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STABBING Unleash Official Video for Pummeling New Single ‘Eon Of Obscenity’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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Photo by Matt Rush

Brutal death metal rising stars STABBING are now unleashing the pummeling title track from their upcoming sophomore album, ‘Eon Of Obscenity.’ The furious aural attack can now be found along with a music video at THIS LOCATION.

STABBING comments, “The lyrics in ‘Eon’ are mainly about the idea that someone with homicidal tendencies could hide it for years, and then one day just snap, and nobody in their life would ever see it coming. Like they decide to embrace their sickness and completely lose all morality.”

STABBING does not merely define the term “Brutal Death Metal,” they exceed it. The Houston Texas newcomers have plundered the crypts of claustrophobia and darkness, only to surface with ‘Eon of Obscenity,’ STABBING’s Century Media debut and a benchmark for modern death metal. 

‘Eon of Obscenity’ is due on January 30, 2026 via Century Media Records and can now be pre-ordered HERE.

The album artwork was created by Rudi Yanto and can be found below along with the tracklisting!

Tracklisting + Running Times:

1 – Rotting Eternal (01:24)
2 – Inhuman Torture Chamber (02:58) [WATCH]
3 – Masticate the Subdued (02:41)
4 – Eon of Obscenity (02:10) [WATCH]
5 – Reborn to Kill Once More (03:16)
6 – Ruminations (01:34)
7 – Nauseating Composition (Feat. Ricky Myers) (03:09)
8 – Their Melted Remains (04:04)
9 – Sonoluminescent Hemoglobinopathy (01:52)
10 – Symphony of Absurdity (04:12)
11 – Sinking Into Catatonic Reality (03:33)

STABBING does not merely define the term, “Brutal Death Metal” – they exceed it. The Houston Texas foursome has plundered the crypts of claustrophobia and darkness, only to surface with Eon of Obscenity, STABBING’s Century Media debut and a benchmark for modern death metal. “It’s just more extreme,” says vocalist Bridget Lynch, when asked to define the band’s infernal sub-genre, Brutal Death Metal (AKA B.D.M.). “It’s everything that’s extreme about death metal, just taken a little bit further. The vocals. The drums. The riffs. It’s just faster and more boundary-pushing.”

When STABBING came together in 2021, the goals were simple. “We were really just having fun and wanted to emulate the style of the bands we really liked,” says Lynch. “Old school 90’s and early 2000’s brutal death metal bands like. Disgorge, Deeds of Flesh, stuff like that.” Coming from local bands and projects including guitarist Marvin Ruiz’s Nephilim Grinder and Dysmetria with Lynch dabbling in area grindcore outfits, from their first demo and 2021’s Ravenous Psychotic Onslaught EP, it was clear that STABBING was immediately pushing boundaries. On the road they distinguished themselves, giving tour mates including Defeated Sanity more than a run for their money. Not only was STABBING a bloody, clear-cut step above most, they wrapped it all in songs and blistering live performances that were as memorable as they were bellicose and brutal.

STABBING’s reckoning moment came in November 2023, as first band on for the “Ancient Unholy Rising Tour” with co-headliners Incantation and band favorites, Suffocation. Not only had STABBING’s lineup begun to solidify with then newly joined bassist Matt Day, but when Suffocation vocalist Ricky Meyers had fallen ill and had to miss a string of shows, it was Lynch who stepped in to save the day. STABBING’s vocalist simply took the stage with the New York death metal legends and gave the absent Meyers a run for his guttural money. “That was one of the coolest things I’ve ever gotten to do,” states Bridget. “Suffocation was one of the first death metal bands I ever got into as a fan, so jumping onstage and blasting through maybe six songs was a crazy moment. I was terrified when they asked!” 

It was also on that tour that the band also caught the ear of Century Media Records who inked the band several months later. With a string of shows in 2023 and 2024 including landmark appearances at the celebrated Maryland Deathfest and Milwaukee Metalfest, as well as a U.S. tour with 200 Stab Wounds, Ruiz (who also plays with Texas Brutal Death Metal, OG’s Devourment) started putting together riffs that would serve as the foundation of Eon of Obscenity. Compared to Stabbing’s more primal origins, Eon of Obscenity. is a clearcut next step that elevates not only the band, but the genre itself. From the outset of opener, “Rotting Eternal” straight into “Inhuman Torture Chamber”, which showcases Lynch’s inhuman vocal prowess and ability to shift gears from the guttural to something chittering that barely registers as human, STABBING have taken their brutal arts to new heights. Even the album’s instrumental inclusion, “Ruminations” shows an unexpected technicality as riffs and time-signatures coalesce in unexpected ways. 

Recorded at Houston’s Southwing Audio by engineer Ben Gott with Chris Kritikos mixing and mastering, the production of Eon of Obscenity is as strident as the music itself. It’s eleven tracks that are as raw as they are extreme. “It feels more refined,” says the vocalist. “The album shows the potential of what the band started as. It’s not overly produced. There’s not a lot of effects or over-editing. We wanted to keep the raw sound that the classic bands had. We wanted to go for that, for something very honest and very us.” The album title itself also ties into Eon of Obscenity being not merely a second album from STABBING but a massive step forward. 

“It’s representative of this being a new era for the band,” Lynch states. “An improvement of the STABBING sound and us as musicians. On the last album [2022’s Extirpated Mortal Process], I wasn’t really happy with what I did vocally,” she admits, “And I really wanted to really improve. One of my favorite songs on the album is called ‘Reborn to Kill Once More’, which sums up how good and how strong we feel about the band and the album now.” 

Being one of the rare female voices in modern death metal isn’t lost on Bridget. She’s quick to admit that she approaches lyrics and delivery in a way that differs from most. “When I was in high school, first getting into brutal death metal, I discovered the band, Cerebral Bore” she recounts. “When I saw that they had a female singer, I was like, ‘What the hell?’ I was like, I have to be that! I had to emulate her. I was so inspired. My hope is that when people, particularly younger girls hear STABBING for the first time, we have that same effect on them.

“It’s pretty obvious that metal, in general, has been pretty male dominated,” Lynch states. “I won’t really entertain the misogyny of brutal death metal in what we do, for obvious reasons. I try to turn it around. One of our older songs is about the first female serial killer I ever read about, Aileen Wournos. If you look at other female-led death metal bands like Castrator or Emasculator, they also try to turn the tables and present things from a different perspective.” 

With Eon of Obscenity, the Texas four-piece have delivered on everything their earlier releases and live shows have hinted at. B.D.M. has an unmistakably brutal new voice and it is STABBING. “I never expected it, there is a new wave of slam bands and brutal death metal bands,” says Bridget. “But I never thought people would think of us as an important band to that or any other scene! We have younger bands come up to us all the time and say, ‘Your first demo really inspired us,’ and that blows my mind. I never thought my brutal death metal band would have that kind of impact.” 

Line-Up:
Matt Day – Bass Guitar
Aron Hetsko – Drums
Bridget Lynch – Lead Vocalist
Marvin Ruiz – Guitar

Special Guests:
Guest vocals by Ricky Myers (SUFFOCATION) on “Nauseating Composition”

Cover Artist: Rudi Yanto

Credits:
Recorded at Houston’s Southwing Audio by engineer Ben Gott
Mixed and mastered by Chris Kritikos

Links: FACEBOOK – INSTAGRAM – SPOTIFY – APPLE MUSIC

TWISTED SISTER’s Hammerheads Are Coming Atcha! First Ever Stand Alone Release for This Classic Concert Recording

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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Back in 1980, Twisted Sister were still a few years from superstardom. They’d already been around since 1972, growing out of a band called Silver Star, who styled themselves as New Jersey’s New York Dolls.  A year later, though, they changed their name and shifted their direction as well.

Constantly gigging, forever sharpening their sound, and undergoing a veritable plethora of line-up changes, Twisted Sister as we know them best would not emerge until 1982. But already they’d made appearances on major label comps, and they’d recorded, too, the first couple of live shows featured on 2016’s so-aptly titled box set Rock ‘N’ Roll Saviors – The Early Years.

Now the most ferocious of those performances, from West Islip NY in1980, makes its stand-alone debut as Hammerheads – and what a show it is. Opening with a positively roof-raising rampage through “What You Don’t Know (Sure Can Hurt You),” the 12 song concert sees these legends of crazed, cross-dressing hard rock mayhem absolutely slaying on stage, with – among so many more – future smash “Rock’n’Roll Saviors,” a fiery “Johnny B Goode,” and one of the all-time great “Born To Be Wild”s.

It’s a devastating concert – the sound of a band that, still awaiting their first major break, have already put all the pieces in place. Now all they need do is wait for the world to catch up with them.

Which, of course, it would.  Around 18 months later, two of the songs featured here, “What You Don’t Know” and  “Under The Blade”, would feature on the band’s first ever release, the UK-only Ruff Cuts EP, and hit #2 on the UK metal charts.  Others – “Bad Boys (Of Rock’N’Roll)” and “Destroyer” – would make it onto their debut album, Under The Blade; one more, “I’ll Never Grow Up,” would be added to the album when the band was picked by Atlantic Records.

All adding up, then, to one of the most explosive live shows of the era, and now one of the most dynamic discs you’ll have heard in years.  And, for vinyl lovers, this is Hammerheads’ first ever appearance in that format. Make sure you listen on maximum volume.

–CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=twisted+sister+hammerheads
–DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/6movo8n

THE SPEAKER WARS Bring Holiday Cheer with New Single ‘Brighten The Corner’

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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Photo Credit: Michelle Ganeles

Texas-based rock band THE SPEAKER WARS — featuring legendary drummer Stan Lynch (ex-Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers) and acclaimed singer-songwriter Jon Christopher Davis — bring holiday cheer with the release of their new Christmas song, “Brighten the Corner.” The track arrives alongside an official visualizer, available below.

For a limited time, fans who purchase THE SPEAKER WARS’ debut self-titled album via the Frontiers US webstore will receive a free download of the new single, along with an exclusive Christmas card signed by founding member Stan Lynch, while supplies last.

Stan Lynch shares:

“THE SPEAKER WARS are wishing y’all a soulful, joyful and peaceful Holiday Season.”

Stream / Listen to “Brighten the Corner” HERE

Order ‘The Speaker Wars’ HERE

‘The Speaker Wars’ Track List:

1. You Make Every Lie Come True
2. It Ain’t Easy
3. Taste Of Heaven
4. Never Ready To Go
5. The Forgiveness Tree
6. When The Moon Cries Wolf
7. Trader’s South
8. Leave Him
9. Sit With My Soul
10. I Wish You Peace

STAN LYNCH, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, long-time drummer and founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, announces today the formation of THE SPEAKER WARS. After two decades of recording and touring multiple albums with The Heartbreakers, STAN moved to the other side of the recording console and shifted his focus to production and songwriting. Over the years, STAN has written and produced hits for artists in multiple genres, including the Eagles, Don Henley, Tim McGraw, The Mavericks, Ringo Starr, The Byrds, Toto, and The Fabulous Thunderbirds.

While writing in Nashville, a publisher introduced STAN to Texas singer-songwriter, Jon Christopher Davis, who was gathering material for a solo record on a major label. After accumulating an album’s worth of songs, Jon abandoned working on a solo record and the two decided to start a band to perform the newly created material. Adding Jay Michael Smith on guitar, Brian Patterson on bass, Steve Ritter on percussion, and Jay Brown on keyboards, THE SPEAKER WARS was born.

THE SPEAKER WARS are:
Stan Lynch – Drums
Jon Christopher Davis – Vocals
Jay Michael Smith – Guitar
Brian Patterson – Bass
Steve Ritter – Percussion
Jay Brown – Keyboard

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Exclusive CHRIS HOLMES, BRIAN WHEAT & TOMMY SKEOCH Interview: New Band TERMINAL

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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The Metal Voice recently had an exclusive interview in studio with new band  Terminal consisting of former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes, former Tesla guitarist Tommy Skeoch and Tesla bassist Brian Wheat.

Watch the full interview below.

When asked how CHRIS HOLMES feels about getting inducted into the Metal hall of Fame on Jan 21, 2026

” It’s good. I’m still doing it  40 something years later in the (music) business, I’m being inducted because of Chris Holmes, who I am, not the people I played with.. And that’s good. That’s what I’m happy about. I’ll put the the trophy proudly on my mantel, at my house. It’ll be an achievement that I’m proud to have to show off. “(Chris Holmes)

When  about their new band called Terminal

“In 2022 I played on the monster cruise and I ran into Brian (Wheat) the bass player of Tesla and I talked to him and we were on the boat and we became pretty close friends. You know you can tell if you’re going to like somebody in about 10 minutes, 20 minutes of meeting somebody when you’re around them. You usually can tell if they’re if they’re compatible with your personality. And then when I went to visit him, he was like, I’ve been wanting to put a band together. He has a few other projects going. He’s got a one called Violet Breed. He was talking to me about putting a project together. I go, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.” And um so I gave him a few ideas of songs and we’re taking the steps and putting this project together. We got the people together. When I do Mean Man and my band, I don’t create the music and stuff to be put on (Radio) air. So in this situation, Brian writes this stuff to be put on the airways, and we’re doing music for that. And um we are going to submit the songs to a guy named (original Saliva singer ) Josey Scott. He’s already agreed to join the project, but we gotta get his voice on the music to see how it works. He’s the next step,  And Tommy Skeoch he’s a guitar player in Tesla that had left 15 years ago and he’s done a few other projects. So, it’s kind of cool.  We’ll have the drummer come in tomorrow.” Chris Holmes

“What happened was this: we were on the (Monsters Of Rock) boat in 2022, and I had seen Chris’ documentary, the ‘Mean Man’ documentary, and a friend of mine said, ‘You gotta watch this, this dude in W.A.S.P.,’ which was Chris. I said, ‘Yeah, I met that cat a long time ago.’ So I watched it and I really connected to him and his story. So when he was on the boat, when we were on the boat, I said, ‘I wanna meet the guy.’ So I went up to him and I introduced myself to him. I said, ‘Hey, man, I’m Brian from TESLA. Nice to meet you. I saw your documentary.’ And we just kind of hit it off. He said, ‘Hey, let’s have coffee or lunch’ or whatever. We were eating at the buffet, and we were talking, and I said to Chris, ‘Chris, all those years you were in W.A.S.P. Why didn’t you join some other band after you were out of W.A.S.P.?’ And he said, ‘Well, no one wanted to play you in a band with me.’ So I said, ‘Well, fuck, I’ll play in a band with you, man.’ And that’s kind of what happened. And then what happened from there was we just started hanging out. And they live in France, and I have a house in Italy, and they came and visited me. And we were talking on the phone and stuff. And on paper, I went, ‘Oh, this would be cool.’ So I knew me and Chris could get along. So that’s that. So me and Chris said (to each other), ‘Well, I’ll be in a band with you.’ And we’re just talking. Me and Tommy, before that, had reconnected after all our years in TESLA and all the shit we went through and all the shit that people who interview us say and all kinds of shit, ’cause they like to pit us against each other, and we reconnected. So I thought to myself, I said, ‘Man, Chris Holmes…'” Brian Wheat

When asked about the musical direction of the music

“We just kind of come in and see what we all kind of bring to it. And that’s kind of what we’re doing and what’s happening. And it’s pretty rocking, but it’s got even more melodic elements in it and different things.”- Tommy Skeoch

“Whatever the sound is of me, my poppy BEATLES thing, Tom’s heavy edge, Chris’ heavy metal stuff, you put it all together and then what Josey sings, that’s gonna be the sound. I can’t define what the sound’s gonna be.” Brian Wheat

When asked how many songs have been recorded

” Five. We don’t have any vocals yet (and no lyrics). We got five from the beginning to end(music). He’s (Josey Scott) is going to write the lyrics and he’s a songwriter in his own right.”- Brian Wheat , Chris Holmes Tommy Skeoch

UNVERKALT Announce New Album “Héréditaire”, Feat. Sakis Tolis

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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While they’ve always pushed the intricate balance that defines post-metal, Unverkalt are now plummeting over the edge into the black below. Their upcoming third album and first since signing with Season of Mist descends into humanity’s deepest and darkest origins. Héréditaire lifts the veil from our cursed existence. What emerges is the band’s heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

“Our aim has always been to blend softer, more romantic elements with extreme chaos. With Héréditaire, that time has come”, says Unverkalt’s guitarist and chief composer Themis Ioannou. “This album is a lament for what is far older than our very existence. It speaks of what seeps through generations, searching for an answer to one pervasive question: What do we carry that was never ours?”

As they begin this dark descent, today, Unverkalt are releasing a haunting video for the stirring lead single from Héréditaire. Though it starts as a slow burn, album opener “Die Auslöschung” emerges from the envoloping haze as the band’s first song to pair Dimitra Kalavrezou’s heavenly cleans with hellish harsh vocals.  

“‘Die Auslöschung’ is both bleak and immersive”, Kalavrezou says. “Carved in blackened textures and hypnotic pacing, the song channels both personal and collective collapse, setting the tone for what is to come”.

Héréditaire comes out February 27, 2026 on Season of Mist.

–Pre-order: https://orcd.co/unverkalthereditaire
–Pre-save on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/5ndUNl3HyjsagbOuQCrakn

Unverkalt are still possessed by a cinematic vision. “Die Auslöschung” opens Héréditaire like a camera coming into focus. However, though rendered in crisp detail, the scene that the band paints is bleak. Beneath a smoldering bass line, riffs rise like smoke from freshly scattered ashes. “When did this darkness fall?” Kalavrezou sings as if trying to climb out of the shadowed rubble.

On previous albums, Unverkalt took cues from French painting and European film noir, but Héréditaire throws back the velvet curtain in favor a veil. “Die Auslöschung” begins to peel back the blackened layers of traumatic memories that are passed down to us like a disease. “He said enter the wide gate and walk the easy path to destruction”. As the pounding drums give way to a fiery stream of blast beats, Kalavrezou breaks into a scream so piercing it can be felt all across our shared history.

“I enjoy discovering new, unique and compelling music in today’s overwhelming world of information, and I believe I truly succeeded with Unverkalt”, says Season of Mist labelmate and Rotting Christ frontman Sakis Tolis, who’s featured on the monolithic “I, The Deceit” from Héréditaire. “This is an exceptional piece of art, worth every minute of listening”.

Catch Unverkalt in Suttgart, Germany early next year when they co-headline Club Zentral with Hippotraktor. Get tickets here.

The video for “Die Auslöschung” was directed by Themis Ioannou at RAWBITE Studio

Additional video credits:
Cinematography & Editing – Themis Ioannou
Produced by – Unverkalt
Camera Equipment Support – Marcus Sander
Lighting – Hariolf “Harri” Lemke
Costume Design / Styling – Sister Jane, & Gestuz

Tracklist:

1. Die Auslöschung (6:06) [WATCH]
2. Oath Ov Prometheus (5:40)
3. Ænæ Lithi (5:34)
4. A Lullaby for the Descent (5:11)
5. Penumbrian Lament (6:02)
6. Introjects (5:25)
7. I, The Deceit (feat. Sakis Tolis) (5:47)
8. Death is Forever (4:50)
9. Maladie de l’Esprit (5:34)

Unverkalt are drawn to the edge. Since emerging from the underground, the Germany by way of Greece post-metal band have balanced boundless atmosphere with suffocating heaviness. Their third album and first since signing with Season of Mist doesn’t continue in that direction so much as it plunges into the darkness that’s always been waiting below. Héréditaire lifts the veil from our cursed existence. What emerges is Unverkalt’s heaviest and most heartfelt offering.  

“Our aim has always been to blend softer, more romantic elements with extreme chaos. With Héréditaire that time has now come”, says the band’s guitarist and chief composer Themis Ioannou. “This album is a lament for what is far older than our very existence. It speaks of what seeps through generations, searching for an answer to one pervasive question: What do we carry that was never ours?”  

From the beginning, Unverkalt was born from an urge to give life to grief. In 2017, Ioannou started the band with vocalist Dimitra Kalavrezou in hopes of creating something that was slow-burning and visceral, crushing yet delicate. Their debut made good on that promise: “…so rivetingly beautiful that you will have to deepen to digest it”, Metal Hammer Greece wrote in awe of L’Origine du Monde. “Easily on the top-10 of 2020”.  

The band’s second album followed three years later to further acclaim. While swooning between obsession and annihilation, A Lump of Death: A Chaos of Dead Lovers sharpened Unverkalt’s vision by pushing their avant-garde streak with more force. “Beyond being able to point roughly towards a couple of different genres, it is utterly impossible to compare them to any other artist out there making music in the same vein”,  The Sleeping Shaman admired. Echoes and Dust agreed: “It stands in its own right as a beautiful slice of filmic post-rock, a soundtrack without a movie beyond the one playing in your head”.  

Héréditaire is still possessed by cinematic visions. Like a camera coming into focus, lead single “Die Auslöschung” appears through a thickening haze before it’s snapped out of a trance by drummer Christian Eggers’ fiery blast beats. The album shifts between colors, textures, even languages. Stirred by a mournful saw of strings, “Ænae Lithi” raises memories of the Great Fire of Smyrna that were handed down by Themis’ grandmother. But where previous albums took cues from French painting and European film noir, this one throws back the velvet curtain in favor a veil. “Oath Ov Prometheus” dismantles the myth of man as god’s perfect creation with Kalavrezou’s freshly blackened vocals.

“We love to experiment with every album”, Ioannou says. “With Héréditaire, we wanted to introduce extreme vocals because they bring out all these heavy feelings. It’s like they’re shaking you awake”.  

While Héréditaire is a pulse-pounding new direction for Unverkalt, the album’s arc traces back to our deepest and darkest origins. Amidst the tremolo-picked wreckage of “Penumbrian Lament”, long-held beliefs are swallowed into the void of guitarist Eli Mavrychev’s death growls. “It’s all sorts of dead ideas / They cling to us all the same”, Kalavrezou whispers, only to break into screams on “Introjects” beneath Joscha Hoyer’s throbbing bass line. “The concept behind the record is tied in with the album’s overall heaviness”, she says. “Each song peels back another blackened layer of memory, trauma and suffering, which linger over us like ghosts: invisible, yet endlessly present”.  

Kalavrezou’s mystifying cleans remain one of Unverkalt’s defining traits. Even when trembling beneath the monolithic riff of “I, The Deceit”, her contempt for those who stand by as the world burns is heated when forged alongside her Athenian brother-in-arms Sakis Tolis from Rotting Christ. But as the album draws to a close, Héréditaire ends shadowed in doubt for the future. “Bathed in lies / Can we make it better” she wonders before disappearing into the shivering wake left by “Maladie de ‘Esprit”.      

“This album is not meant to resolve”, the band says, “but to dissolve patterns from those who came before, faceless yet familiar. The colors have drained. What remains is veiled in black, not as a symbol, but as a truth that covers everything”.  

On Héréditaire, Unverkalt lift the veil on our cursed existence with their heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

Recording lineup
Dimitra Kalavrezou – Vocals
Themis Ioannou – Guitars, Keys
Eli Mavrychev – Guitars, Vocals
Joscha Hoyer – Bass
Christian Eggers – Drums

Guest musicians
Sakis Tolis – Vocals on “I, The Deceit”

Songwriting credits
Composed by Themis Ioannou
Lyrics by Dimitra Kalavrezou and Eli Mavrychev
Lyrics for “I, The Deceit” by Dimitra Kalavrezou and Joscha Hoyer

Recording credits
Recorded and engineered by Unverkalt
Drums recorded and engineered by Christian Eggers at Noir Surge Sound

Production credits
Produced by Themis Ioannou
Vocals produced by Dimitra Kalavrezou & Eli Mavrychev
Mixed by Joshua Barber
Mastered by Lasse Lammert at LSD Studios

Cover art
Themis Ioannou

Follow Unverkalt:

Official Website: https://unverkalt.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Unverkalt/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unverkalt/
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unverkalt/
Bandcamp: https://unverkalt.bandcamp.com/music/
X: https://x.com/Unverkalt/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8Fv2aEhLNPjN4zFPoPFfg
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/artist/unverkalt/1524174404
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/55vU7DZVwI4ks0NpfKDAvK/
Tidal: https://tidal.com/browse/artist/20499985
Last.fm: https://www.last.fm/music/Unverkalt

DERAPS Announce First-Ever U.S. Tour – The Explosive “Viva Rock N’ Roll” Tour Ignites in February 2026

Posted by tarjavirmakari on December 12, 2025
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Photo Credit: Nick Kozub

America, brace yourselves. Deraps—Canada’s blistering new hard-rock powerhouse—are storming the United States for the first time ever, bringing their high-voltage, late-’70s-inspired sound to American stages in February 2026.

Led by prodigy Jacob Deraps—the Quebec-born, EVH-sponsored guitar phenomenon whose jaw-dropping Van Halen covers lit up YouTube and earned praise from The Official Van Halen News Desk—Deraps are redefining what modern classic rock can be: fierce, melodic, virtuoso-level, and full-throttle fun.

After signing with Metalville Records and inking a publishing deal with Anthem Entertainment (home of Rush), Jacob Deraps and Aussie co-writer Josh Gallagher launched their self-titled debut in 2022 to global acclaim, earning raves from Classic Rock Magazine (UK), Burrn! (Japan), Screamer Magazine (USA) and more. Fans crowned them “Best New Band of 2022” in Burrn! Magazine, while Classic Rock spotlighted their single “My Side of Town” in its prestigious Ultimate Playlist of 2022.

From opening for Tom Cochrane, Ann Wilson, Loverboy, and Foreigner, to electrifying crowds at the Stonedead Festival (UK) supporting Blue Öyster Cult, Deraps have already proven they belong on the biggest stages on Earth.

And now, after Deraps wrote, produced, recorded, and mixed the band’s explosive second album Viva Rock N’ Roll—released May 23, 2025 to glowing worldwide reviews and a surprise #1 rock sales debut in Japan—the band is finally answering American fans’ calls.

This is the moment. This is the tour.

FROM JACOB DERAPS:
“Touring the US has always been a dream of mine, and I’m so excited to finally do it for the first time. This is the birth land of Rock N’ Roll to me, where my favourite bands & guitar players flourished… Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Guns N’ Roses, Ratt, Dokken, Extreme, Steve Vai, Jake E. Lee, Steve Lukather, and so many others… These guys are my heroes!”

CONFIRMED U.S. TOUR DATES — “VIVA ROCK N’ ROLL” (LEG I)
W 2/4 — Pawling, NY — Darryl’s House
F 2/6 — NYC, NY — The Iridium
S 2/7 — West Yarmouth, MA — The Music Room
M 2/9 — Pittsburgh, PA — Craft House
W 2/11 — Sellersville, PA — Sellersville Theater
Th 2/12 — Lakewood, OH — The Winchester Music Hall
F 2/13 — Detroit, MI — Token Lounge
S 2/14 — Chicago, IL — Reggie’s
W 2/18 — Milwaukee, WI — Shank Hall
F 2/20 — Wisconsin Dells, WI — Legacy Theater
S 2/21 — Sioux Falls, SD — Biggs Bar and Grill
W 2/25 — Great Falls, MT — The Newbury Theater
F 2/27 — Seattle, WA — The Funhouse at El Corazon

…with many more dates to be announced!

WHY YOU CAN’T MISS THIS TOUR

Jacob Deraps—now in his twenties—is already stacking accolades at a legendary pace:
• Best International Guitarist — Via Nocturna (Portugal)
• Praised by the Japanese rock press as “the one keeping the spirit of Van Halen alive”
• Winner of the Zappa Foundation Award in his teens…

The show promises a full-scale rock celebration:
“An evening of high-energy rock ’n’ roll, featuring the best of our first two albums, killer classic-rock covers, and a big tribute to the greatest of all time—Eddie Van Halen.”

If you’re a guitar fan, a rock fanatic, a lover of killer riffs, or just someone who needs to feel the floor shake again—this is the tour you’ve been waiting for.
Deraps are coming in loud, fast, and ready to blow the roof off every room they hit.

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