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Avatar have announced a one-night-only performance celebrating the 10th anniversary of Feathers Flesh.The Swedish metal outfit will bring 10 Years Of Feathers Flesh to London's Royal Albert Hall on March...

Featuring orchestral elements, a choir and more.

Swedish metallers AVATAR have announced a monumental evening of music, pipe organs, dancers and theatrics at London's historic Royal Albert Hall on March 30, 2027. The band will present "10 Years Of Feathers Flesh", a one-night-only performance celebrating the tenth anniversary of their landma...

Avatar are giving their 2017 album Feathers And Flesh a glorious 10th anniversary celebration at the Royal Albert Hall next year - find out more here.

Vote for either Papa Roach's 'See U in Hell' or Avatar's 'Crying Fire' in this week's Chuck's Fight Club on Loudwire Nights.

Here at Revolver, we re always on the hunt for new songs to bang our heads to — indeed, it s a big part of our jobs. With that in mind, here are the tracks released this week in metalcore, nu-rock, industrial and more that have been on heavy rotation at Revolver HQ. For your listening pleasure, we ve also compiled the songs in an ever-evolving Spotify playlist. A Place to Kill Jet Engine On the one hand, an industrial titan like Richard Patrick — he of Filter, Nine Inch Nails and more — needs no introduction. That said, his first single with new project A Place to Kill — co-plotted with rock photographer and There Is No Us frontman Jim Louvau — makes for a hell of a hello. The group’s “Jet Engine” is lean but ruthlessly efficient, a steady machine clank and Patrick’s wobble-heavy keyboard tones pushing air around Louvau’s steely-eyed whispers and incensed screams. Baring teeth and booming synth-bass aggression, it’s sure to kill on the dance floor. Avatar Crying Fire Fire and water have been elemental to the latest round of Avatar tracks, from the seafaring “Captain Goat” to the burnt timber that surrounded the band in the video for Don’t Go in the Forest’s title track. New standalone single “Crying Fire” — which was recorded during those same album sessions — is a force of nature that manages to sit between those poles. Driven by tuneful Eighties-style pop-metal arpeggiation, the song has vocalist Johannes Eckerström fever-dream crooning of a forest nap where branches cover his “secret, naked skin.” At first, he’s met with a refreshing morning mist. By song’s end, everything’s covered in a downpour of the sun’s “crying fire.” A passionate trad-metal anthem from the Swedish vets. Converge I Won t Let You Go Hum of Hurt, Converge’s second album of the year, is arguably a more brooding and stretched-out experience than the panicked, tempo-pushing hardcore assaults of Love Is Not Enough. And yet, it still showcases frantic pieces like mid-album wrecker “I Won’t Let You Go,” a damned chaotic yet oddly danceable entry in Converge’s canon. The beats initially shift and twist like a metallic samba before Ben Koller goes beast mode on a Red Bull-charged blitz. Guitars and bass grind through dissonant staccato dynamism. Jacob Bannon howls bleakly of “living in fear of vulnerability,” yet strives for connection. Like many Converge songs before it, it’s delivered with an urgency that ll to grab you at your core. Evanescence Beautiful Lie “I am the power.” Evanescence’s Sanctuary album starts off strong with an ominously-toned, self-empowerment anthem that finds Amy Lee’s lyrical protagonist reclaiming agency (“I don’t belong to you”) and moving on from a time-and-patience-testing emotional battleground (“Baby, this is your war, but it’s killing the both of us”). Lee’s vibrato ebbs and flow from measured melodizing to something monolithic, and comes supported by crow-black nu-hooks, slap-crazed bass playing and more. Fuming Mouth A Blaze of Nihilism A welcomed return with a wild twist, “A Blaze of Nihilism” is the first song from Fuming Mouth to feature their latest drummer, former Slipknot and Suicidal Tendencies skinsman Jay Weinberg. He brings a brutal wallop to the track, but the rest of the New England heavymakes go for broke, too. Together, they torch the intro with earth-scorching intensity before locking into grave-sodden death grooves and an uncouth, out-of-pocket solo from vocalist-guitarist Mark Whelan. It only gets weirder when they close things out with a creeped-out nursery rhyme. Fuming Mouth’s latest heater is meant to be listened to at top volume. The ringing in your ears will be worth it. Mastodon Your Ghost Again The latest Mastodon single may well be their heaviest yet, because it’s the first piece of new music to be released by the iconic metal band since founding guitarist Brent Hinds’ tragic 2025 death. The surviving members grieve in-song through lyrics about how the “world went black,” as well as lines that vocalist-drummer Brann Dailor has suggested are somewhat about sensing their fallen brother-in-arms’ presence in the recording studio with them. Sonically, Mastodon s reflective path forward begins with sludge-fisted riffery that harkens back to the Remission days, before delivering a wistful, whimsical strain of heavy prog. In all, it s a perfectly bittersweet way to open the band s next chapter.

Pussy Riot, Evanescence, DevilDriver and more feature in this week's best new metal song round-up

Metal News: Avatar Premiere Standalone Single 'Crying Fire'

Avatar have announced a headlining European/UK tour. Neckbreakker will serve as support.The general sale will launch on May 26Dates are listed below:11/20 Wolverhampton, UK @ KK's Steelmill11/21 Southampton, UK @ O2...

Avatar are thrilled to announce a headline tour across Europe in late 2026. The Danish death metal band Neckbreakker will serves as support on all dates.

Forestry tour.

Following from an extremely successful 2025 and a very busy 2026, Finnish rock outfit THE RASMUS has announced an extensive headline European tour in 2027, with SKARLETT RIOT as special guest on all the U.K. shows. With a global touring experience spanning decades, the 23-date tour will allow the ba...

Following a monumental summer that sees AVATAR supporting METALLICA on their global juggernaut and lighting up some of Europe's most iconic festival stages before heading Down Under to Australia, the Swedish theatrical metal titans are ready to end the year on their own terms. AVATAR are thrilled to...

Our photographer Jess DeSimone captured some exclusive photos for Metal Injection at the Avatar show in Philadelphia.

Metallica launched their first concert of 2026 in Greece over the weekend, treating fans at Athens’ Olympic Stadium to a master-class in thrash. The Saturday (May 9th) performance was preceded by monster opening sets from Gojira and Knocked Loose, and then ‘Tallica took over with a 16-song set stretchin’ as far back as Kill ‘Em All’s “Seek Destroy” and running up to 72 Seasons’ “Lux Aeterna.” Notably, the Athens show was a one-night only affair, rather than played as part of their “No Repeat Weekend” concert staging format. All the same, Metallica brought out the big guns throughout, from “Creeping Death” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” to “Master of Puppets” and “One,” to “Sad but True” and the night-closing “Enter Sandman.” Mid-show, bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett went off-script with one of their “doodles”, working themselves through a playful version of Zorba the Greek’s “Zorba s Dance” before attempting Grecian rock outfit Trypes “Den Choras Pouthena.” You’ll find fan-shot footage from the night up above and down below, where you’ll likewise find the setlist details in full (per setlist.fm). Metallica’s European tour continues Wednesday (May 13th) at Bucharest, Romania’s Arena Națională, which will also be with Gojira and Knocked Loose. Their spring run of “M72 World Tour” dates also include shows with Pantera and Avatar. Later in the year, Metallica start staging shows at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, which continue into 2027. You’ll find all show details here. Metallica setlist 5/9/26:Creeping DeathFor Whom the Bell TollsMoth Into FlameKing NothingLux ÆternaThe UnforgivenFuelKirk and Rob Doodle ( Zorba s Dance and Trypes Den Choras Pouthena )Fade to BlackWherever I May RoamNothing Else MattersSad but TrueOneSeek DestroyMaster of PuppetsEnter Sandman