This Week in Rock

Ghost have released the official music video for “Lachryma,” the second single from their sixth album, “Skeletá,” which will arrive April 25th. “It opens with more of a riffage. And I guess now comes off as somewhat of a ‘typical’ Ghost mash-up, where it’s heavy on one end and met with a big, bombastic chorus,” Ghost’s Tobias Forge told…

Ex-Butcher Babies vocalist Carla Harvey has released “Sick Ones,” the lead single from her new project The Violent Hour.  The track, co-written by Harvey and her fiancé, Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante, features Mötley Crüe guitarist John 5. “‘Sick Ones’ is a Rock ‘n’ Roll anthem about cutting the toxic people out of your life,” said Harvey. “It was written at a vulnerable time in my life when…

4/6 The Beatles Original Drummer Retires Pete Best (pictured on the far left) announces he is stepping away from public appearances and performances “due to personal circumstances.” He was The Beatles drummer before Ringo Starr. In fact, he was sacked by the band in favor of Ringo, “And at that time, I didn’t think they’d go…

Epica has release its ninth studio album, “Aspiral.” The title, referencing renewal and inspiration, is derived from the eponymous sculpture created in ’65 by Polish sculptor and painter Stanisław Szukalski. “(Producer) Joost Van Den Broek became a little bit like the seventh Epica bandmember,” noted vocalist Simone Simons (pictured above). “And it’s great working with him. Yeah, we were…

Disturbed‘s “I Will Not Break” is #1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart (dated April 12th), giving the band its 13th chart topper. “I Will Not Break,” currently a standalone single, follows the band’s eighth studio album, “Divisive,” which debuted at #1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in December ’22 and has moved 184,000 equivalent…

Looking ahead, Creed has announced the 2026 edition of the Summer Of ’99 & Beyond Cruise, sailing April 17th-21st, from Miami, FL to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas. Creed — comprised of vocalist Scott Stapp, guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips — will perform two pool deck sets on the Norwegian Joy cruise ship, The line-up also include…

Blink-182’s bassist/vocalist Mark Hoppus has released his memoir, “Fahrenheit-182,“ via the Dey Street Books. Co-authored by Dan Ozzi, the book is described as a “memoir that paints a vivid picture of what it was like to come of age in the 1980s as a latchkey kid hooked on Punk Rock, skateboards, and MTV.” Hoppus also writes about the formation…

Turnstile will release its fourth album “Never Enough” on June 6th. It will be the band’s first full-length effort in four years. It’s also Turnstiles first album to not feature founding member and former guitarist Brady Ebert following his ’22 departure, and the first to feature guitarist Meg Mills as an official member, after touring…

 “Missionary Impossible” is the title of Blink-182’s upcoming summer/fall tour.  The trek supports their latest album “One More Time…,” featuring the title track and “Edging.” It was the first album in over a decade with the legendary original trio. The tour will launch in Hollywood, FL on August 28th and will include festival appearances (see below)….