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Zak Stevens' new Archon Angel album puts Savatage's melodic metal legacy back in the spotlight, while touring shakeups at Judas Priest and Megadeth, fresh Nevermore footage, and metal's latest mainstream crossover moments all ripple into Florida's sprawling scene.
Obituary bassist Terry Butler's teaser about a potential new album puts Florida's death metal lineage back in the spotlight, while Alissa White-Gluz's candid thoughts on mortality and Tobias Forge's death metal past underline just how much the genre's Florida roots still shape heavy music today.
From Yngwie Malmsteen's near-miss with David Lee Roth to Sleeping With Sirens landing Sonic Temple 2027, this week's metal news keeps circling back to Florida's deep and often underappreciated influence on heavy music.
Marilyn Manson's Fort Lauderdale origins resurface amid a new album review, while Castle Rat and Dregen reignite interest in classic heavy metal theatrics — a perfect excuse to spotlight Florida's underappreciated NWOTHM underground and the scene's ongoing reckoning with accountability.
Chained Saint's national thrash-essentials feature puts a spotlight on Florida's underrated heavy metal underground, while Hydra Head Records gets a book deal, Dillinger Escape Plan's 1998 split finally hits vinyl, and the hardcore community rallies around Sick of It All's Rich Cipriano.
Death Angel's Dennis Pepa reveals a stage 4 cancer diagnosis as the extreme metal community rallies, while Florida thrash and death metal acts like Ares and Gnosis carry the torch amid a week of reunion tours, a Hydra Head Records book, and new hardcore releases.
Florida metalcore/nu-metal act Nevertel lands a support slot on From Ashes to New's 2027 tour, plus this week's legacy rock package tours, vocal-health scares, and orchestral extreme metal news, viewed through a Florida lens.
Florida Metal Index's data shows new-band formation peaked at 35 in 2021 before dropping to 13 in 2025 and 7 in 2026 — but that recent decline is likely a data-lag artifact, not a shrinking scene, with Death Metal still accounting for 120 of the index's 550 bands.
Amon Amarth bassist Ted Lundström's 'slow but steady' philosophy echoes the patient grind that built Florida's death metal legacy, while Turnstile's SNL moment, Rock For People's 2027 lineup, and a Type O Negative TikTok resurgence all point to the same lesson for the state's underserved NWOTHM underground.
Atlas drops a new single and video for 'Bittersleep,' and it's the perfect excuse to finally spotlight Florida's underrated heavy metal and NWOTHM underground alongside this week's doom, slam, hardcore, and legacy-act news.
From Pete Sandoval's exit out of I Am Morbid to Metallica's Sphere debut and Motley Crue's Diamond status, this week's metal business headlines say a lot about where the industry is heading — and what that means for Florida's working bands.
Venom's Cronos has died at 63, New Found Glory played their first show since losing Chad Gilbert with his guitar on display, and a wave of legacy-act news gives Florida's underserved heavy metal and NWOTHM scene a reason to step into the spotlight.
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