Nightwish vocalist Floor Jansen announces her second solo album, Hytress, out January 15, 2027, via REVAMP Music and Warner Music, and drops new single “Bring Me Silence”, her heaviest, most direct solo statement yet. A full European and South American tour follows in 2027. Stream it now and pre-order below. Continue reading
Darryl Jenifer, bassist and founding member of Bad Brains, has announced The Weather Channel, a new instrumental album out July 17th via Org Music on LP, CD, and digital. The first single, “Sacred Love II,” is out now. Stream it below. Continue reading
Gus G. has released the official music video for “Dancing With Death,” the third track from his fifth solo album Steel Burner, out now. The single features the powerhouse vocals of Matt Barlow, known for his work with Ashes of Ares and his long tenure with Iced Earth, and marks the Greek guitar virtuoso’s first solo record in five years. Watch the video below. Continue reading
In this episode, Keefy interviews Eric Bass of Shinedown! Eric has just dropped his Eric has just dropped his debut solo album, “I Had A Name,” a departure from Shinedown, but in the best way! Touching many musical styles and leaning on his voice and vast experience making music for decades, we delved into Eric’s history as a writer and producer, how this album shows offsides to his personality he has never expressed before in music, some super heavy metal on this album, his love of concept albums, his upcoming companion graphic novel, as well as an update on the two new singles and album from Shinedown! Continue reading
Reba Meyers, the Grammy-nominated vocalist and guitar player of Code Orange, has released her debut solo single, “Certain Uncertainty” accompanied by a self-shot video directed by Greg Puciato (Better Lovers/The Black Queen). Continue reading
Jerry Cantrell, he of Alice in Chains fame, has returned with I Want Blood (Double J Music). It is his fourth solo record and continues the Grunge flavoured Hard Rock and Metal he is known for with an array of famous friends popping in, including Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Mike Bordin (Faith No More), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Better Lovers) and the production help of Joe Barresi (Slipknot, Clutch, Tool, Mastodon) amongst others. Continue reading
Slash’s much-anticipated blues cover album is studded with fine performances – Chris Stapleton singing on “Oh Well”, Iggy Pop on “Awful Dream”, Brian Johnson loving it on “Killing Floor”. Continue reading
In a new interview with Marc Maron for his WTF podcast, Courtney Love has revealed she is nearly finished with her long-in-the-works new solo album, eyeing a 2023 release. This would be Courtney’s second solo album under her own name, following her 2004 debut, America’s Sweetheart. Rather than studio albums or EPs, she has focused on standalone singles, movie soundtracks, and collabs for her solo work, and sporadic work and albums with Hole (2010’s Nobody’s Daughter album was basically a Courtney solo album under the Hole banner). In a wide ranging interview about her career in music and acting (she was nominated for a Golden Globe for The People vs. Larry Flynt in 1996) she discussed making music, humbling herself to open for Lana Del Ray (now one of her closest friends) moving to London, rejecting all social media as an artist, the choice to retire her most popular song “Violet” permanently, and her many public and private relationships under the magnifying glass of celebrity for 35 years. She also mentioned writing a new song “Justice for Kurt” for her late husband and Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, calling it a “2 minute earworm.” She also said she is omitting it from the album, because it will overshadow the rest of of the album. Maron is a brilliant interviewer, comedian, and actor (Almost Famous, Joker), so it’s worth a listen.
Ibaraki is the new solo project from Trivium’s Matt Heafy, and Rashomon is released through Nuclear Blast, having been over a decade in the making. The name translates as “Wild Trees”, but is also taken from a terrifying Japanese demon of feudal legend, and the concept is a profound affirmation of Heafy’s Japanese-American heritage, incorporating a number of different musical styles. Although the main inspiration clearly sits within the black etal genre, taking influence from the experience of Emperor’s Ihsahn, who co-produced, and whose quirkier ideas from his solo work are peppered throughout the release. Continue reading
They say (well, Turisas did, which is probably as unlikely a band to reference in the introduction to a review of a solo album by the vocalist from The Menzingers as you’re going to get) no good story ever starts with drinking tea. But, maybe, just maybe this one does. For the journey of Don’t Go Throwing Roses In My Grave (Epitaph Records), the first solo album from Gregor Barnett begins with the premature closing of one adventure and the unplanned void of returning home to… no plans. Just peace, quiet, solitude, and, well, whatever hot drink of choice our man from Pennsylvania chooses to imbibe the morning.