Havok's 2026 Tour Trek, Manson's Album Saga, and the Industry Tremors Florida Metalheads Need to Watch

Tuesday brought a stack of headlines that, on the surface, read like typical national metal news roundup fodder — a thrash tour announcement, an industrial rock veteran's latest chapter, some corporate shakeups in the merch business. But dig past the surface and there's a lot here that speaks directly to what's happening on the ground in the Florida metal scene, from the thrash pits to the doom basements to the hardcore matinees. Let's get into it.