Demon Hunter Sue Netflix, Ozzfest 2027 Confirmed As One Day, Alex Terrible Addresses The Nazi Allegations
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast
Release Date: 08/20/2026
Demon Hunter Sue Netflix, Ozzfest 2027 Confirmed As One Day, Alex Terrible Addresses The Nazi Allegations
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast
Thursday, August 20, 2026. Demon Hunter file suit against Netflix, Netflix Studios and AEG Presents over KPop Demon Hunters, with a fan's $500 ticket mix-up cited in the complaint. Jack Osbourne confirms the 2027 Ozzfest at Villa Park will be a single day, with a headliner announcement due within weeks and a slot reserved for at least one unsigned band. And Alex Terrible tells Metal Hammer he'll never escape the Nazi allegations, while owning up to the tattoos and drawing a line on what he says he did and didn't do. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at...
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ZZ Top's Frank Beard Dies At 77, Heavy Healing Documentary Gets A Release Date, MTV Axes Best Rock
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Wednesday, August 19, 2026. Frank Beard, ZZ Top's drummer for 56 years and the only member of the band without a beard, has died at 77 at his ranch in Texas — leaving Billy Gibbons as the last man from a lineup that never changed in half a century. The documentary Heavy Healing, about people who leaned on heavy and aggressive music through serious illness and recovery, gets a September 22 digital release with Jesse Leach, Lou Koller, Vinnie Stigma and Michael Alago among those featured. And MTV has quietly dropped the Best Rock category from the 2026 VMAs, a year after staging a major Ozzy...
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Megadeth's Unreleased Songs, Ozzfest Returns To Villa Park, Chad Gray Hints Mudvayne May Be Done
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Tuesday, August 18, 2026. Dave Mustaine reveals at least two songs left over from Megadeth's final album — "Bloodlust" and "Farewell My Love," plus a possible third he isn't sure he invented — and explains why chemo brain makes his own memory unreliable, and why he may never release them. Ozzfest confirms its first edition since 2018 will take place at Villa Park in Birmingham, the ground where Ozzy Osbourne played his final show 17 days before his death. And Chad Gray admits he still hasn't heard about any big Mudvayne plans for 2027, saying there have been "mutterings that that's it."...
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Sid Wilson Confirms His Slipknot Exit, Limp Bizkit Back In The Studio, Queens Of The Stone Age Announce Perfecth
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Monday, August 17, 2026. Sid Wilson ends two and a half weeks of chaos by quietly updating his Instagram bio to read "@slipknot 1997-2026" — a definitive answer with no statement attached, and a start date a year earlier than most reporting has used. Fan photos and sightings suggest Limp Bizkit are back in the studio working on their seventh album, with Wes Borland saying the band are the biggest they've ever been. And Queens Of The Stone Age announce their ninth album, Perfecth, via a game of five-finger fillet that scratched out its own release date. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in...
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Logan Burns of Scarlett O'Hara on the Industrial Turn, Rise Records, and the Years the Band Didn't Exist
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Scarlett O'Hara guitarist and founding member Logan Burns joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast. The South Texas metalcore band have spent 2026 releasing three singles — REDRUM, BREAK ME and COMMON SIDE EFFECTS — each pushing further into cyberpunk-industrial territory than anything in their catalogue. We get into where that turn came from, how far it can go before it stops sounding like Scarlett O'Hara, and why nostalgia is the last thing on this band's mind eighteen years in. We also go back to the beginning: getting signed to Rise Records out of high school in McAllen, Texas,...
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Tony Iommi To Tell His Story In Birmingham, Louder Than Life Set Times Drop, Jonathan Davis Goes Feline
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Friday, August 14, 2026. Tony Iommi will discuss his life in music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on September 17, months after being made an MBE and ahead of his new solo album From The Dark. Louder Than Life releases set times for its 2026 edition in Louisville, with Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit and Tool heading nearly 200 bands — plus Pantera's only US show of the year and a stack of reunion sets. And Korn's Jonathan Davis expands his Freak On A Leash pet brand into cats, with 10% of sales going to animal shelters. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five...
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Marilyn Manson Trial Date Set, Oli Sykes And Courtney LaPlante Team Up, Sid Wilson Says He's Still In Slipknot
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Thursday, August 13, 2026. A judge sets a November 2027 jury trial date in the civil suit brought against Marilyn Manson by his former personal assistant — five years after it was filed — while his attorney says a summary judgment motion will end it first. Bring Me The Horizon's Oli Sykes and Spiritbox's Courtney LaPlante guest on the Valorant Champions theme produced by Grabbitz, their first release together after years of guest appearances on stage. And Sid Wilson introduces himself as a current member of Slipknot at the World Scratch Invitational, weeks after reports claimed he'd been...
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Ritchie Blackmore Rejoins Deep Purple Tonight, Eddie Hermida Launches Arson Theory, Rob Zombie's Firefly Trilogy Hits 4K
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Wednesday, August 12, 2026. Ritchie Blackmore will play with Deep Purple tonight at Jones Beach for the first time since 1993 — announced by Blackmore himself on Instagram Live, complete with a fresh set of Strat strings and a stool in case he topples over. Suicide Silence frontman Eddie Hermida co-founds Arson Theory, a full-service artist-first music company with Shadow Of Intent, 3Teeth and roughly thirty-five acts already on the roster. And Lionsgate confirms an eight-disc 4K collector's set for Rob Zombie's Firefly trilogy on October 13. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five...
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Alex Terrible Deletes His Bloodstock Posts, Otep Returns With Trip Hop, Geddy Lee Rules Out New Rush Music
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Tuesday, August 11, 2026. Alex Terrible spent a day answering critics who wanted an apology to the trans community after Slaughter To Prevail's Bloodstock set — then deleted every post after one message changed his mind. Otep Shamaya ends her retirement with "(ISH) I'm Still Here," a trip hop single about depression, being othered, and living out loud. And Geddy Lee, fourteen months of rehearsal into Rush's first tour in eleven years, gives a one-word answer on new music. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or...
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Kiss Throw Out The First Pitch, Bruce Dickinson's New Album Goes Heavy, Nikki Sixx Says No More Mötley Crüe Albums
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Monday, August 10, 2026. Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley take the mound at Angel Stadium this Saturday for a Kiss-themed night in Anaheim. Bruce Dickinson's eighth solo album lands in early 2027 on BMG — recorded live at Dave Grohl's Studio 606, standalone from "The Mandrake Project," and by his own description, seriously heavy. And Nikki Sixx says he no longer believes in making full-length records, which means the wait for a new Mötley Crüe album may be permanent. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at https://loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or...
info_outlineThursday, August 20, 2026. Demon Hunter file suit against Netflix, Netflix Studios and AEG Presents over KPop Demon Hunters, with a fan's $500 ticket mix-up cited in the complaint. Jack Osbourne confirms the 2027 Ozzfest at Villa Park will be a single day, with a headliner announcement due within weeks and a slot reserved for at least one unsigned band. And Alex Terrible tells Metal Hammer he'll never escape the Nazi allegations, while owning up to the tattoos and drawing a line on what he says he did and didn't do.
Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes.
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