Weekly Music News 22.09.24
First things first: a reminder about the huge, wild annual festival, the biggest in the metal world!!
Put October 19, 2024, in your calendar. Buy tickets.
Wow! "The Cure" releases its first single, "Alone", after 16 years of silence. The nearly seven-minute track comes from "Songs Of A Lost World", due November 1. It opens the album. Robert Smith said that as soon as the band recorded it, he knew it would be the opening track.
The "Foo Fighters" have canceled their appearance at this weekend's Soundside festival. It was to be the band's first show since Dave Grohl revealed earlier this month that he had fathered a daughter outside his marriage. The festival takes place at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on September 28 and 29, with Foo Fighters originally due to headline Sunday night. Jack White and Greta Van Fleet have since joined the lineup in their place. The band did not give a reason for the cancellation.
The band "Walkways" heads out on another wild European tour. Our much-loved band announced this week that it will tour Europe as a main support act alongside Freedom of Fear. Both will support Ne Obliviscaris, an Australian progressive-metal band formed in 2003, with four studio albums to its name.
The tour includes no fewer than 21 shows across Europe!!
After announcing a lineup change last week, "Oceans On Orion" introduces its new bassist, Michal Hasson, whom the band met by chance while filming its new video. They discovered that Michal is a talented dancer and classical guitarist, and an amazing bassist too.
The band also announced its first show abroad this year, in Romania on October 24.
Have you heard "Body Count"'s version of the iconic "Comfortably Numb" yet?
Well, ICE-T and his bandmates have covered the 1979 Pink Floyd classic with none other than David Gilmour himself. Gilmour liked Body Count's version of "Comfortably Numb", saying he loved the new lyrics and that they really struck him because they describe the world we live in now, which is quite frightening. Ice-T initially approached him for permission to use the song. From there, it developed into Gilmour playing on it too. And how he plays: one long, incredible solo from beginning to end, for 6:18. Orgasm guaranteed...
We already know that "Linkin Park" is a powerful, well-oiled marketing machine too. How did they pull off a reunion, write and record an album, plan a tour and stage an incredible online show, all in complete silence? They brought back the people who had been with them over the years, returning everyone to the Linkin family. That is how they describe it, at least...
This week, the band released a behind-the-scenes video:
Staying with Linkin Park, which releases another single from its new album. We have to say we are loving this!!
A reminder: the album is due November 15.
We can hardly believe it, and it is hard even to write, but that cursed date, forever remembered as Israel's greatest day of terror, is approaching. Part of us wants to push it away, not to think that a year has passed while hostages are still wasting away in tunnels!! The words of this song pierce the heart and soul!!
Berry Sakharof records a song and video, a rendition of "Ulai Tzarich Latet LaZe Od Zman", written by Arik Einstein and composed by Yitzhak Klepter. It was recorded in the hope that life will return to its course, praying for the hostages' return, the soldiers' safety, the wounded's recovery and peace for the land.
Thrash-metal legends "Slayer" played their first show since 2019, when they wrapped up the extensive Farewell Campaign tour. The four members, Tom Araya, Kerry King, Gary Holt and Paul Bostaph, delivered an incredible set while closing Riot Fest, which also featured Fall Out Boy, the Offspring, Sum 41, NOFX, Taking Back Sunday and Cypress Hill. At this stage, Slayerrrrrr still has two festival shows planned, at Louder Than Life and Aftershock. Then we will have to wait patiently to see whether these performances give them an appetite to return. The band played no fewer than 20 songs, including "South Of Heaven", "Seasons in the Abyss", "Dead Skin Mask", "Hell Awaits", "Raining Blood", "Angel Of Death" and more.
(Photo: Forbs)
The band "FEVER 333" has released two new singles, "MURDERER" and "NOSEBLEEDS", from its forthcoming second album, "DARKER WHITE", due October 4.
And speaking of "FEVER 333", singer Jason Aalon posted a painfully honest video on social media this week, explaining that he is facing his most significant and challenging struggle with depression. In the clip, titled "I appreciate this opportunity to be honest with you. Thank you", the singer begins by saying he feels uncomfortable and even scared, sharing that he has fallen into a deep depression at a time when he might have expected to feel excited about releasing a new album. The album's supporting tour was canceled following the announcement.
(Photo: Courtesy of the artist)
Fans of "Oasis"? Could not get tickets to the reunion shows? You can breathe a sigh of relief...
There is another way to get tickets, though you may have to fly far...
The Gallagher brothers have revealed the cities on their world tour after the UK shows sold out quickly. The band confirmed 2025 appearances in Canada, the US, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Argentina. Announcements on ticket sales, prices and precise venues are expected soon.
(Photo: Paul Bergen)
And "Iron Maiden" keeps adding shows to its "Run For Your Lives World Tour", celebrating 50 years. The tour, beginning May 27, 2025, in Budapest, Hungary, originally included 27 shows. Yesterday, the band announced extra dates in Budapest, Paris and Berlin due to high demand. The set will draw on its first nine albums, from "Iron Maiden" through "Fear Of The Dark", and they promise it will be their most spectacular and elaborate show ever.
And while we are talking about shows, "Coldplay" has announced four more Wembley Stadium shows in September 2025 on its Music of the Spheres World Tour, following huge ticket demand. The band originally announced six nights there in August, adding four in September due to "phenomenal demand". With ten shows at the famous stadium, Coldplay will break the record held by Taylor Swift and Take That, who each sold it out eight times. The band will also play two nights at Hull's Craven Park, with half of the tickets reserved for local fans. Ten percent of the band's proceeds from the 12 shows will be donated to Music Venue Trust, which supports small, grassroots music venues across the UK.
Remember "Soul Asylum"? Believe it or not, the band releases its 13th album, "Slowly but Shirley", today. It is the first since 2020's "Hurry Up and Wait". The energetic single "High Road" has already been released and should delight longtime fans. Soul Asylum will soon tour with Stone Temple Pilots.
Listen on: Apple Music
It came out last Friday, but we have not fully absorbed it yet... Eviatar Banai has released a new album, "Sichot Shalom". We love Eviatar. To be honest, after October 7, following a long period when we could not listen to music at all and paused all activity on our blog and show, it was Eviatar who helped bring us back to ourselves with 2023's wonderful covers album "Ogen BaMayim". We listened for hours when we could not listen to anything else, and it reminded us how much we love music and how important it is for the soul. After "Ogen BaMayim", Eviatar released "Chalal", the single that announced his new studio album "Sichot Shalom", released last Friday. There is "Yehonatan", written about the late Yehonatan Geffen, and the title track, "Sichot Shalom", whose name was surely influenced by the situation. "HaKol Tov Achi" made our jaws drop on first listen, if only because of the words "fuck it" and "dick", which we had not heard from Eviatar since his debut. "Ahavat Emet" describes a crisis in a relationship, while "Ima Smecha" reflects Banai's experience of his mother's aging. There is even a recording of the late Rabbi Uri Zohar, titled "HaRav Uri".
Listen on: Spotify
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