Blue Medusa, featuring Aliisa White-Gluz, are at it with their new song ‘Checkmate’. Heavy and melodic just as fans would expect this is a sure fire way to kick off her new band.

The crushing new single was written by Alissa White-Gluz, Alyssa Day and Dani Sophia, and mixed and mastered by Kile Odell.

“I know what every frame is for,” jokes White-Gluz. “I’ll share that someday, but for now, I welcome fans to dive deeper into the meaning and develop their own interpretations. That’s what makes videos and movies fun and interesting, in my opinion.”

Blue Medusa will also appear at major U.S. festivals this year, including Louder Than Life and Aftershock Festival.

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Ice Nine Kills, or Grave Diggler, are back with a new song for the film Ready Or Not 2 which drops this weekend. The band re-recorded the 1987 hit ‘Hell Or High Slaughter’ by Grave Diggler for the film with a NSFW video to go with it.

When the directing duo behind Scream (2022) and Scream VI, began work on the sequel to their 2019 black comedy horror hit Ready or Not, they desperately wanted to include one of Grave Diggler’s forgotten classic anthems. But even after Radio Silence Productions deduced the connection with Spencer Charnas, securing the rights was no mean feat. 

The ensuing legal battle between fathers and sons resulted in Ice Nine Kills re-recording “Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt. 2)” for Ready or Not 2: Here I Come and the long-banned 1987 music video for the song seeing the light of day. 

“I’ve been estranged from my father for a long time,” Spencer explains. “But this movie, and this song, while bringing a lot of complicated feelings to the surface, also brought us back together.” 

“Ice Nine Kills Presents Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt 2)” and it’s NSFW music video are only available on YouTube. Watch and listen HERE. 

Boundaries are back with a heavy new song ‘Skies Cast Amber Black’. This marks the bands first new music since 2024’s Death Is Little More.

Boundaries will spend much of 2026 on the road, joining The Amity Affliction and August Burns Red for a North American tour from April 10 to May 17, followed by a run of major European festivals including Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, Download, and Jera on Air. The band is also confirmed for spots at Warped Tour and Louder Than Life.

“I have a deep desire in the pit of my making to surround and suffocate the growing plague of people’s self-interest,” vocalist Matthew McDougal says of the Drew Fulk produced track. “Given the chance, I’d remove every ego from the music landscape and burn it off for fuel to power blood hungry behemoths whose only goal is to crush and disable. This song is my plea to cleanse a community I adore of people who see it only as an opportunity or a stepping stone.” 

Boundaries tour dates:

April 10 Worcester, MA Palladium

April 11 New Haven, CT College Street Music Hall

April 12 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE

April 14 Charlotte, NC The Fillmore Charlotte

April 15 Atlanta, GA Tabernacle

April 16 Lake Buena Vista, FL House of Blues Gear Shop Orlando

April 18 New Orleans, LA Fillmore New Orleans

April 19 Dallas, TX The Bomb Factory

April 21 Houston, TX House of Blues

April 22 San Antonio, TX Vibes Event Center

April 24 Tempe, AZ Marquee Theatre

April 25 San Diego, CA Soma

April 26 Anaheim, CA House of Blues Gardenwalk Gear Shop

April 28 Sacramento, CA Channel 24

April 29 Garden City, ID Revolution Concert Hall

May 1 Salt Lake City, UT The Union Event Center

May 2 Denver, CO Fillmore Auditorium

May 3 Omaha, NE The Astro Theater

May 5 Minneapolis, MN The Fillmore Minneapolis

May 6 Milwaukee, WI The Rave/Eagles Club

May 8 Chicago, IL Riviera Theatre

May 9 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre

May 10 Toronto, ON History

May 12 Montreal, QC MTelus

May 13 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount

May 15 Baltimore, MD Nevermore Hall

May 17 Philadelphia, PA The Fillmore Philadelphia

June 5 Berlin, DE Hole44 *

June 6 Nürnberg, DE Rock Im Park

June 7 Nürburgring, DE Rock Am Ring

June 8 Solothurn, CH Kofmehl **

June 9 Ljubljana, SI Center Urbane Kulture Kino Šiška ***

June 10 Hradec Králové, CZ Rock For People

June 11 Warsaw, PL Klub Hybrydy ****

June 14 Castle Donington, UK Download Festival

June 15 Belfast, UK Limelight #

June 16 Dublin, IE Academy #

June 17 Cardiff, UK Y Plas *

June 19 Norwich, UK Voodoos ##

June 20 Exeter, UK Cavern ##

June 22 Bremen, DE Aladin Music Hall #

June 23 Karlsruhe, DE Substage **

June 25 Ysselsteyn, NL Jera on Air

June 26 Leipzig, DE Impericon Festival

June 27 Münster, DE Vainstream Festival

July 25 – 26 Long Beach, CA Warped Tour

September 19 Louisville, KY Louder Than Life

*-w/Kublai Khan TX

**-w/Bury Tomorrow

***-w/Kublai Khan TX & Malevolence

****w/Malevolence

#-w/The Plot In You

##-co-headline w/Heriot

Milwaukee Metal Fest has announced horror legend Bill Moseley will serve as the guest of honor at this years festival. Famous for his roles in films like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Devils Rejects, House Of 1000 Corpses, Repo The Genetic Opera, and more Moseley also has a history in heavy music as well.

MOSELEY will be available for V.I.P. Meet & Greets all weekend long, including the pre-party. Ticket options to meet the legend himself are available HERE.

Festival co-organizer Jamey Jasta comments, “It is with great excitement that we welcome Horror Icon Bill Moseley to perform at our pre-party and do signings all weekend long at Milwaukee Metal Fest! It’s been ages since he’s been to Milwaukee and we’re beyond thrilled to welcome him to the good land! Metal and horror are brothers in arms and we’re gonna have the BEST WEEKEND EVER! Whether you’re a collector that wants your ‘Devil’s Rejects’ poster signed by Bill or a diehard fan who just wants to shake his hand, this is your chance!“ 

In addition, MONSTROSITY has now been added to the lineup to replace MASTER as the latter can no longer make it.

Fans can get access to the Thursday pre-party on June 4 for FREE with the purchase of a 3-day festival pass to MILWAUKEE METAL FEST. Come see ACID BATH, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MINISTRY, OBITUARY, AGALLOCH + many more for the BEST WEEKEND EVER!

The festival will once again return to The Rave/Eagles Club from June 5 – 7, 2026, with the pre-party kicking off on June 4! Three-day passes, two-day passes, single-day tickets, and a limited number of reserved seats are on sale now. For the full lineup, ticket options, and festival updates can be found at THIS LOCATION.

Sleeping With Sirens have returned with new music with their new song ‘An Ending In Itself’. The song is a powerful and instantly catchy SWS hit that fans will instantly gravitate to.

Unfolding as a meditation on navigating hardships, frontman Kellin Quinn shared his thoughts on the new track below:

“This song is a love letter to anyone in the midst of struggle. I think we live in an age where we’re supposed to pretend like we have it ‘all together all of the time’ so much so that we’re afraid to let anyone in. I think it’s important to have open dialogue and to ask for help when we need it. This song is about being brave enough to admit that we’re not always okay. No matter what you’re going through, there is hope.”

Catch Sleeping With Sirens live this year at Welcome to Rockville, Warped Tour (DC, Long Beach & Orlando), Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life and Aftershock festivals. Get your tickets now at http://sirensmusic.co/tour  

Koyo continue to show their ever evolving sound with the bands newest song ‘What I’m Worth’. This comes from the bands upcoming sophomore album, ‘Barely Here‘, arriving May 8th via Pure Noise Records.

Clocking in at ten songs in just 28 minutes, Barely Here is a lean blast of incredibly anthemic punk that packs the firecracker guts of The Movielife, the widescreen hooks of Taking Back Sunday, and the tuneful grit of Silent Majority—but more than anything it sounds like Koyo themselves.

Lead single Irreversible highlighted the band’s mastery of bouncy tempos and big melodies, and now What I’m Worth dives into darker waters with churning riffs and fiery vocals from frontman Joey Chiaramonte. 

“A lot of bands think their second album has to be this magnum opus epic that sews so many things together, and I think we’d actually taken more of that approach with our first LP, ” explains Chiaramonte. “So with Barely Here we wanted to do the opposite of that trajectory–we wanted to refine our strengths instead of doing this purposeful departure. It’s a snapshot of what our band is in its most no-frills, perfected form.”

Barely HereTrack Listing:

01. Barely Here
02. Jet Stream Wish
03. Saying Vs Meaning (feat. Sammy Ciaramitaro)
04. It Happens to the Best of Us
05. You Hate Me
06. Selden Mansions
07. Oxidize (feat. Marisa Shirar)
08. What I’m Worth
09. Pace and Loiter
10. Irreversible