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A brand new band called The Velvet Sundown is being accused of being completely AI-generated. The band has over 300K monthly listeners and just released their first two albums this month (with a third album releasing next month). As pointed out in a Reddit post, “There's not a shred of evidence on the internet that this band has ever existed" All the “band photos” look AI, the bio sounds like it was written by ChatGPT (with a fake quote from Billboard), the album art that looks like slop, and the title of the top track “Dust on the Wind” sounds oddly close to the Kansas hit. Deezer has also labeled the tracks as possibly being created using artificial intelligence. The band’s music has been added to what appear to be botted playlists which is gaining them so many streams and consequently making them show up on people’s “Discover Weekly” playlists. It’s POSSIBLE there are real people making this music and this is all a marketing stunt/aesthetic choice, but what do you think? I hate to even use this band’s music in the post and contribute to the possible sham, but have a listen. #rock

My Chemical Romance kicked off their North American tour with a sold-out show in Seattle. They played ‘The Black Parade’ in full and then some other classics during the encore. According to SetlistFM, this is the band’s longest concert to date. We also now know what My Chemical Romance was teasing with their cryptic “dagger” post last weeks. It ended up being a new outro with new lyrics for their song “Mama” Setlist 1. The End. 2. Dead! 3. This Is How I Disappear 4. The Sharpest Lives 5. Welcome To The Black Parade 6. I Don’t Love You 7. House Of Wolves 8. Cancer (with Kayleigh Goldsworthy – violin arrangement) 9. Mama (with Kayleigh Goldsworthy and a guest opera singer – with new Dagger outro) 10. Sleep (with extended new intro) 11. Teenagers 12. Disenchanted 13. Famous Last Words 14. The End. (reprise; with extended outro) 15. Blood (Perriot onstage) ENCORE: 16. (Unknown) (Instrumental by Clarice Jensen on cello; includes snippets of An Offering) 17. I’m Not Okay (I Promise) 18. Our Lady Of Sorrows 19. The Ghost Of You 20. Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) 21. Give ’Em Hell, Kid 22. Planetary (GO!) 23. Heaven Help Us 24. Bury Me In Black 25. Vampires Will Never Hurt You 26. Helena #mychemicalromance #mcr #emo #poppunk

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s farewell show will be happening tomorrow and some of the artists got together for a group photo! How many can you name? The set times have also been shared by Disturbed's David Draiman. Photo: Ross Halfin #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #rock #metal

What did you think of Asking Alexandria at Warped Tour #rock #metal #metalcore #emo

Some of the greatest to ever do it, The Starting Line has announced their first new album in 18 years called ‘Eternal Youth,’ out on September 26th. Along with the announcement, the band released a music video for the lead single “Sense of Humor.” In a post, the band said: “As fate would have it, dreams do come true when you are young at heart. With great pleasure, we offer our new song, Sense Of Humor, from our first album in 18 years, Eternal Youth (09/26/25). “The album will be released by OURSELVES, INDEPENDENTLY via our new imprint Lineage Recordings. Never stepped on by any music industry non-musician. Direct from the horse's mouth. May this record serve as our most PURE form of expression yet. If you are reading this you likely have some background on our career-long saga in and out of labels, and the significance of our now independent ownership. It's a confident victory in longevity and loyalty, as well as our finest sonic moments to date. It means the world to still be here to tell the tale. Don't ever lose your sense of humor. Defy time, tap into eternal youth.” #poppunk #emo #alternative #rock

Metallica was not a big fan of the Department of Defense using “Enter Sandman” for a video promoting the department’s drone capabilities. The band sent the DoD a copyright notice and the department released a statement after uploading a new version without ‘Tallica. “This afternoon, representatives from X reached out to DoD regarding a video posted to our social media page and asked that the video be removed due to a copyright issue with the song ‘Enter Sandman’ by Metallica. The video has been taken down, corrected, and re-uploaded to our page,” a Pentagon spokesman said in a statement on Friday. #metallica #rock #metal #metalhead

Kelly Osbourne has spoken out for the first time since her father Ozzy passed away earlier this week. On her IG Story, Kelly quoted Black Sabbath's 1972 ballad "Changes." A song that she re-recorded with Ozzy as a duet in 2003. In the heartbreaking post she wrote: "I feel unhappy I am so sad. I lost the best friend I ever had 💔” #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #rock #metal

Think he was just messing with the band? #greenday #poppunk #emo #rock Vid by chellestagram

What’s going on here? #rock #metal #metalcore #metalhead

Sleep Token just played their first show of 2025 at Rock im Park in Germany. Check out the full set list of songs they played which included a few live debuts. Setlist: Look to Windward (live debut) The Offering Vore Emergence (live debut) Alkaline Hypnosis Aqua Regia Rain (extended keyboard intro) Caramel (live debut) The Summoning Granite The Love You Want Higher Damocles (live debut) Thread the Needle Take Me Back to Eden Photo: icyandrewcat on X #sleeptoken #rock #metal #metalcore

Former I Prevail vocalist Brian Burkheiser posted on his Story about the recent split with the band saying “there is no beef” with his ex-bandmates, but they did have a “falling out.” Regardless, Brian says he loves “every single member of the I Prevail crew” and encouraged fans to go sell out I Prevail’s current ‘Summer of Loud’ tour. #rock #metal #metalcore #emo

After the viral performance at Black Sabbath’s ‘Back To The Beginning’ concert and just days before Ozzy Osbourne passed away, Yungblud officially released his cover of “Changes” with all proceeds being donated to Acorn’s, Cure Parkinson’s and Birmingham children’s hospital. After his passing, Yungblud shared a heartfelt tribute to Ozzy who he says was like a father figure to him. “I didn’t think you would leave so soon the last time we met you were so full of life and your laugh filled up the room. But as it is written with legends, they seem to know the things that we don’t. I will never forget you - you will be in every single note I sing and with me every single time I walk on stage. Your cross around my neck is the most precious thing I own. You asked me once if there was anything you could do for me and as I said then and as I will say now for all of us the music was enough. You took us on your adventure - an adventure that started it all. I am truly heartbroken. You were the greatest of all time.” #ozzyosbourne #yungblud #rock #metal

The band PRESIDENT made their live debut at Download Festival 👀 The band played their two singles that are currently released “In The Name of The Father” and “Fearless,” and played three other unknown, unreleased songs. #rock #metal #metalcore

I can’t even believe this. Just weeks after playing his farewell show, Ozzy Osbourned has passed away at the age of 76. In a statement to The Guardian, the Osbourne family said: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time.” No cause of death was given, though Osbourne had experienced various forms of ill health in recent years. #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #rock #metal

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's ‘Back to the Beginning’ farewell concert is going to be one of the biggest events of our lifetime and almost every metalhead would give up their favorite battle vest to go, but tickets are sold-out. Luckily, the show will be livestreamed. Tickets are $29.99 and will allow you to watch the concert live and then have a replay on demand for 48 hours. When the ‘Back To The Beginning’ concert was announced, they said that proceeds would be donated to various charities, so we can only assume that will be the case with the livestream profits. Sharon Osbourne commented, "We had such an overwhelming demand from fans from around the globe, who couldn’t get tickets to the show, and they took to social media, pleading with us to broadcast a livestream of the show. Being this is such a historic event, we just couldn’t let them down.” #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #rock #metal #metallica

In a recent interview with Consequence, Ghost frontman Tobias Forge is calling BS on Gene Simmons’ claims that “rock is dead.” “Sleep Token or Måneskin or Greta Van Fleet are all new bands,” says Forge. “I think they prove that you can absolutely go places. Forge also offered some key advice for new artists: “I’m gonna say this loosely now within brackets because I understand that we’re just a Mercyful Fate/Blue Öyster Cult/Alice Cooper wannabe band, but you need to do something new,” he says. “Don’t look at your one idol and say, ‘I wanna be like him. I want to be like her. I want my band to sound exactly like that band.’ That’s most likely not gonna get you anywhere.” Ghost photos: Katja Ogrin #thebandghost #sleeptoken #rock #metal

Is this really the singer of President? #rock #metal #metalcore #sleeptoken

Bonnaroo 2025 had to cancel after day 1 #rock #metal #alternative #pop

Did you watch Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s final show? #rock #metal #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #metallica

At Inkcarceration, Three Days Grace shared some love for Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington on the anniversary of his passing. Frontman Adam Gontier dedicated the song “I Hate Everything About You” saying: “When we released this song, it didn’t go to number 1 because there was a band we could not knock out of that position. You wanna know who that was? It was Linkin Park with the song ‘Numb.’ So in honor of Chester and Linkin Park, I wanna dedicate the song to him. We know he’s listening and I know he’d get a kick out of this so, let’s everyone sing this as loud as we can.” #rock #metal #numetal #linkinpark #chesterbennington #threedaysgrace