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Metallica share new single ‘Screaming Suicide’
Welcome everyone to another edition of our weekly music News Report!
We start this week with the best new releases from the past week, including metal titans Metallica, who are up first.
As the band continue to prepare for the release of their new album, ’72 Seasons’, on April 14th, they’ve this week shared new single, ‘Screaming Suicide’. You can check out the track above.
āāScreaming Suicideā addresses the taboo word of suicide. The intention is to communicate about the darkness we feel inside. It’s ridiculous to think we should deny that we have these thoughts. At one point or another, I believe most people have thought about it. To face it is to speak the unspoken. If it’s a human experience, we should be able to talk about it. You are not alone.ā – James Hetfield
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Fall Out Boy return with ‘Love From The Other Side’
It was also a big news week for Fall Out Boy as the group announced that they will release their latest album, ‘So Much (For) Stardust’, on March 24th.
Revealing the news the band shared the following with fans:
āāTime is luck.ā
Finish another tour. You reflect but not like a gem in the sun ā more like a year long stare into yourself in another airplane bathroom
Sometimes you gotta blow everything you were and put the pieces back together in a new shape. The same but different ā the foundation dynamited and the dust used to create the concrete pour. I have a tendency to get a little sad whenever I think about anythingā¦but I also feel pure joy when I think that I exist at the same time as whales or that read happens to rise at a certain temperature. And that we happen to be spinning on this little blue rock at the exact same time together.
So much (for) stardust.ā
Accompanying the news, was new single, ‘Love From The Other Side’, which you can check out above!
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Saxon share new single ‘The Faith Healer’
Metal icons Saxon also have a new album on its way with ‘More Inspirations’ set for March 24th. The album explores the bands influences and new single, ‘The Faith Healer’, debuted this week. You can check the single out above.
Frontman Biff Byford comments āWe used to see The Sensational Alex Harvey band play this back in the day, they started the set with it, such a fantastic song and fantastic bandā¦ big influence!ā
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Ian Hunter reveals star studded new album
Ian Hunter has announced the release of his new album, ‘Defiance Part 1′, arriving on April 21st.
Among the most star-studded original albums ever recorded, the record sees Hunter joined by the late, great Jeff Beck, Johnny Depp, Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Billy F Gibbons (ZZ Top), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Duff McKagan (Guns Nā Roses), Todd Rundgren, Slash (Guns Nā Roses), Jeff Tweedy (Wilco), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Waddy Wachtel (Stevie Nicks, Keith Richards), Brad Whitford(Aerosmith), Dane Clark (John Mellencamp), Billy Bob Thornton & J.D. Andrew (The Boxmasters) and Dean DeLeo, Robert De Leo & Eric Kretz (Stone Temple Pilots).
You can check out the first single, ‘Bed Of Roses’, above featuring guitarist Mike Campbell (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Fleetwood Mac) and drums by Ringo Starr.
āIt was a fluke,ā Ian Hunter says. āThis was not planned. Really, Iām serious. I really couldnāt believe some of them. I mean, itās amazing whatās happened. Itās been such a buzz.ā
āEverybodyās sitting around,ā says Hunter. āItās Covid. Nobodyās going anywhere. We started sending them out. Slash started doing something. Robert Trujillo from Metallica. Ringo Starr, Mike Campbell. Joe Elliott is on a few tracks. Johnny Depp said āJeff Beckās with me and weād like to do a couple of songs.ā I know Todd Rundgren, I toured with Todd way back, heās done an amazing job. Billy Gibbons. Billy Bob Thornton and JD Andrew from The Boxmasters. Itās never ending. I mean, every day weād get a phone call, this guy wants to do it, that guy wants to do it. It was like, I canāt believe this.ā
āThere are a lot of reasons for calling this album ‘Defianceā says Hunter. āItās like, people my age shouldnāt be making records, blah, blah, blah. But weāve still got a bit left.ā
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DMA’s share ‘Fading Like A Picture’
Our News Report continues with the latest track from DMA’s, ‘Fading Like A Picture’, which you can check out above. The single comes from upcoming new album, ‘How Many Dreams?’, which is out 31st March.
Guitarist Johnny Took comments, āOur palette for this album was a lot broader because weāve learned so much since our debut and weāve listened to so much more music between then and now, which has shaped us. It felt like a first outing all over again. The excitement was the same.ā
Took continues: āTommy wrote the majority of this song to an obscure demo I made during lockdown. When we all came together to demo it, Mason added one of my favourite guitar riffs on the new album, and we used the middle-eight from another demo as the chorus. A true DMAāS collaboration.ā
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SlĆøtface debut ‘Nose’
SlĆøtface this week shared their latest single, ‘Nose’, which you can check out above.
The track comes ahead of new EP, ‘Awake / Asleep’, which is due for release on February 24th.
Haley Shea had the following to say about the new single and February’s EP:
“‘Nose’ is what I would call a pretty general āSlĆøtface anxietyā song, a recurring theme I always come back to. Nose is a conversation between me and a loved one where Iām trying to use imagery to describe what anxiety feels like to someone who doesnāt experience it, how even the smallest things can trigger it and send me into a thought spiral that feels impossible to stop. The choruses are then the replies of someone I love reminding me to breathe, a tactic which usually helps me calm my thoughts, when done in the right way, by my partner, family and loved ones.
āāā’Nose’ started when I visited Odd Martin at his studio in Bergen in March of 2022 to write some songs. It ended up being a super-productive couple of days where we wrote about 7 different demos on the first day alone, and then chose a couple to flesh out on the second day. “Nose” was the last song we tried out at the end of that second day.
The mix of the heavier, rhythmic, bass-focused verses and the big, layered, poppier choruses, all combined with saxophonist Aksel RĆønning adding some extra spice, grit and depth to the whole track makes it one of our absolute favorites on the EP.”
More here.
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The Sleeping Souls debut ‘Caught Up In The Scrape’
Next up in our News Report are The Sleeping Souls who continue their own musical journey with their latest single, ‘Caught Up In The Scrape’. As always you can check out the track above!
More here.
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The Pearl Harts share ‘Wild Me’
This week also saw the latest new music coming from The Pearl Harts as they shared their track ‘Wild Me’.
The band shared, “Wild Me is a song about frustration within the sexes from the viewpoint of a woman ā in this instance a hetero cis relationships and how patriarchal ideology can damage and shame a woman and her natural instincts.
Why do women get called crazy, wild and out of control when their behaviour only mirrors that of men? Rarely is the same label put on them. āWhere do I stand if I canāt be the man?ā Wild me strives to call out these behaviours by crying out āWild me, Why meā with force and discontentment. It forces you to understand that being wild is awe-inspiring and nothing to be ashamed of.”
More here.
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Paul Weller announces Forest dates
We move our News Report on now to the latest tour announcements and get started with the legendary Paul Weller. Weller this week revealed he will play a short run of Forest live dates in the Summer.
Commenting on the dates, Weller said, āI am very happy to be playing the Forest Live gigs again as they are always such great shows with such a great audience! See you there.ā
Tickets are here.
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NOFX announce their final UK shows
NOFX have teamed up with Slam Dunk Festival to set up their final UK shows in May.
The band will takeover the festival sites in Hatfield and Leeds to curate 2 special shows with guests to be revealed soon.
Each show will feature various albums in full as the group bid farewell to the UK.
Tickets and info here.
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Eagles of Death Metal add UK shows
The final tour announcement in our News Report this week comes from Eagles of Death Metal who will play in London and Sheffield in July.
Tickets are here.
Read our review of ‘Wrong Side of Paradise’ from Black Star Riders
As always we conclude our News Report with the latest additions to our ‘Discover’ New Music Playlist!
Softcult – ‘Dress’
Canadian sibling duo Softcult share their latest single, ‘Dress’. The track comes from new EP, ‘see you in the dark’, out March 24th.
“This song is about consent; it’s about saying ‘no’ and having it happen to you anyway,” Mercedes explains. “It’s about being followed while walking alone at night or being cornered in a bar when we’re just trying to have a night out with our friends. Itās about the lingering fear and trauma that haunts us long after these experiences have happened. Itās about how these experiences make us feel powerless and change the way we see ourselves.”
Shadow Smile – ‘Signed in Blood’
Sheffield rising star Shadow Smile, share their track, ‘Signed in Blood’ which is the title-track of their debut album.
Lead vocalist Connor McGovern comments – ‘We wanted this song to be a modern take on songs like ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ by the Rolling Stones where the listener is being told why they should forget their morals and join the dark side. Those songs have always been a lot of fun and fit perfectly with the dark Shadow Smile imagery’.
Real Terms – ‘Veil is Thinner’
‘Veil is Thinner’ presents an advance look at Real Terms‘ debut album, ‘Vantage’, which is out February 24th.
āI think thereās also something about the different musical āperspectivesā we all bring together that makes our sound,ā says guitarist Christopher āLynnyā Lynn, āthe way our parts interweave and interlink and the perspective the listener can bring to it. Thereās not always āa centreā in our songs so I always love it when people comment on how catchy the songs are when they see us live. I find that combination of songs being complex and catchy at the same time really compelling.ā
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