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A Day to Remember: "You’re Welcome"

A Day To Remember's highly anticipated seventh album, "You're Welcome" was announced in August 2019, was expected to be released on November 15th, 2019 on their new label, Fueled by Ramen. But just a week before it dropped the band announced the album would be delayed until 2020. The band has named the album, You’re Welcome, with the help of a fan and McKinnon elaborated to Kerrang on why the album was named that: “Well, I needed a hoodie for a show. It was our first show back from this massive time that we took off. Me and my wife had our first kid, the band was cool, and we pretty much took the whole year off to just be home, so I could be a part of that first year and help out. In the downtime, whenever I could, I’d be writing. So that’s really why we’ve been gone for so long. But for the first show back, I put on this outfit and was like, ‘Oooh, I need a white hoodie with this.’ So I went to the store and bought a white hoodie, and it said in red, ‘You’re Wel...

August Burns Red: Delivering the sentence at #1

Two-time Grammy nominated metalcore band August Burns Red recently released their latest album Guardians on Fearless Records. The album went straight to the top at #1 on the Billboard top 100 Hard Music chart, the Rock Albums chart, and the Vinyl Albums chart. They also claimed #3 on Top Current Album and #4 on Digital Album sales. The band was recently scheduled to go on tour with Killswitch Engage which had to be postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and to be rescheduled at a later date. ABR is also scheduled to play some festivals later this year in Budapest, Ysselsetyn, and Birmingham, AL. No announcements have been made regarding those festival dates. Recently the band found themselves appearing on one of the collectible covers of the Revolver Magazine spring 2020 issue. Inside the magazine vocalist Jake Luhrs digs deep on his past struggles, the importance of mental health, his nonprofit Heartsupport, and more. That issue can be found on shop.revolvermag.com

Parkway Drive back in studio

Parkway Drive are back in the studio to record a new album earlier than expected. The band was recently on themusic's Green Room Podcast the band explained due to recently canceling their Aussie and Europe tour dates they decided to fast track a new album and jump back in the studio. Parkway Drive front man Winston McCall stated they are "very, very early" in the album process. “This process was gonna start next year but we were like, 'Well, if gigs end up getting shifted around this year… we’re just gonna free up that space, so start writing now.' McCall stated, he also stated the process would take time, and for fans not to get too excited. McCall also stated that the album process was going to be further down the line, but due to recent events they're having bad meetings every other week. McCall went on to say “It could be done in a month… but I really doubt it, just because I know that when we write it takes us a long time to get to the point where ...

mewithoutYou "Nature had another plan"

On October 20th, 2019, band "mewithoutYou" announced that they would be disbanding in the year 2020 after making posts on social media. the post read,   "To whom it may concern, We have decided on next year (2020) as our last year as an active band. We nevertheless have many plans in the interim, the details of which are forthcoming. Thank you, mewithoutYou"   Since then they have announced a 14 year anniversary tour for their third studio album Brother, Sister to take place in May and June of 2020 with special guests Slow Mass and Dominic Angelella on select dates.  On April 14th, 2020, the band posted an update regarding the anniversary tour. As well as a post on Instagram with the year 2020 being changed to the year 2021 with the caption "Nature had another plan" with hopes to complete their previous planned farewell tour in the year 2021. The bands statement released on their website can be found below.  " Due to the  COVID-19 pandemic and th...