delivers one of the most-memorable songs in the TREMONTI catalog. The song is now available via all digital service providers.
Mark Tremonti explains about the song: “It started with the pre-chorus and chorus idea. When I came up with the opening riff, it really solidified the song. Now, it’s one of the heaviest tracks on the record. It’s going to be one of those songs that translates well live. Thematically, it’s based on all of the madness in the world. There’s so much hatred and violence going on as well as so many polarizing ideologies. That led me to those lyrics.”
With a musical catalog that includes 18 previously released full length albums from his work with Creed, Alter Bridge and various solo endeavors, the new album entitled The End Will Show Us How is scheduled for global release on January 10, 2025 via longtime partner, Napalm Records. Mark Tremonti is back with a collection of 12 original compositions that continue his musical evolution while showcasing his ability to write memorable songs – something he has done for nearly three decades.
Tremonti’s musicianship and songwriting is on full display on each song on The End Will Show Us How. Tracks like “It’s Not Over,” “I’ll Take My Chances” and “All The Wicked Things” show that Mark continues to create compositions that continue to engage audiences comprised of both old and new fans alike. “Nails” is a musical idea that Mark has had for years and finally found the inspiration to complete. “Tomorrow We Will Fail” is an inspirational piece that talks about not putting off until tomorrow something you can conquer today. “Now That I’ve Made It” is a message for anyone who has ever had anyone doubt them and try to hold them back from following their dreams. The album opener “The Mother, The Earth and I” is a personal favorite of Mark’s and sets the tone for what fans can expect from the rest of the album. The song talks about the connection that all people have to the planet Earth regardless of personal differences. The visually captivating music video depicts the message of the song with cinematic visuals created by director J.T. Ibanez (Sevendust, Hawthorne Heights, Loveless) and can be seen HERE. The debut single “Just Too Much” is currently in the Top 35 at Active Rock radio and moving up the charts with a bullet. An official music video for the single, also directed by J.T. Ibanez, can be seen HERE.
The End Will Show Us Howwas produced by longtime friend and collaborator Michael “Elvis” Baskette – the producer Mark has worked with exclusively since 2007.
The End Will Show Us How tracklisting:1. The Mother, The Earth and I 2. One More Time 3. Just Too Much 4. Nails 5. It’s Not Over 6. The End Will Show Us How 7. Tomorrow We Will Fail 8. I’ll Take My Chances 9. The Bottom 10. Live In Fear 11. Now That I’ve Made It 12. All The Wicked Things
Mark Tremonti is currently on tour across the United States with the recently reunited Creed. Tremonti will tour around the globe in support of The End Will Show Us How in 2025. Dates for Europe are recently announced and more information on additional tour dates will be available in the near future. Go to MarkTremonti.com for more details.
The End Will Show Us How Tour 2025 14.01.25 DE – Hamburg / Gruenspan 16.01.25 SE – Stockholm / Debaser 17.01.25 NO – Oslo / John Dee 19.01.25 DK – Copenhagen / Lille Vega 20.01.25 DE – Berlin / Columbia Theater 21.01.25 CZ – Prague / Palac Akropolis 23.01.25 PL – Krakow / Hype Park 25.01.25 CH – Zurich / Komplex 457 27.01.25 IT – Milan / Magazzini Generali 28.01.25 AT – Vienna / Szene 30.01.25 DE – Munich / Technikum 31.01.25 DE – Frankfurt / Zoom 01.02.25 DE – Cologne / Kantine 02.02.25 NL – Amsterdam / Melkweg 03.02.25 NL – Tilburg / O13 05.02.25 GB – Bristol / O2 Academy 06.02.25 GB – Glasgow / SWG3 Galvanizers 07.02.25 GB – Belfast / Limelight 1 09.02.25 IE – Dublin / Academy 11.02.25 GB – Birmingham / O2 Institute 13.02.25 GB – Manchester / O2 Ritz 14.02.25 GB – London / O2 Forum Kentish Town 16.02.25 FR – Paris / Alhambra 17.02.25 BE – Antwerp / Trix
About TREMONTI: After three decades, 18 full-length albums, and thousands of shows, Mark Tremonti continues to relentlessly push himself as a guitarist, a vocalist, and a songwriter, above all. This unstoppable drive has underscored his catalog earmarked by a GRAMMY® Award, cumulative streams in the billions, and total sales of 60 million units worldwide across his inexhaustible output with Creed, Alter Bridge, and solo band TREMONTI. Distinguished as Guitar World’s “Guitarist of the Decade,” selected as a flagship PRS endorsee,and celebrated on the covers of numerous publications worldwide, he approaches the guitar with an insatiable curiosity and innate need to create. At the same time, he constantly stretches his voice, reaching new heights with each subsequent project.
His voice, writing, and playing have supercharged Tremonti as a force in its own right. The band has delivered a string of celebrated releases, including All I Was [2012], Cauterize[2015], Dust [2016], A Dying Machine [2019] accompanied by an acclaimed novel of the same name co-written by Mark with John Shirley, and Marching In Time [2021]. Earning acclaim, KERRANG! hailed the latter as “another worthy chapter in its creator’s well-populated book,” and American Songwriter praised how “Marching In Time is structured around denser melodies and reflective epistles prodding around chunkier riffs.” Loudwire applauded the title track as “hypnotically epic,” and Guitar World readers voted “Now and Forever” as “The Best Riff of 2021.” Now, he levels up all around on his 19th overall LP and sixth TREMONTI full-length, The End Will Show Us How[Napalm Records].
With muscular grooves, evocative solos, heart-pumping riffs, and seismic melodic vocals, The End Will Show Us How is a testament to Tremonti’s legacy of ceaseless creativity and a triumph for him.
Three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock heavyweights and platinum-selling band Killswitch Engage – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – are returning to the road this winter and spring.
Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It’s their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material.
The tour features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King and Frozen Soul, and kicks off on March 5 in Nashville and runs through April 12 in Portland, Maine. All dates are below.
“Excited is an understatement for the way that I feel about this tour,” says Leach. “We will be playing a solid amount of new songs, as well as old. That alone makes me very stoked. On top of all that, the lineup we have chosen is a powerful and eclectic blend of hardcore and metal with Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King, and Frozen Soul. It is going to make for a really great live experience for everybody who comes to check out this tour. I feel like the band is firing on all cylinders and the timing for this tour couldn’t be more perfect. This will be a tour to be remembered…mark my words.”
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON TOUR: WITH KUBLAI KHAN TX, FIT FOR A KING, + FROZEN SOUL: 03/05 – Nashville, TN – The Pinnacle 03/06 – Chesterfield, MO – The Factory 03/08 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live 03/09 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion 03/11 – El Paso, TX – Don Haskins Center Arena 03/13 – Las Vegas, NV – The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas 03/14 – Reno, NV – Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort 03/15 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live 03/17 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House 03/18 – Seattle, WA – The Paramount 03/19 – Vancouver, BC – PNE Forum 03/21 – Penticton, BC – South Okanagan Events Centre 03/22 – Tsuut’ina, AB – Grey Eagle Event Centre 03/24 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre 03/27 – Peoria, IL – Peoria Civic Center 03/28 – Waukee, IA- Vibrant Music Hall 03/29 – La Vista, NE – The Astro 03/30 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre 04/01 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live 20 Monroe 04/03 – Corbin, KY – The Corbin Arena 04/04 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE 04/05 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall 04/06 – Greensboro, NC – Greensboro Special Events Center 04/08 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall 04/09 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks 04/11 – Laval, QC -Place Bell 04/12 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena
The band’s latest album Atonement is out now via Metal Blade Records.
In other KsE news, the band has teamed up with Revolver for a special collector’s edition deluxe magazine that is “must own” for fans!
Revolver celebrates Killswitch Engage‘s 25th anniversary with this issue. In new, exclusive interviews, the band members tell the story of Killswitch Engage in their own words – from the group’s humble beginnings to the dramatic lineup changes to their rise to the top of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal movement.
This 100-page deluxe magazine is thicker than a standard issue of Revolver, without any ads, features embossed type, and UV coating on its covers, as well as rare, all-access photography throughout.
The Killswitch Engage special collector’s issue comes with two alternate, collectible covers – a band cover with photography by Travis Shinn and an illustrated cover by the group’s own bassist and resident visual artist Mike D’Antonio.
All of the below items will be available as a bundle or a la carte and all items are exclusive in honor of the band’s impressive 25-year history.
*2 special collector’s edition covers *New vinyl re-pressings of: Alive or Just Breathing, The End of Heartache, As Daylight Dies, Incarnate, Atonement (each limited to 1K or less; wax colors to come) *LP boxset *25th Anthology tee *25th Anthology hoodie *25th Anthology slipmat *Exclusive skateboard deck with 25th Anthology design *18″x24″ flocked, blacklight 25th Anthology poster *Pint glass set with etched logos
ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002’s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver. Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The End of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, along with 2019’s Atonement, would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. The band’s total streams are nearing 3 billion to date, while they’ve remained consummate road warriors who’ve sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its incredible legacy.
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