METALLICA – Official Recording Of M72 Syracuse, NY Show

Metallica have checked in with the following update:

“From full concert audio and select live video clips to dozens of photos and the setlist, we’ve got everything you need to relive the April 19th stop in Syracuse, NY. Enjoy the gig from Syracuse mixed by The Metallica Audio Team, now available to stream through nugs.net, download at LiveMetallica.com, or go old-school and pick up the CDs at Metallica.com.”



Metallica performed at JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, New York, on April 19. The band has shared official videos of “One” and “Creeping Death” from the show.

Watch JINJER Perform At Hellfest 2025

On June 19, Ukrainian extreme metallers Jinjer performed at Hellfest 2025 in Clisson, France. Check out pro-shot video of their entire show below courtesy of ARTE Concert.

Setlist:

“On The Top”
“Duél”
“Green Serpent”
“Fast Draw”
“Vortex”
“Teacher, Teacher!”
“Judgement (& Punishment)”
“Hedonist”
“I Speak Astronomy”
“Perennial”
“Someone’s Daughter”
“Pisces”







Answering the overwhelming demand from fans across the continent, Jinjer have now added a second leg of dates to their European tour schedule, bringing their explosive live show to the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Austria, Poland, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

Armed with their most dynamic and daring album to date, Duél (out early 2025 via Napalm Records), Jinjer are ready to return to headline Europe for the first time in over six years. Kicking off on January 23, 2026, in Cologne, Germany, the four-piece will bring its signature blend of technical groove metal, progressive elements, and powerhouse vocals back to the stage in full force. The newly added leg kicks off in Glasgow, United Kingdom on February 27, 2026, before the tour wraps up in Hamburg, Germany on March 2, 2026. Tickets for all dates are on sale now and moving fast.

Don’t miss your chance to witness one of the most influential modern metal bands at the height of their power. With a fierce new record, an unrelenting stage presence, and a legion of loyal fans across the continent – this is the tour to watch in 2026. Dates are listed below.


Festivals:

June
25 – Viveiro, Spain – Resurrection Fest
26 – Ysselsteyn, Netherlands – Jera On Air
28 – Oslo, Norway – Tons Of Rock
29 – Lisbon, Portugal – Evil Live Festival

July
2 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival

North American Tour supporting Babymetal w/ Bloodywood:

July
5 – Milwaukee, WI – Summerfest
6 – Maryland Heights, MO – Saint Louis Music Park
8 – Chicago, IL – Aragon Ballroom
9 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
11 – Denver, CO – The JunkYard
14 – Vancouver, BC – Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Center
15 – Kent, WA – Showare Center
17 – San Francisco, CA – Masonic
18 – San Francisco, CA – Masonic
20 – Las Vegas, NV – The Pearl
21 – Salt Lake City, UT – Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
23 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Financial


North American Tour supporting Trivium w/ Heriot:

October
31 – North Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues

November
1 – Virginia Beach, VA – The Dome
2 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater
4 – London, ON – Centennial Hall
6 – Quebec City, QC – Videotron Centre
7 – Wallingford, CT – Toyota Oakdale Theatre
8 – Portland, ME – Cross Insurance Arena
10 – Warren, OH – Packard Music Hall
11 – Buffalo, NY – Buffalo RiverWorks
12 – Lancaster, PA – Freedom Hall
14 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana
15 – Milwaukee, WI – The Eagles Ballroom
16 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center
18 – Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room at Old National Centre
19 – Waukee, IA – Vibrant Music Hall
22 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre
24 – Edmonton, AB – Midway Music Hall
25 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Event Centre
26 – Missoula, MT – The Wilma
28 – Spokane, WA – The Podium
29 – Garden City, ID – Revolution Concert House

December
3 – Riverside, CA – Riverside Municipal Auditorium
5 – Albuquerque, NM – Revel
6 – Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion
7 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
9 – Springfield, MO – Shrine Mosque
10 – Kansas City, MO – Uptown Theater
12 – New Orleans, LA – The Fillmore New Orleans
13 – Dothan, AL – The Plant
14 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live

EU Headline Tour 2026:

January
23 – Cologne, Germany – Palladium
24 – Tilburg, Netherlands – O13
25 – Brussels, Belgium – AB Brussels
27 – Glasgow, Scotland – SWG3 (NEW)
28 – Dublin, Ireland – Olympia (NEW)
29 – Manchester, England – O2 Ritz (NEW)
30 – Birmingham, England – O2 Birmingham Institute (NEW)
31 – London, England – O2 Kentish Town Forum (NEW)

February
2 – Paris, France – L’Olympia
3 – Lyon, France – Transbordeur
4 – Toulouse, France – Bikini
7 – Madrid, Spain – Wagon (NEW)
8 – Bilbao, Spain – Santana 27 (NEW)
11 – Zurich, Switzerland – X-tra
12 – Stuttgart, Germany – LKA
13 – Wiesbaden, Germany -Schlachthof
14 – Munich, Germany -Tonhalle
16 – Budapest, Hungary – Barba Negra
17 – Vienna, Austria – Gasometer (NEW)
19 – Prague, Czech Republic – Sasazu
20 – Leipzig, Germany -Felsenkeller
21 – Berlin, Germany – Astra
22 – Warsaw, Poland – Progresja (NEW)
24 – Helsinki, Finland – Kulttuuritalo (NEW)
25 – Tampere, Finland – Tavara Asema (NEW)
27 – Stockholm, Sweden – Fållan (NEW)
28 – Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene (NEW)

March
1 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Amager Bio
2 – Hamburg, Germany -Grosse Freiheit 36



Over the past 15 years, Jinjer have built a reputation as one of modern metal’s most fearless and forward-thinking bands. Rising from the Ukrainian underground to international acclaim, their blend of progressive groove, technical precision, and raw emotion has earned them over 250 million global streams and views. From viral hits like “Pisces” to the crushing intensity of Macro and the dark complexity of Wallflowers, their discography continues to redefine what heavy music can be. Their latest album Duél features multiple music videos with multi-millions of combined views to date and broke into the charts at #2 US Hard Music Albums, #6 US Current Rock Albums, #2 CAN Hard Music Albums, #3 France Metal, #7 UK Rock & Metal and beyond.

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Duél tracklisting:

“Tantrum”
“Hedonist”
“Rogue”
“Tumbleweed”
“Green Serpent”
“Kafka”
“Dark Bile”
“Fast Draw”
“Someone’s Daughter”
“A Tongue So Sly”
“Duél”

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GUS G. & RONNIE ROMERO Release New Single / Video “My Premonition”; European Tour Dates

Guitarist Gus G. (Firewind) and vocalist Ronnie Romero (Elegant Weapons) have teamed up once again, releasing the new single “My Premonition”. Check out the official video below, pick up the song here.






Gus and Ronnie have announced dates for their Convergence European Tour 2025. The schedule is available below.

October
10 – Santander, Spain – Escenario
11 – Madrid, Spain – El Sol
12 – Zaragoza, Spain – Sala Lopez
13 – Barcelona, Spain – Wolf
14 – Mallorca, Spain – Full Metal Holiday (Sold Out)
17 – Rome, Italy – Crossroads
18 – Bologna, Italy – Alchemica
19 – Bergamo, Italy – Druso
21 – Nürnberg, Germany – Hirsch
22 – Bensheim, Germany – Rex
24 – Hamburg, Germany – Bahnhof Pauli
25 – Isernhagen, Germany – Bluesgarage
26 – Leipzig, Germany – Hellraiser
27 – Augsburg, Germany – Spektrum
28 – Munich, Germany – Backstage
29 – Aschaffenburg, Germany – ColosSaal
30 – Bielefeld, Germany – Lokschuppen
31 – Oss, Netherlands – Groene Engel


November
1 – Amersfoort, Netherlands – Fluor
2 – Drachten, Netherlands – Iduna
4 – Warsaw, Poland – Hybrydy

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ALBUM REVIEW: Xenotaph – Fallujah

ALBUM REVIEW: Xenotaph – Fallujah


Despite suffering a myriad of changing personnel over their near two-decade career, it’s remarkable that FALLUJAH remain at the summit of technical and progressive death metal. The San Francisco-based band’s blend of intricate and visceral tech death alongside serene atmospherics is a match made in heaven that has been more refined with each subsequent release. 2022’s Empyrean saw a welcome return to form after 2019’s divisive Undying Light, album number six Xenotaph sees FALLUJAH ascend to a height previously thought unfathomable.



Largely, this down to the brave, organic, and effortlessly natural evolution of the FALLUJAH soundscape, spearheaded by vocalist Kyle Schaefer, who consistently impresses with a wide and dynamic vocal range throughout the record. From sultry opener In Stars We Drown, that gives the first glimpse into the band’s new and expanded palette, through to the alluring chorus in Labyrinth Of Stone, a track which ebbs and flows from blistering technicality to reflective passages, leading from the front in a career defining studio performance, Schaefer‘s ability to twist and contort vocally helps drive the record’s lasting impact across its lean 42 minute run time.



It’s not just vocally where we’ve seen an expansion of the band’s greatest traits. Musically, Xenotaph is a bountiful buffet of atmospheric heavy tech death. Kaleidoscope Waves boasts a passage of play where guitarist – and sole original member – Scott Carstairs leads a jazz-fusion dance of elaborate technicality which will have you desperate to hit the replay button. Similarly, the way in which The Crystalline Veil allows each component of the band’s makeup to shine is incredibly slick and the elaborate musicianship is quite simply, a joy to listen to.


But, where Xenotaph really excels in the way in the band take each individual component and present it as one exhilarating cohesive listening experience. The way in the band demonstrate their multifaceted personas is quite simply, astonishing, and when it unleashes, it packs the force of a tsunami. Take Step Through the Portal and Breathe, for example. A staggering piece of brilliance, the way in which the band twist and contort their musical maelstrom whilst maintaining pinpoint precision is devastatingly brilliant and it’s closing solo is nothing short of stunning. Elsewhere, A Parasitic Dream duels and dances against a dizzying amount of shred and it’s supporting atmosphere is wholly immersive, whereas The Obsidian Architect has enough ferocity and technical shred that feels akin to 2011’s The Harvest Wombs.
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At this point, we’re wondering just how far FALLUJAH can ascend to, as their trajectory and musical craft is in a league of its own. Building upon the renewed sense of purpose achieved through Empyrean, Xenotaph sees the San Francisco natives at their creative zenith, delivering a record that sets the benchmark for technical death metal in 2025 and beyond.

Rating: 9/10



Xenotaph is out now via Nuclear Blast Records.

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LANDMVRKS: The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been

Assembling the dismembered limbs of their single, Creature, well over a year before beginning the production of their latest record, the members of French metalcore collective LANDMVRKS realised that in order to create life, it needed to meet its maker. The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been is an album that embodies the damaging spiral of mental health, whilst putting yourself into your art becomes as much of a struggle as it is an enduring strength.



“We had a bit of time off, but it wasn’t enough.” Bassist Rudy Purkat explains on a video call with guitarist Paul ‘C Wilson’ Cordebard. On a much-needed day in the sun away from their US tour, the pair are lounging in a lakeside Airbnb somewhere between North Carolina and Virginia. Alongside vocalist Florent Salfati, guitarist Nicolas Exposito and drummer Kévin D’Agostino, they are a long way from their Marseille home. Since the release of 2021’s Lost In The Wave, they’ve rarely had a moment away from the band.



As the band were touring for much of the production for their latest record, The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been was mostly made on the road using their own “carry on” recording station, with parts of the album coming together anywhere they could – in the US, in Europe, and even ten minutes before going on stage.

Taking advantage of every opportune moment possible was key to its creation, including their feature with Matt Welsh from WHILE SHE SLEEPS for their track A Line In The Dust. Paul says, “he’s a very good friend of ours, like when we wrote that song, we knew that we needed a feature of a very specific voice. We were playing a festival together, and we had the recording station back in the bus and so we just asked him to come over and lay down vocals.”

The band were keen to experiment with incorporating new genres into their music, Paul explains. “We didn’t know where we wanted to go at first, so we just tried a whole lot of different things we hadn’t done before. Like I remember on the first demos, we tried pop, synth wave, dance and then we found our way through the process to find a sound that was good for the album.” Taking influence from KENDRICK LAMAR and French hip-hop, the band’s love of rap would add texture to the album, just as much as their love of 2000s rock like BLINK-182 and BOXCAR RACER. Paul’s favourite record off the new album is Blood Red. “It is the most powerful emo vibe we have ever done.”
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Staying true to their metalcore roots, the band have polished their signature sound, with Reqiem becoming one of the heaviest tracks they have ever made. “People are going to be surprised by the chorus,” Paul starts. “Flo is taking a whole different range of his voice, it’s like a very deep growl with blasting and shit.” Of course, the band took great influence from GOJIRA whilst producing the track. Since COVID, the French metal scene is the strongest it’s ever been. Citing bands like RESOLVE, TEN. 56 and NOVELISTS, Rudy describes their relationship as family. “We’re all really close friends. We are very lucky to have that scene growing and GOJIRA as a leader of that scene internationally.”

The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been is no doubt the darkest record they have written to date. The record is brought to life with the creation of their single Creature, which Rudy describes as “an embodiment of fears and emotions, the behaviour we don’t want to continue to have, embodied into a creature and [physically] becoming its home. This is the process of trying to fight it and overcome it.”


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In conversation about the final track of the record, Funeral, Rudy adds, “we kind of liked the fact that the album ended with a funeral. There is nothing after a funeral. There is just death.” The descent into a bad mental health state- a spiral of negative thoughts and feelings – is the ongoing story of the album.

Paired with vocalist Flo’s meaningful vocals, the hope for the record would speak to their audience, as a collective struggle that everyone could have during their life and the strength to overcome it. Whilst he didn’t believe the record was a ‘concept album’, the band had a lot of fun putting together visuals, messing around with playing god for their dark creation.

When asked what is next for the band, Rudy jokes, “taking some time off. Maybe?”

However, this will have to wait a little longer. LANDMVRKS are heading back on tour this summer for the European festival circuit, with a stop in the UK for Slam Dunk. “It’s like our European Warped Tour. It’s very short, but you get all together with the bands you listen to and make a lot of new friends. It’s very easy to make friends there.”

“I think it’s a very special festival, compared to all the others in Europe. Slam Dunk is more of a mix of all the different genres of music in our scene. It’s really cool to be able to connect with bands like THE STARTING LINE and NECK DEEP. You’re able to watch their set and talk to them. It’s a very cool experience.”

The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been is out now via Arising Empire. View this interview, alongside dozens of other killer bands, in glorious print magazine fashion in DS120 here:

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ALBUM REVIEW: Subnormal Dives – Byonoisegenerator

While mixing jazz and extreme music may be old news to some of the more discerning metal fans out there, no band has ever done it like Russian quintet BYONOISEGENERATOR. With abrasive grindcore colliding with avant-garde jazz, the group’s latest album Subnormal Dives is a challenging yet exhilarating experience.
While heavier acts throwing in a sprinkling of jazz isn’t unheard of, BYONOISEGENERATOR take the concept to its logical extreme by stacking unpredictable sax and jazzy drums on top of their harsh grindcore. Their second album Subnormal Dives isn’t for the faint of heart, launching a barrage of chaotic noise at the audience which only rewards the most fearless or masochistic listener.



While BYONOISEGENERATOR are hardly aiming for a wide audience, there are a handful of unexpected choices that narrow their target listener into an extremely specific niche. The Saint Anger style trash can snare for example may put off some listeners with its harsh bounce that cuts through the mix like a pickaxe or the oddly placed math rock inspired tapping on deBroglieNeverExisted that sticks out in the jazzy groove in a way that could either come across as intentionally mismatched or a little messy. Although any sane person would be put off well before noticing these small annoyances, the same kind of deranged maniac that would willingly listen to an album as strange as Subnormal Dives is bound to nitpick a few inconsistencies.

Subnormal Dives is the kind of challenging listen that should be included in Navy Seal training programmes, clashing together two already difficult genres into a migraine inducing cacophony. For the tiny fraction of the population who can push past the initial shock of BYONOISEGENERATOR’s sound there’s plenty of tight performances and fascinating musical choices to pick through from the comfort of their windowless padded cells.

Rating: 7/10

Conan: A New Dimension

For almost two decades CONAN have been tearing up the extreme metal rulebook with their own unique brand of sludge-heavy ‘Caveman Battle Doom’, as the band themselves have called it. With new album Violence Dimension about to be released, erstwhile frontman and riff master general Jon Davis sat down with us to discuss the band’s new songs, new lineup and new label.



Before we got onto talking about the new record though, we took the opportunity to ask exactly where CONAN’s super-heavy, super-distorted sound originally came from. “I think, when you look at my contribution to that sound, a lot of it comes from the fact that I’m actually quite limited in my ability as a guitarist,” Jon laughs. “Over time I’ve definitely become better at what I do but what I do is quite narrow, really. I couldn’t play you a MEGADETH riff, I couldn’t play you a CANNIBAL CORPSE riff but in a way that’s been a blessing in disguise. It’s enabled me to just focus on doing what I can do, unapologetically, and just to focus on making that hit as hard as possible.”



And boy do they hit hard, although the bands that influenced those earliest songs might come as a surprise to some. “When I first started coming up with what is now the CONAN sound, really I was just writing punk riffs that were just really slowed down and really distorted,” continues Jon. “Up until that point though I’d only really been listening to GREEN DAY, FOO FIGHTERS and NIRVANA so my early ideas were kind of coming from there. It wasn’t until after that I discovered bands like FUDGE TUNNEL and Chaos A.D.-era SEPULTURA and then they became the kinds of bands that really moulded that early version of CONAN into what it ended up as. I can’t say I’ve really broadened my musical horizons that much since then to be honest – I’m like an old worn-out sword that just gets sharper because it’s used a lot!”


It’s probably no surprise to see Nottingham legends FUDGE TUNNEL named as an influence on the early CONAN sound. What might be more of a surprise, though, is the fact that founding member of FUDGE TUNNEL David Ryley is CONAN’s new bass player, having replaced the long-serving Chris Fielding in 2023. As a fan of the band in his youth, this must have been quite an experience for Jon? “Yeah, it was quite strange really. I ended up being put in touch with him through a mutual Facebook friend, so we became friends on social media first before anything. But it was actually through (Jon’s industrial side project) UNGRAVEN that we first started working together. I started that project off with just me and a drum machine and I hated doing that live, so I approached Dave to see if he’d be interested in joining me for that and fortunately he was. Then, when Chris couldn’t make a couple of CONAN festival shows, it made sense to see if Dave was able to step in for him and it all went from there really.”

Jon goes on to say that, despite having one of his biggest influences now playing in his band, it hasn’t really changed the way the band approaches writing new material. “It hasn’t changed a massive amount to be honest. We don’t rehearse together very much being as I’m in Merseyside, Dave is in Nottingham and Johnny (King, drums) is in Dublin, so jamming isn’t really a big thing for us. The way we write has pretty much stayed the same for a while though. Loosely, I’ll come up with a few riffs that I might record with a drum machine and then I’ll present them to the guys and we’ll develop them together in the studio before we actually start recording. Some of those ideas will end up on the album but actually a lot of the new album was just pulled together by all of us on the spot and that’s been the way we’ve worked for a number of years now. Revengeance in 2016 was probably the last time all of CONAN sat down together and made a concerted effort to sit and write a full album together before we went into the studio to record it.”



New album Violence Dimension, perhaps unsurprisingly given its title, continues to explore violence in its many forms, a running theme throughout the band’s back catalogue and one that is becoming more prescient given the current state of the world. “When I was a kid, I just thought wars started because one country didn’t like another country. I think as you get older, you realise there’s a lot more to it than that, although of course most of the time it’s just about money and resources,” Jon explains. “I think you just get more aware of how violent the world is as you get older. And, if the resources we’ve always fought over are becoming more scarce now, it stands to reason that the violence that exists in the name of owning those resources will only become more widespread and persistent. I’m not a big politics person but when you look at the people that we have in power in the world now, it’s insane how unsuitable some of those people are to be in the positions they’re in. It’s no wonder the world feels much less stable and much more violent and that’s definitely something that’s reflected on the new record.”

With a new lineup and the album set for release on the band’s new home Heavy Psych Sounds, it feels like an exciting time for CONAN to be ushering brutal new music into an increasingly brutal world. Just sit back, relax and allow the band to provide the perfect soundtrack for the apocalypse.

Violence Dimension is out now via Heavy Psych Sounds. View this interview, alongside dozens of other killer bands, in glorious print magazine fashion in DS120 here:

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