Announced with a reveal trailer earlier this week, ‘Separation From The Animals’ will be their eighth full-length release, following up from 2024’s ‘Meltdown’. So far, the group dropped single ‘Don’t Quit It’ in May, a pulsing drum and bass guitar-led hard rock anthem – now it has company in the shape of new track ‘In Your Eyes’ which came out today.

‘In Your Eyes’ is a slower, more sombre affair, an introspective indie rock ballad with deep lyrics and beautifully-pained vocal hooks. Twin Atlantic frontman Sam McTrusty explains the theme, saying “it’s about being at the other end of a relationship where you feel like no matter what you do, nothing is ever good enough.” However, he notes that it’s an optimistic message, adding “you take a step back and realise that in trying to appease that one person, you’ve blinded yourself to the fact that everything is great. Look outside of that window and life is much better.”

The album was a product of McTrusty’s relocation to Canada with his family following ‘Meltdown’ and its subsequent campaign. The massive changes allowed him the distance from his past to examine it properly, and allowed him to reset creatively. He spoke of the experience – “I’m from a family that’s fairly divided, so I’ve always been passed about from when I was six-months-old. It’s all I’ve ever known. As you grow up, you start to view life through a different lens – especially the whole struggle of going from boy to man.”

Channelling the emotions from the self-discovery journey, he also mentions how it brought new focus back to music and Twin Atlantic, saying “My experience of that is particularly painful, emotional and confusing. But because it seemed normal at the time, it didn’t really hit me until I found my tribe, my people, my band. My entire adult life is meant to have been looking ahead but my personal life is always looking back. That baggage is basically what the whole band is about. This is what we’ve always been but with the veil lifted. I hope people hear the record and it inspires them to do that and be more honest with themselves.”

The group popped up for a hometown show at Glasgow’s TRNSMT Festival this weekend as a hotly tipped secret act. Currently out on a run of summer dates, first with The Xcerts at the start of June and now with McFly, Twin Atlantic announced the October tour supporting ‘Separation From The Animals’ earlier today. The tour will see them again link up with fellow Scottish alternative rock band The Xcerts.

‘Separation From The Animals’ releases on the 2nd of October through independent label Dance to the Radio. Tickets for the October headlining tour go on sale at 10am on Friday the 25th of June. Check the poster below for the full run of dates:

Texas four-piece Polyphia broke through to the mainstream with the unique catchiness and sheer complexity of their instrumental rock music. The dizzying guitar work of Tim Henson and Scott LePage, whose virtuoso noodling on tracks like ‘G.O.A.T.’ and ‘Playing God’ have gained cult status for their difficulty to replicate by other players, is rounded off by the dynamic rhythm section of bassist Clay Gober and drummer Clay Aeschliman. Their fourth album, 2022’s ‘Remember That You Will Die’, indulged in more guitar solo heroics and delved further into their hip hop and trap influences – the LP had an appearance from guitar icon Steve Vai, as well vocal as features by Chino Moreno of Deftones plus rappers $NOT and Lil West.

Since the final singles from ‘Remember That You Will Die’ released, the group distributed their first live album in 2023, ‘Live at the Factory in Deep Ellum’.Other than a 2025 collaboration with Riot Games for ‘Let’s Go’, the main theme of fighting game 2XKO, there was little news – until last week’s surprise reveal of new single ‘Can You Feel It’. Polyphia dropped the track, a bass-heavy, metal dance-floor anthem, with an accompanying music video packed with cynical imagery about politics and world affairs, although they have now uploaded a new video with a full band performance.

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The tour dates were announced yesterday, along with the full list of support acts for the 4 month stretch. The North American leg begins in Dallas on the 5th of September and ends in Nashville on the 18th of October, with appearances from Ladrones, RJ Pasin, Intervals and Plini. It comes to Europe on the 18th of November in Zurich, visiting 17 cities, before finally reaching the UK in December. Four shows are scheduled for Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London, where the tour finishes. Europe and UK dates feature support from Pertubator and RJ Pasin. The full list of European shows is below:

NOVEMBER:

18 – Halle 622, Zurich
19 – Le Radiant, Lyon
20 – Interference, Toulouse
22 – Razzmatazz, Barcelona
23 – Sala La Riviera, Madrid
25 – Alcatraz, Milan
27 – Zenith, Munich
28 – SaSaZu, Prague
29 – Progresja, Warsaw
30 – Haus Auensee, Leipzig

DECEMBER:

2 – Docks, Hamburg
4 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen
5 – Tempodrom, Berlin
6 – Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen
7 – Ancienne Belgique, Brussels
8 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam
9 – Zenith Paris, Paris
11 – O2 Academy, Birmingham
12 – Manchester Academy, Manchester
15 – O2 Academy, Leeds
16 – O2 Academy Brixton, London

Tickets and VIP perks for all dates are on pre-sale now with the entry code ‘CANYOUFEELIT’ here, with general sale opening at 10am on Friday the 19th of June. 2026 single ‘Can You Feel It’ is available to stream and buy now.

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Electric Callboy are just wrapping up their summer festival commitments in their usual excess – last week they played sets at Germany’s Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring, France’s Heavy Week-End and Czechia’s Rock For People before travelling to Donington for a main stage show at Download. Their shows packed with heavy pop covers, frequent costume changes, plus obscene amounts of lights and fireworks have made them highly in-demand with booking agents worldwide.

As a result of their ever-rising profile, their UK headline shows have been few and far between – their last was a single massive takeover of London’s Alexandra Palace in November last year. Now into their second year of the Tanzneid World Tour, Electric Callboy have laid down plans for the start of 2027 with the new UK and Europe run.

The arena tour was announced yesterday, and is set to start next January in Dublin, followed by shows in Manchester, Nottingham, Bournemouth and Cardiff, before heading over to mainland Europe. In the post announcing the shows on Instagram, there is dismay over the lack of a Scottish show, with commenters writing the message “No Scotland, no party“. The full tour list is as follows:

JANUARY
21 – Dublin, 3Arena
23 – Manchester, Co-op Live
24 – Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena
26 – Bournemouth, International Centre
27 – Cardiff, Utilita Arena
29 –Toulouse, Zénith Toulouse Métropole
30 – Bordeaux, Arkéa Arena
31 – Nantes, Zénith Nantes Métropole

FEBRUARY
15 – Paris, Accor Arena
16 – Brussels, Forest National
18 – Hanover, ZAG Arena
20 – Mannheim, SAP Arena
22 – IT-Milan, Unipol Forum
24 – Prague, O2 Arena
27 – Dortmund, Westfalenhalle Dortmund
28 – Nuremberg, PSD Bank Nürnberg Arena
02 – Leipzig, Quarterback Immobilien Arena

Their seventh album ‘Tanzneid’ was announced back in April, with several singles available so far including ‘Elevator Operator’, ‘Tanzneid’, their cover of Sum 41’s ‘Still Waiting’, and April release ‘Hypercharged’. The band put out lively new single ‘Let The Good Times Roll’ and its music video last week, which features pop punk heroes The Offspring, making for an upbeat, bouncy summer anthem. ‘Tanzneid’ is out on Century Media on the 7th of August, with the band celebrating it with a huge show at Berlin’s Escalation Fest on the release day.

Tickets for the Tanzneid World Tour UK and Ireland dates go on sale tomorrow, the 17th of June, at 3pm. Be quick, these will sell out!

‘The Wow! Signal’ will be the Devon trio’s tenth album, taking their ever-changing alternative rock sound into new pastures of metal, synth-rock and more, wrapped in sci-fi concepts of extraterrestrial encounters and space-faring. The LP was announced in March with a cryptic social media campaign and the release of adventurous lead single ‘Be With You’, accompanied by a cinematic music video of a celestial phenomenon which set the tone for the album’s lore.

Further singles have dropped since, starting with ‘Cryogen’ and ‘Hexagons’, both of which returned to the classic Muse sound from albums like 2001’s ‘Origin of Symmetry’ and 2006’s ‘Black Holes and Revelations’. The latest single ‘Nightshift Superstar’ released on the 7th of June – the track has a disco pulse, driven forwards by slick basslines and frontman Matt Bellamy’s breathy falsetto vocals. Continuing the neon red aesthetic of the previous media, the trippy music video depicts an alien phenomenon at an American diner in the desert, where the attendants are drawn to a UFO by a tornado.

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With impending plans to visit North America in July and August, Muse announced the new tour dates on the 12th of June, scheduling a large arena run across the UK and Europe in November and December this year. It opens with two nights apiece at Manchester’s Co-op Live and The O2 in London, before nights in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The full tour dates are here:

November:
• 12 – Manchester, Co-op Live
• 13 – Manchester, Co-op Live
• 15 – London, The O2
• 16 – London, The O2
• 18 – Berlin, Uber Arena
• 20 – Milan, Unipol Dome
• 21 – Milan, Unipol Dome
• 24 – Dusseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
• 25 – Dusseldorf, PSD Bank Dome
• 27 – Paris, La Defense Arena
• 29 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome
• 30 – Amsterdam, Ziggo Dome

December:
• 03 – Montpellier, Sud de France Arena
• 04 – Montpellier, Sud de France Arena
• 07 – Zurich, AG Hallenstadion
• 08 – Zurich, AG Hallenstadion

The pre-sale begins at 10am on Wednesday the 17th of June and is accessible with a pre-order for ‘The Wow! Signal’ before 3pm on Tuesday the 16th, and general sale opens at 10am on Friday the 19th. ‘The Wow! Signal’ releases on the 26th of June through Muse’s label Helium 3 and Warner Media Group. Check the full track list below:
 
1. The Dark Forest
2. Nightshift Superstar
3. Shimmering Scars
4. Cryogen
5. Be With You
6. Hexagons
7. The Sickness In You & I
8. Unravelling
9. Hush
10. Space Debris

Birmingham pop rock superstars Duran Duran were one of the biggest acts in the UK’s New Romantic movement through the ‘80s, scoring UK Number One singles with ‘Is There Something I Should Know?’ and ‘The Reflex’, the latter of which was with a remix by Nile Rogers. They were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022, have sold over 100 million records, and their classic 80s music videos saw them win two Grammy awards in 1984.

Duran Duran are still in fine form in 2026, releasing their 50th single ‘Free To Love’ in partnership with funk legend Nile Rogers back in April. The single was a complete throw-back to the heyday of Top Of The Pops with its disco-inspired sound and music video, which frontman Simon Le Bon described as “disco for the 2020s.” It was BBC Radio 2’s Record of the Week in May, and the band were invited to perform it on US late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. In the past few weeks, the group have shared official remixes of the track by Horse Meat Disco and DJ White Shadow.

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With three versions of ‘Free To Love’ now out, the band have elected to announce a run of five UK arena shows for this October, sandwiched between several European gigs. After opening in Oslo, they’ll visit Stockholm, Hamburg and Cologne. Next, it’s back to the UK for Glasgow, Belfast, Birmingham, Liverpool and Leeds, before wrapping the tour with shows in Brussels and Paris. Support on all UK shows comes from Margate group Pigeon, who Duran Duran promise will bring their “post-punk, afro disco groove”. The full dates for the UK are below:

OCTOBER:

• 15 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
• 18 – SSE Arena, Belfast
• 20 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham
• 23 – M&S Bank Arena, Liverpool
• 24 – First Bank Arena, Leeds

The band are already due to tour Europe this summer, starting with shows in Denmark, The Netherlands and more in June, before their massive summer headline at BST Hyde Park in London on the 5th of July. So far, the main support for that show comes from Scissor Sisters, but there are more to be announced.

Tickets for the UK October dates go on an exclusive pre-sale to Duran Duran’s VIP members at 8am on Wednesday the 3rd of June, with general sale opening at 10am on Friday the 5th – more information is available here.

Kentucky’s Knocked Loose are currently one of the biggest hardcore punk-adjacent bands in the scene, having burst through to a large audience thanks to mainstream TV coverage and high-profile live shows. While their sound is unflinchingly heavy, they’ve become unlikely fan-favourites at California’s Coachella festival, they’ve performed on late-night talk show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, and their single ‘Suffocate’ featuring singer Poppy was nominated for a Grammy – now they’re at the top of British festival bills and supporting the biggest metal band in the world.

Last weekend’s closing sets at Slam Dunk festival in both Hatfield and Leeds saw Knocked Loose compete with iconic main stage headliners Good Charlotte for fans’ attention, which is enough of a challenge in itself, but currently they have royally thrown themselves into the deep end by opening for Metallica. The legendary thrashers have hand-picked all of the support bands on their historic M72 tour, which has been running since 2023 and has included a list of supporting acts including Limp Bizkit, Evanescence and Architects. Knocked Loose will be opening select shows before France’s biggest metal exports Gojira, while other dates will witness dramatic Swedish group Avatar and reunited US groove metal titans Pantera open the festivities.

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The UK and Ireland leg of the tour consists of shows in Dublin, Glasgow, Cardiff and London across June and July, but due to the format of Metallica’s stadium tour, Knocked Loose are left with several days between gigs to fill. They had previously booked solo shows for several stops around their trip of mainland Europe and Ireland on the M72 Tour, but this week they have announced their two bonus UK headline shows for the summer. The first is at Electric Bristol on the 29th of June, the day after their shows with Metallica at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium, and the second is at Nottingham’s Rock City on the 30th of June. Their last show of the tour is with Metallica at the London Stadium on the 3rd of July. Knocked Loose’s full run for the UK and Ireland is shaping up like this:

• 21 June – Aviva Stadium, Dublin w/ Metallica and Gojira
• 22 June – Limelight, Belfast
• 23 June – Dublin, The Academy
• 25 June – Hampden Park, Glasgow w/ Metallica and Gorjia
• 28 June – Principality Stadium, Cardiff w/ Metallica and Gojira
• 29 June – Electric Bristol
• 30 June – Rock City, Nottingham
• 3 July – London Stadium w/ Metallica and Gojira

Tickets for the Bristol and Nottingham dates go on sale this Friday, the 29th of May at 10am. In other news, the Nottingham venue Rock City made the headlines today due to a small fire during planned maintenance works at the site.

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Since forming in Southend-On-Sea in 2012, Nothing But Thieves have released 4 studio albums, all of which have landed in the top 10 of the Official UK Album Charts. The band’s last LP, 2023’s ‘Dead Club City’ was their first UK Number One, with energetic dance-pop lead single ‘Welcome to the DCC’ earning itself BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record of the Year. The band’s sound is a lively mix of indie rock with a heft of hard rock influence, often dipping into pop and electronic styles with ease.

After wiping their Instagram feed at the start of May, the band posted several teasingly ambiguous uploads and planted cryptic posters around UK cities before releasing ‘Evolution’ last Wednesday. The track is a bright, thumping indie rock anthem packed with themes of self-improvement and progression, sounding much in the same vein as the music of Sam Fender. Nothing But Thieves have said that Evolution is a “song that’s not too concerned about finality. I think imperfection and authenticity is becoming ever more valuable and it’s definitely something we’re drawn to. We’ve spent some time trying to work out what’s real and tangible about who we are and how we use our time. The people we travel the world with, the human moments on stage, the connection we make with those who come to our shows. That’s real… It’s a bit of a love letter to the people in our world in that way.”

The group played an intimate release set for ‘Evolution’ at The Dome in London last week, and then played it at Radio 1’s Big Weekend before a secret show at Newcastle’s Think Tank venue under the pseudonym ‘Stray Dogs’ last Saturday. The album ‘Stray Dogs’ was announced this morning alongside the tour, with the band reporting that they had returned to Angelic Studios in Oxfordshire where they recorded debut album ‘Nothing But Thieves’.

As for the tour, it kicks off in Paris next January, and following the European leg comes to the UK and Ireland in February. After arena shows in Dublin, Nottingham, London, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester and Birmingham, it’s off to Canada and the US over March and April. The band have also let fans in South America and Australia know that dates for them will be out soon. Find all the info on the poster below:

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‘Stray Dogs’ is out on the 25th of September via RCA/Sony Music, with pre-orders granting access to the gig pre-sale. Tickets for the tour go on pre-sale at 10am on Tuesday the 2nd of June, before general sale opens at 10 am on Friday the 5th. You can catch Nothing But Thieves at their only scheduled gig for 2026 supporting Biffy Clyro, live in London’s Finsbury Park on Friday the 3rd of July.

Good Charlotte’s blend of rebellious pop-punk mixed with emo elements, and their image of skater-punk meets gothic rock, made them a staple of the American scene in the early 2000s. Their second album, 2002’s ‘The Young and the Hopeless’ was a mainstream success, certified triple-platinum and reaching 7th on the US Billboard 200, and 15th in the UK Album Chart. Its three biggest singles – ‘Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous’, ‘The Anthem’ and ‘Girls & Boys’ all broke into the UK Top 40 Chart. 2004 follow-up ‘The Chronicles of Life and Death’ took their style into darker, more-introspective territory, before 2007’s ‘Dance Floor Revival’ added hip hop and dance music to their arsenal.

The Maryland group released 8 studio albums total with their last being 2025’s ‘Motel Du Cap’, which featured guest production from Zakk Cervini, who previously worked with the likes of Blink 182 and Yungblud; as well as Jordan Fish, previously of Bring Me The Horizon. Additional stars include Wiz Khalifa on track ‘Life Is Great’, and Charlie Puth on multiple songs.

The European tour was announced last Friday, the 22nd of May, alongside a US run, both in support of ‘Motel Du Cap’. Good Charlotte broke the news the day before their first UK shows since 2019 – headline slots at Hatfield and Leeds’ Slam Dunk festivals, which champion pop punk nostalgia. Starting in Sweden on the 8th of November, the tour will hit Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and France before arriving in the UK for shows in Manchester and London. Here’s a rundown of the full European leg:

• Nov 8 – Stockholm, Sweden – Hovet
• Nov 11 – Munich, Germany – Zenith
• Nov 13 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
• Nov 14 – Düsseldorf, Germany – Mitsubishi Electric Halle
• Nov 16 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live
• Nov 17 – Paris, France – Zenith Paris
• Nov 19 – London, England – The O2
• Nov 20 – Manchester, England – Co-op Live

Support on both the Europe and US Motel Du Cap Tour is provided by fellow pop punk royalty Yellowcard. Pre-sale opens tomorrow, the 26th of May at 10AM, with access codes available through the band’s mailing list, and general sale starts on Friday the 29th at 10AM.

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The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the more interesting bands in the US’s alternative rock scene throughout the 90’s. Forming in Chicago in 1988 and breaking through with 1993’s ‘Siamese Dream’, Corgan and co. set themselves apart from the pack of American grunge bands with their ambitious approach to songwriting and theatre with ‘Mellon Collie’ in 1995. A 28-track double-album with conceptual elements, diverse instrumentation and Corgan’s iconic nasal vocals, the album brought Smashing Pumpkins seven Grammy nominations. Five singles released from the album, including hits ‘Zero’, ‘Tonight, Tonight’, and ‘Bullet With Butterfly Wings’ which won the Grammy in the Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal category.

Corgan, who wrote the majority of The Smashing Pumpkins’ music, gave ‘Mellon Collie’ a new lease of life in 2025 with its operatic reimagining. Working with Grammy-nominated conductor James Lowe, the music has been re-composed for the full 60-piece orchestra to back Corgan’s vocals. To give it its full title, the show ‘A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness Featuring Billy Corgan’ had a 7 show residency at Chicago’s Lyric Opera House last November.

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It was announced today that the show will be going international this September, starting with two nights at the Royal Festival Hall in London’s Southbank Centre. From there, it goes to Belgium, France and Spain. Guest vocalists are arranged, with Ed Parks performing in London, Antwerp and Paris, while Madrid’s show has Sydney Mancasola, Zoie Reams, Dominick Valdes Chenes and Dean Murphy. The full list of shows is below.

September:
• 1 – Royal Festival Hall, London
• 2 – Royal Festival Hall, London
• 6 – Queen Elisabeth Hall, Antwerp (two shows)
• 8 – Salle Pleye, Paris
• 9 – Salle Pleye, Paris
• 11 – Palacio Vistalegre, Madrid

A press release describes the shows as looking to “re-imagine and pay homage to the era-defining album of the same name, whilst also expanding the definition and intention of opera”. Corgan, who is now also a popular podcaster and promotes his own wrestling company, posted on social media site X to say he was “so excited that this is finally announced! Thank you to all that have asked and are interested in attending. I guarantee you won’t be sorry if you do…”. He also took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the unique fusion of rock and opera in the concert, writing “opera and rock both tell stories of heightened emotions, and I am excited for both fans of my music and traditional opera fans to hear some truly inspired work; for the balance here is to honor both traditions in a magisterial way.”

Pre-sale tickets for the London shows go on sale tomorrow, Tuesday the 12th of May, at 10am, with general sale commencing at 10am on Thursday the 14th. A 30th anniversary reissue of ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’ released in January this year, with The Smashing Pumpkins also due to drop a 35th anniversary version of debut album ‘Gish’ on the 29th of May on Corgan’s web store.

Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP) formed in Las Vegas in 2005, releasing their explosive debut ‘The Way Of The Fist’ in 2007. A ferocious, fast-paced blitz of heavy metal with emotional themes, the LP and its lead single ‘The Bleeding’ won the band a large audience almost immediately. Since its release, FFDP have become one of the biggest American bands in the genre, releasing 9 hugely-popular albums and breaking a record on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart for most consecutive number one singles. Last year’s ‘The End feat. Babymetal’ became their 13th chart-topper in a row, their 17th overall, and the first to use Japanese lyrics.

With 20 years passing since their inception, the band announced a massive 48-show US tour two weeks ago, as the first part of a world tour reveal. Today’s set of dates for the UK and Europe was just the second instalment in a bigger list of anniversary celebrations, as founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory says – “This World Tour is the celebration that milestone deserves. First leg is America in 2026, then Europe in 2027, and we’re not stopping there! South America, Australia, Asia are all in the talks. This is going to be a big two or three years for Five Finger Death Punch, and we’re just getting started.“

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The tour opens in January next year with five dates in Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, Birmingham and London, before travelling across mainland Europe. FFDP will be bringing US metal veterans Lamb Of God along for all but the Prague and Copenhagen shows, as well as Scottish modern-metal titans Bleed From Within for all dates. The UK and Ireland shows for January 2027 are:

16 – AO Arena, Manchester
17 – OVO Hydro, Glasgow
19 – 3Arena, Dublin
22 – BP Pulse Arena, Birmingham
23 – The O2, London

According to Kerrang, the setlist for the 20th anniversary tour will include songs from across their career, ranging from their 2007 debut to as-yet unreleased music from their rumoured 10th album. The band’s last releases were their 2025 ‘Best Of’ re-recording compilations – re-tracked and reissued after former label ‘Prospect Park’ sold the master recordings without FFDP’s consent.

Tickets for Five Finger Death Punch’s European Tour go on general sale on Friday the 8th of May at 10AM. Check the band’s website for full world tour dates and news.