Monsters Of Rock Cruise 2025 Books Night Ranger, Limited Cabins Remaining

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Night Ranger (credit: Kevin Baldes)

The annual Monsters of Rock Cruise (MORC), the world’s premier hard rock and heavy metal fan immersive music cruise sailing the high seas since 2012, has announced the addition of rock icons Night Ranger to the 2025 lineup. The band will be flown into the heart of the Bahamas for a special one-night-only performance in Nassau, the second port of call, exclusively for MORC guests. Night Ranger’s show (day and time TBA) is bound to be an electrifying highlight, adding to an already all-star lineup.

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Mayhem To Headline the Decibel Magazine Tour 2025, ft. Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, and New Skeletal Faces

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The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and San Diego death rock night-bringers New Skeletal Faces. Tickets for the 2025 Decibel Magazine Tour go on sale Friday, December 20th at 10 a.m. local time. Continue reading →


M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot Says The Lost Album “Look Outside Your Window” is In the Hands of Management to Prepare for Release

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One year after predicting the much talked about unreleased album of ambient music “Look Outside Your Window” would come out in the spring of 2024 (and other possible missed release dates over the years), M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan of Slipknot now says the album is in the hands of the bands’ management and preparing for a potential release in 2025. In a recent interview for their current here comes the pain 25th anniversary tour, Jim Root, frustrated by being asked about it, threatens to leak it Clown gave a new interview explaining why it would not make to see a release this year. The band has spent all of 2025 touring all over the world, headlining their Knotfest branded events and other metal festivals. Slipknot has also been recording a new album, which will be their first to feature new drummer Eloy Casagrande and the first not to feature Craig Jones, who has retired.Continue reading →


Iwrestledabearonce Are Planning a Reunion in The Near Future

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To paraphrase the 2004 Martin Scorsese movie The Departed “Through the Principles of Detection” it looks like a long hoped-for reunion of metalcore genre-blenders iwrestledabearonce is in fact, “all happening!” During an episode of Nerding Out With Rickshaw, bassist Mike “Rickshaw” Martin confirmed that he has been discussing the idea with vocalist Krysta Cameron. The band had a meteoric rise in the 2000s and 2010s following in the footsteps of Mr. Bungle, The Dillinger Escape Plan,  and The Residents and others and paving the way for diverse but heavy bands such as The Callous Daoboys, Jinjer, Steaksauce Mustache, Animals As Leaders, Entheos, and iwabo’s later descendants – Spiritbox (featuring final iwabo vocalist, Courtney LaPlante, and countless modern bands. The trendsetting band was a musical and fashion leader (top tier t-shirt game) band was hugely popular among Metalcore and Deathcore fans, but also disliked by greybeard old-school metal heads too. Continue reading →


EXCLUSIVE SINGLE PREMIERE: Globelamp (ex-Foxygen, Meowtain) Shares a New Single “Fossils” – New Album Coming in 2025

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SoCal Psych-Folk Queen Globelamp, aka Elizabeth le Fey Dapena, debuts her newest single today “Fossils” with Ghost Cult! The dreamy and haunting song reflects Globelamp’s tasteful and unique singer-songwriter vibes and otherworldly talent, an often mood-boarded sad girl before it was TikTok trendy. Listen to the new song below!Continue reading →


ALBUM REVIEW: Lacolpa – In Absentia Lucis

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Lacolpa’s new album, In Absentia Lucis (Brucia Records) finds the Italian band diving deeper into darkness. Their brand of darkness this time is more experimental than most heard this year. While they still self-identify as a Sludge band there is more common ground with Current 93 than with Neurosis. 

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INTERVIEW: Ragin Rosie Chats with Aaron Stainthorpe (My Dying Bride) of High Parasite About Their Debut

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In this episode, Ghost Cult’s Ragin Rosie chatted with Aaron Stainthorpe of  High Parasite! Their debut album “Forever We Burn” is out now via Candlelight Records, Aaron discussed the transition to the new band from My Dying Bride (on hiatus, but now coming back with a different singer), how the band formed, working with producer Gregor McIntosh (Paradise Lost),  what is Death-Pop -Rock music, their UK tour with Cradle of Filth, and Aaron’s favorite recent books, and more! 

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Movieland Drop Their Rarities and Demos Album “Then and Now”

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Cult shoegazers, Movieland, have released a rarities and demos collection, titled Then & Now, through Vancouver’s 604 Records. It is the first installment of 604 Decades; the label’s newly launched archival series, officially looking back at Vancouver’s rich, if unexplored, arts history. Keep reading below to find out more.
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