Yungblud launches his U.S. tour Friday in Sterling Heights, Michigan, in support of his new two-part album, Idols. The first eight shows on the run will feature the band Return to Dust on the bill, who feel Yungblud's recent rise in the rock world is well deserved.

"He's certainly bringing a level of energy that, like, no one else is, it's quite contagious," Return to Dust bassist/vocalist Graham Stanush tells ABC Audio. "Even through a phone screen, whenever you see those clips of him just going absolutely wild onstage, it's just really cool. I think it's what we need."

"We're so glued to the phone ... no one wants to, like, get out and go see a show, and [Yungblud] gives a good reason to go and buy that ticket and show up," Stanush continues. "I think that we need more of that. We just need more energy and passion, and I think he's definitely carrying the torch, and it's a great thing."

As for Return to Dust's own set, guitarist Sebastian Gonzalez says you can expect "lots of energy and lots of, like, real rock, just from every angle that you could possibly imagine." 

Return to Dust will be supporting their 2025 EP, Speak Like the Dead, which includes the single "Bored."

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Nonpoint has premiered a new single called "Is It," the first preview of the band's upcoming album, The Last Word.

"Is It" is streaming exclusively on YouTube alongside a lyric video, which offers "a unique visual experience that complements the song's message and listening experience while giving fans an early, immersive look into the creative world of The Last Word," according to the video description.

The Last Word is due out in late summer.

The most recent Nonpoint album is 2018's X. They put out new EPs in 2021 and 2023, and a single called "Underdog" in 2024.

Nonpoint is currently on a U.S. tour that stretches into mid-May.

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The worlds of metal and fashion collide in a new ad by Gucci. 

The famed Italian brand has released a video made by The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, which includes a clip of the 'Knot song "(sic)."

"Set in a motel under a full moon, a short film by Jonathan Glazer drifts between the real and the surreal, as people cross paths and gather into a new future adventure," the video description reads.

While Gucci and Slipknot might seem like a random pairing, percussionist Shawn "Clown" Crahan has spoken about his love for high fashion in interviews.

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Korn has premiered the video for the band's latest single, "Reward the Scars."

The clip combines performance footage of Jonathan Davis and company alongside animations inspired by the upcoming Lord of Hatred expansion to the Diablo IV video game, which Korn recorded the song for.

The "Reward the Scars" video is available to watch on YouTube. Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred will be released Tuesday.

"Reward the Scars," which dropped Thursday, marks the first new Korn music in four years. Korn debuted the song live during their set at Sick New World in Las Vegas on Saturday.      

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Former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and Disturbed bassist John Moyer will be playing on Star Trek icon William Shatner's upcoming metal album.

"It was a true privilege to contribute drums to William Shatner's ambitious heavy metal project," Lombardo says in a statement. "At any age, real artists keep pushing boundaries — and this one pushes them into orbit."

As previously reported, the album features Shatner performing Judas Priest's "You've Got Another Thing Comin'" alongside Rob Halford, as well as covers of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden songs.

Full details about the record, including title, release date and track list, are forthcoming.

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Violet Grohl has released a new song called "Cool Buzz," a track off her upcoming debut album, Be Sweet to Me.

In a statement Grohl describes "Cool Buzz" as a song about "poking fun at moral inconsistencies in punk guys who preach progressive politics, but then in their own musical spaces won't let women have a chance."

You can watch the "Cool Buzz" lyric video on YouTube.

Be Sweet to Me is due out May 29. It also includes the previously released songs "Applefish," "THUM" and "595."

Along with the new song, Grohl's announced her debut headlining shows, taking place June 4 in New York City, June 5 in Philadelphia and June 6 in Washington, D.C. Tickets are on sale now via VioletGrohl.com.

Grohl's other upcoming live plans include opening for The Breeders, and playing the 2026 Shaky Knees and CBGB festivals.

Meanwhile, Grohl's dad, Dave Grohl, released a new Foo Fighters album, Your Favorite Toy, on Friday.

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Megadeth performed their cover of Metallica's "Ride the Lightning" for the first time ever during their show in Bogota, Colombia, on Sunday.

The original "Ride the Lightning" credits Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine as a cowriter since it uses riffs that he'd written during his time in Metallica prior to being let go from the band in 1983. Mustaine finally recorded it on his own over 40 years later for Megadeth's self-titled farewell album, which was released in January.

"As I come full circle on the career of a lifetime, the decision to include 'Ride the Lightning,' a song I co-wrote with [Metallica members] James [Hetfield], Lars [Ulrich], and Cliff [Burton], was to pay my respects to where my career first started," Mustaine said.

The Bogota show was part of Megadeth's ongoing farewell tour, which is expected to last for multiple years. The outing includes North American dates with Iron Maiden, kicking off in August.

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Bring Me the Horizon has announced a third North American leg of their Ascension Program tour.

The new dates launch Sept. 20 in Vancouver and include seven more shows in Canada before wrapping up with a lone U.S. performance, Oct. 8 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The bill also includes Motionless in White and The Plot in You.

Presales begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. local time, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit BMTHOfficial.com.

Bring Me the Horizon is currently on the spring leg of the North American Ascension Program tour, which continues Tuesday in Toronto.

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Wolfgang Van Halen's band Mammoth has announced a run of U.S. headlining dates for the summer.

The newly added shows span from July 16 in Des Moines, Iowa, to Aug. 6 in Albany, New York. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Mammoth.band.

Mammoth will be supporting their new album, The End, which was released in 2025. Its single "The Spell" and the title track both hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart.

Mammoth is currently on tour opening for Bush. They'll be playing shows with Creed starting in July.

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Foo Fighters made their debut on Saturday Night Live UK over the weekend.

Dave Grohl and company performed two songs off their brand-new album, Your Favorite Toy: "Child Actor" and "Caught in the Echo."

The show featured the return of guitarist Pat Smear to the live Foo Fighters lineup. He'd missed performances earlier in 2026 after he was injured in what the band called a "bizarre gardening accident."

SNL UK, the British spinoff of the long-running NBC sketch show, is available to watch in the U.S. on Peacock.

Foo Fighters have performed on the U.S. SNL nine times as the official musical guest. They also appeared as a special guest of Mick Jagger for an episode in 2012.

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

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Queens of the Stone Age launched the 2026 leg of their Catacombs tour Friday in Joshua Tree, California, and the show featured a surprise appearance by the band's former bassist, Nick Oliveri.

Oliveri joined Josh Homme and company onstage for the Rated R cut "Auto Pilot." It marked the first time Oliveri's performed live with Queens since 2014, and the second time since he parted ways with the group in 2004.

Queens posted photos from the concert on Instagram, included a shot with them alongside Oliveri.

"There were more desert freaks per square foot than any other show last night & it made me proud to celebrate among my people," the post's caption reads.

The Queens of the Stone Age tour continues Monday in Portland, Oregon.

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Hey, Miss Murder, can AFI's Decemberunderground return to vinyl? It sure can!

Davey Havok and company have announced a vinyl reissue of their hit 2006 album in honor of its 20th anniversary.

The reissue, which marks the first time Decemberunderground has been available on vinyl since 2006, will come in three variants, including a limited-edition deluxe package featuring a bonus 7-inch single with two bonus tracks.

You can preorder your copy now.

Decemberunderground marked AFI's seventh studio album and spawned their most successful single, "Miss Murder."

"DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is a time and a place. It is where the cold can huddle together in darkness and isolation," Havok says. "It is a community of those detached and disillusioned who flee to love, like winter, in the recesses below the rest of the world."

The most recent AFI album is 2025's Silver Bleeds the Black Sun..., which nods to Decemberunderground with its closing track, titled "Nooneunderground." AFI premiered a video for "Nooneunderground" on Thursday.

AFI is currently on a U.S. tour in support of Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The "Window" video is now streaming on YouTube.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VINDICATE is due out May 8.

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