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Sick New World festival unveils the bill for the 2025 edition

Author Benedetta Baldin - 16.10.2024

The 2025 Sick New World festival roster, which includes Metallica, Linkin Park, and many other fantastic acts, was just revealed. One of the bands will be performing for the first time since 1997. The festival will mark its third iteration after making its debut in May 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Las Vegas Festival Grounds will host it on April 12. Other performers include Daron Malakian’s Scars on Broadway, Three Days Grace, Down, Mudvayne, Machine Head, Arch Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age, Evanescence, Ministry, Gojira, 311, and numerous others. Acid Bath, a New Orleans sludge metal band who disbanded in 1997 following the passing of bassist Audie Pitre, will reunite during the festival. Tickets for the festival go on sale this Friday, but fans can sign up here for a pre-sale that starts a bit earlier.

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A Scandinavian metal masterclass: Arch Enemy and In Flames at Manchester Academy, UK

The Swedish metal scene has long been renowned by melodic death metal, which combines aggression with intricate melodies. With the recent tour celebrating this particular Scandinavian smorgasbord of the genre’s most influential bands, together they represents a significant part to the evolution and global appeal of this musical style. The sold-out Manchester Academy, filled to...

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Sophisticated headbanging with Apocalyptica and The Raven Age at Stockholm’s Kägelbanan, 21.9.2024

Twenty-eight years after their debut album “Plays Metallica By Four Cellos”, the Finnish cello rockers Apocalyptica are going back to their roots with their tenth studio album “Plays Metallica Vol. 2”, reinterpreting Metallica songs with their cellos – and a drum set – almost entirely instrumentally. The accompanying 2024 / 2025 world tour kicked off...

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Arch Enemy premiere a new song “Liars & Thieves” live in Scotland

During their current UK/European tour, Swedish melodic death metallers Arch Enemy have been performing their as-yet-unreleased new song, “Liars & Thieves.” The group’s upcoming twelfth studio album, “Blood Dynasty,” which Century Media recently announced would be released on March 28th, ends with that song. The band has played this song several times since adding it...

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Ministry’s final album will be released via Cleopatra Records

Cleopatra Records will release Ministry‘s last studio album. With their upcoming seventeenth studio album, the platinum-certified industrial metal pioneers intend to wrap up their career. Paul Barker, the band’s former bassist, programmer, etc., comes back to write and record that endeavour. Barker left the band in 2003. Barker, who joined the group in 1986, was...

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Metallica contributes $100,000 to aid in the recovery from Hurricane Helene

$100,000 has been donated by Metallica’s All Within My Hands charity to provide immediate disaster relief in Hurricane Helene-affected regions. Since making landfall on Thursday, September 26th, Hurricane Helene has devastated a number of communities over a 500-mile radius, leaving a path of devastation in its wake across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and...

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Linkin Park release a live video for “Heavy Is The Crown”

Linkin Park, diamond-certified nu metal/alternative rock band, released the official live music video for their song “Heavy Is The Crown” below. The video was shot during the band’s performance at London’s O2 Arena on September 24. On the same day, the song’s studio version had its web debut. On November 15th, the band—which now includes...

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Behind the mic: evidence of backing tracks in Linkin Park’s live performances

Videos captured by fans during Linkin Park‘s Sept. 28 performance in South Korea seem to indicate the usage of a backup vocal track, over which Emily Armstrong has been singing quite passionately. There is a slight lead vocal in “The Emptiness Machine” and “Heavy Is the Crown,” even though Armstrong stopped singing and moved the...

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“She’s not trying to be Chester, she’s not trying to be anybody else” – Mike Shinoda shares more details on Linkin Park’s future plans

Seven years after lead singer Chester Bennington’s death in 2017, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda discussed the band’s comeback with new music and a new vocalist in a recent interview with BBC Radio 1’s New Music Show With Jack Saunders. Linkin Park made their webcast debut earlier this month with new singer Emily Armstrong and drummer...

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