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Converge have shared a new song titled ‘Coil’, an eruptive new preview from their forthcoming collaborative album ‘Bloodmoon: I’.‘Coil’ begins with a sparse, hauntingly beautiful melody, upheld by a pulsating bass line, that paves the way for a cataclysmic peak.Listen to the rollicking track below:The single arrives a little over a month after Converge announced ‘Bloodmoon: I’, set for release on November 19 via Epitaph (with a vinyl pressing set to arrive on June 24, 2022 via Deathwish). The band’s 10th full-length effort, ‘Bloodmoon: I’ sports input from goth-rocker Chelsea Wolfe, multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm and Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky.Upon the album’s announcement, Converge shared lead single ‘Blood Moon’.

Converge have announced their tenth studio album, ‘Bloodmoon: I’, a collaborative effort with goth-rocker Chelsea Wolfe, multi-instrumentalist Ben Chisholm and Cave In frontman Stephen Brodsky.Alongside the announcement came the album’s lead single, ‘Blood Moon’, a gloomy eight-minute epic that ebbs and flows between visceral, thrashy metalcore stylings and bleak, eerie atmospherics.

RELEASESSteve Aoki and Yves V have released the video for their new track ‘Complicated’. Featuring vocals from Ryan Cavereo, it co-opts the chorus from Avril Lavigne’s 2002 track of the same name.YouTube channel Two Minutes To Late Night has released a cover of Björk’s ‘Hyperballad’, featuring Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky on vocals, Deftones’ Sergio Vega on bass, In Flames’ Tanner Wayne and Chelsea Wolfe’s Ben Chisholm on guitar, and Killswitch Engage’s Adam Dutkiewicz on drums.AFI are back with new song ‘Tied To A Tree’.

Deftones, Killswitch Engage and In Flames to cover Björk’s ‘Hyperballad’.‘Hyperballad’ first appeared on Björk’s second album, ‘Post’, which she released in the early months of 1996 to critical acclaim.

Mastodon, Megadeth, Baroness and Mutoid Man have joined forces for a rousing rendition of Fleetwood Mac‘s ‘You Make Loving Fun’.The video features former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman, Bill Kelliher of Mastodon, Johanna Sadonis and Nicke Anderson of Lucifer, Nick Jost of Baroness and Stephen Brodsky of Mutoid Man. It also features appearances from Gwarsenio Hall and Hard Melissa, the alter-egos of comedians Jordan Olds and Emily Panic, respectively.The collaboration was organised by Olds as part of his Two Minutes To Late Night video series.

A group of rock vets have taken some lockdown time to come together (virtually) and perform an at-home edition of Rush's 1975 song, "Anthem."Primus bassist Les Claypool, Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher, Tool drummer Danny Carey, Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and guitarist Stephen Brodsky are all featured in the clip, which shows the musicians in a split-screen, rocking out to their parts in their respective homes.The clip is Patreon's 15th in a project to benefit everyone involved in its creation. However, for this edition, the musicians are donating their funds to the Cancer Research Institute.

Tool, Primus, Mastodon, and Coheed and Cambria joined forces for a coronavirus lockdown cover of a Rush song.In the video recorded for the fifteenth instalment of Gwarsenio Hall’s Two Minutes to Late Night series, a Patreon-spawned project created to give both musicians and fans an outlet for performance during quarantine, the musicians perform from their respective homes.Primus bassist Les Claypool, Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher, Tool drummer Danny Carey, Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez and guitarist Stephen Brodsky (Mutoid Man, Cave In) are seen rocking out to Rush’s 1975 song ‘Anthem’, taken from the group’s second album ‘Fly by Night’.All the musicians involved in the cover redirected funds to the Cancer Research

Lockdown or no, when you just have to scratch that musical itch, only the finest metal will do. Which explains why goth folkie Chelsea Wolfe (and collaborator Ben Chisholm) teamed up with former Dillinger Escape Plan bassist Liam Wilson, as well as Rough Francis drummer Jordan Olds and Cave In guitar Stephen Brodsky to perform a ripping lockdown cover of Ozzy Osbourne's iconic 1980 solo hit "Crazy Train."

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Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg has shared a special Father’s Day gift for his dad, E Street Band drummer Max.Celebrating yesterday (June 21), Weinberg covered Bruce Springsteen track ‘Candy’s Room’, which you can watch below.The version sees Weinberg on drums, joined by Miny Parsonz of Royal Thunder, Jeff Matz of High On Fire, Stephen Brodsky of Mutoid Man and more.Weinberg joined Slipknot in 2013 after discovering the band through his father.