A quick look at the world of heavy music, talking about Megadeth, Poppy, Orbit Culture, and more.
HEAVYS Weekly Breakdown | 11/16/25 #Shorts
“Poppy has just announced her brand-new seventh studio album, Empty Hands. The follow-up to 2024’s Negative Spaces will arrive on January 23, 2026 via Sumerian Records, and according to a press release it’ll feature ‘industrial elements, pop sensibilities and moments that call back to Poppy’s surrealist roots with her signature uncanny, machine-like voice’. She’s previewing what’s to come with heavy, Jordan Fish-produced single Bruised Sky, which she first debuted live in September and has already performed across North America.” (Kerrang)
HEAVYS Metal Picks | 11/14/25
Five new songs in the world of heavy music worth hearing. What are you listening to?
HEAVYS Metal Picks | 11/14/25
Poppy “Bruised Sky”
Of Mice & Men “Flowers”
Moon Tooth “I’s”
The Narrator “Aurora”
Infernal Lamentations “Nemesis”
“Southern California band Of Mice & Men have released their new album Another Miracle via Century Media Records. The band have teased the album with 4 of the LP’s singles including this week’s “Flowers,” and before that “Troubled Water,” Another Miracle’s title track and “Wake Up,” which hit #17 on the Active Rock Radio chart. The album’s 12 tracks find Of Mice & Men at their most personal and most expansive. The album was crafted entirely in-house – written, produced, and engineered by the band themselves. “The process of self-recording and self-producing this album as well the last two has seen us really trying to one up what we’ve done in the past – and it’s on us to do that,” drummer Valentino Arteaga explains. “On this album in particular, we wanted to push the boundaries of what that sounds like for our band.” (Press Release)
The Podcast That Rocked for 11/12/25. The 2026 Grammy Nominations in rock, metal, and alternative don’t suck, 2025 Rock Hall Ceremony, more.
2026 GRAMMY Nominations (Rock, Metal, Alt) Don’t Suck?! | The Podcast That Rocked on YouTube
2026 GRAMMY Nominations (Rock, Metal, Alt) Don’t Suck?! | The Podcast That Rocked on Spotify
Discussion Topics: -Going over 2026 Grammy Noms in Rock, Metal, Alt -2025 Rock Hall Ceremony was a blast with Taylor Momsen stealing the show -Hell Fest 2026 Lineup Announced -Should The Offspring be festival headliners in 2026? -Chile’s Ignacia Fernández is the most metal Pageant Winner Ever -Stanley Simmons (Sons of KISS) announce new music -New Poppy album coming soon -The Warning playing NFL Halftime for Arizona Cardinals -Upcoming albums/tours/more
Best Rock Song “As Alive As You Need Me to Be” – Nine Inch Nails “Caramel” – Sleep Token “Glum” – Hayley Williams “Never Enough” – Turnstile “Zombie” – Yungblud
Best Rock Performance “U Should Not Be Doing That” – Amyl and the Sniffers “The Emptiness Machine” – Linkin Park “Never Enough” – Turnstile “Mirtazapine” – Hayley Williams “Changes” (Live From Villa Park) – Yungblud featuring Nino Bettencourt, Frank Bello, Adam Wakeman, II (Sleep Token)
Best Rock Album Private Music – Deftones I Quit – Haim From Zero – Linkin Park Never Enough – Turnstile Idols – Yungblud
Best Alternative Music Album Sable, Fable – Bon Iver Songs of a Lost World – The Cure Don’t Tap the Glass – Tyler, the Creator Moisturizer – Wet Leg Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party – Hayley Williams
Best Alternative Music Performance “Everything Is Peaceful Love” – Bon Iver “Alone” – The Cure “Seein’ Stars” – Turnstile “Mangetout” – Wet Leg “Parachute” – Hayley Williams
“The eligibility window for GRAMMY nomination spans from Aug. 31, 2024 through Aug. 30, 2025. Recording Academy members and record companies enter recordings and music videos released during that window that they consider worthy of recognition. Submissions are viewed by 350 experts in various fields and placed into the appropriate categories, according to the Recording Academy’s website. From there, first round ballots are sending to voting members and the final nominations are determined by certain Recording Academy committees.” (Loudwire)
Twenty One Pilots Cover The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” Live
Ignacia Fernández sorprende en Miss Mundo Chile 2025 con voz gutural de death metal
The Podcast That Rocked for 11/5/25. Disturbed announce they are going on a long break, Download Fest 2026 lineup, and more.
Disturbed Going On “A Long Break” | The Podcast That Rocked on YouTube
Disturbed Going On “A Long Break” | The Podcast That Rocked on Spotify
Discussion Topics: -Disturbed announce long hiatus/break after European tour. -Download Fest 2026 lineup announcement. -Shinedown’s Lunatic Ball announced for 2026 -Macy’s Day Parade gets The Pretty Reckless -Former Anti-Flag members speak out on singer. -Upcoming albums/songs/more.
SONG OF THE WEEK: The Pretty Reckless “Where Are You Christmas”
The Pretty Reckless “Where Are You Christmas”
“David Draiman has announced that his band Disturbed are going on an indefinite hiatus – see what he had to say below. Last week, the metal frontman took to social media to announce that the band are going on a break after concluding their 25th anniversary ‘The Sickness’ tour. Draiman wrote: “Not sure when we will be headed back out. We all need a nice long break. Hope to see you when we do.” (NME)
“Download Festival is an open-air rock and metal festival held each June since 2003 at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. It is the United Kingdom’s largest festival dedicated to rock and metal, with more than 100 bands playing on several stages and 75,000–80,000 attendees in recent years.” (Wikipedia)
WHITECHAPEL is pleased to present their new video for “Prisoner 666.” The track comes off of the band’s Hymns In Dissonance full-length, released earlier this year on Metal Blade Records.
Comments vocalist Phil Bozeman, “‘Prisoner 666’ was the first song we wrote and musically feels like the 2014/2021 WHITECHAPEL morphing back into the 2006-2010 WHITECHAPEL and continuing the 2006-2010 era for the rest of the album. This is the beginning of the narrative of ‘the last living son’ of the Father Of Lies coming to be. Relinquishing his faith, religion, burning the church, and serving Satan, who he believes is his father.”
Adds guitarist Alex Wade, “It’s got heavy ‘Saw Is The Law’ [from the band’s 2014 Our Endless War full-length] vibes in the opening groove; it’s like we took that song and made it more epic and melodic. The ‘beats per minute’ are pretty similar to ‘Saw….’“
Whitechapel “Prisoner 666”
WHITECHAPEL will return to US stages next week on the Rituals Of Hate headlining tour. The journey makes its way through over two dozen cities from November 12th through December 14th and will see the band perform Hymns In Dissonance in its devastating entirety alongside some old favorites. Support will be provided by Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, and Disembodied Tyrant. Find tickets and VIP upgrades at: whitechapel.soundrink.com
WHITECHAPEL w/ Bodysnatcher, Angelmaker, Disembodied Tyrant: 11/12/2025 The Norva – Norfolk, VA 11/14/2025 Reverb – Reading, PA 11/15/2025 Irving Plaza – New York, NY 11/16/2025 Toad’s – New Haven, CT 11/17/2025 Empire – Albany, NY 11/19/2025 Anthology – Rochester, NY 11/20/2025 Mr. Smalls Theatre – Pittsburgh, PA 11/21/2025 Globe Iron – Cleveland, OH 11/22/2025 The Vogue Theatre – Indianapolis, IN 11/23/2025 The Intersection – Grand Rapids, MI 11/25/2025 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI 11/26/2025 Wooly’s – Des Moines, IA 11/28/2025 Delmar Hall – St. Louis, MO 11/29/2025 The Truman – Kansas City, MO 11/30/2025 Diamond Ballroom – Oklahoma City, OK 12/02/2025 The Hall – Little Rock, AR 12/03/2025 Iron City – Birmingham, AL 12/04/2025 Vinyl Music Hall – Pensacola, FL 12/05/2025 FIVE – Jacksonville, FL 12/06/2025 House Of Blues – Orlando, FL 12/08/2025 The National – Richmond, VA 12/09/2025 Brooklyn Bowl – Nashville, TN 12/10/2025 The Signal – Chattanooga, TN 12/12/2025 House Of Blues – Myrtle Beach, SC 12/13/2025 The Orange Peel – Asheville, NC 12/14/2025 Mill & Mine – Knoxville, TN
WHITECHAPEL‘s Hymns In Dissonance finds the band reinventing themselves, going darker, deeper, and heavier than ever before. Revolver lauded “a blistering attack of ground-fissuring blasts, terror-thrashed guitar melodies and guts-hucking mosh sections.” Metal Injection concurred noting, “it’s heavy as shit, it’s unrelenting, and it will destroy you.” MetalSucks championed, “one of WHITECHAPEL’s heaviest offerings since the glory days of The Somatic Defilement and This Is Exile,” adding, “It captures that same raw energy and mouth-frothing rage in a way that… hasn’t been seen for quite some time, but with a new and improved modern twist borne of the nearly twenty years of experience they have accumulated since then,” while Blabbermouth hailed the band’s “…white-knuckle, weaponized deathcore with brains, brawn, and a point to prove. Hold on to your helmets.”
The record earned the #2 position on Billboard’s Current Hard Rock Albums chart, #3 on Independent Label Current Albums chart, #4 on the Current Rock Albums chart and #7 on the Digital Albums chart upon its first week of release.
Hymns In Dissonance is available now on CD, vinyl, and digital formats.
Watch WHITECHAPEL‘s previously release videos for “Hymns In Dissonance” HERE, “A Visceral Retch” HERE, and “Hate Cult Ritual” HERE.
WHITECHAPEL: Phil Bozeman – vocals Ben Savage – lead guitar Alex Wade – rhythm guitar Zach Householder – guitar Gabe Crisp – bass Brandon Zackey – drums
At The Anthem in Washington D.C., Of Monsters and Men returned after nearly six years. Back then, the band was promoting their at-the-time most recent album Fever Dream. Fast forward to 2025 and it’s time to showcase All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade.
The showcase of that new album was strong, with half the setlist dedicated to The Mouse Parade. It was a significantly large crowd packed in where the singer pointed out how difficult it can be to perform in front of over 3,000 people. From where I was standing, everyone seemed happy just to have the group back in the nation’s capital and loved hearing the Icelandic group again.
The last time I saw Of Monsters and Men live was in 2015 at their first performance in Florida, being at The Big Ticket festival in Jacksonville. At the time, it was December in Florida (still too warm) singing and dancing to two albums worth of selected songs. Fast forward almost 10 years later and it’s four albums and an EP worth of tracks to choose from.
Hearing songs like “Dirty Paws” and “Empire” took me back 10-14 years. This is the type of music that continues through time and stages of life and this band keeps adding music to that growing list. This is a group I’ve grown up with and I’m glad I’m still hearing everything live as time goes on.
Scroll below to hear songs from the new album All Is Love And Pain In The Mouse Parade. You can also find a link to the album on Tidal here.
11/3/25 Setlist: Television Love Dream Team Tuna in a Can Alligator Human The Actor The Block Mouse Parade Dirty Paws Empire Crystals Styrofoam Cathedral Little Talks Ordinary Creature Visitor Love Love Love Fruit Bat
VOLUMES ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM MIRROR TOUCH FEBRUARY 27, 2026
15 years into their career, Volumes have weathered ups, downs, time, trends, and everything else life could throw at them only to come out stronger on the other side. Against all odds, a devout audience has ridden shotgun and grown with them every step of the way, waiting for this moment.
The Los Angeles quartet —Michael Barr [vocals], Raad Soudani [bass], Myke Terry [vocals], and Nick Ursich [drums] — are thrilled to announce their fifth album, titled Mirror Touch. It will be released digitally on December 12 via longtime label Fearless Records. The physical album will arrive on February 27 of next year. Pre-order it here.
Volumes have never sounded as confident and assured as they do on this riff-roaring new single. Crunchy, industrial-tinged production, screamed vs. melodic vocal interplay, and a thunderous breakdown signal the beginning of the new era of Volumes. If Meshuggah or Fear Factory entered into a cage match with the Terminator: Judgment Day‘s T-1000 liquid antagonist, it would sound a lot like “S.O.A.P.”
“‘S.O.A.P.’ is about pure and impure indulgence,” the band explains. “Good versus evil. Playing with fire or magic — the lines are blurred here. We self-nurture habits that are deemed immoral, although who is the person making that decisions for us?”
Through a decade-and-a-half, Volumes’ quiet impact has been felt, with over 167 million streams in the U.S. alone, widespread acclaim, and sold-out shows. They’ve carved out their own corner of heavy music with an inimitable hybrid of head-crushing polyrhythmic prog-spiked metal, hardcore spirit, and unbridled attitude. They have assuredly leveled up over the course of albums such as Via [2011], No Sleep [2014], Different Animals [2017], and Happier? [2021]. KERRANG! hailed the latter as “an album that gives a nod to the band’s past while still bringing in new ideas.” Meanwhile, the group shared stages on tour with everyone from Ice Nine Kills and Born of Osiris to Dance Gavin Dance and Counterparts. The Los Angeles group continues to fortify a full-on sensory assault with thick riffing, chilling soundscapes, and the venomous bite of its incomparable two-headed vocal hydra.
Megadeth covering Metallica, Sonic Temple 2026 lineup, and more.
HEAVYS Weekly Breakdown | 11/2/25
“GRAMMY-nominated heavyweights TRIVIUM — vocalist/guitarist MATTHEW K. HEAFY; guitarist COREY BEAULIEU; and bassist PAOLO GREGOLETTO — have released the three-song EP STRUCK DEAD today, October 31, via longtime label Roadrunner Records. “In August 2023, we set out to design and build our own studio at The Hangar — a place to create freely, on our own terms,” says Gregoletto about the EP’s genesis. The creative catalyst, though, was the band’s past and desire to see what’s next. “Born from months of revisiting and performing Ascendancy in full, this EP channels that familiar power and spirit while pushing into new territory,” he continues. “We feel that Struck Dead stands as the first step into a bold new era for us and we happy to finally share it with all of you.” (Press Release)
HEAVYS Metal Picks | 11/2/25
Five new songs picked out for your heavy music needs. What are you headbanging to?
Alex Bent goes out on a high note on the Struck Dead EP from Trivium.
Trivium got Struck Dead on Halloween and in three songs they reminded me of how much punch this band can deliver, even in a short time frame. Three tracks with plenty of intensity and everything showcased well from solos to punchy bass and a killer drum track. Do I wish it was longer? Sure, but that doesn’t diminish how fierce this EP is with plenty of replay value in under 18 minutes. If this is Alex Bent’s last work with Trivium, then it’s a great note to go out on and another nice, if not short, chapter for Trivium’s impressive catalog. 8/10.
Trivium Struck Dead EP Review
Trivium “Bury Me With My Screams”
“GRAMMY-nominated heavyweights TRIVIUM — vocalist/guitarist MATTHEW K. HEAFY; guitarist COREY BEAULIEU; and bassist PAOLO GREGOLETTO — have released the three-song EP STRUCK DEAD today, October 31, via longtime label Roadrunner Records. “In August 2023, we set out to design and build our own studio at The Hangar — a place to create freely, on our own terms,” says Gregoletto about the EP’s genesis. The creative catalyst, though, was the band’s past and desire to see what’s next. “Born from months of revisiting and performing Ascendancy in full, this EP channels that familiar power and spirit while pushing into new territory,” he continues. “We feel that Struck Dead stands as the first step into a bold new era for us and we happy to finally share it with all of you.” (Atom Splitter Press Release)
“Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a late-night sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. It premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the title NBC’s Saturday Night. The show often satirizes contemporary American popular culture and politics. Saturday Night Live features a two-tiered cast: the repertory members, also known as the “Not Ready for Prime Time Players,” and newer cast members, known as “Featured Players.” Each week, the show features a host, often a well-known celebrity, who delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast. A musical guest is also invited to perform several sets (usually two, occasionally more). Every so often a host or musical guest fills both roles. With the exception of season 7 and several other rare cases, the show begins with a cold open that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” The musical guests have featured rock names such as Foo Fighters, Pearl Jam, Queen, and many more.” (Wiki)
The Podcast That Rocked for 10/29/25. Talking about the best horror bands, musician’s favorite horror movies, Sonic Temple 2026, and more.
What Are The Best Horror Bands? | The Podcast That Rocked on YouTube
What Are The Best Horror Bands? | The Podcast That Rocked on Spotify
Discussion Topics: -What are the best horror bands? -Musicians fav Horror Movies –Sonic Temple 2026 -No Faith No More anytime soon -No Guns & Roses at The Sphere -New Motionless In White coming soon? -TDWP says no to guitar writing? -Upcoming albums, tours, more.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Avatar “Don’t Go In The Forest”
Avatar “Don’t Go In The Forest”
ALBUM VS ALBUM: Ice Nine Kills’ The Silver Scream VS The Silver Scream II: Welcome To Horrorwood VOTE HERE!
“Halloween is among us and there’s no better way to get in the spirit than to curl up and watch a horror movie. Horror goes pretty hand-in-hand with metal, especially because a lot of musicians incorporate horror imagery and references into their sound and aesthetic. Slipknot, Rob Zombie and Ice Nine Kills are just a few examples of artists who are often associated with the horror genre — Corey Taylor and Zombie have literally worked on films themselves and INK base their music on different horror films.” (Loudwire)
