Heavy Metal News & Interviews: The Loaded Radio Podcast

Bullet For My Valentine, King Diamond, Sabbath Cover Model

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 Aga

Angry Anderson Dies, Peart Memorial, Maria Brink Solo

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

Slipknot Tour Tease, Axl And Carrie, Mastodon Lawsuit

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

Chad Gilbert Has Died, And Geezer Butler On Lzzy Hale

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

Danzig Threw Emmure's Singer Off The Stage, New Pepper Keenan Album Coming

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 a

Ozzy's Final Show Is Going To Cinemas, Metallica Book 2027

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, 20

Ellefson Plays Countdown, Zakk Sells BLS, Abbath Scrap 2026

David Ellefson has announced the December leg of his Bass Warrior European tour, and he'll be playing Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction in its entirety across twelve dat

Roth And Alex Van Halen Reunite, Alex Terrible Responds, New As I Lay Dying

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 gr

Iommi Says No To A Sabbath Album, Nicko Says Yes To Maiden,Alex Terrible vs. Online Trolls

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 th

Miss May I's Levi Benton On No Place For Me, Plus Autumn Kings' Jake Diab On Epiphanies

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 Recor

Mustaine On Ellefson, Mastodon Sued, New Suicide Silence

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

NBC Cut Away From Soundgarden, AC/DC Cancel Toronto, AEW Mourns Andy

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 inclu

Slipknot Album 8, King Diamond Splits, As I Lay Dying Vote

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

Pantera Rumored For New Orleans Festival, Gene Simmons On Ace Frehley And Peter Criss, Details Emerge On Andy Williams

Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Live Nation tease "The Great NOLA Trendkill" at New Orleans' Lakefront Arena, with a rumored lineup including Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosio

70000 Tons Announces Half Its 2027 Lineup, Static-X Sue Filmmaker Matt Zane, Wage War Announce Landfall

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 —

Iron Maiden Bring Eddie's Dive Bar To America, Scorpions Postpone Vegas A Full Year, Carcass Reschedule Asia-Pacific Run

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 ope

Alex Van Halen Knighted In The Netherlands, Michael Sweet On King Diamond, AJ Rebollo Corrects His Bad Wolves Exit

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

Rush Add Four More Shows, Epica Book The Royal Albert Hall, Jay Weinberg On Life After Slipknot

Tuesday, September 1, 2026. Rush add four new US arena dates to the Fifty Something tour, with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson explaining they built in recovery time they turn

Bruce Dickinson's Lake Ontario Moment, Sharon Osbourne Defends Marilyn Manson, Zoltan Bathory On Ivan Moody

Monday, August 31, 2026. Bruce Dickinson greets a Toronto crowd by noting Iron Maiden "crossed the Lake Of Ontario" — a pointed nod to the executive order directing the l

Eric Vanlerberghe of I Prevail on Carrying the Band Alone, "Paradise" and What Comes Next

I Prevail frontman Eric Vanlerberghe joins Scott Penfold on the Loaded Radio Podcast. In May 2025, I Prevail lost the clean-vocal half of their identity when Brian Burk