Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast

David Lee Roth and Alex Van Halen have appeared together in public for the first time in years, sitting alongside muralist Robert Vargas at a TEDxFargo event about why great art requires risk. Roth called it "a step towards world peace"; Alex said the most important thing in art is to learn the basics and then break all the rules. It lands months after Alex told a Brazilian magazine that Sammy Hagar — who sang on four consecutive Van Halen number ones — is "a complete idiot," and after leaving him out of his memoir entirely.

Also on this episode: Slaughter To Prevail's Alex Terrible issues a detailed new statement denying the Nazism allegations that have followed his career, addressing his since-covered Black Sun tattoo and saying his own interpretation of a symbol "doesn't erase its history or what it represents to other people." And As I Lay Dying debut "Polarized" and "Retribution" — deliberately the two extremes of their ninth album, with twelve songs recorded, ten making the cut, and fans helping decide which two get dropped.

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Tony Iommi has told Classic Rock that producer Andrew Watt — the man behind Ozzy Osbourne's final two solo albums — offered to record one more Black Sabbath album with the original lineup, Bill Ward included, and that he turned it down. Iommi said Watt was "a bit too excited" and didn't understand what working with the original band was like, adding that having already been through the 13 sessions with Rick Rubin he didn't want to go straight into another record.

Also on this episode: Nicko McBrain tells Metal Hammer he'd be "delighted" to drum on Iron Maiden's next album, three years after the mini-stroke that paralysed his left side and forced him to quietly rewrite the intro to "The Trooper" mid-tour. And Slaughter To Prevail's Alex Terrible writes several hundred words defending his right to hit back at online critics, says he understands Ronnie Radke better than most people, then deletes the whole thing within hours.

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Miss May I frontman Levi Benton joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast to talk about the band's eighth album No Place For Me, out October 2 via Solid State Records — a record he's described as everything he's felt for a long time but never had the words for. We get into where it came from, the decision to release five singles from a ten-track album, the entirely DIY video for "Death Threat," and nineteen years fronting a band from Troy, Ohio that outlasted most of the scene it came from. Plus the Perpetual Iron tour with Born of Osiris.

Also on the episode: Jake Diab of Autumn Kings on Epiphanies, out September 18 via Hopeless Records — their first label album after nine years fully independent. Jake talks about what Hopeless changed and what he refused to let them change, building a record around three songs that had already charted, getting Howard Jones on "yOunG BLoOds," meeting his bandmate at a grocery store in LaSalle, playing for US troops across Japan, South Korea and Guam, and what release day looks like when it lands mid-tour with Black Veil Brides.

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Rolling Stone has published an excerpt from Dave Mustaine's memoir In My Darkest Hour in which he writes that David Ellefson's time in Megadeth "was likely near" its end even before the 2021 leaked-video scandal that got him fired — reflecting on their 2004 lawsuit, Ellefson's 2010 return as a salaried player rather than a creative partner, and a friendship he says was built on shared addiction. For the record: the person Ellefson was involved with was nineteen, the grooming allegations made online were false, and Ellefson reported the unauthorised distribution of the footage to police himself.

Also on this episode: Suicide Silence announce their new album Graceless for November 20 via Century Media, produced by Austin Coupe and mixed by Hunter Young, arriving mid-way through a twenty-eight-date North American tour with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia — with founding guitarist Chris Garza back in the band. And the estate of the late Brent Hinds has filed a lawsuit against Mastodon in Fulton County, alleging his ownership stake in the band was never properly bought out, that an $80,000 cheque came with no accounting behind it, and that his likeness was used on the artwork and promotion for Marrow Deep after his death.

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Soundgarden reunited at halftime of the Seahawks–Patriots game at Lumen Field with Taylor Momsen on vocals and Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on guitar, playing a medley including "Outshined" and "Spoonman" — and NBC aired little to none of it, sending fans straight to social media. Their final album featuring Chris Cornell's last recordings is currently in post-production.

Also on this episode: AC/DC's September 16 show at Toronto's Rogers Stadium has been cancelled outright after a storm the venue's own meteorologist called a hundred-year event, with damaged sections needing to be removed and rebuilt before next summer. And AEW paid a tearful tribute to Andy Williams on Dynamite, with announcer Excalibur quoting Every Time I Die lyrics on air, a ten-bell salute, a full tribute planned for Saturday's Collision, and a public celebration of his life announced for September 27 in Buffalo.

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Jim Root has confirmed Slipknot are tracking their eighth studio album — the first without Sid Wilson, the first with Eloy Casagrande, and the first with no record label since 1998. Producer Matt Wallace is behind the board and the band went in with around fifty song ideas.

Also on this episode: King Diamond breaks his silence on splitting with Andy La Rocque after forty years, explains why Gus G is replacing him, and reveals he wrote seventy percent of the band's music himself. And As I Lay Dying finish their ninth album with twelve songs recorded and only ten making the cut — so they're letting fans vote on which two get dropped.

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Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Live Nation tease "The Great NOLA Trendkill" at New Orleans' Lakefront Arena, with a rumored lineup including Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosion Of Conformity, Eyehategod, Power Trip and Pig Destroyer. Gene Simmons speaks at length with Michael Moynihan about Ace Frehley's death, his influence on a generation of guitar players, the empty chair at the Kennedy Center Honors, and his current relationship with Peter Criss. And Enjoy Wrestling co-owner Kurt Hackimer issues a full statement to KDKA on what happened to Andy Williams at Saturday's event in Pennsylvania.

Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes.

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Friday, September 4, 2026. 70000 Tons Of Metal reveals the first thirty bands for its January 2027 sailing — Exodus, Arch Enemy, HammerFall, Moonspell, Obscura and more — with public tickets going on sale Monday and only 3,000 spots available. Static-X, Tony Campos and frontman Edsel Dope file a lawsuit against filmmaker Matt Zane alleging copyright infringement, false light and more, seeking damages in excess of $1 million. And Wage War announce their new album Landfall for October 9 via Fearless, premiering the title track.

Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes.

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Thursday, September 3, 2026. Iron Maiden bring their Eddie's Dive Bar meetups to the United States for the first time — ten dates alongside the Run For Your Lives leg opening Saturday in New Jersey, free and open to the public, pouring the new Trooper West Coast IPA brewed with Lagunitas. Scorpions postpone their Planet Hollywood residency by a full year, citing unforeseen circumstances, with new dates in September 2027. And Carcass reschedule their Australia, New Zealand, China and India dates after drummer Dan Wilding is faced with a family emergency, while urging fans to still attend Bangalore Open Air.

Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes.

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Wednesday, September 2, 2026. Alex Van Halen receives the Netherlands' highest civilian knighthood in Nijmegen, the city he and Eddie left as children in 1962. Stryper's Michael Sweet explains why he'd never join King Diamond's band but would tour with Mercyful Fate in a heartbeat, and tells the story of meeting Kim Petersen backstage in Mexico. And AJ Rebollo publicly corrects his own account of leaving Bad Wolves, confirming Dolly Parton's team blessed the "Jolene" cover and that founder John Boecklin approved the release.

Scott Penfold breaks it all down in under five minutes.

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