Sabbath's Lost Album, Ozzy Film Premiere, Slayer Bleeds
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast
Release Date: 10/08/2026
Heafy Nearly Quit Trivium, Arch Enemy Album, Mustaine Book
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast
Matt Heafy walked out of a Trivium recording session last year, called his wife and told her he was done with the band. He tells Metal Hammer what she said to send him back, why drummer Alex Bent left in October, and why Trivium are 'tighter live than we've ever been' ahead of Crown In The Grave on November 20. Scott on why the real headline is the one Heafy didn't say. Also: Michael Amott says Arch Enemy are 'slowly working on a new album' with Lauren Hart, and why 'slowly' is the right word for a band that's replaced its singer twice before and won both times. And Dave Mustaine's memoir In...
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Floor Jansen Leaves Nightwish, Hagar's Olive Branch, Harris
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Floor Jansen and Nightwish have parted ways after 14 years, 'in mutual agreement.' Tuomas Holopainen once said her leaving would be 'one hundred percent' the end of the band; instead Nightwish say they'll record a new album in 2027, and Floor's second solo album, Hytress, arrives January 15. Scott on three singers, three exits and one common factor. Also: Sammy Hagar, 79 this week, tells Billboard he'd 'love to bury the hatchet with Alex' Van Halen, who called him 'a complete idiot' and hasn't spoken to him in 25 years. And Steve Harris books British Lion into the Cart & Horses, the...
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Ian Hill's No Choice, Dream Theater 17, Sharon On Megadeth
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Ian Hill explains why he left Judas Priest after 56 years: arthritis in his shoulder and thumb, six shows in eight days, a tendon that snapped in Brussels, and a decision he says he'd already made. 'I had no choice, really.' His bass is on the next Priest album, and he's open to encores if asked. Also: Dream Theater post a studio photo and a hashtag, and album seventeen with Mike Portnoy is underway earlier than anyone said. And Sharon Osbourne finally explains why Megadeth weren't at Back To The Beginning: 'There was no time.' Scott's take: three endings, and the rule underneath all of them....
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Hetfield's No-Politics Vow, Kelly Osbourne, Butcher Babies
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James Hetfield stopped Metallica's fourth Sphere show to tell the crowd what the band isn't: 'Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you.' He didn't name names. He didn't need to. Scott takes a side on whether a band gets to decide what its stage is for. Also: Kelly Osbourne says she wrote 'Please help me' on a candle at Ozzy's grave and the next day Sharon arrived with the therapist who turned things around, and Butcher Babies' Heidi Shepherd says the hardest part of Carla Harvey leaving was losing 'a best friend of twenty-something years'. Full stories: Free...
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Mastodon Fossil Vinyl, Lost Sabbath Tapes, Metallica Sphere
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Mastodon are pressing real mastodon fossil into vinyl. The Bone Dust Edition of Marrow Deep is 170 copies at $150, made from a bag of 11,000-year-old mastodon teeth the band was given twenty years ago, ground to powder and pressed into the wax. You can't buy it; you enter a raffle. Also: audio of Black Sabbath's lost 1970 Dutch TV set, which the broadcaster said burned in a fire, has surfaced as The Lost 1970 Avro Sessions, and Metallica add 'Until It Sleeps' at their fourth Sphere show after 'Devil's Dance', 'The Outlaw Torn' and 'Fade To Black'. Scott picks which kind of scarcity is worth...
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Kenny Hickey On Type O Negative's Future And New Silvertomb
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Kenny Hickey of Type O Negative, in full: the live album is almost edited, Mike Marciano is mixing it and the target is early 2027; 'Prometheus', the unreleased Peter Steele song found on a cassette, will be released; and Hickey explains what Peter was carrying when the band made World Coming Down. Then the bands working now. Silvertomb's The Interpretation Of Nightmares is out November 13 on Steamhammer, seven years after the first album. Sun Don't Shine, with Johnny Kelly, Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange, has its debut From Birth To Death out. Plus October Rust at 30, Josh Silver, reunion...
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Def Leppard 2027 Tour, Billy Idol Day, Deafheaven Go Heavy
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Def Leppard announce a 45-date 2027 North American arena tour with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts, March 2 in Allentown to July 2 in Indianapolis, with five Canadian stops. A dollar from every ticket goes to City of Hope, where Vivian Campbell is being treated after revealing his cancer has returned. Also: Los Angeles declares November 13 Billy Idol Day, with a free City Hall set from Idol and Steve Stevens the day before their Rock Hall induction, and Deafheaven surprise-release the three-song At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb EP, which Kerry McCoy calls their heaviest ever. Scott asks why...
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Sabbath's Lost Album, Ozzy Film Premiere, Slayer Bleeds
Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast
Black Sabbath nearly made one last album with the original four. Producer Andrew Watt says Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were all in and the plan died with a long email from Bill Ward, but Iommi told Classic Rock this summer he never wanted a follow-up to 13. Scott picks a side. Also: the Osbourne family host the purple-carpet world premiere of Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning in Los Angeles on October 14 ahead of its worldwide cinema run from October 28, and Slayer mark 40 years of Reign In Blood with a liquid-filled zoetrope vinyl, out November 20. Metal Breakdown Daily...
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Mustaine's Leftovers, Lamb Of God's Logo, Staind Go Big
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Dave Mustaine says Megadeth's number one farewell album may not be the last word: at a Grammy Museum Q&A he revealed plans to go through the "half-songs" left over from the sessions to see if any are worth finishing, stressing it would only come from recordings already made. Scott explains why the word "final" is the one to watch. Also: Randy Blythe says he didn't know Lamb Of God had a new logo until he saw the Into Oblivion artwork ("nobody tells me anything"), and Staind announce a 27-date second leg of the Break The Cycle 25th anniversary tour with Seether, Hoobastank and Hinder,...
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Sepultura's Smaller Goodbye, Scorpions Movie, Chad Gray
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Sepultura's last show ever moved from a 26,000-capacity stadium to a 9,000-seat hall, and the band added an intimate 'Last Ceremony' event two nights before the finale. Scott argues the downgrade is the most honest thing a metal band has done this year, and answers the 'not without the Cavaleras' crowd. Also: the Scorpions biopic Wind Of Change has a trailer and a January 2027 release date, with Dominic West as Doc McGhee. And Chad Gray cancels two solo shows over 'deep vocal issues' with a statement more singers should copy. 0:00 Sepultura: the smaller goodbye and The Last Ceremony 1:35...
info_outlineBlack Sabbath nearly made one last album with the original four. Producer Andrew Watt says Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were all in and the plan died with a long email from Bill Ward, but Iommi told Classic Rock this summer he never wanted a follow-up to 13. Scott picks a side.
Also: the Osbourne family host the purple-carpet world premiere of Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning in Los Angeles on October 14 ahead of its worldwide cinema run from October 28, and Slayer mark 40 years of Reign In Blood with a liquid-filled zoetrope vinyl, out November 20.
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