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 is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook:…

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, including Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. 0:00 Megadeth: Mustaine on the leftover half-songs 1:35 Lamb Of God: Randy Blythe and the logo nobody told him about 2:35 Staind: Break The Cycle second leg, dates and on-sales 3:30 The Take: leave the word "final" alone 4:25 Outro Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live:…

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 Scorpions: Wind Of Change trailer, cast, release date 2:40 Chad Gray cancels San Diego and Santa Ana 3:35 The Take: Sepultura without the Cavaleras, and the farewell industry 4:30 Outro Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded…

Metallica played a completely different 16-song set on night two at the Las Vegas Sphere, including "Devil's Dance" for the first time since 2008 and "The Outlaw Torn" for the first time in seven years. Two shows into the residency, that's four songs most of the room had never seen them play. Also: Ice Nine Kills announce the Christmas EP "A Very Vicious Christmas" (November 9), built from their Terrifier Terror Tram music, and confirm "The Silver Scream 3: Every Flick In The Book" for 2027. And Voivod cancel their October US tour with BAT over a "family health emergency," with no new dates promised. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player…

Left To Suffer guitarist Peter Higgs joins the show days before Unwelcome Guest, the Atlanta band's first album for Hopeless Records, mid-way through a 32-date tour opening for Dying Fetus and Sanguisugabogg. Who "STFU" was really aimed at, why the new record has one guest feature instead of several, what Hopeless changed, and which song he's most nervous to play live. Then Dead Poet Society frontman Jack Underkofler on Monarch, out now on Spinefarm: producer Paul Meany of Mutemath, the fight over "Lost," what "djent pop" actually means, how a Mexican blog broke the band before America noticed, and who's the best live band right now. The co-headline tour with Honey Revenge starts October 23. The Loaded Radio Podcast is Loaded Radio's weekly interview show with the biggest names in rock and metal, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple:…

Metallica opened their Las Vegas Sphere residency with a 16-song set that included "...And Justice for All" for the first time since 2014 and "The Call of Ktulu" dedicated to Cliff Burton, 40 years after his death. Twenty-four shows run through March, and the band says no two weekends get the same set list. Also: Kid Rock announces a Christian album, "Halfway To Jesus," out October 17 with Eminem on "7 Sins," saying he and Em "differ politically" but "stayed friends through it all." And original Venom guitarist Mantas pays tribute to Cronos: "We changed the direction, the movement and the history of metal as we know it." Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play:…

Slipknot's Jim Root has answered the Marilyn Manson backlash — by saying he doesn't know who the band tours with. "I stay out of the logistics of touring," he told a fan on Instagram. "Forgive my ignorance about who we do shows with." Manson denies all allegations; the LA DA closed its investigation with no charges. The Take: fans weren't asking about logistics. Also: Pete Sandoval quits I Am Morbid, saying he and David Vincent "can't continue working together," after learning another drummer had been hired for Europe. And Alice Cooper, ahead of his memoir Devil On My Shoulder, says crack — not alcohol — "almost killed me," and that his wife's 1983 ultimatum is what saved him. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google…

Slipknot fans are pushing back on Marilyn Manson's spot on the 2027 stadium tour — six dates including Wembley — with some vowing to skip his shows. Manson denies all allegations against him, and the LA DA closed a four-year investigation without charges. Neither band has responded. The Take: look at where Manson is on this tour, and where he isn't. Also: Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante tell Eddie Trunk they're not retiring despite an album called Cursum Perficio ("I finish the journey") — "You built the store. Why close it?" And ex-Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera have renamed Angst Fabrik as Machines Of Hate. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play:…

Slipknot's Jim Root says the new album is "gonna hurt some feelings" — no repeat of Iowa or the self-titled, and when a fan begged for "heavy, not Stone Sour," Root replied "Agreed." Tracked live with Eloy Casagrande, all analogue, Matt Wallace producing. Also, a Loaded Radio exclusive: Kenny Hickey tells Scott the unreleased Type O Negative song from the October Rust sessions is called "Prometheus," and the live album lands in Q1 2027. And North Tonawanda is building a statue and bench for Every Time I Die's Andy Williams, who died this month at 48. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook:…

Nirvana accepted the MTV Video Vanguard Award, and Krist Novoselic used the moment to call Kurt Cobain "one of one." Dave Grohl, Krist and Pat Smear took the stage with no performance, just a montage and a speech — the first rock band to receive the award since Duran Duran in 2003, in the same year MTV dropped its rock category. Also: Korn's Fieldy and Brian "Head" Welch shared a stage for the first time since 2019, playing "Sabotage" with P.O.D. and Lacey Sturm at The Whosoevers' new Boise HQ. And GWAR have confirmed the death of co-founder Chuck Varga, The Sexecutioner, after a fight with cancer. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow…

Knocked Loose have quietly become the single biggest donor to Jamie Ulshoffer, the woman left paralysed when a man fell from a tree onto her during the band's Louder Than Life set. No statement, no press release — just $8,000. Scott Penfold on who actually ends up carrying this. Also: Jamey Jasta on the one sentence James Hetfield gave him backstage in 2008 that got him sober. And Ill Niño's Dave Chavarri and Laz Pina have filed against former guitarist Marc Rizzo in a Dallas court — allegations at this stage, unruled on, and Rizzo has not publicly responded. Here's that GoFundMe link for Jamie Ulshoffer - https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-jamies-medical-bills-after-ltl-accident?attribution_id=sl:77ffeb13-4432-4798-9a47-0a765313cc3e&utm_campaign=unknown&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=widget Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live:…

Bullet For My Valentine have announced their eighth album, 'Social Apocalypse', out 19 March 2027 on Spinefarm, with Will Ramos of Lorna Shore and Chrissy Costanza of Against The Current guesting. Scott Penfold on what the Ramos feature really means. Also: King Diamond reissues 'Halloween' as a picture disc on 23 October. And Louisa Livingstone, the woman on Black Sabbath's 1970 debut cover and unidentified for fifty years, has released a rock opera about Alice in Wonderland falling for an AI chatbot, with a sharper take on AI than most of this scene. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook:…

Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson has died at 79, weeks after suffering a heart attack during the band's European farewell tour. Scott Penfold looks back at fifty years, eight albums and the song Guns N' Roses made famous, plus Slash's tribute to his friend. Also: the campaign to build a Neil Peart memorial in St. Catharines, Ontario has hit $1 million, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson handing over a cheque for $785,000. Two bronze sculptures are going into Lakeside Park, the place that gave Peart a song title, with an opening planned for late 2027. And Maria Brink has confirmed a solo project called Maria Brink's Coven, landing between In This Moment's new album 'Witch' and the band's next record. In This Moment is not going anywhere. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple:…

Slipknot have plastered cryptic posters across ten cities in the Americas, pointing to a site that spits out the numbers 9 and 28. Scott Penfold breaks down what's coming, why 'Arsenal' has split the fanbase, and why the tour will be judged on the first night this lineup plays it live. TMZ reports that Axl Rose is mentoring Carrie Underwood on a rock project. Neither has confirmed it, but four years of shared stages, from Stagecoach to Atlanta, make it easy to believe. Plus, Brent Hinds' estate has put out a new statement on its lawsuit against Mastodon, covering an $80,000 buyout he never signed and his face on the Marrow Deep cover. Mastodon deny the allegations and call the suit meritless. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Stream it free on the Loaded Radio app for Apple iOS and Google Play, and read more at https://loadedradio.com

New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has died at the age of 45, following a cancer diagnosis in 2021. The band said he passed peacefully in his sleep on the morning of September 20, with his wife and mother beside him, and described his favourite accomplishment as being a husband and father. He founded New Found Glory at sixteen and made their first album with $300 he'd saved from a movie theatre job. Also on this episode: DragonForce frontman Marc Hudson steps back from the band's new album and 2026/2027 touring due to ongoing tinnitus, with Herman Li saying protecting his hearing "isn't something we'd ever ask him to compromise on." Marc's former vocal coach Alessio Garavello of Power Quest steps in alongside co-vocalist Alissa White-Gluz. And Matt Sorum reveals Geezer Butler called Lzzy Hale "the best singer I've heard since Tina Turner" — before saying he'd be up for reforming Velvet Revolver with her on lead vocals. Loaded Radio is hard rock and heavy metal news, interviews and radio. Since 2009. 📻…

Emmure frontman Frankie Palmeri says Glenn Danzig's security removed him from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life in Louisville and took his access pass, after he attempted to strike up a conversation while watching Pantera perform. Palmeri responded publicly and did not hold back. Also on this episode: Pepper Keenan of Corrosion of Conformity and Down confirms he's working on the first solo album of his career — 36 years after joining COC — telling the We Wreck Records podcast he's "pulling out all the stops on this sucker," and revealing he's been saving songs for years waiting until he got older. Buried in the same story: Down will release a new studio album, Volume V, in November — their first full-length in over a decade, landing the same month they headline the Great NOLA Trendkill festival in New Orleans. And Gene Simmons will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IEBA 2026 Honors & Awards Ceremony on October 6 at The Pinnacle Nashville, from the trade body representing 2,200 talent…

Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning gets a worldwide theatrical release from October 28, documenting Ozzy Osbourne's final performance at Villa Park on July 5, 2025 — including the original Black Sabbath lineup's first show together in over twenty years, seventeen days before his death. Produced by Mercury Studios and distributed by Trafalgar Releasing, with tickets on sale September 24. Sharon Osbourne on how the show came about: "I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy. And he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans." Also on this episode: Metallica book twelve North American stadiums for 2027 with Limp Bizkit and Avatar — skipping Los Angeles, New York and Chicago entirely in favour of El Paso, Fayetteville, Madison and Salt Lake City, with five of the twelve venues being college football stadiums. And Bullet For My Valentine begin teasing their eighth studio album, tentatively planned for January, which would make it six years…

David Ellefson has announced the December leg of his Bass Warrior European tour, and he'll be playing Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction in its entirety across twelve dates from December 3 to 19 — five days after Dave Mustaine's memoir excerpt claimed Ellefson's time in the band was finished regardless of the 2021 scandal. Ellefson has previously said of his 2010 return as a salaried player: "In order to have a friendship, I had to give up some ownership." Also on this episode: MNRK Music Group have acquired the complete recorded catalogue of Black Label Society — eleven studio albums plus live releases, compilations, EPs and Zakk Wylde's solo material including Unblackened — with Wylde remaining actively involved in how the music is presented. And Abbath have cancelled all remaining 2026 shows, a month after a Finland festival set was scrapped during the opening song. Loaded Radio is hard rock and heavy metal news, interviews and radio. Since 2009. 📻 24/7 metal stream: https://loadedradio.com 📱 Free Loaded…

David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen have appeared together in public for the first time in years, sitting alongside muralist Robert Vargas at a TEDxFargo event about why great art requires risk. Roth called it "a step towards world peace"; Alex said the most important thing in art is to learn the basics and then break all the rules. It lands months after Alex told a Brazilian magazine that Sammy Hagar — who sang on four consecutive Van Halen number ones — is "a complete idiot," and after leaving him out of his memoir entirely. Also on this episode: Slaughter To Prevail's Alex Terrible issues a detailed new statement denying the Nazism allegations that have followed his career, addressing his since-covered Black Sun tattoo and saying his own interpretation of a symbol "doesn't erase its history or what it represents to other people." And As I Lay Dying debut "Polarized" and "Retribution" — deliberately the two extremes of their ninth album, with twelve songs recorded, ten making the cut, and fans helping decide…

Tony Iommi has told Classic Rock that producer Andrew Watt — the man behind Ozzy Osbourne's final two solo albums — offered to record one more Black Sabbath album with the original lineup, Bill Ward included, and that he turned it down. Iommi said Watt was "a bit too excited" and didn't understand what working with the original band was like, adding that having already been through the 13 sessions with Rick Rubin he didn't want to go straight into another record. Also on this episode: Nicko McBrain tells Metal Hammer he'd be "delighted" to drum on Iron Maiden's next album, three years after the mini-stroke that paralysed his left side and forced him to quietly rewrite the intro to "The Trooper" mid-tour. And Slaughter To Prevail's Alex Terrible writes several hundred words defending his right to hit back at online critics, says he understands Ronnie Radke better than most people, then deletes the whole thing within hours. Loaded Radio is hard rock and heavy metal news, interviews and radio. Since 2009. 📻…

Miss May I frontman Levi Benton joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about the band's eighth album No Place For Me, out October 2 via Solid State Records — a record he's described as everything he's felt for a long time but never had the words for. We get into where it came from, the decision to release five singles from a ten-track album, the entirely DIY video for "Death Threat," and nineteen years fronting a band from Troy, Ohio that outlasted most of the scene it came from. Plus the Perpetual Iron tour with Born of Osiris. Also on the episode: Jake Diab of Autumn Kings on Epiphanies, out September 18 via Hopeless Records — their first label album after nine years fully independent. Jake talks about what Hopeless changed and what he refused to let them change, building a record around three songs that had already charted, getting Howard Jones on "yOunG BLoOds," meeting his bandmate at a grocery store in LaSalle, playing for US troops across Japan, South Korea and Guam, and what release…

Rolling Stone has published an excerpt from Dave Mustaine's memoir In My Darkest Hour in which he writes that David Ellefson's time in Megadeth "was likely near" its end even before the 2021 leaked-video scandal that got him fired — reflecting on their 2004 lawsuit, Ellefson's 2010 return as a salaried player rather than a creative partner, and a friendship he says was built on shared addiction. For the record: the person Ellefson was involved with was nineteen, the grooming allegations made online were false, and Ellefson reported the unauthorised distribution of the footage to police himself. Also on this episode: Suicide Silence announce their new album Graceless for November 20 via Century Media, produced by Austin Coupe and mixed by Hunter Young, arriving mid-way through a twenty-eight-date North American tour with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia — with founding guitarist Chris Garza back in the band. And the estate of the late Brent Hinds has filed a lawsuit against Mastodon in Fulton County, alleging…

Soundgarden reunited at halftime of the Seahawks–Patriots game at Lumen Field with Taylor Momsen on vocals and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on guitar, playing a medley including "Outshined" and "Spoonman" — and NBC aired little to none of it, sending fans straight to social media. Their final album featuring Chris Cornell's last recordings is currently in post-production. Also on this episode: AC/DC's September 16 show at Toronto's Rogers Stadium has been cancelled outright after a storm the venue's own meteorologist called a hundred-year event, with damaged sections needing to be removed and rebuilt before next summer. And AEW paid a tearful tribute to Andy Williams on Dynamite, with announcer Excalibur quoting Every Time I Die lyrics on air, a ten-bell salute, a full tribute planned for Saturday's Collision, and a public celebration of his life announced for September 27 in Buffalo. Loaded Radio is hard rock and heavy metal news, interviews and radio. Since 2009. 📻 24/7 metal stream: https://loadedradio.com 📱…

Jim Root has confirmed Slipknot are tracking their eighth studio album — the first without Sid Wilson, the first with Eloy Casagrande, and the first with no record label since 1998. Producer Matt Wallace is behind the board and the band went in with around fifty song ideas. Also on this episode: King Diamond breaks his silence on splitting with Andy La Rocque after forty years, explains why Gus G is replacing him, and reveals he wrote seventy percent of the band's music himself. And As I Lay Dying finish their ninth album with twelve songs recorded and only ten making the cut — so they're letting fans vote on which two get dropped. Loaded Radio is hard rock and heavy metal news, interviews and radio. Since 2009. 📻 24/7 metal stream: https://loadedradio.com 📱 Free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play 🎧 Podcast: The Loaded Radio Podcast, wherever you listen Follow us: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial X: https://x.com/loadedradio Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio TikTok:…

Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Live Nation tease "The Great NOLA Trendkill" at New Orleans' Lakefront Arena, with a rumored lineup including Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosion Of Conformity, Eyehategod, Power Trip and Pig Destroyer. Gene Simmons speaks at length with Michael Moynihan about Ace Frehley's death, his influence on a generation of guitar players, the empty chair at the Kennedy Center Honors, and his current relationship with Peter Criss. And Enjoy Wrestling co-owner Kurt Hackimer issues a full statement to KDKA on what happened to Andy Williams at Saturday's event in Pennsylvania. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Friday, September 4, 2026. 70000 Tons Of Metal reveals the first thirty bands for its January 2027 sailing — Exodus, Arch Enemy, HammerFall, Moonspell, Obscura and more — with public tickets going on sale Monday and only 3,000 spots available. Static-X, Tony Campos and frontman Edsel Dope file a lawsuit against filmmaker Matt Zane alleging copyright infringement, false light and more, seeking damages in excess of $1 million. And Wage War announce their new album Landfall for October 9 via Fearless, premiering the title track. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Thursday, September 3, 2026. Iron Maiden bring their Eddie's Dive Bar meetups to the United States for the first time — ten dates alongside the Run For Your Lives leg opening Saturday in New Jersey, free and open to the public, pouring the new Trooper West Coast IPA brewed with Lagunitas. Scorpions postpone their Planet Hollywood residency by a full year, citing unforeseen circumstances, with new dates in September 2027. And Carcass reschedule their Australia, New Zealand, China and India dates after drummer Dan Wilding is faced with a family emergency, while urging fans to still attend Bangalore Open Air. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Alex Van Halen receives the Netherlands' highest civilian knighthood in Nijmegen, the city he and Eddie left as children in 1962. Stryper's Michael Sweet explains why he'd never join King Diamond's band but would tour with Mercyful Fate in a heartbeat, and tells the story of meeting Kim Petersen backstage in Mexico. And AJ Rebollo publicly corrects his own account of leaving Bad Wolves, confirming Dolly Parton's team blessed the "Jolene" cover and that founder John Boecklin approved the release. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Rush add four new US arena dates to the Fifty Something tour, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson explaining they built in recovery time they turned out not to need. Epica announce a 25th anniversary show at London's Royal Albert Hall on October 6, 2027, with a full orchestra and choir. And former Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg opens up to HeartSupport about seeking therapy after his November 2023 dismissal, describing the search for the right therapist and why the first one not fitting shouldn't be the end of it. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Monday, August 31, 2026. Bruce Dickinson greets a Toronto crowd by noting Iron Maiden "crossed the Lake Of Ontario" — a pointed nod to the executive order directing the lake be renamed, and a line that drew one of the night's biggest reactions at Scotiabank Arena. Sharon Osbourne publicly defends Marilyn Manson on The Osbournes podcast, saying she doesn't believe the allegations against him, as a November 2027 jury trial approaches in a separate civil case. And Five Finger Death Punch's Zoltan Bathory tells Metal Hammer exactly how he manages his relationship with Ivan Moody, in terms involving supplies and a hiding place. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

I Prevail frontman Eric Vanlerberghe joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast. In May 2025, I Prevail lost the clean-vocal half of their identity when Brian Burkheiser stepped away following an Eagle syndrome diagnosis. Nine days later they lost Dave Shapiro, the agent who built their career, in the San Diego plane crash. Four months after that they released Violent Nature — the heaviest record of their career, with Eric singing every note on it. We get into what that actually cost him: rebuilding his voice to carry both screams and cleans, surviving a full album cycle doing two jobs a night, and what changed when producer Jon Eberhard joined the band on bass. Plus the story behind "Paradise," the surprise single with Amira Elfeky written on a tour bus in Europe that the band admit they still can't quite categorise — and what's coming after it. Also: Black Vault Gaming, the retro game and trading card shop he runs in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, and how a man decompresses from a job that now demands…

Friday, August 28, 2026. Anthrax will play the grand re-opening of Brooklyn's Saint Vitus Bar on September 4 — two and a half years after the beloved 250-capacity venue was shut down mid-show by the Department of Buildings — ahead of their first album in a decade, Cursum Perficio. Carnifex announce More Than Misery for November 6 via Sumerian, recorded with Whitechapel guitarist Zach Householder in a first-time production pairing. And Sid Wilson appears in a studio photo with rapper Rome Fortune three weeks after his Slipknot exit, captioned with the name of his own label. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Thursday, August 27, 2026. Tobias Forge tells Kerrang! why Ghost are on hiatus — he's exhausted after 70 shows, he doesn't have an idea for the next record, and he won't force one. Maynard James Keenan reveals he underwent a hip replacement on August 26 after an unexplained injury in Luxembourg, and confirms all 27 shows across 18 countries with Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer are going ahead. And Decessus vocalist Ignacia Fernández performs her own band's death metal song at the Miss World 2026 talent competition — for the second time in her pageant run. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Soundgarden play the halftime slot at the Seattle Seahawks' season opener at Lumen Field, fronted by Taylor Momsen with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready joining — only their fifth performance since Chris Cornell's death. Bad Wolves are removed from Skillet's fall tour, and vocalist Sara "KILLBOY" Skinner goes public with what Skillet's fanbase found and what the band did about it. And Staind frontman Aaron Lewis announces a 12-date solo acoustic run, opening up about sobriety and getting better before he can't. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026. In Flames and Trivium announce a 26-date European co-headline run for spring 2027 with Paleface Swiss and VOLA, trading top billing by territory. Ghost announce 2 Big To Rig, a 19-track live album recorded in Mexico City — and Tobias Forge explains the food poisoning that cancelled the first of three planned filming nights. And Alice Cooper's 24th annual Christmas Pudding returns to Phoenix on December 12 with Dee Snider, Lzzy Hale, Joe Hottinger and John 5, raising money for his Solid Rock Teen Centers. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Monday, August 24, 2026. Dave Mustaine reveals in the new Metal Hammer that Bruce Dickinson — a fellow throat cancer survivor — gave him something no one else could during his 2019 diagnosis, and it wasn't thoughts and prayers. Ice-T confirms the next Body Count album is titled Death Wish, at least a year away, and will only be released if it beats Merciless. And Bret Michaels cancels eight dates on doctor's orders after attempting a comeback show following recent surgery, admitting he may have gone back sooner than he should have. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Friday, August 21, 2026. Alpha Wolf announce a mutual split with longtime vocalist Lochie Keogh and cancel their European headline tour along with every remaining 2026 show. Crystal Lake end a turbulent year by naming PK of Prompts as their permanent frontman — a Korean-born vocalist who says the band is the reason he moved to Japan to pursue music. And Nita Strauss returns to SoFi Stadium for her seventh season with the Los Angeles Rams, joined this year by her husband Josh Villalta on drums, ten weeks after the couple welcomed their first child. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 Osbourne tribute. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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." Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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, making Lost In Existence with Joey Sturgis, the deal ending, the band ending, and the six or seven years in between before they regrouped and put a self-released record on three Billboard charts with no label behind it. Read the full write-up at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or grab the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play. Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and YouTube.

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 minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 fired. Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 minutes. Full stories at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

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 download the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play.

Beartooth frontman Caleb Shomo joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about Pure Ecstasy, the band's sixth album, out August 28 on Fearless Records. After fourteen years of writing, playing and producing Beartooth records almost entirely by himself, Shomo let somebody else in — co-producer Jordan Fish, a title track born out of a session with Misha Mansoor of Periphery, and drummer Connor Denis behind the kit. We get into the reaction to "Free," the AI mess that nearly killed the "Bullshit" lyric video, the Pure Ecstasy world tour, and the year that changed what a Beartooth record can be about. Then in this week's Fresh Meat, Raven Le Rouge of Wichita metal band Waking The Sleeper on building a band in Kansas, the Frequencies concept record, and what's next. Read the full write-up at loadedradio.com. Stream Loaded Radio 24/7 or grab the free Loaded Radio app on Apple and Google Play. Follow us on Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads, TikTok and YouTube.

People magazine reports that Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson have ended their engagement — Scott Penfold explains why this isn't new, why it isn't connected to the Slipknot situation no matter how the timing looks, and what's actually changed this week. Plus Mercyful Fate announce their first live show in over three years, headed to Leyendas Del Rock in Spain in August 2027 with King Diamond, Hank Shermann, Mike Wead, Bjarne T. Holm and Becky Baldwin — and their long-awaited album still hasn't surfaced. And a harder one to close on: Veeps and Live Nation have gutted Revolver, Alternative Press, BrooklynVegan and Goldmine, with allegations now surfacing from a former employee about workplace treatment. A word about the people who write the things you read, and what it costs when they're gone.

Nikki Sixx answered a fan asking why Mötley Crüe use backing tracks — and traced the whole practice back to Queen and "Bohemian Rhapsody" in 1975. Scott Penfold breaks down the distinction everybody argues past: the difference between augmenting a live show and replacing one, and the one piece of evidence John 5 offered that actually holds up. Plus Anthrax release the video for "Everybody's Got A Plan," the third single from Cursum Perficio — their first album in ten years, out September 18, recorded at Dave Grohl's Studio 606. And the Latin title translates to something worth thinking about. And a new documentary, "Neil Peart: No One's Disciple," debuts on CBC September 23, featuring Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson performing Rush songs with Chad Smith, Stewart Copeland and Danny Carey filling Peart's seat.