German electronicore powerhouse ELECTRIC CALLBOY have joined forces with acclaimed composer Yuki Hayashi for a special 10th anniversary version of “You Say Run”, one of the most iconic themes from the globally successful anime My Hero Academia. Combining the original orchestral arrangement with ELECTRIC CALLBOY’s signature energy, melodies and vocal performance, the reimagined version celebrates a decade of one of anime’s most beloved franchises.
The collaboration follows the release of ELECTRIC CALLBOY’s latest album TANZNEID and continues the band’s growing presence across global pop culture, film and anime projects. Additionally, the band’s upcoming song “Firestarter” has been announced as the theme song for the anime series The Vermillion Mask, premiering on October 10, 2026.
Multi-award-winning and Grammy-nominated singer songwriter Beth Hart returns to the UK to perform four prestigious concerts in September 2027. Planet Rock will run an exclusive 48-hour ticket pre-sale at 10am on Wednesday September 30th via Planet Rock Tickets.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday October 2nd via Alt Tickets, Beth Hart, and Gigantic. Tickets for Beth’s Glasgow concert at SEC Armadillo will go on sale via Ticketmaster.
The September 2027 UK tour includes Manchester, Bridgewater Hall (Sept 21), York, Barbican (Sept 23), Glasgow, SEC Armadillo (Sept 25), and London, Royal Albert Hall (Sept 27).
The UK tour also celebrates the first time Beth will play the Royal Albert Hall in almost 10 years! Watch the official Beth Hart Royal Albert Hall YouTube playlist HERE.
“Hart’s vocal prowess, powerful stage presence and sense of live dynamics will convince any music lover she’s as passionate a performer playing in this expansive, multi-levelled classy setting as in any tiny club.” –American Songwriter, Beth Hart Live at the Royal Abert Hall
Beth Hart is recognised as one of her generation’s most talented voices. She plays by her own rules. She has collaborated with legends and icons, traversed the globe, topped the Billboard charts six times, gone double platinum and had a string of Top 10 charting albums across Europe, Top 30 Official Billboard US charting albums and surpassed 600 million streaming figures and counting.
With a career marked by critical acclaim and countless accolades, Beth has solidified her place as one of the most influential and heartfelt voices in music today. Her journey, marked by triumphs and trials, reflects her relentless dedication to her craft and fans. She has collaborated with the crème de la crème of musicians including Jeff Beck, Slash, and Joe Bonamassa.
Beth’s music, infused with her raw, soulful energy, has captivated audiences worldwide, earning her top spots on the Billboard Blues and performances at iconic venues like Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome and London’s Royal Albert Hall.
Watch the official lyric video for her latest single “Mean Ole Man of Mine” HERE.
There is an undeniable electrifying psychic connection between Beth and her fans, one that’s almost unrivalled. Her natural ability to touch people with her music and words that cut through straight to the heart means that she lives every word she sings, and fans hang on to each word, living it with her.
Her current album, You Still Got Me, offers listeners an opportunity to hold and comfort her as she continues to navigate her journey with grace and courage.
“Beth Hart is the real deal. A compelling, honest, and open performer, Beth makes every concert an experience to treasure and tonight is no exception.” – Sonic Abuse
“Beth captivated her audience with intricate, delicate, and distinctive heartbeats. The performance was sophisticated, daring, heartfelt, and undeniably memorable.” – Raw Ramp
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BETH HART SEPTEMBER 2027 UK TOUR
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If you have ever seen Beth Hart live or immersed yourself in her music, you know she puts every ounce of her being into her songs. For all those empathetic superpowers, she also needs someone to catch her when she falls. Firebrands inspire; it’s what attracts people to them. However, part of those personalities’ makeup is that they do not wear a harness. They thrive on the freedom and space around them. But, with that comes danger; you need an emotional crash mat, and those save lives. It is something we all need at times in our lives.
Beth says about the title track, “This is a true story. I had a moment where I wasn’t in a positive mood, and I was hanging out on the couch, crying pretty hard, and Scott said, ‘Hey, do you need a hug?’ I said, I’ve got nothing inside left to love, and he said, you still got me. I said, hang on a minute; I’ll be right back. I went downstairs and used those words and how he said it. You say something like that, and someone you love says back, but you’ve still got me. It’s true. If I’ve still got him, I’ve still got everything.”
You can see this in the “You Still Got Me” video, poignantly featuring her beloved husband, Scott. Along with the team around her, provide that surface to fall on when she needs it. Her fans adore her, and the feeling is replicated. You can see that night after night on tour; the adulation she receives and that she also gives back, which is why there is a bond like few other artists have. That connection was forged over the last 28 years of releasing music in which she unapologetically wears her heart on her sleeve – like a warrior. Which is precisely what she is.
It’s okay not to be okay. It’s okay to struggle sometimes, and it takes enormous strength to open yourself up to help. Reaching out a hand to have someone hold on to it is strength. This is something that we can all learn.
Beth says about her writing process, “I never write in terms of thinking it’s going to be an album or go to people. When I write, it’s always for the joy of writing or for the challenge of writing, to seek what’s going on. Sometimes, I go just when I’m sad or scared. If I check in on the piano, it sometimes reveals itself. Sometimes a song comes, and sometimes one doesn’t. Either way, there’s comfort there.”
Beth explains the messaging within the songs: “I leave that up to the listener to decide. Personally, I know what it is for right now. One of the beautiful things I love about songs and albums is that over time, that meaning changes. I like to keep that open because there’s a lot I can learn from it. Often, when I write a song, I know what that means to me at that moment. But a year will go by, and it means something totally different.”
You don’t have to look too hard to find moments of daylight throughout the album. You can see it in the song, Little Heartbreak Girl, as it pierces through the clouds like spears of hope and power. “Little Heartbreak Girl, you’re on your own,” she yearns but follows with “Little Heartbreak Girl, stronger than stone.” Still, it’s the lyric “You’re gonna conquer the world” scattered throughout that stands atop the mountain, planting a flag into the stone.
The decadent groove-laden funk of “Suga N My Bowl” features the dextrous fire fingers of Southpaw wizard and longtime friend Eric Gales. Gales says, “It is truly an honour to be part of anything having to do with our friend Beth Hart. She reached out to us, letting us know of this powerful song she’d been writing and workin’ on, and she felt it was a perfect fit for me. Of course, when I heard it, I said, ABSOLUTELY!!! Beth, LaDonna, and I have been good friends for quite some time. And we love her. I’m so honoured that she thought of me to participate on it. It’s a very powerful song!”
“Eric Gales is a badass, and I got very blessed,” Hart says. “I wasn’t there as it was sent to another studio. I heard this from his wife, the gorgeous, talented, badass LaDonna. He came in, they played the first couple of bars of the song, and he said, alright, I got it and did one take, and he’s like, I’m done, I’ll see you later,” she laughs. “That’s how phenomenal Eric Gales is. I love him. I adore him and respect him madly.”
‘You Still Got Me’ is Hart’s eleventh studio album, and right here, right now, it finds her riding a career trajectory that has been heading for the stars for several years and keeps soaring. Her most recent albums, ‘A Tribute to Led Zeppelin’ (2022) and ‘War in My Mind’ (2019), became her highest charting UK and US releases to date, along with crashing into the Top 10 in Germany and France, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and The Netherlands.
The album erupts with soaring rocker ‘Savior with A Razor’ featuring Guns n’ Roses’ Slash. She snarls out the lyrics, “Dig my bad bones out the trash, sell my sick soul, keep the cash, kiss the preacher, kiss my ass, I’m a rager, like a saviour, with a razor, I’m takin’ the devil down.” The epic Bond-like anthem thunders with nihilistic defiance as Beth’s vocals take the listener through the shadows and smash through the ceiling as Slash’s guitar wraps around the story in an electric fashion.
Talking about working with Beth, Slash says, “Beth Hart is one of my favourite artists to work with. She is an incredible singer/lyricist on many levels. Beth’s also as sincere and genuine a friend. She’s amazing.”
“Slash is a real team player,” Beth gushes, “I’ve met some incredible people in this business that are high profilers, and that dude is the best team player I’ve ever come across. He’s just a badass with zero ego and knows a lot about the razor’s edge. I got lucky. I reached out and said, ‘Hey man, would you be at all interested?,’ and he was absolutely down. He was totally into it, and I was just shocked.”
The beautiful piano ballad’ Wonderful World’ oozes optimism. “That song was written for and about my beautiful niece,” she says. “However, as time has gone by, I see that it’s really written for the lineage of the women in my family. All the way down the line: my great grandma, my grandma, my mom, my sisters, my niece, and her daughter. It’s the lineage and how imperative it is for me to see that, and what a gift to finally see that.”
She offers up a cautionary tale on “Never Underestimate a Gal,” while the Tom’s Waits-esque “Drunk on Valentine” is a tender, Jazzy, smoky barroom ballad. Her “most personal and powerful song on the album” is the haunting socio-political opus “Don’t Call the Police,” an incredibly raw, upsetting, but an essential observational insight on the George Floyd murder – “I got broken-hearted. How can you watch that and not get heartbroken for him, his family and everyone else on the ground,” she explains.
Moving hearts and souls across the globe, her touring has taken her across the world, filling rooms at iconic venues such as Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Amsterdam’s Ziggo Dome, and London’s Royal Albert Hall. Selling out shows worldwide, her recent travels have taken her across the US, Europe, and all the way to India, Morocco, Australia, and Canada.
You Still Got Me was recorded in 2023 and produced by Kevin Shirley at Ocean Way Studios in Nashville, TN – housed in a 100-year-old Gothic revival grey-stoned church in the heart of Music Row. Beth’s working relationship with Kevin Shirley goes back to her three collaboration albums with Joe Bonamassa (Don’t Explain, Seesaw, and Black Coffee) and her 2012 studio album Bang Bang, Boom Boom.
Shirley calls her a “Diamond. A living contradiction.” He continues, “She is rough and hard at the core – shining, sophisticated, and polished at presentation. Beth is one of the most formidable musicians I’ve ever worked with. Immensely talented and gifted. This album shows all the facets of the giant gem that is Beth Hart. Razor-edged tracks that have a samurai sword edge, soft and sultry ballads, and heartfelt emotional messages just made recording this album one of the most special I’ve ever done. You have to love her. There is nobody else like her. She is the best.”
“I’m always very controlling and protective of the songs,” Beth says. “One of the things Kevin told me was, “You gotta make sure to keep in mind that this is going to be really fun. Have fun. Let it go. Don’t be so momma bear protective of these songs. I really had to meditate on that, but I did let go and thank God I did. Kevin is badass. He had a great band, too. Phenomenal.”
There is an electrifying connection between Beth and her fans, one that’s almost unrivalled. Her ability to touch people with her music and words that cut through straight to the heart means that she lives every word she sings, and fans hang on to each word, living it with her. You Still Got Me offers fans a chance to hold and comfort her as she continues to navigate her journey with grace and courage.
We all have our “Me” when she sings “You Still Got Me” – a loved one, a friend, a pet, a place, a memory, a song; even in her moments of fragility, Beth Hart continues to inspire. She buries her hand deep and tears her emotions open so we can all see a mirror into ourselves, reminding us that you can feel low, but your inner strength is so much more powerful.
The multi-award-winning and Grammy-nominated Hart is recognized as one of her generation’s most talented voices; she has played by her own rules. She has collaborated with legends and icons, traversed the globe, topped the Billboard charts six times, gone double platinum and had a string of Top 10 charting albums across Europe, Top 30 Official Billboard US charting albums and surpassed 600 million streams and counting.
Beth Hart is a powerhouse in every sense of the word, and …she is a gargantuan BADASS!
MADAME MAYHEM release “Survived The Monster”. The song is taken from the new studio album “Headcase” wich will be released in Europe on November 27 at Metalville.
Madame Mayhem shares, “The ‘monster’ isn’t necessarily one person or one experience. It represents everything that has tried to break you: betrayal, disappointment, complicated relationships and the emotional toll of trying to survive. There’s a difference between defeating something and surviving it.Survival doesn’t mean walking away untouched. You can still carry the scars, anger, and hurt. The victory is realizing that whatever you went through didn’t destroy you. ‘Survived The Monster’ is that moment of finally being able to look back and say, ‘Wow. I made it through that.’”
Led by vocalist Madame Mayhem, MADAME MAYHEM is a New York based hard rock band whose music has often explored personal experiences alongside the realities of working in the music industry. Those themes come together on the band’s new album, HEADCASE.
HEADCASE is an album that lives inside all the thoughts and emotions you’re not supposed to say out loud: anger, grief, betrayal, frustration, insecurity, and the moments when you wonder how much more you can take but then discover that you are stronger than you know.
The album is about owning that chaos rather than apologizing for it. As a woman, being emotional, angry, outspoken, or intense can quickly get you labeled “crazy” or “too much.” HEADCASE takes that label and turns it into something powerful. These songs came from different experiences, but together they tell the story of what happens when life keeps knocking you down and you have to figure out how to get back up.
At the center of that story is “Survived The Monster.”
“Fake Friends” and “Sinking Ships” pull from the realities of the music industry: learning that some people only stand beside you when there’s something in it for them, watching promises disappear, and realizing that loyalty doesn’t mean you have to go down with a situation that’s destroying you.
“Can You Hear Me?” turns inward toward family, using music to express the things that can be almost impossible to say in a conversation. It brings a different kind of vulnerability to an album that isn’t afraid to be angry.
Ultimately, the album is about survival in all its messy forms. It’s about being disappointed by people you trusted, questioning yourself, and continuing even when the world gives you every reason to stop. That’s why “Survived The Monster” feels like the heart of the record. “After all the anger, loss, frustration, and chaos, the message is simple: I’m bruised, I’m different, maybe I’m a little more guarded, but I’m still here.”, says Madame Mayhem.
TRACK LISTING
01- Welcome To The Shit Show 02- Fake Friends 03- Survived The Monster 04- Headcase 05- Drag Me Back 06- Immune To You 07- Kill You First 08- Get It Right 09- No More Chances 10- Better Than A Bullet 11- Can You Hear Me? 12- Parasite 13- Sinking Ships 14- Battle Cry
Lineup: Jared Cannata (Guitar), Madame Mayhem (Vocals), Percy Trayanov (Bass), Jason “JBomb” Harrison (Drums)
Italian heavy metal veterans Skanners have announced that their new album will be entitled “Midnight Call”. The record was recorded, mixed and mastered at Black Alley Studio by Francesco Gambarini, known for his work with Chronosfear and Shiver Down.
“Midnight Call” will be released soon via Punishment 18 Records. More details about the release date, tracklist and artwork will be revealed shortly.
Finnish death metal quartet HEKATOXEN have now premiered their debut full-length “Obsidian Majesty” in its entirety through Death Metal Promotion, ahead of its October 2 release on Nuclear Winter Records.
The band follow their 2022 “Utter Darkness” EP with a record steeped in the traditions of their homeland’s nineties death metal, yet shaped around a distinct sense of songwriting and atmosphere. Across eight tracks, HEKATOXEN move between punishing guitar work, muscular rhythms and passages where the tension is allowed to build rather than simply explode, giving the album a strong internal pulse. The result is a collection that feels firmly connected to the Finnish underground while avoiding a purely retrospective approach.
Hailing from Tampere, HEKATOXEN return with a record that tightens every aspect of their sound, delivering a darker, sharper and more determined expression of death metal. “Obsidian Majesty” moves through a landscape of razor-edged riffs, where heaviness never comes at the expense of movement: the songs hit hard, but they also breathe, shift direction and reveal a band with a clear understanding of dynamics.
Rooted in the classic language of Finnish death metal, the album does not rely on mere repetition of familiar formulas. HEKATOXEN take inspiration from the genre’s foundations while shaping those elements into focused compositions built around memorable riffs, strong structures and a tangible sense of purpose. Every track feels designed to stand on its own, equally effective through headphones and on stage.
Avoiding unnecessary complexity, HEKATOXEN embrace the power of well-crafted songwriting: concrete, immediate and uncompromising. “Obsidian Majesty” captures a band refining its identity, balancing old school instincts with a contemporary edge and proving that tradition can still cut deep when handled with conviction.
Tracklist:
01 – Lost Souls Epitome 02 – I Am Them 03 – Spawns Of Darkness 04 – Haunting Ceremony 05 – Domus Vilomaxus 06 – Grave Reveries 07 – At Hellsrivers Pathway 08 – Vanguard The Dark
For fans of: Demigod, Adramelech, early Sentenced, Funebrarum
Line-up:
Jussi – vocals, lead guitar, acoustic guitar, synth Niko – rhythm guitar Risto – bass guitar Vesa – drums
Kill Sound Records, a new record label founded by musician, songwriter and producer Justin McCain, has officially launched in partnership with The Label Group, TLG|ROCK, distributed by Virgin Music Group, bringing McCain’s longtime passion for A&R and artist development to the forefront.
Joining McCain in the launch of Kill Sound Records are partners Zeb Christensen (Screaming for Silence), Aaron Koenig (Devil in the Details) and Sgt. RJ Mitchell USMC. The label’s first two artist signings are MCHNZ and ANNALIESE.
McCain’s path to launching his own label has been shaped by years of experience on both sides of the music industry. As a musician, songwriter and producer, he has been a member of signed bands including Through Fire and Emphatic, experiences that gave him firsthand insight into the workings of the modern music business while allowing him to work alongside some of the industry’s most respected executives and creative professionals.
Those experiences ultimately helped shape a long-standing goal: to create a label focused on identifying artists with potential and giving them the guidance, development and resources needed to build lasting careers.
“I’ve been very fortunate to have worked with some of the most incredibly talented people throughout my journey as a musician, songwriter and producer in the music business,” says Justin McCain, Owner/CEO of Kill Sound Records. “With being in multiple signed bands, including Through Fire and Emphatic, I had the opportunity to learn from some of the most brilliant label executives along the way such as Monte Lipman of Republic Records, Pete Ganbarg of Atlantic Records, Jeff Blue, known for his work with Linkin Park and, of course, one of my biggest inspirations, Ash Avildsen of Sumerian Records.”
“I always knew when the time was right, I was going to focus on my passion for A&R and artist development and start my own record label. After having conversations with my good friend and industry vet Dennis Sanders, owner of The Label Group, he offered me an imprint through TLG|ROCK, distributed by Virgin Music Group. Alongside my partners Zeb Christensen, Aaron Koenig and RJ Mitchell, we’re very excited to announce the launch of Kill Sound Records.”
McCain also credits Dennis Sanders, founder of The Label Group, as an important part of making the vision a reality. Sanders has built TLG into a prominent independent music company.
“Kill Sound Records represents the next chapter of my career,” McCain adds. “I’m incredibly excited to take everything I’ve learned as an artist, songwriter, producer and student of the business and apply it to developing artists. We’re just getting started, and we’re extremely proud to welcome MCHNZ and ANNALIESE as the first two artists on the roster.”
Kill Sound Records’ first two signings, MCHNZ and ANNALIESE, represent the beginning of the label’s artist roster, with additional announcements and new music to follow.
In addition, Justin McCain and partner Aaron Koenig have also opened Kill Sound Studio, a production/songwriting team to record/produce artists signed to the label.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
