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NETHERWILDS UNLEASH "THE FALL" — THE PEASANT METAL REVOLUTION IS HERE
Photo Credit: Emily Thuro The party's over. Netherwilds have released "The Fall," the fourth single from their debut album 'Peasant Rising,' out October 9 via King Volume Records, and it lands like a fist on a lord's banquet table. Dark, imposing and thick with medieval atmosphere, the track captures the exact moment resignation gives way to resistance. The mud is still everywhere, the jokes still surface, but the fear of the crown is gone — and across the villages, a dangerous idea is spreading: kings and castles are not as permanent as they appear. Worm Chewer himself issued a warning alongside the release: "Every kingdom must fall. Whispered on the lips of my fellow peasants, stamped into the muck of my village — this truth carries us forward for the day when justice finally arrives. Grab a pitchfork my friend, The Fall is coming." "The Fall" caps a rollout that's been building toward revolution one single at a time. June's "Return the Goat" introduced the world to Worm Chewer's misery through a tale of desperate survival, misplaced heroism and one very important goat — the viral clip that turned a TikTok character into a band. July's "Siege Proof Hovel," complete with a shredding mandolin solo from Hole Dweller, taught our hero the hard lesson that no single peasant can overthrow tyranny alone. And last month's "Helm Yeah" gave the downtrodden a night off, trading toil for tankards in an ale-soaked ode to forgetting your troubles. With "The Fall," the hangover clears and the pitchforks come out. Worm Chewer first crawled out of the mud in a series of viral transmissions filmed among the stone ruins of the Irish countryside — caked in dirt, teeth in ruin, muttering about hunger, labor and the men who own the land. What looked at first like absurdist medieval roleplay struck a nerve with millions, its portrait of feudal survival landing uncomfortably close to home. Netherwilds now rides as a full war band: Worm Chewer on vocals and bouzouki, joined by Loamspeaker and Two Spoons on guitars, Viv on bass and Boh on drums. Produced and mixed by Jesse Turnbull (Dear-God, Doflame), 'Peasant Rising' sprawls across 22 tracks of blackened metal, medieval folk, doom and cinematic interludes, following Worm Chewer through mud-soaked villages, dungeons, monsters and drunken escapades as his personal struggle becomes tangled up in a rebellion brewing beyond the castle walls. Nine "Scroll" interludes stitch the saga together, and the record closes — fittingly — with "Return the Goat," bringing the story back to where it all began. And for those ready to join the uprising properly, Metal Edge has secured its own piece of the plunder: an exclusive 'Peasant Rising' LP on Stolen Riches Vinyl, limited to just 100 copies, hitting the streets October 9. Consider it treasure liberated from the king's coffers and pressed for the people — and once these 100 are claimed, they're gone for good. Grab yours, grab a pitchfork, and be ready when the walls come down. NETHERWILDS 'PEASANT RISING' LP (Metal Edge Exclusive – Limited to 100, Stolen Riches Vinyl) — STREET DATE: 10/9/2026
METALLICA ANNOUNCES 2027 NORTH AMERICAN M72 TOUR DATES
Metallica's M72 World Tour keeps rolling. The band has announced 12 additional North American stadium shows for 2027, launching May 8 at BC Place in Vancouver and closing out June 19 at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. Limp Bizkit and Avatar, both veterans of previous M72 legs, return as support for the entire run. SHOP LIMP BIZKIT The 2027 leg breaks from the tour's signature two-night, no-repeat format — this time, Metallica will play single shows in each city. The venues are a deliberately eclectic mix: NFL and CFL stadiums, college football cathedrals like Camp Randall and Razorback Stadium, and the homes of men's and women's soccer clubs, including San Diego's Snapdragon Stadium. What stays the same is the production that has defined M72 since its 2023 launch. The stage sits at mid-field, in the round, with the Snake Pit at its center putting fans inside a full 360-degree view of the show. SHOP METALLICA The routing covers serious ground, threading from the Pacific Northwest through Texas, the Midwest, and the East Coast before circling back west. Highlights include Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and Buffalo's Highmark Stadium. Presales begin Monday, September 21. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday, September 25 at 10 AM local time. Metallica 2027 M72 North American Tour Dates: May 8 — Vancouver, BC — BC PlaceMay 13 — San Diego, CA — Snapdragon StadiumMay 18 — El Paso, TX — Sun Bowl StadiumMay 22 — San Antonio, TX — AlamodomeMay 26 — Fayetteville, AR — Razorback StadiumMay 29 — Kansas City, MO — Arrowhead StadiumJune 2 — Raleigh, NC — Carter-Finley StadiumJune 5 — Indianapolis, IN — Lucas Oil StadiumJune 8 — Buffalo, NY — Highmark StadiumJune 12 — Madison, WI — Camp Randall StadiumJune 15 — Cleveland, OH — Huntington Bank FieldJune 19 — Salt Lake City, UT — Rice-Eccles Stadium
5 BANDS YOU CAN'T MISS AT LOUDER THAN LIFE 2026
5 BANDS YOU CAN'T MISS AT LOUDER THAN LIFE 2026 Louder Than Life returns to Louisville's Highland Festival Grounds September 17–20 with the biggest bill in the festival's history — more than 200 bands across seven stages, headlined by Iron Maiden, My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit, and Tool. With that much noise packed into four days, the schedule conflicts are brutal. These are the five sets we're building our weekend around. (All Photos by Dimitry Mak) IRON MAIDEN Thursday, September 17 — Louder Stage, 8:45 PM Maiden close out Thursday night as part of the Run For Your Lives World Tour, the 50th anniversary trek built entirely from the band's first nine albums — everything from the 1980 self-titled debut through 1992's 'Fear of the Dark.' That means "The Trooper," "Hallowed Be Thy Name," "Powerslave," and two hours of the catalog that built heavy metal's blueprint, delivered with the full theatrical production only Maiden can pull off. Bruce Dickinson still hits the notes. Steve Harris still gallops. Eddie still towers over everything. But a golden-era anniversary tour five decades in carries a certain gravity, and nobody in the Maiden camp is making promises about what comes after this cycle. Stateside festival appearances from the band are rare to begin with — this is one of the only chances American fans will get to see them this run, and there's no telling when, or whether, another one comes around. Bands like this don't exist anymore, and the window to see the originals do it live keeps narrowing. If you've never witnessed "Fear of the Dark" sung back by a festival crowd of thousands, Thursday night is the assignment. Up the Irons while you still can. LOATHE Friday, September 18 — Life Stage, 3:05 PM We have a standing rule at Metal Edge: if Loathe are anywhere near New York, we're in the room. Every time. The Liverpool outfit remain one of the most singular live acts in heavy music, and this year they finally delivered the record fans waited six years for. 'A Stranger to You,' released July 17 via SharpTone, follows 2020's genre-shifting 'I Let It In and It Took Everything' with fourteen tracks that fold psychedelia, synth atmospherics, and soul-jazz collaborators into the band's signature collision of crushing metalcore and shoegaze haze. Lead single "Revenant" — featuring NOWHERE2RUN, the new project from Code Orange's Jami Morgan and Shade Balderose — might be the heaviest thing they've ever recorded, while deep cuts like "Fangs" showcase Erik Bickerstaffe and Kadeem France operating at the peak of their powers. The album is a lock for year-end AOTY conversations, ours included. Their Louder Than Life set lands one day before the A Stranger to You headline tour kicks off with Fleshwater and Prostitute in support, so consider Friday afternoon your preview of a band about to level up. The 3:05 slot is early. Be there anyway. THE WARNING Friday, September 18 — Decibel Stage, 8:15 PM Stateside chances to catch The Warning have been scarce all year. The Monterrey sisters spent 2026 largely overseas and on festival stages abroad, and the just-announced Everything's Falling World Tour keeps American fans waiting even longer — the run opens with a 65,000-cap stadium show at Mexico City's Estadio GNP Seguros in February before hitting Europe, with the U.S. leg holding off until April 2027. That makes this Friday night set one of a precious few opportunities to see the band on American soil before next spring. And the timing could hardly be better. Fifth album 'Everything's Falling,' released in August via Lava/Republic, arrived as single "Kerosene" topped Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, making The Warning the first Mexican band and the first all-female band ever to do it. Dany, Pau, and Ale Villarreal have grown from viral prodigies into one of rock's most explosive live units, and the new material was built for stages exactly this size. They play directly before The Pretty Reckless closes the Decibel Stage, so plant yourself early and stay put. History suggests they'll leave a crater. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Sunday, September 20 — Decibel Stage, 6:55 PM Twenty-six years in, Killswitch Engage remain the standard against which American metalcore measures itself, and they're arriving in Louisville mid-victory-lap. 'This Consequence,' released in early 2025 via Metal Blade, ended a five-plus-year gap after 'Atonement' and promptly delivered one of the biggest songs of the band's career — "I Believe" became their first single to crack the top five of Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. The record finds Jesse Leach at his most lyrically pointed and Adam Dutkiewicz's production as razor-sharp as ever, balancing the soaring choruses that made "My Curse" and "The End of Heartache" generational anthems with some of the nastiest riffing they've committed to tape in years. The band has spent 2026 grinding through headline runs and a Canadian trek with Machine Head, and the live show is airtight right now. Their Sunday evening slot on the Decibel Stage sits inside a murderers' row of a closing day — Underoath, Thrice, Alexisonfire, and Atreyu all share the bill before Tool brings the weekend home. Sunday legs will be tired. KsE's opening breakdown will fix that immediately. CIRCA SURVIVE Saturday, September 19 When Circa Survive's dormant Instagram flickered back to life in February to announce this reunion, the post-hardcore world collectively lost it. The Philadelphia band went on indefinite hiatus in 2022 — a split Anthony Green later admitted felt closer to a breakup — and these September dates mark their first shows in nearly five years. Demand tells the story: the hometown warm-up at Philly's Fillmore sold out within hours, forcing two additional nights just to meet it. Louder Than Life gets the festival exclusive, and the booking around it is a scene reunion in itself — Saturday's undercard stacks Dance Gavin Dance, Chiodos, Thursday, Hail the Sun, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and Emarosa alongside them, essentially a Warped-era fever dream dropped into the middle of a metal festival. Green remains one of the most magnetic frontmen of his generation, equal parts falsetto and chaos, and the 'On Letting Go' and 'Blue Sky Noise' material has lost none of its urgency in the years away. Reunions like this tend to be fragile, beautiful things with no guaranteed second act. Whatever else Saturday holds, this is the set people will be talking about on the drive home.
