Almost a year after the release of their acclaimed debut album Gallery Of Sin, VEIL OF THE SERPENT return with a vengeance. Out now on all major streaming platforms, the brand new single “Anthem Of Terror” is a dark and furious statement that marks their triumphant comeback.
Where Gallery Of Sin painted a sinister and theatrical picture of human depravity, “Anthem Of Terror” takes the listener even deeper into the void. Lyrically, it addresses the corruption of faith, the danger of silence and the terror that arises when blind devotion replaces truth. It is a hymn for those who dare to stand in the shadows and embrace the darkness.
With their new single, VEIL OF THE SERPENT continue to carve their path through the modern metal landscape. Since their formation, the band has built a reputation for combining atmosphere, storytelling and raw power. And “Anthem Of Terror” is no exception. It’s the sound of a band that refuses to stand still, constantly pushing their limits and daring their audience to follow them into darker territory.
As VEIL OF THE SERPENT prepare for the next chapter of their journey, “Anthem Of Terror” serves as both a warning and a promise: this is only the beginning of what’s to come!
About the band: VEIL OF THE SERPENT was forged in 2021 by guitarist Gene and his son Felix. United by blood and their obsession for heavy metal, the duo began plotting their thundering assault in 2020. What began as a vision quickly evolved into a full-scale sonic onslaught with the arrival of powerhouse vocalist JD, completing their unholy trinity. Together, they channel the raw, unyielding spirit of metal, delivering a sound that’s both brutal and haunting, destined to leave a lasting scar on the heavy music landscape.
VEIL OF THE SERPENT is: JD – Vocals Gene – Guitars Felix – Drums
Boneyard Lily continues its series of single releases leading up to the Tear Grinder EP with a new track, Friends After Dark, following their debut single You Never Died. The first release has garnered significant streams, especially in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, and Italy, exceeding the band’s expectations.
The new song is darker and more intimate in tone. It draws inspiration from 1990s indie and alternative rock, particularly the melancholic and cinematic sound of Suede. The lyrics were inspired by the film Let Me In, a quiet and visually intense vampire drama based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s acclaimed novel Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in). The film’s haunting atmosphere played a key role in shaping the song’s emotional and sonic landscape.
The track features rising artist pinjasofia as a guest vocalist, adding a honeyed sense of comfort and sensuality to the song’s raw emotional core. Friends After Dark feels like a soundtrack piece made for the inevitably darkening autumn.
–ISRC: FI3FC2596101 –Composers: Jukka Salo, Janne Oinas, Matias Koskimies –Lyrics: Jukka salo –Arrangement: Jukka Salo, Janne Oinas, Matias Koskimies, Antti Laitinen & Sami Suominen
VILT are getting closer to their debut album release 2026 with more upcoming singles, today the band unleash the song Feral!
Swedish thrash and melodic death metal band VILT strives to take the Scandinavian sound to new heights. Through aggressive riffs, fast drums, and intense vocal performances they have already established a unique signature style.
Next year will become something extra as their debut album is set to be released during spring followed by tours, headlining shows and festivals, VILT is not just here to take part they are here to conquer!
This is the sixth upcoming single from their debut album set to be released spring 2026, described as a salut to the Scandinavian sound with heavy riffs and powerful lyrics, The new single Feral is here to tear everyone down!
Hard-hitting country rocker CORY MARKS (@corymarksmusic) yesterday (October 3) released his fourth album SORRY FOR NOTHING VOLUME 2 and its anthemic third single, “Whiskey River,” via Better Noise Music. Listen to the album and singleHERE. Watch the videoHERE.
The release of SORRY FOR NOTHING VOLUME 2 comes as MARKS’ debut breakout 2019 hit “Outlaws & Outsiders” (featuring Ivan Moody, Mick Mars, and Travis Tritt) has officially been certified Gold by the RIAA in the U.S., marking his first-ever certification in the States. The song made history as the first-ever Top 10 U.S.rock radio-charting single from a Canadian country act and has logged over 212 million global streams to date.
Watch a trailer for SORRY FOR NOTHING VOL 2 via THE NOISE Presents HERE
The singer and songwriter describes “Whiskey River,” the follow-up to the album’s second single “Hangman,” as “a rowdy, honky tonk feel-good country anthem made for late nights and good times. With twangy guitars, stomping drums, and a barroom sing-along chorus, it’s the soundtrack to letting loose after a long week.
“The song,” MARKS continues, “follows a character who is just a good timing simple man…who’s had one to many late nights according to his partner and when times get rough or she’s had enough. He runs to his favorite small-town watering hole, where the whiskey flows like a river and worries get washed away. It’s about freedom, fun, and the kind of night you’ll never forget—if you can remember it.”
SORRY FOR NOTHING VOLUME 2 is an unapologetic double-barreled blast of 10 new songs, equally divided between arena-rock and roots country. Produced by Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Shania Twain), Kile Odell (NOTHING MORE, Nita Strauss) and Andrew Baylis (Jelly Roll, Brantley Gilbert), MARKS’ SORRY FOR NOTHING / SORRY FOR NOTHING VOLUME 2 era are welcome signs of unity in a world of divisiveness.
In touring news, MARKS will head out with Sevendust this fall on their “Southside Double-Wide Tour” that kicks off November 14 in Columbia, MO. Earlier this year, MARKS made his own headlining jaunt throughout Canada, and he ventured overseas for his debut Europe and U.K. tour. He also toured the U.S. in support of Dorothy as part of their “REDEMPTION” tour, following performances with Toby Keith, Travis Tritt, and Theory Of A Deadman. In recent years, MARKS has shared stages with a blend of artists including Five Finger Death Punch, ZZ Top, and Brantley Gilbert, while also having joined Nickelback on the main stage at the annual Boots and Hearts festival in Toronto in 2023.
Nov 14 – Columbia, MO – The Blue Note Nov 15 – Memphis, TN – Graceland Nov 16 – Nashville, IN – Brown County Music Center Nov 18 – Newport, KY – MegaCorp Pavilion Nov 19 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Jack White Theatre Nov 21 – Glenside, PA – Keswick Theatre Nov 22 – Somerville, MA – Somerville Theatre Nov 24 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Nov 25 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe Nov 26 – Bloomington, IL – Bloomington Center for The Performing Arts Nov 28 – Minneapolis, MN – The Fillmore Nov 29 – Milwaukee, WI – Eagles Ballroom Nov 30 – West Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom Dec 2 – Green Bay, WI – EPIC Event Center Dec 3 – Lincoln, NE – Bourbon Theatre Dec 5 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman Dec 6 – East Moline, IL – The Rust Belt Dec 7 – St. Louis, MO – The Hawthorn Dec 9 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore Dec 10 – Houston, TX – House of Blues Dec 11 – Dallas, TX – Texas Theatre Dec 12 – San Antonio, TX – Aztec Theatre
The heavy metal visionaries collectively known as AVATAR — vocalist Johannes Eckerström, guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — previously announced the thoroughly fitting October 31 release of their latest masterwork Don’t Go in the Forest. Pre-save it here.
Today, the band shares the video for the new single “Death and Glitz.” Watch it HERE
Vocalist Johannes Eckerström states Death and Glitz is a song about perversion and detachment. A homeless, young runaway collapses and dies on a dancefloor. The crime scene tape becomes a red velvet rope. The investigator’s camera flashes like paparazzi on the red carpet. We love her for dying. Now she’s perfect. Obedient. Anything you want. The true crime genre is as sick as the sickest goregrind band you’ve ever heard. Its popularity and the form in which it’s being consumed, as a choice between Mickey Mouse and hospital dramas, reveals a darkness. The best ones are when it’s someone young and attractive. A couple goes hiking. Only the man returns. What do we project on this very real person’s very real tragedy? Do we see ourselves, with a strange envy for being so desired? Do we see a canvas on which we can paint the perfect future, if we were there to make it right? Do we completely dehumanize the victim and those who lost her, obsessed with the puzzle? No matter the reason, it is clear that no one is more obedient than the dead. People simply like it when death has a nice rack.
Regarding the album, Eckerström offers, “The secret ingredient is that we still feel like we’re just getting started. Don’t Go In The Forest is an album filled to the brim with stuff we’ve never done before. It’s all songs and concepts we haven’t been close to touch until now. The mind is wild and we have lost ourselves in the darkest woods, filled with memories, and fantasies. Forbidden thoughts that must be spoken.”
He concludes, “It would have been impossible to make this album at any other time than now. That’s all we ever wanted, and I think you’ll find it’s all you ever wanted too.”
Avatar have gone from strength to strength over the past several years. There’s the critically acclaimed, 2023-released album Dance Devil Dance, which included their first #1 at Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay, “The Dirt I’m Buried In.” There have been scores of sold-out headline shows across the globe, and an actual fossil named after them. The list goes on and on.
But the past is the past and the future is, well, dark in the best possible way and that’s JUST how Avatar like it.
Avatar will spend the foreseeable future (if not forever) on the road. See below for a complete rundown of the band’s planned tour activity for the next two years, including a Fall 2025 North American headline run after album release.
Avatar show no signs of pausing to take a breath in their quest for absolute world domination — much less stopping.
2025 U.S.A. HEADLINE
Wed, Nov 5, 25 — Phoenix, AZ — The Van Buren Thu, Nov 6, 25 — San Diego, CA — The Observatory San Diego Fri, Nov 7, 25 — Riverside, CA — Riverside Municipal Auditorium Sat, Nov 8, 25 — Las Vegas, NV — Brooklyn Bowl Mon, Nov 10, 25 — Seattle, WA — Moore Theater Tue, Nov 11, 25 — Portland, OR — Roseland Theatre Wed, Nov 12, 25 — Boise, ID — Revolution Fri, Nov 14, 25 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union Sat, Nov 15, 25 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Mon, Nov 17, 25 — Minneapolis, MN — Fillmore Tue, Nov 18, 25 — Madison, WI — The Sylvee Thu, Nov 20, 25 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit Fri, Nov 21, 25 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE Sat, Nov 22, 25 — Columbus, OH — KEMBA Live! Sun, Nov 23, 25 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore Silver Spring Tue, Nov 25, 25 — Huntington, NY — Paramount Wed, Nov 26, 25 — Boston, MA — House of Blues Fri, Nov 28, 25 — Allentown, PA — Archer Music Hall Sat, Nov 29, 25 — Charlotte, NC — The Fillmore Charlotte Sun, Nov 30, 25 — Louisville, KY — Old Forester’s Paristown Hall Tue, Dec 2, 25 — Chicago, IL — Riviera Theater Thu, Dec 4, 25 — Nashville, TN — Marathon Music Works Fri, Dec 5, 25 — St. Louis, MO — The Pageant Sat, Dec 6, 25 — Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Theater Sun, Dec 7, 25 — Dallas, TX — House of Blues
2025 MEXICO HEADLINE
Fri, Oct 31, 25 — Mexico City, MX — The Pepsi Center
2026 EUROPEAN HEADLINE TOUR
Thu, Feb 5, 26 — Stockholm, SE — Fållan Sat, Feb 7, 26 — Helsinki, FI — Kulttuuritalo Mon, Feb 9, 26 — Oslo, NO — Sentrum Scene Tue, Feb 10, 26 — Copenhagen, DK — Vega Wed, Feb 11, 26 — Osnabrück, DE — Die Botschaft Thu, Feb 12, 26 — Brussels, BE — A.B. Sat, Feb 14, 26 — London, UK — Exhibition Sun, Feb 15, 26 — Manchester, UK — Academy Mon, Feb 16, 26 — Glasgow, UK — Barrowland Tue, Feb 17, 26 — Nottingham, UK — Rock City Wed, Feb 18, 26 — Bristol, UK — O2 Academy Fri, Feb 20, 26 — Amsterdam, NL — AFAS Live Sat, Feb 21, 26 — Esch-Sur-Alzette, LU — Rockhal Sun, Feb 22, 26 — Zürich, CH — Komplex Tue, Feb 24, 26 — Barcelona, ES — Razzmatazz Wed, Feb 25, 26 — Madrid, ES — La Riviera Fri, Feb 27, 26 — Lisbon, PT — LAV Sat, Feb 28, 26 — Bilbao, ES — Santana 27 Mon, Mar 2, 26 — Lyon, FR — Le Cube Tue, Mar 3, 26 — Milan, IT — Alcatraz Wed, Mar 4, 26 — Vienna, AT — Gasometer Thu, Mar 5, 26 — Munich, DE — Tonhalle Fri, Mar 6, 26 — Cologne, DE — E-Werk Sat, Mar 7, 26 — Paris, FR — Le Zenith Mon, Mar 9, 26 — Wiesbaden, DE — Schlachthof Tue, Mar 10, 26 — Zlin, CZ — Sports Hall Datart Wed, Mar 11, 26 — Warsaw, PL — Stodola Thu, Mar 12, 26 — Berlin, DE — Columbiahalle Fri, Mar 13, 26 — Hamburg, DE — Docks
SUPPORTING METALLICA — SUMMER 2026
Sun, May 24, 26 — Frankfurt, DE — Deutsche Bank Park Thu, Jun 11, 26 — Budapest, HU — Puskas Arena Fri, Jun 19, 26 — Dublin, IE — Aviva Stadium Sun, Jul 5, 26 — London, UK — London Stadium
ABOUT AVATAR:
As a strange light in the sky beckons you towards something forbidden, far away, you see a robed, horned ferryman, rowing across a restless sea at the end of days. Back home a strange sound rolls through your house. It comes from the basement. The news talks about a beautiful corpse, lauded for her magnificent demise on a dance floor by men who could have fixed her. You catch the last broadcast from an outpost succumbing to flames on a distant moon. Its inhabitants try to outrun their own madness. Outside there is a place you’re not allowed to go, no matter how intoxicating the gaze of the eyes among the trees.
You lay awake at night, yet you dream thousand dreams more real than any waking moment.
Strange times call for a strange band. With a life long commitment to the misfit arts, Avatar delves deep into the collective subconscious. They travel beyond the realms of flesh and far past the spiritual barriers broken in past works. No matter how many times they were warned, they keep treading deeper into the woods. There is sense to be made out of the senseless. They lay a soft gaze upon terrifying, almost shapeless inner landscapes, and they have a damn good time doing it.
Don’t go in the forest is a warning said by others, heeded as a challenge for a certain kind of freak who just can’t fight the urge to seek truth and feel alive. It is a collection of strange tunes emerging from a circus tent in a meadow in a faraway valley. You can only ever get there by accident, walking a path impossible to remember and map out. Two eyes closed, one eye open.
Formed by John Alfredsson and Jonas Jarlsby as teenagers, soon joined by Johannes Eckerström, Henrik Sandelin and Simon Andersson, Avatar started an evolution that would see a group always looking to connect what you hear with what you see. Once Andersson left and Tim Öhrström joined, they had all the ingredients to a brew so potent it would forge their names into the souls of millions. More than a band, Avatar has evolved to concept art. In order to keep going with the same drive as they had on day one, they make sure that what is made must be done. Every single time must matter more than ever before. No matter how far they get, they are sworn to remain underdogs. There is so much to do, to try. So many ways to rediscover the simple yet sublime power hidden inside an electric guitar.
It’s all about trying new things, on and off stage. Choirs, brass instruments, Moogs, piano, cellos and violas. As long as it all worships at the altar of the riff, the possibilities are as vast as the universe. Don’t go in the forest once again stretches, bends and breaks the boundaries of what Avatar is and can be by providing both the most introspective as well as their most explosive moments. It is all done in a way that can only be achieved after a lifetime in servitude to the madness where all your gathered experiences are used to be reborn. In other words, by embracing discovery as the core tenet for what they do, every new release is as fresh and exciting as their very first time in a rehearsal room.
While the studio experience is becoming a more and more powerful tool for self expression, it is on the stage where Avatar truly comes alive. Every testimonial makes the same claims in all caps. Avatar is a MUST SEE experience. Every album cycle has provided record breaking milestones. A few of the more recent ones being kicking the door in on Latin America, first with Iron Maiden, and then with sold out shows all throughout Mexico and beyond. They have also become the talk of countless festivals across Europe and the United States, being a surefire stage closer and show stealer everywhere they go, all while setting attendance record after attendance record for their headline shows. From Australia to Brazil. From Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea. From the Pacific Northwest to the Deep South. Everywhere they go, their unique blend of suggestive theatrics and unabashed, unapologetic good heavy metal times, they have proven that there is only one Avatar and everyone else is playing for second place. Their impact is shown with chart toppers such as “The Dirt I’m Buried In” reaching heights that are hard to imagine from a band that has stepped into the craziest era in music history, taking matters into their own hand with their own independent label, Black Waltz Records.
For centuries the circus would come to town. Now, for the first time in history, the gravitational pull of Avatar is so strong that the town is coming to the circus. A circus deep in the forest. A forbidden place. A taboo you are destined to break.
AVATAR ARE: Johannes Eckerström — Vocalist Jonas Jarlsby — Guitarist Tim Öhrström — Guitarist Henrik Sandelin — Bassist John Alfredsson — Drummer
5X Platinum-certified alternative rock mainstaysTHE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS (@redjumpsuitapparatus) yesterday (October 3) released their sixth album X’s For Eyes via Better Noise Music and latest single and video, “Perfection.” Against an intense driving rhythm and a big, urgent melody, lead vocalist, guitarist, and founding member Ronnie Winter candidlylays his cards on the table, singing “I like stormy weather” and that “Whatever won’t break can make us” with his signature wide-ranging voice.
X’s For Eyes is now available to stream and purchaseHERE
Winter points out that “Perfection” is “a song about perfect imperfections, about embracing one’s flaws and the true beauty that lies within. It’s a song about individuality, self-acceptance, and the idea that our scars and imperfections make us who we are. Through the lens of perfectly imperfect, what some might consider to be mistakes, flaws, and shortcomings suddenly become good, beautiful, even desirable. It’s a reminder,” he adds, “that being perfectly imperfect is something not to hide but to celebrate.”
X’s For Eyes marks the first full-length album from THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS—vocalist Ronnie Winter, his multi-instrumentalist brother Randy Winter, guitarist Josh Burke, bassist Joey Westwood, drummer John Espy, keyboardist Nadeem Salam, and newest member K Enagonio on vocals—as part of a new partnership with Better Noise Music.
“I think that anybody who’s been with us the whole time realizes that we’ve been an activist band since 2006,” Winter says. “So when I see X’s for eyes, it reminds me of the childhood cartoons, the video games—all those things where this is what happens when you don’t do the right thing. You see that character that you know and love, but for three seconds with a bunch of swirling birds over their head and they’ve got X’s for eyes because they made a mistake. They trusted the wrong person, they went in the wrong direction, they chose the wrong path and then POW! Something crazy happens and there’s X’s for eyes, or ‘RIP.’ And I just find that has a parallel reality to now.”
He continues, “In 2006, we put a song out called ‘Face Down,’ which was an anti-domestic violence song, which we then toured the country doing everything we could to raise awareness against domestic violence. So that was with song one. And then in 2025, we’re just still continuing that narrative of social justice: doing the right thing, treating women properly, as well as men. Just the mistreatment of others. We’ve broadened that. We’ve broadened that scope. Racism, homophobia—we try to touch on everything that we wanted to make sure our fans who are coming to our show know that we stand behind. And I think we did that. I really do.”
“Perfection” follows the release of three singles from X’s For Eyes: “Home Improvement,”“Slipping Through (No Kings),” and “X’s For Eyes.”
The 11 songs on X’s For Eyes find the band revving up their caffeinated pop sensibilities, throwing down the punishing riffola, delivering more electronic and ambient flourishes, and topping all of it off with Winter’s high-pitched emoting. Factor in some hair-raising cameos from Sleeping With Sirens’ Kellin Quinn (“Always The King”) and Escape The Fate frontman Craig Mabbitt (“Worth It”) and the result is genuinely RJA’s most strident full-length offering yet.
Formed in 2004 in Jacksonville, FL, the band has accrued Gold and multi-Platinum singles—including their massive 5x Platinum hit single “Face Down” (which has over 176 million views on YouTube), 2x Platinum “Your Guardian Angel” (which has over 37 million views on YouTube)—and 2x Platinum-certified debut album, DON’T YOU FAKE IT, alongside numerous high-ranking radio chart positions and a robust digital history of over 1.5 billion career streams. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS began their expedition into the hearts and minds of a generation 20 years ago. Their blazing 2006 single “Face Down” delivered both anthemic choruses and a strident message about domestic abuse, achieving both sales accolades and adoration from crowds all over the planet.
Here’s the track list for X’s For Eyes:
Always The King (feat. Kellin Quinn)
Purple Halo
Perfection
X’s For Eyes
Bad Beat
Slipping Through (No Kings)
Home Improvement
Twenty Hour Drive
Kins and Carroll
Getting By
Worth It (feat. Craig Mabbitt)
Here are current tour dates for THE RED JUMPSUIT APPARATUS. Tickets are available on their official website.
Wed 10/8 Great Falls, MT The Newberry Thu 10/9 Spokane, WA The Big Dipper Fri 10/10 Portland, OR Dante’s Sat 10/11 Tacoma, WA Airport Tavern Music Hall Thu 10/16 Bakersfield, CA The Nile Theater Sat 10/18 Las Vegas, NV When We Were Young 2025 Sun 10/19 Las Vegas, NV When We Were Young 2025 Sat 11/15 Orlando, FL Warped Tour Sun 11/16 Orlando, FL Warped Tour Wed 11/19 Gainesville, FL The Wooly Thu 11/20 West Palm Beach, FL The Banyan Live Fri 11/21 Tampa, FL Brass Mug Fri 11/28 Tallahassee, FL Fire Betty’s Sat 11/29 Pensacola, FL Vinyl Music Hall Sun 11/30 Biloxi, MS The Sanctuary Thu 12/4 Fort Worth, TX Tulips FTW Fri 12/5 Bryan, TX Ice House On Main Sat 12/6 Corpus Christi, TX House of Rock Sun 12/7 Austin, TX Come and Take It Live Thu 12/11 El Paso, TX Rockhouse Bar and Grill Fri 12/12 Phoenix, AZ The Nile Sat 12/13 San Diego, CA Brick By Brick Sun 12/14 Anaheim, CA Parish @ House of Blues
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