The Sick New World 2024 lineup has been announced featuring System Of A Down, Slipknot, A Perfect Circle, Alice In Chains, Bring Me The Horizon, Babymetal, and more.
The presale for event starts this Friday, Oct. 13 at 1PM ET, and for $19.99 down you can secure a ticket. More details on how to sign up for the presale on Sick New World’s website.
The stacked lineup also features, Ice Nine Kills, Motionless In White, Primus, Bad Omens, Sleep Token, Knocked Loose, Jinjer, Spiritbox, Sevendust, Loathe, 3Teeth, Slowdive, and many more. The Las Vegas Festival Grounds appear to be a big deal now in the festival world with Sick New World and When We Were Young now becoming successful.
You can see the full lineup below.
Sick New World 2024 Lineup Announced
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The Sick New World Festival is set to return to Las Vegas, Nevada on April 27, 2024, for its second year. The festival is known for its diverse lineup of artists, with a focus on rock, metal, and alternative music.
UK-rock band Neck Deep have announced they will be returning to America on a U.S. headlining tour next year with special guests Drain, Bearings and Higher Power. The tour will be making stops throughout the country, kicking off on January 25, 2024 in Nashville and visiting Orlando, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, Brooklyn and more, before wrapping up in Chicago on February 25. The last time Neck Deep toured the U.S. was in the Fall/Winter of 2021.
Tickets on sale now.
Upcoming Neck Deep U.S. Tour Dates
January 25 – Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
January 26 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
January 27 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live Orlando
January 29 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
January 31 – Phoenix, AZ – Marquee Theatre
February 1 – Pomona, CA – Fox Theater
February 3 – San Francisco, CA – The Warfield
February 5 – Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
February 6 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
February 8 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom
February 9 – Kansas City, MO – The Truman
February 10 – Minneapolis, MN – Skyway Theatre
February 13 – Royal Oak Music Theatre – Royal Oak, MI
February 14 – Cleveland, OH – The Agora
February 16 – Boston, MA – Roadrunner
February 17 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
February 18 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
February 20 – Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live
February 21 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE
February 23 – Cincinnati, OH – Megacorp Pavilion
February 24 – Columbus, OH – Newport Music Hall
February 25 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
The band just announced that their upcoming self-titled album, Neck Deep, is set for release on January 19th, 2024, via Hopeless Records. Featuring their newest single “It Won’t Be Like This Forever,” the new album encompasses everything Neck Deep have excelled at across their career, enhanced and dialed to eleven. From the bouncing bombast of “Dumbstruck, Dumbf**k” and the ripping intensity of “Sort Yourself Out”, to the poetic introspection of “They Don’t Mean To (But They Do)”, it’s an album that boasts a song for almost any occasion (including, in recent single “Take Me With You”, the impending alien invasion).
In the little over a decade since Neck Deep formed in the Barlow brothers’ spare room in Wrexham, Wales, a lot has changed. From the scrappy, naively hopeful beginnings that define the starting of so many teenage bands, the pop-punks have gone on to be one of British Rock music’s most successful global exports in recent memory: top 5 records in both the US and UK, global touring, viral hits and over a billion streams just some of the fruits of ten years spent mastering their craft.
But now, as the band stand on the brink of their fifth, self-titled LP, there’s an acknowledgement that the more things change, the more – in some ways at least – they stay the same.
“This album is the sound of us knowing ourselves and knowing our ability,” explains frontman and youngest Barlow sibling Ben. “It’s unapologetically us. We’re professional songwriters now and we’ve really honed in on what we’re good at – but it’s also about having fun and enjoying writing these tracks. And there are those little sonic signatures in the mix that even I can’t really put my finger on that just make it Neck Deep. It happens when we get in a room together and it clicks – it’s us just doing our thing like we always have.”
For this record, the band, completed by Ben’s older brother and bassist SebBarlow, guitarists Matt West and Sam Bowden and drummer Matt Powles, took ‘doing their own thing’ – and only their own thing – to the next level. Eschewing a keen list of collaborators and producers eager to work with one of rock’s hottest properties and choosing, instead, to write and record in their own warehouse space, mere miles from where they grew up. Old school, just like it used to be.
Following a storming headline show at Power Trip Festival in California last night, metal icons Judas Priestannounced on stage the arrival of a brand-new studio album entitled Invincible Shield, set for release on March 8, 2024, via Epic Records. “Panic Attack,” the first single from the album, will be released this Friday, October 13, 2023. The album is now available to pre-order here.
Power Trip festival took place at the weekend and saw the biggest names in metal gather for this sold-out event, where everyone from Metallica to Iron Maiden and AC/DC performed alongside the mighty Priest. Their surprise on-stage announcement was made to 200,000 fans at the festival and sent a shockwave of excitement amongst their loyal followers across the globe. Watch the album trailer here.
The undisputed hardest working band in metal will also be embarking on a world tour in 2024, the with the UK leg kicking off in Glasgow on March 11th and includes a show at London’s OVO Wembley Arena on March 21st.
Over the past 50 years Judas Priest have sold over 50 million albums worldwide and headlined the world’s biggest stadiums. With their evolving music and live performances also came a powerful unique identity, a look which has both defined the group and influenced future generations of metal bands the world over. With each year the Judas Priest legend continues to grow; 2022 saw them inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and complete a sold-out rescheduled world tour in support of their 50th Anniversary. As we roll into 2024, Judas Priest continue to retain their crown as one of the biggest and best bands in the world.
The Podcast That Rocked for 10/4/23. Crowdkilling at MIW shows, Blue Ridge Rock Fest investigation, Aerosmith, Foo Fighters, and more.
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0:00 – Intro 9:08 – Blue Ridge Rock Fest investigated by the Virginia Health Department 12:25 – Aerosmith Postponing Tour 13:45 – Foo Fighters Announce 2024 Summer Tour 14:35 – Thank you YouTube Members & Patrons!
From Google Bard: “Motionless in White is an American metalcore band from Scranton, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2004, the band consists of lead vocalist Chris “Motionless” Cerulli, guitarists Ryan Sitkowski and Ricky “Horror” Olson, drummer Vinny Mauro, and bassist Justin Morrow. Motionless is the only member of the original line-up that remains in the band.
The band’s music is a blend of metalcore, gothic metal, industrial metal, and nu metal. They are known for their dark and atmospheric sound, as well as their elaborate live shows. Motionless in White has released six studio albums, with their latest album, Scoring the End of the World, being released in 2022.
Motionless in White has toured extensively throughout the world, and has shared the stage with some of the biggest names in metal, including Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie. The band has also won numerous awards, including the Revolver Golden Gods Award for Best New Band in 2010.”
Explosions In The Sky at 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.
“Whenever we come to D.C., you always show up. We appreciate that.” – Munaf Rayani
Explosions In The Sky are not strangers to the 9:30 Club or Washington D.C., having recorded an NPR special in the venue in 2016. Seven years later, the Austin-based group returned to a sold-out night one of a two-night stop in the nation’s capital.
In support of End, EITS’ latest album, this show set a peaceful mood that carried through the night. With most sold-out shows at 9:30 Club, there is a history of the venue becoming chaotic. On October 3rd, it was a show where everyone was quiet but alert. Seeing Explosions In The Sky live and seeing such a large crowd so calm is a unique spectacle, but once you experience the group’s live performance you understand why.
Kerosene fog on a dimly lit stage was the focal point for everyone. Hearing music from this year’s The End and tracks going back 20 years to The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place helped show EITS’s longevity. Hearing “The Birth And Death Of The Day” live is still an awe-inspiring performance many years after All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone.
Explosions In The Sky proves that music can be an experience without one word sung. Washington D.C. had that lesson perfectly reinforced. I hope that lesson can be carried on by the many bands inspired by this group.
Explosions In The Sky at 9:30 Club in Washington D.C.
October 3rd, 2023 Setlist First Breath After Coma Ten Billion People Greet Death Loved Ones The Birth & Death Of The Day Your Hand In Mine With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept The Fight The Only Moment We Were Alone
Explosions In The Sky continue on The End Tour through Europe, ending in Madrid on November 20th, 2023. You can find further tour dates and more info on the group’s Instagram account below.
The Gaslight Anthem release new song “Autumn” US Headline Tour Underway Now
First New Album In Nearly A Decade, History Books Arrives Friday, October 27th, 2023.
The Gaslight Anthem release their latest single, “Autumn,” available everywhere now. The song drifts into a contemplative mood as the band share a deeply felt meditation on impermanence, set against a lovely backdrop of luminous harmonies and oceanic guitar work. “Autumn” heralds The Gaslight Anthem’s first new album together in almost a decade, HISTORY BOOKS, arriving Friday, October 27 on their own Rich Mahogany Recordings label via Thirty Tigers. Pre-orders are available now.
“I wrote this song on a really beautiful fall day, looking out the window and thinking, ‘How many days like this do we get to see?’” says The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon. “So much of life is just trying to get by, but every now and then you have those moments where you can really feel grateful for the small things.”
The Gaslight Anthem is currently on the road marking HISTORY BOOKS and their recent return to action with North American headline dates, highlighted by an instantly sold-out series of intimate record release shows at Jersey City, NJ’s historic White Eagle Hall on October 27-30. In addition, the band will headline WFUV’s annual “Holiday Cheer for WFUV” benefit event, set for December 6 at New York City’s renowned Beacon Theatre. Pre-sales are available now through Thursday, October 5 at 10:00 pm ET (Password: WFUVCHEER). General on-sales begin Friday, October 6 at 11:00 am ET. The band will also perform in Chicago on December 8th as part of Q101’s Twisted Xmas concert series.
The band also recently unveiled an eagerly anticipated EU/UK tour, making stops in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, and the United Kingdom through March 2024. Additional UK dates follow in July. For full details and ticket availability, please see www.thegaslightanthem.com.
Produced by GRAMMY® Award-winner Peter Katis (The National, Kurt Vile) at his Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, CT, HISTORY BOOKS includes such recently released singles as “Little Fires,” featuring guest vocals from PUP frontman Stefan Babcock and now joined by an official music video directed by photographer/filmmaker Kelsey Hunter Ayres and streaming now at YouTube. Further highlights include “Positive Charge,” and the heavy-hearted title track, “History Books,” the latter of which sees frontman Brian Fallon trading duet vocals with longtime band champion and fellow New Jerseyan Bruce Springsteen. An official music video, directed by Ayres, is streaming now on YouTube. “History Books” was met with immediate acclaim from such outlets as the Associated Press, which declared it “big-hearted freeway rock, made ascendant by frontman Brian Fallon and Springsteen’s tremulous harmonies.”
The Gaslight Anthem’s sixth full-length and first new album in nearly a decade, HISTORY BOOKS sees the New Jersey-bred band once again bringing their soulful breed of life-affirming punk to explore everything from mortality and mental illness to the more precarious dimensions of human connection. In the glorious tradition of their seminal 2008 sophomore album, THE ’59 SOUND, the new LP matches its raw emotional power with the rich craft and wildly triumphant energy that has defined the band since its very start.
“None of us wanted to make a very somber or serious record showing how much we’ve matured,” says Fallon. “We’ve all changed and grown and learned so much, but the overall mood was a feeling of excitement to be back together and making music that means something to us.”
The Gaslight Anthem made their long-awaited return to the road last year with their first world headline tour in four years. Hailed by Kerrang! as “an amazing, career-spanning 21-song setlist…(that) celebrated all eras of their music,” the tour lit up stages across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom before culminating in October with a sold-out home state finale at Holmdel, NJ’s PNC Bank Arts Center.
The Gaslight Anthem is: Brian Fallon (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Alex Rosamilia (lead guitar, backing vocals), Alex Levine (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Benny Horowitz (drums, percussion, backing vocals).
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – WORLD TOUR 2023/2024
OCTOBER
4 – Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas
5 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento
7 – Boise, ID – Knitting Factory Boise
8 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory Spokane
27 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall (SOLD OUT)
28 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall (SOLD OUT)
29 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall (SOLD OUT)
30 – Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall (SOLD OUT)
DECEMBER
6 – New York, NY – Holiday Cheer for WFUV @ The Beacon Theatre
Tracklist: 1. Spider Bites 2. History Books (Feat. Bruce Springsteen) 3. Autumn 4. Positive Charge 5. Michigan, 1975 6. Little Fires 7. The Weatherman 8. Empires 9. I Live In The Room Above Her 10. A Lifetime Of Preludes
Ever wonder what the scariest rock and metal bands are? Why not ask an incompetent AI program?! This video looks at the Top 10 SCARIEST Rock Bands (from Google Bard).
Black Sabbath were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1968 by guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Geezer Butler and vocalist Ozzy Osbourne.
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band formed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1995 by percussionist Shawn Crahan, drummer Joey Jordison and bassist Paul Gray.
Mercyful Fate is a Danish heavy metal band formed in Copenhagen in 1981 by vocalist King Diamond and guitarist Hank Shermann.
The Misfits were an American horror punk band formed in Lodi, New Jersey, in 1977.
GWAR is an American heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1985.
The Cramps were an American psychobilly band formed in New York City in 1976.
Rob Zombie is an American heavy metal singer, songwriter, filmmaker, and record producer.
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in Langhus in 1984.
Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band formed in Linköping in 2006.
Ahead of Ministry’s brand-new studio album, HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, dropping March 1, 2024, the band will head out on a Spring 2024 North American tour, once again teaming up with touring comrades Gary Numan and Front Line Assembly.
The 29-date tour kicks off February 27 in San Francisco and runs through April 5 in Tucson, hitting major markets in the U.S. and Canada (see the full list of dates below). Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 6 at 10 AM local time. Find more info at www.ministryband.com/tour.
Says Ministry mastermind and creator Al Jourgensen, “So looking forward to doing another tour with Gary and the gang. We had such a blast the last time. The shows were amazing. Each band complements the other perfectly. Plus, both of our new releases are Kick Ass! Get your tickets and come join us.”
Ministry recently announced details for their groundbreaking 16th album,
HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES, slated for release March 1, 2024 via Nuclear Blast Records and issued the first single and video for “Goddamn White Trash,” featuring Pepper Keenan.
Joined by Ministry’s current frontline of musicians – John Bechdel (keyboards), Monte Pittman and Cesar Soto (guitars), Roy Mayorga (drums) and Paul D’Amour (bass) – the 9-track HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES also has a slew of special guest contributors including Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, long-time collaborator and Lard companion Jello Biafra and Corrosion of Conformity frontman Pepper Keenan.
HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES will be available in three vinyl variants, a CD jewelcase and digital/streaming platforms. The vinyl variants include: green with yellow splatter (in stores everywhere); blue with pink splatter (nuclear blast exclusive); red with white splatter (band/tour exclusive).
The release of HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES follows Ministry’s acclaimed 2021 album Moral Hygiene that kickstarted another era for the band. The critically acclaimed LP wound up on year-end lists from the likes of Consequence of Sound and Loudwire, as the band continued to sell out venues coast-to-coast on the Industrial Strength tour.
Tracklist for HOPIUMFORTHEMASSES:
B.D.E.
Goddamn White Trash***
Just Stop Oil
Aryan Embarrassment**
TV Song 1/6 Edition
New Religion
It’s Not Pretty
Cult of Suffering*
Ricky’s Hand
MINISTRY SPRING 2024 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
Joined By Gary Numan & Front Line Assembly
February 2024
27 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
29 Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
March 2024
1 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
2 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
3 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
5 Calgary, AB @ Palace Theatre
6 Edmonton, AB @ Midway Music Hall
8 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
9 Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
10 Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
12 Columbus, OH @ Kemba Live
13 Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theater
14 Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
16 Toronto, ON @ History
17 Montreal, QC @ MTelus
18 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
19 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
20 Bethlehem, PA @ Wind Creek Casino
22 Cherokee, NC @ Harrah’s Cherokee
23 Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
24 Tampa, FL @ Jannus Landing
26 Birmingham, AL @ Avondale
27 Biloxi, MS @ Hard Rock Casino Biloxi***
29 Houston, TX @ House of Blues
30 Dallas, TX @ The Factory
31 Tulsa, OK @ Tulsa Theater
April 2024
2 Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom
4 Las Vegas, NV @ The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
Dutch metallers Within Temptation have released their brand-new single “Ritual” today. The song is the focus track of their upcoming eighth studio album Bleed Out, on October 20.
Reflecting the tumultuous state of the world, for their newest record the band have drawn inspiration from events such as the murder of Mahsa Amini in Iran and the war in Ukraine. But that isn’t to say that there’s no light to the heavy shade on Bleed Out.
Sharon den Adel explains that the song “is one of the kinkiest songs the band have ever written and is fully inspired by From Dusk Till Dawn.” She is referring to the iconic movie by Quentin Tarantino about a seemingly normal road trip turning into a vampire slayer party. “It’s a fun track about seduction,” she explains. “It’s about the lady taking power in a male dominated world and taking her own initiative.”
Bleed Out signifies a bold leap forward for the band. From contemporary, hard-hitting, and djenty riffs to soaring melodies displaying their symphonic roots, Within Temptation have created a sonic journey that fuses diverse musical styles and thought-provoking themes. This is an album that is as epic as it is unflinchingly outspoken, and now more than ever, this is a band who is unafraid to make a stand on issues it cares about. Within Temptation have delivered a fist-in-the-air proclamation of both their moral convictions and their fearless approach to music.
BLEED OUT TRACKLISTING: “We Go To War” “Bleed Out“ “Wireless“ “Worth Dying For” “Ritual” “Cyanide Love” “The Purge” “Don’t Pray For Me” “Shed My Skin” (feat. Annisokay) “Unbroken” “Entertain You”
Arguably the most ambitious and distinctive Code Orange album from the group’s discography. Self-produced and you can hear the time and effort put into it. The Above is proof of Jami Morgan’s statement of the band trying something different. Some brooding tracks like Take Shape and Mirror are standouts for Code Orange in general. Heavier tracks show off the industrial and hardcore highlights. That’s still a strength of the group. Not every song hits the mark or even feels like it belongs. There are some questionable moments in the second half. It all collectively works though. The Above deserves credit for ambition as well as the overall package. Made with the intention not to fit the status quo. 8/10
The Above is the fifth studio album by American hardcore punk band Code Orange, released on September 29, 2023, through Blue Grape Music. It is their first album to be entirely self-produced and their first with the label Blue Grape Music. The album was preceded by three singles: “Grooming My Replacement / The Game”, “Take Shape”, and “Mirror”.
The Above is a departure from Code Orange’s previous albums, incorporating elements of industrial metal, electronic music, and even alternative rock. The album is also more personal and introspective than their previous work, with lyrics that explore themes of self-doubt, addiction, and mental health.
Dad Joke(?) with Code Orange | Riot Fest 2023
Here are some other reviews for The Above:
Kerrang!: “The Above comes from a more personal, emotional point of view… it completes the journey we started on I Am King.”
Distorted Sound Magazine: “There’s simply too much going on to accurately be summed up, or to find even across one, five, even ten listens. The Above takes what CODE ORANGE already did, every part of their DNA, and radically rearranges it in bold new forms.”
Pitchfork: “The Above is a daring and innovative album that sees Code Orange pushing the boundaries of their genre.”
