Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast

Slipknot fans are pushing back on Marilyn Manson's spot on the 2027 stadium tour — six dates including Wembley — with some vowing to skip his shows. Manson denies all allegations against him, and the LA DA closed a four-year investigation without charges. Neither band has responded. The Take: look at where Manson is on this tour, and where he isn't.

Also: Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante tell Eddie Trunk they're not retiring despite an album called Cursum Perficio ("I finish the journey") — "You built the store. Why close it?" And ex-Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera have renamed Angst Fabrik as Machines Of Hate.

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Slipknot's Jim Root says the new album is "gonna hurt some feelings" — no repeat of Iowa or the self-titled, and when a fan begged for "heavy, not Stone Sour," Root replied "Agreed." Tracked live with Eloy Casagrande, all analogue, Matt Wallace producing.

Also, a Loaded Radio exclusive: Kenny Hickey tells Scott the unreleased Type O Negative song from the October Rust sessions is called "Prometheus," and the live album lands in Q1 2027. And North Tonawanda is building a statue and bench for Every Time I Die's Andy Williams, who died this month at 48.

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Nirvana accepted the MTV Video Vanguard Award, and Krist Novoselic used the moment to call Kurt Cobain "one of one." Dave Grohl, Krist and Pat Smear took the stage with no performance, just a montage and a speech — the first rock band to receive the award since Duran Duran in 2003, in the same year MTV dropped its rock category.

Also: Korn's Fieldy and Brian "Head" Welch shared a stage for the first time since 2019, playing "Sabotage" with P.O.D. and Lacey Sturm at The Whosoevers' new Boise HQ. And GWAR have confirmed the death of co-founder Chuck Varga, The Sexecutioner, after a fight with cancer.

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Knocked Loose have quietly become the single biggest donor to Jamie Ulshoffer, the woman left paralysed when a man fell from a tree onto her during the band's Louder Than Life set. No statement, no press release — just $8,000. Scott Penfold on who actually ends up carrying this.

Also: Jamey Jasta on the one sentence James Hetfield gave him backstage in 2008 that got him sober. And Ill Niño's Dave Chavarri and Laz Pina have filed against former guitarist Marc Rizzo in a Dallas court — allegations at this stage, unruled on, and Rizzo has not publicly responded.

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Bullet For My Valentine have announced their eighth album, 'Social Apocalypse', out 19 March 2027 on Spinefarm, with Will Ramos of Lorna Shore and Chrissy Costanza of Against The Current guesting. Scott Penfold on what the Ramos feature really means.

Also: King Diamond reissues 'Halloween' as a picture disc on 23 October. And Louisa Livingstone, the woman on Black Sabbath's 1970 debut cover and unidentified for fifty years, has released a rock opera about Alice in Wonderland falling for an AI chatbot, with a sharper take on AI than most of this scene.

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Rose Tattoo frontman Angry Anderson has died at 79, weeks after suffering a heart attack during the band's European farewell tour. Scott Penfold looks back at fifty years, eight albums and the song Guns N' Roses made famous, plus Slash's tribute to his friend.

Also: the campaign to build a Neil Peart memorial in St. Catharines, Ontario has hit $1 million, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson handing over a cheque for $785,000. Two bronze sculptures are going into Lakeside Park, the place that gave Peart a song title, with an opening planned for late 2027. And Maria Brink has confirmed a solo project called Maria Brink's Coven, landing between In This Moment's new album 'Witch' and the band's next record. In This Moment is not going anywhere.

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Slipknot have plastered cryptic posters across ten cities in the Americas, pointing to a site that spits out the numbers 9 and 28. Scott Penfold breaks down what's coming, why 'Arsenal' has split the fanbase, and why the tour will be judged on the first night this lineup plays it live.

TMZ reports that Axl Rose is mentoring Carrie Underwood on a rock project. Neither has confirmed it, but four years of shared stages, from Stagecoach to Atlanta, make it easy to believe. Plus, Brent Hinds' estate has put out a new statement on its lawsuit against Mastodon, covering an $80,000 buyout he never signed and his face on the Marrow Deep cover. Mastodon deny the allegations and call the suit meritless.

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New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has died at the age of 45, following a cancer diagnosis in 2021. The band said he passed peacefully in his sleep on the morning of September 20, with his wife and mother beside him, and described his favourite accomplishment as being a husband and father. He founded New Found Glory at sixteen and made their first album with $300 he'd saved from a movie theatre job.

Also on this episode: DragonForce frontman Marc Hudson steps back from the band's new album and 2026/2027 touring due to ongoing tinnitus, with Herman Li saying protecting his hearing "isn't something we'd ever ask him to compromise on." Marc's former vocal coach Alessio Garavello of Power Quest steps in alongside co-vocalist Alissa White-Gluz. And Matt Sorum reveals Geezer Butler called Lzzy Hale "the best singer I've heard since Tina Turner" — before saying he'd be up for reforming Velvet Revolver with her on lead vocals.

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Emmure frontman Frankie Palmeri says Glenn Danzig's security removed him from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life in Louisville and took his access pass, after he attempted to strike up a conversation while watching Pantera perform. Palmeri responded publicly and did not hold back.

Also on this episode: Pepper Keenan of Corrosion of Conformity and Down confirms he's working on the first solo album of his career — 36 years after joining COC — telling the We Wreck Records podcast he's "pulling out all the stops on this sucker," and revealing he's been saving songs for years waiting until he got older. Buried in the same story: Down will release a new studio album, Volume V, in November — their first full-length in over a decade, landing the same month they headline the Great NOLA Trendkill festival in New Orleans. And Gene Simmons will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the IEBA 2026 Honors & Awards Ceremony on October 6 at The Pinnacle Nashville, from the trade body representing 2,200 talent buyers, promoters and venue executives.

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Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning gets a worldwide theatrical release from October 28, documenting Ozzy Osbourne's final performance at Villa Park on July 5, 2025 — including the original Black Sabbath lineup's first show together in over twenty years, seventeen days before his death. Produced by Mercury Studios and distributed by Trafalgar Releasing, with tickets on sale September 24. Sharon Osbourne on how the show came about: "I asked Ozzy what would really make him happy. And he said the only thing that would make him happy was if he could perform again and say goodbye to his fans."

Also on this episode: Metallica book twelve North American stadiums for 2027 with Limp Bizkit and Avatar — skipping Los Angeles, New York and Chicago entirely in favour of El Paso, Fayetteville, Madison and Salt Lake City, with five of the twelve venues being college football stadiums. And Bullet For My Valentine begin teasing their eighth studio album, tentatively planned for January, which would make it six years since their 2021 self-titled record.

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