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Lil Uzi Vert is celebrating spooky season with the release of his latest single, “Demon High.” Clocking in at just a little over three minutes, the Halloween-ready cut features production from Prologic and Rex Kudo. “Demon High” hears Uzi traverse a series of sonic styles including rap, trap and indie pop as he touches on ensuring not to let his demons get the best of him. Earlier this October, Uzi revealed that he’s taking his time with The Pink Tape. He confirmed to a fan that he will not be dropping the project this month, adding, “Then it drops next week and then it sounds like shit and I gotta hear it from, well not from you, but I gotta hear it from 100,000 people on the internet saying ‘This sucks!’ So you gotta let me take my time.” However, he shared in late August that The Pink T...

The songs of the War on Drugs exist in a world between knuckle tattoos: love, hurt; home, away; dark, lght. They usually begin in media res, with our hero, the tressy and lovelorn Adam Granduciel, wandering the empty plains of grief with a guitar strapped to his back. He’s down bad; he’s rudderless; he’s desperately trying to find his way out of the rain or pain or chains. Heartbreak is behind him but hope is always just ahead, a pin-light through the clouds in the shape of a mythological figure known only as “babe.” Granduciel’s continuing romantic odyssey—a long and possibly endless journey—is so emotionally grand, so preposterously epic that even though his lyrics are borderline cliché, it functions more like the shoegaze bands the War on Drugs were once likened to on their first couple...

MEGADETH‘s Dave Mustaine has once again praised the band’s current guitarist Kiko Loureiro, saying it him a “long” time to find someone who plays like Marty Friedman. Mustaine touched upon Friedman and Loureiro‘s playing skills while filming a new video message on Cameo, which lets users hire celebrities to record brief, personalized video messages about virtually any topic. Addressing a fan named John who had a question about Friedman‘s guitar solo in the MEGADETH song “Tornado Of Souls” from the band’s classic 1990 album “Rust In Peace”, Mustaine said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Hey, John, it’s Dave Mustaine from MEGADETH. Hey, I got your question about Marty‘s solo in ‘Tornado Of Souls&#...

In a new interview with Taryn Daly of Audacy Check In, GHOST mastermind Tobias Forge was asked how he processes the fact that he has seen the size of the venues his band performs at grow exponentially over the years, from playing clubs to co-headlining arenas on GHOST‘s upcoming U.S. tour with VOLBEAT. He responded in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think if you are a touring band that tours continuously, and you do what most other touring bands do — you do your own tours, and then you support, and then you do your own tour, and then you support someone else, and then you do your own tour, and then you do a festival; you go on these cycles of going back and forth — and usually by the time, if you ever get to play an arena or a sport hall yourself, for the most par...

RATING: 8/10 There is a lot to be said for slamming your cards down on the table on day one. THULCANDRA always made it plain where their allegiances lay: to DISSECTION‘s frosty spite and, to a lesser extent, SACRAMENTUM, with all the insidious melodies and fiery riffing that such a salute entails. Over the course of three studio albums, guitarist and frontman Steffen Kummerer has consistently beefed up the potential of that straightforward blueprint, peaking with 2015’s “Ascension Lost”. More imaginative than their myopic vision should allow, THULCANDRA have never quite hit the jackpot in terms of attention or acclaim, but the Germans’ zealous commitment to the ice-hearted cause has never been in doubt. On “A Dying Wish”, they indicate that the las...

Christian Brady says that HELLYEAH is “not dead” despite widespread speculation to the contrary. HELLYEAH has been inactive since early 2020 when its U.S. tour was canceled in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the meantime, HELLYEAH singer Chad Gray has reunited with his previous band MUDVAYNE, which has just played its first two shows in 12 years, with plans to continue touring in 2022. A few months before the pandemic hit, HELLYEAH had completed a couple of U.S. tours in honor of its drummer, Vinnie Paul Abbott, who passed away in June 2018 at the age of 54 in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas. The official cause of death was dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. Vinnie recorded a total of six albums with HELLYEAH over a de...

A$AP Rocky‘s debut mixtape LIVE.LOVE.A$AP is officially available on streaming services for the first time in history. The 50-minute project features a total of 15 tracks but does not include the cuts “Purple Swag: Chapter 2” with SpaceGhostPurrp and A$AP Nast, “Kissin’ Pink” with A$AP Ferg and the closer “Out of This World.” Instead, the streaming version features “Purple Swag” and the previously unreleased cut “Sandman,” which was produced by Kelvin Krash and Clams Casino and debuted by Flacko at Yams Day 2021. Just shortly before the mixtape’s release, the AWGE founder took to Instagram to share a few words of gratitude: “10 YEARZ IN DI$!!! A CRAZY JOURNEY. FROM HOPPIN TRAIN$ WIT YAM$ ,DA UP$ & DOWN$, DA HUGZ, DA PUNCHE$, DA LAUGH$, DA TEARZ, DA HI’$ & LOW$. FROM DA $TA$H HOU$E ...

JAY-Z’s highly-anticipated The Harder They Fall collabs with Kid Cudi, entitled “Guns Go Bang,” and with Jadakiss and Conway The Machine, entitled “King Kong Riddim,” are both here. Clocking in at approximately three-and-a-half minutes, “Guns Go Bang” cut hears the pair deliver lyricism appropriate for the Western film as they touch on revenge and violence. “Don’t tempt my hand, I’m just a man / A deadly scene, a weathered bein’ / Men must cry where soldiers lie on threatened land,” Cudi sings in the pre-chorus, with the track sonically supported by vibrant strings that give it an epic atmosphere. Meanwhile, “King Kong Riddim” offers a more aggressive tone with fast-paced rhymes from Hov, Jadakiss, Conway and guest artist BackRoad Gee. The soundtrack of The Harder They Fall also inclu...