If Soundgarden's Matt Cameron is looking to pivot musical styles following his departure from Pearl Jam, we think he'd make a pretty good metalcore drummer.

We say that after watching the grunge icon rock out to Bad Omens in the latest edition of Drumeo's "For the First Time" series.

As part of the YouTube channel's challenge, drummers are tasked with coming up with their own part to a song they've never heard before while playing along to a drumless version of the track. For Cameron, Drumeo chose the Bad Omens song "Just Pretend," which, despite hitting #1 on both the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay and Alternative Airplay charts, was completely new to him.

After a few takes, Cameron delivered a final "Just Pretend" performance that included some of his signature tom grooves that will be familiar to any Soundgarden fans.

"Bad Omens f****** rules," Cameron declared after learning the identity of the band. "It's a good song, man."

At the end of the video, Drumeo showed Bad Omens drummer Nick Folio reacting to Cameron's rendition.

"Wow, excellent job, Matt, that was awesome," Folio responded.

Cameron announced his departure from Pearl Jam in 2025, ending his 27-year tenure with the "Even Flow" rockers. He later clarified that he's "still an active musician" and will be performing at Tom Morello's Power to the People festival in October.

Pearl Jam, meanwhile, is set to reveal their new drummer during their headlining set at Eddie Vedder's Ohana Festival in September.

As for Bad Omens, you can catch them headlining Ohio's Inkcarceration festival in July.

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A new live recording of former Iron Maiden singer Paul Di'Anno performing the band's song "Prowler" has been released.

The track is included on the upcoming live album, Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer, which was recorded in 2022 in Croatia.

The album is due out June 26. It accompanies the new Di'Anno documentary, also called Di'Anno: Iron Maiden's Lost Singer, out now on Blu-ray/DVD and digital platforms.

"Prowler" first appeared on Maiden's 1980 self-titled debut album. Di'Anno sang on Iron Maiden and its 1981 sophomore follow-up, Killers, before parting ways with the band. He was replaced by Maiden's current singer, Bruce Dickinson.

Di'Anno died in 2024 at age 66. He'll be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Maiden as part of its 2026 class. 

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Jack White appears to have stealth-announced a new album.

The "Seven Nation Army" rocker's label, Third Man Records, lists a new record titled Frozen Charlotte up for preorder on its website alongside a July 10 release date.

"13 tracks of distinct feel and tone, Frozen Charlotte is an intense rock and roll punch with never far behind blues underpinnings…all of which fits right at home with long time fans while leaving an inviting open door to newcomers alike," the product description reads.

You can preorder your copy now via ThirdManRecords.com.

Listing a new album without any other announcement does fit in with White's general MO — you may recall that his last solo effort, 2024's No Name, was first released by surprise as an unlabeled record in Third Man Records stores before being made widely available.

White followed No Name with two new singles, "G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs" and "Derecho Demonico," which dropped in April.

You can catch White live on a U.S. tour kicking off in July.

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A tribute ceremony to late Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister will be held Friday at the 2026 Download Festival in England.

The event is part of the ongoing Lemmy Forever initiative, in which a portion of Kilmister's ashes are enshrined in places important to him around the world.

Lemmy's ashes have previously been enshrined in places including the Rainbow Bar & Grill in Los Angeles, France's Hellfest and Wacken Open Air in Germany.

"It remains a responsibility we proudly carry," Motörhead manager Todd Singerman says of the Lemmy Forever events. "Not everyone can make the pilgrimage to visit Lemmy in Hollywood, so we are bringing Lem back to his fans. These places meant something to him, and they mean something to the people who loved him. It's important that they have somewhere they can come, raise a glass, share a story, and spend a moment with him."

The Download Lemmy Forever celebration will also pay tribute to late Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell, who passed away in March.

"When Phil passed we lost such an important family member, and I know Lem would insist we all raise a glass to Phil as well," Singerman says.

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Wage War has announced a U.S. tour.

The fall trek, dubbed the Emergency Broadcast tour, launches Oct. 25 in San Antonio and wraps up Nov. 27 with a home state show in Orlando, Florida.

The bill will also include We Came As Romans, Varials and Cane Hill.

Presales are open now, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Friday beginning at 10 a.m. ET. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit WageWarBand.com.

Wage War released a new EP titled IT CALLS ME BY NAME in April. The band's most recent album is 2024's STIGMA.

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Blink-182 is teasing something related to the band's 2001 album, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket.

The "All the Small Things" trio posted artwork from the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket cover to Facebook alongside a link to sign up for their email list.

Notably, the post comes days before Take Off Your Pants and Jacket turns 25 on Friday, perhaps suggesting that some sort of 25th anniversary celebration is in the works.

Take Off Your Pants and Jacket marked the fourth blink-182 album and was the follow-up to their massive 1999 breakout effort, Enema of the State. It spawned singles in "First Date," "The Rock Show" and "Stay Together for the Kids," and became the first blink album to hit #1 on the Billboard 200.

In related news, blink-182 is confirmed to headline the 2027 editions of Germany's Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals.

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Mudvayne and HELLYEAH frontman Chad Gray has announced a U.S. solo tour dubbed 30 Years of Madnesss.

The headlining trek kicks off Aug. 28 in Bloomington, Illinois, and concludes Oct. 20 in Nashville. It follows Gray's initial run of 30 Years of Madnesss shows in May, during which he played a mix of Mudvayne and HELLYEAH songs.

"This fall, I'm hopefully going to come to a town near you and we are gonna walk in a room, let go of life and its problems and have some f****** fun!" Gray says in a statement. "That has been my mission statement and mantra from the beginning of this. Let's just have fun!" 

Presales begin Tuesday at noon 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 Chadnesss333.com.

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Underoath has announced a U.S. tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's 2006 album, Define the Great Line.

The trek kicks off Nov. 5 in St. Louis and will wrap up Dec. 18 with a hometown show in Tampa, Florida. The bill will also include August Burns Red, Atreyu, As Cities Burn and Emery.

"What this album has meant to us, and so many others, over the past 20 years is hard to quantify," says keyboardist Chris Dudley in a statement. "It gave us permission to be ourselves. It sent us around the world. It gave people the freedom to say (and scream) the things out loud they had buried deep. It will outlive us."

"We still play these songs on stage 20 years later and get those chills," Dudley continues. "The opportunity to devote an entire tour to presenting this album in the best way it ever has been, alongside friends we've had since before it was released, is going to be bucket list material for us."

Presales begin Tuesday at noon ET, 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 Underoath777.com.

You can also catch Underoath on their ongoing Van Tour To Vans Warped Tour.

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On Jimmy Eat World's song "A Praise Chorus," a track off the band's 2001 album, Bleed American, frontman Jim Adkins sings, "Even at 25, you got to start sometime." Now 25 years later, Jimmy Eat World is celebrating a quarter-century of their biggest record.

Speaking with ABC Audio, Adkins describes marking the 25th anniversary of Bleed American as "bonkers."

"It's so wild and it just hits in a completely different way now," Adkins says.

"When we made Bleed American, we had really little expectations for what was gonna happen," he continues. "When things just went nuts, it was, you know, 'That's not real.' Where are you supposed to put that ... in your 20s?"

Adkins plans to savor the love around Bleed American more on Jimmy Eat World's 25th anniversary tour, which launches Tuesday at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. He also feels that he and his bandmates have grown a lot as musicians over the last 25 years.

"I feel like we're better performers, we're better players," Adkins says. "So we can present this material in a way that maybe is probably the best that we've been able to do it."

Along with "A Praise Chorus," Bleed American features Jimmy Eat World's signature song, "The Middle," as well as the singles "Sweetness" and the title track. While all of those songs have long been staples of Jimmy Eat World's live set, Adkins says relistening to the record's original multitrack tapes has reminded him of how it all began.

"The measurements and ingredients of the original recipe are laid bare there," Adkins says. "Some of it isn't what I remember."

"Actually digging into the record, the guts of it ... it really forced us to look at it in a way that we haven't really since then," he adds.

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The Nine Inch Nails song "The Day the World Went Away" is featured in the trailer for the upcoming Ridley Scott film, The Dog Stars.

The post-apocalyptic movie stars Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin, who play a pilot and a military survivalist, respectively, who have "carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world." Elordi's character, Hig, then "receives a mysterious radio transmission" and "ventures into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still believes exist."

The cast also includes Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Benedict Wong and Guy Pearce.

The Dog Stars hits theaters Aug. 28. You can watch its trailer on YouTube.

"The Day the World Went Away," a track off NIN's 1999 album, The Fragile, was previously used in the trailer for the 2009 movie Terminator: Salvation. Trent Reznor, of course, has also long been immersed in the film world, having composed several award-winning scores with his NIN bandmate, Atticus Ross. 

Still, you've got to wonder why a movie called The Dog Stars didn't use a Dogstar song for the trailer.

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Songs by artists such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Weezer will be included in Stage Tour, a new video game akin to the Guitar Hero games.

The soundtrack so far includes RCHP's "Dani California" and Weezer's "Island in the Sun," as well as Ghost's "Square Hammer," Static-X's "Terminator Oscillator" and Extreme's "Get the Funk Out."

Stage Tour is due out in the fall, and will launch alongside guitar and drum kit controllers. It's being released by the studio RedOctane, which includes staff members who worked on the original Guitar Hero games.

"What makes this team so unique is that we've brought together passionate community developers, creators, players, and veteran rhythm game developers who understand why this genre matters," says RedOctane studio head Simon Ebejer. "We believe that combination gives us the greatest opportunity to deliver the experience fans have been waiting for."

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The Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and sombr will be among the performers and presenters during the 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Gala, taking place Thursday in New York City.

The lineup also includes Steve Miller, Nile Rodgers, Johnny Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls, Brandi Carlile, Tamar Braxton, Gavin DeGraw and actor Jeremy Renner.

The previously announced 2026 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees include Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, Kenny Loggins, Alanis Morissette and Taylor Swift. Additionally, John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival will receive the prestigious Johnny Mercer Award.

By the way, Corgan and sombr previously collaborated during the latter's performance at Coachella in April.

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Michael "Mike D" Diamond of the Beastie Boys has announced his debut solo album.

The record is called Thank You and is due out Aug. 28. It includes the previously released songs "Switch Up" and "What We Got."

A third cut, titled "True Colors," is out now.

"It's been so much fun making this music with people I love and I have grown to really appreciate in our collaboration," Mike says in a statement. "And I just hope it's fun for others and not overly serious, because let's be real, I’m releasing this music into a very strange and dark and power-fixated world that really devalues art and feelings and compassion and empathy and equality."

Thank You marks the first full-length effort from a Beastie Boy in 15 years. The group disbanded in 2012 following the death of Adam "MCA" Yauch.

Here's the Thank You track list:
"Switch Up"
"What We Got"
"True Colors"
"That's Right"
"Secrets Pt. I"
"Secrets Pt. II"
"I Don't Care"
"Make It Stop"
"Crypto"
"Here We Are"
"Back to Start"
"It's Time"
"Thank You"

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Rush returned to the stage Sunday night in Los Angeles, kicking off their Fifty Something tour and marking the band’s first tour since August 2015. It's also Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson’s first time on tour since the 2020 death of Neil Peart. Drummer Anika Nilles is filling in behind the drum kit.

According to setlist.fm, the band opened with “Xanadu,” from the 1977 album, A Farewell To Kings, marking the first time the song has served as a concert opener.

The show was broken down into two sets and featured performances of classic Rush tunes like “Limelight,” "Subdivisions," "Freewill" and "The Spirit of the Radio." He also took the stage with three songs from 1976’s 2112: "Overture," "The Temples of Sphynx" and "Grand Finale," which opened the second set.

Before closing the concert, the band played a video featuring characters from South Park, introducing the night’s final song, their iconic tune "Tom Sawyer."

Peart was certainly wasn’t forgotten during the show. The band took a moment to pay tribute to their late drummer.

During the first set, they showed a video montage of Peart accompanied by audio of him discussing how he got started playing drums and what he loved about it. They then dedicated the song "Bravado," from 1991’s Roll The Bones, to him.

A second tribute was shown during the second set prior to a performance of "Time Stand Still" from 1987's Hold Your Fire. The performance featured special guest Aimee Mann, who sang her part of the song live with the band for the first time.

"We're here for so many reasons," Lee said during the show. "We're here to celebrate over 50 years of music that [Lifeson], myself and the great Neil Peart made together. We're here to pay tribute to Neil."

Rush returns to the Forum in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

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Black Veil Brides drummer Christian "CC" Coma has dropped off the band's ongoing European tour.

"Due to an unfortunate personal and private matter, our brother [Coma] will not be on stage with us for the remainder of the 2026 European tour," BVB writes in a Facebook post.

Drummer Wade Murff, who currently plays in Godsmack, will fill in for Coma during his absence.

Coma is expected to rejoin Black Veil for the upcoming summer leg of their U.S. tour, kicking off in August.

Black Veil Brides put out their latest album, VINDICATE, in May.

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I Prevail first broke through in 2014 with a viral cover of Taylor Swift's song "Blank Space." If you're wondering whether the pop superstar ever heard the RIAA Platinum-certified metalcore spin on her 1989 single, so is former I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser.

"We never heard anything from her," Burkheiser tells ABC Audio. "Although I do lowkey think that there's no way that she didn't hear the 'Blank Space' cover."

"I gotta imagine [Swift] at least jammed it once or twice throughout her career," Burkheiser says. "I always had that question in the back of my head, too. I think she probably did, but no evidence of it, at least."

In a fitting full-circle moment, Burkheiser covered another Swift song, "Look What You Made Me Do," to launch his Scatterbrain solo project following his departure from I Prevail in 2025.

"Some people might have been like, 'You're really gonna do Taylor Swift again?'" Burkheiser says. "But no one's in my body, and no one knows what it's like to remember that moment as a 20-year-old kid working at Domino's and that cover blew up and changed the course of my entire life."

Burkheiser released "Look What You Made Me Do" as the first Scatterbrain song because he wasn't able to put out original music at the time due to a since-resolved dispute with I Prevail. With that in mind, he says he chose to cover that particular song intentionally.

"It was a way for me to make art," he says. "It was a way for me not to say, 'I'm just gonna make a random cover and hope it, you know, goes well.' It's, 'Hey, I'm kinda taking back my life.'"  

Burkheiser has since released two original Scatterbrain songs, "Phases" and "Fast Lane."

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Jack White has gifted a social media star one of his signature guitars, after she went viral for posting clips of herself performing classic guitar riffs — badly.

Charlene Kaye has amassed a social media following thanks to videos where she butchers iconic songs while playing in a Guitar Center just to anger men.

Well, apparently White is a fan. In a new post, Kaye revealed that the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer sent her one of his signature Triplecaster guitars.

“I don’t know how to say this without bragging, so I’m just gonna brag,” Kaye says in the post. “Jack White sent me a guitar.”

She adds that after playing a gig at White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, she met his wife, Olivia Jean, who let her know that White was a fan and wanted to send her the instrument.

“It’s so dope, because not only does it mean that he is a feminist, he also has a sense of humor,” Kaye says of White’s fandom. “So, thank you, thank you Jack, for this beautiful Triplecaster, and to honor your legacy, I have started an all-Asian White Stripes cover band called the Rice Stripes.”

She then sang what she said was the band’s debut single, performing a parody of the White Stripes classic “Seven Nation Army.”

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What could be cooler than being a roadie on Iron Maiden's Run for Your Lives tour? Maybe being a beer roadie on the tour.

The Lagunitas Brewing Company, which makes Iron Maiden's line of signature beers, is offering fans the chance at an all-expenses-paid but limited-time job when the U.S. leg of the Run for Your Lives tour starts Sept. 5 in New Jersey.

The winning candidate will be trained by Lagunitas brewers and educators in the brewing, handling and serving of Iron Maiden's Trooper West Coast IPA. Then they'll hit the road as an ambassador for the brews at the Eddie's Dive Bar pop-up events that will be held during select tour stops.

If you want to apply for the job, submit a 30-second video to BeerRoadie.com answering the question, "What would make you the ideal candidate as the Trooper Beer Roadie?” The applicants will be narrowed down to three finalists, who will be interviewed by the Lagunitas selection committee.

The winner will then go on to receive their training at Lagunitas' headquarters before the tour starts. You've got to get your videos uploaded by the end of the day on July 7.

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Evanescence is out with their new album, Sanctuary, but this year also marks the 20th anniversary of their album The Open Door. Frontwoman Amy Lee says things have definitely improved when it comes to gender equality in music since 2006.

"When we were starting out, most of the time I was the only woman I’d see all day at festivals, besides anyone I had with me in my crew," Lee tells the U.K. publication MusicWeek. "On the one hand, that made things intimidating. But on the other hand, [it was] powerful because we were different and I had something to say."

"Over the last 20 years, hell yeah, I’ve watched things change," Lee continues. "When I go to festivals now, there are always other women on stage, so we have seen progress, especially in heavy music."

But Lee would rather dispense with the gender divisions altogether.

"I don’t want to be the best female-fronted rock band; I want to be the best rock band, period," she notes.

She adds, "Whether you’re male or female, whatever colour you are, or wherever you come from, none of that should matter. What should matter is that you’re great at what you do. And all the women that I lift up, all the women we’re taking on tour – they all rock. That’s why they’re coming on tour with us.”

Among the artists joining Evanescence for their world tour, starting June 11, are Spiritbox, Nova Twins, Poppy and K.Flay. Amy's happy that her collaborations with some of those artists, plus Halsey and Bring Me the Horizon, have led to younger audiences discovering Evanescence.

Says Lee, "When we earn new fans at this stage, hearing new music we make and getting into us that way, that really feels like the goal."

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The Offspring's Dexter Holland has come out and played with a new crew: the German band Electric Callboy.

Holland has collaborated with the band on the new single and video "Let the Good Times Roll" from Electric Callboy's upcoming album, TANZNEID, due out Aug. 7. 

"When Electric Callboy sent us the track, it immediately put a grin on our faces," says The Offspring's Dexter Holland in a statement. "It's energetic, unpredictable and doesn't take itself too seriously — exactly the kind of spirit we've always loved about punk and rock music. I had a blast being part of 'Let The Good Times Roll' and can't wait for everyone to hear it."

Electric Callboy adds, "The Offspring have been one of the bands that shaped us from the very beginning. Their music was part of our lives long before Electric Callboy even existed, so having Dexter on this song honestly feels surreal."

The video for the track features Howie Mandel; comedian Brian Posehn; "John Goblikon," the mascot of the death metal band Nekrogoblikon; and, of course, Holland — because you can't keep 'em separated.

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