North American hard rock band Kissing Kaos unveiled their new single ‘Chaos Inside’, a track from their upcoming debut album set for release with Mighty Music!

At the end of last year, The Offspring was traveling through Europe with special guests Simple Plan on their “Supercharged Worldwide in ’25 tour” and one of our reporters was at the stop at the ING Arena in Brussels, Belgium and was blown away with yet another great show! If you somehow missed them in Belgium, or want to see them again, The Offspring will play at Graspop 2026! So you there!

Agnostic Front unleash the lyric video for “You Say”, a ferocious blast of hardcore defiance from their latest album ‘Echoes In Eternity’, released last year with Reigning Phoenix Music. They start the European leg of the “Echoes In Eternity Tour” with WISDOM IN CHAINS and RAW BRIGADE as support next month, don’t miss out!

Alternative rock outfit Sweet Pill share their new single ‘Slow Burn’ from upcoming album ‘Still There’s A Glow’, set for release in March via Hopeless Records!

2025 was another great year of concert photography for Rachel’s neck of the midwest, having covered bands like Nonpoint (first and last band captured in 2025!), Black Stone Cherry, Asking Alexandria, Ivent Animate, Aurorawave, Ayron Jones, Close Enemies, The Plot In You, VCTMS, What Lies Below, Powerman5000, Northlane, and 2 very special local to her bands, Graveyard Daisies and Never Again!

Finnish gothic outfit Rain Diary shared their new single ‘Naive’ in anticipation of their album ‘Night Church’ to be finally released in March!

Final Gasp release new video single ‘Burials Of Birth’, another track from their upcoming album ‘New Day Symptoms’, set for release next month via Relapse Records!

Hardcore punk trailblazers A Wilhelm Scream are set to release their next album ‘Cheap Heat’ at the end of next month through Creator-Destructor Records and shared their new single ‘Let It Ride’!

Portuguese post-hardcore firestarters Junkbreed dropped a new video for ‘Misantrophe’, a track from their latest album ‘Sick Of The Scene’, released last year via Raging Planet!

Promising heavy metal/hard rock outfit Furies sign to Fireflash Records and release new single and video ‘Cannibale’!