Nu Metal News 13 October 2026: Dropout Kings Deadname, NOWHERE2RUN Return, Silent Civilian Tour

Nu Metal News 13 October 2026, welcome to Tuesday. The weekend did what good weekends do and left a pile of things worth playing loud: a video from a band carrying an enormous amount of history on their shoulders, a Code Orange offshoot that keeps turning its live ritual into records, a debut album turning twenty and finally getting the tour it deserves, a festival drip that is about to become a flood, and two nights in Tokyo for a band that has never been in a hurry. Here is what landed.

Dropout Kings Put Deadname On Screen And Book Europe

On Monday Dropout Kings put out the video for “Deadname”, pulled from Yokai on Napalm Records. The Phoenix crew have always worked the seam where rap metal stops being a throwback and starts being a working style, and “Deadname” sits right in it: a low, deliberate verse that leaves space for the words, then a chorus that arrives with the sort of weight the genre was built on. The clip matches the tone, dim and close rather than flashy.

Vocalist Black Cat Bill framed it simply. “Some songs you sing, others you let the spirits speak through you,” he said, before adding, “This is Deadname.” That reads as more than a line when you know what Yokai is. It is the last record the band made with co-founding frontman Adam Ramey, and his fingerprints are all over the way these songs are built. Releasing a video from it now is an act of ownership, a band standing behind work they are proud of and asking people to hear it properly.

The video arrived with dates attached. Dropout Kings head to Europe and the UK in April 2027 with GHØSTKID, Seven Blood and Stain The Canvas, seventeen shows running from Zurich on 4 April to Nijmegen on 25 April, taking in Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Krakow, Budapest, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, Oberhausen, Hamburg, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Paris and Zulte along the way. That is a proper club run rather than a handful of festival drop-ins, and it lands in a spring that is filling up fast after the European routing we covered in last Wednesday’s column.

NOWHERE2RUN Open Bloodrave II With Freaksh*t

NOWHERE2RUN is the project Code Orange’s Jami Morgan and Eric “Shade” Balderose built out of their Bloodrave events, and it has turned into one of the more interesting things either of them has done away from the main band. The second EP, BLOODRAVE II, arrived on Friday alongside a video for “FREAKSH*T”, and the pairing makes sense: this is music designed for a dark room and a sound system, industrial and club-facing, with the hardcore instincts showing through in how hard the drops hit.

Live, the project fills out. The touring lineup pulls in Code Orange’s Dominic Landolina alongside Destroy Boys’ Natascha Beck and Viciouswishes, which is a lot of personality on one stage. They are out now, with Detroit on 16 October and Chicago on 17 October this week, then Toronto on 23 October, Pittsburgh on Halloween, Brooklyn on 21 November and Los Angeles on 12 December. The first BLOODRAVE EP turned up as a surprise in November 2025, so a sequel barely a year later suggests this is a real outlet rather than a one-off.

Silent Civilian Take Rebirth Of The Temple Back On The Road

We wrote about the twentieth anniversary of Rebirth Of The Temple in Saturday’s edition, and the obvious next question has now been answered. Jonny Santos is taking the record out properly. The first leg runs fourteen dates through December, opening at Dante’s in Portland on 1 December and closing at 89th Street in Oklahoma City on 20 December, with San Francisco, The Whisky in Los Angeles, Bisbee, Denver, Lincoln, Tulsa, Lubbock, Houston, Haltom City, Austin, San Antonio and Pflugerville in between.

Two things make this more than a nostalgia lap. The first is that Santos has said plainly this is only the opening leg and the plan is to reach the rest of the country, so a December run through the west and Texas is a down payment rather than the whole thing. The second is the drum stool: Chris Mora, who played on the debut, has spent the years since as CC Coma in Black Veil Brides. Getting the person who actually tracked those parts back behind them is the difference between an anniversary show and an anniversary.

The Austin date on 17 December is already listed by Come And Take It Productions as an all ages show at Come And Take It Live with more bands to be announced, which is a good sign for anyone hoping the support slots go to local heavy bands rather than a package. Rebirth Of The Temple came out in 2006 into a scene that was already being told nu metal was finished, and it has outlasted most of the records that were supposed to bury it.

Sonic Temple Adds Emmure, PeelingFlesh And Showing Teeth

Sonic Temple is doing the slow reveal again, and on Monday it added three names to the one we covered last Thursday. A Perfect Circle were first out as a headliner. Now Emmure, PeelingFlesh and Showing Teeth are confirmed, which tells you the festival is not planning to lean entirely on legacy bookings. The full lineup is promised next week.

That trio is a genuinely good signal. Emmure have spent a decade and a half being one of the most argued about bands in heavy music and have outlasted nearly everyone who argued, and they remain a ferocious live proposition. PeelingFlesh and Showing Teeth both come from the younger, nastier end of things, where the slam and hardcore crossover has been producing some of the most exciting sets on any given bill. Putting all three on a stadium bill is a festival backing bands rather than hedging.

One thing to flag before you book anything: the festival’s own site is not currently consistent with itself. The page and its title both give 13 to 16 May 2027 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, while the page’s own description metadata says 14 to 17 May. The visible dates are the ones to work from, but if you are booking flights it is worth waiting for next week’s lineup announcement to settle it. If you are already planning the trip, our festival outfit guide covers the four day problem.

Quicksand Book Two Nights In Tokyo

Quicksand announced two shows in Japan on Monday, both at Shibuya Dive in Tokyo, on 5 and 6 February 2027. Tickets are on sale. The pair sit directly before the band’s Australia and New Zealand run with Whores, which turns what could have been a long flight for one show into a sensible southern hemisphere loop.

Two nights in the same room is a specific choice and usually a good one. It lets a band with a catalogue as deep as Slip, Manic Compression, Interiors and Distant Populations change the set rather than repeat it, and it gives people who missed the first night a second chance in a city they may have travelled to reach. Quicksand have never been a band in a rush, and the post-hardcore blueprint they laid down in the early nineties is audible in a huge amount of what this site covers every day.

It is also part of a pattern worth noticing. Between this, the Australian routing in Sunday’s column and the European runs piling up for spring, heavy bands are treating long haul touring as normal again rather than as an occasional reward. For anyone who spent years watching bands announce a tour and then stop at the coast, that is a genuinely good development.

Tyler Bates And HEALTH Head Into The Outer Dark

Tyler Bates and HEALTH released “Outer Dark” on Friday, the first release on Gravel And Echo Recordings, the label Bates has started. The two have history, and this is the sound of that history being pushed somewhere colder: HEALTH’s abrasive electronics and buried melodies set against the kind of widescreen, cinematic low end Bates built his name on scoring. It works on atmosphere rather than an immediate hook, which is a choice, and it rewards headphones.

Bates put it in plain terms. “Outer Dark feels to me like the natural evolution of our work together, while taking it somewhere entirely new,” he said. For a composer whose credits run from Atomic Blonde through Dark Nights: Death Metal, starting a label and putting a collaboration out as its first release says something about wanting a space where the song is the point rather than the picture it is attached to.

HEALTH have quietly become one of the most reliable collaborators in heavy music, and it keeps paying off for everyone involved. The crossover between scoring work and heavy records is not a novelty any more either, as the station full of metal in Grand Theft Auto VI made obvious last week. The track is streaming now.

Featured Band: Roman Candle Light Up The West Coast

Roman Candle are from Las Vegas, built around Piper Ferrari on vocals and Jonas Vece on guitar, and they play screamo the way it was meant to be played: fast, raw at the edges, and completely unembarrassed about melody. You can hear Saetia and Poison The Well in the bones of it and Touche Amore in the way the vocals sit right on top of everything, but the band have long since stopped sounding like a list of influences. They sound like a room in Las Vegas at one in the morning.

They announced a west coast run on Monday with Postdrome. It opens at Neck Of The Woods in San Francisco on 4 November, then Holland Project in Reno on the 5th, High Limit in Portland on the 7th, Vera Project in Seattle on the 8th, The Pearl in Salt Lake City on the 10th, Hi-Dive in Denver on the 11th, Linger Lounge in Phoenix on the 13th and Rat King Studios in San Bernardino on the 14th. Postdrome sit out the Denver date, so the rest of the run is the full bill.

The through line is the rooms. Holland Project, Vera Project and Rat King Studios are all-ages, community-run spaces, and routing a tour through them rather than around them is a decision about who gets to be in the room. That is the same instinct that got them named best local band by Las Vegas Weekly in August. Their debut EP Discount Fireworks landed in 2022, and this year’s full length Unadulterated on Sumerian is the sound of a band who worked out exactly what they wanted to be and then went and did it.

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Looking Ahead: A November That Starts Early

The next fortnight does most of the work. NOWHERE2RUN are in Detroit on 16 October and Chicago on 17 October before the Toronto and Pittsburgh dates, and Sonic Temple have promised the full 2027 lineup next week, which is the announcement that will decide a lot of people’s May. After that November opens with Roman Candle and Postdrome crossing the west coast from 4 November, and NOWHERE2RUN land in Brooklyn on 21 November.

December belongs to Silent Civilian, fourteen dates from Portland on the 1st to Oklahoma City on the 20th, with more legs promised for the rest of the country. Then the calendar jumps: Quicksand play Shibuya Dive in Tokyo on 5 and 6 February before heading to Australia and New Zealand, and Dropout Kings open their European run in Zurich on 4 April. If you are the sort of person who books flights around tours, those are the three to put in the diary.

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