Nu Metal News 28 September 2026: Slipknot Go Stadium, Evergreen Terrace Bleed American, 156/Silence Book December

Nu Metal News 28 September 2026, and Monday delivered exactly what the posters promised. Slipknot have put nineteen stadium dates on the board for 2027, Evergreen Terrace have picked one of the most loved rock songs of the early 2000s to cover, Spiritbox soundtracked a pay-per-view, and a member of The Acacia Strain quietly dropped ten minutes of doom on Bandcamp. Underneath all of that, 156/Silence landed a December booking that has been a long time coming.

Slipknot Turn A Fortnight Of Posters Into Nineteen Stadiums

The teaser campaign ran for the better part of two weeks. Tribal S posters turned up in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Toronto, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Santiago and London, all of them carrying the same date, and then Wembley Stadium itself joined in on Sunday. We said in Friday and Saturday’s editions that Monday belonged to Slipknot. It did.

The run is called the (sic)est Stadium Tour, and it opens at Wembley Stadium on 3 July, the biggest headline show the band have ever played in the UK. North America follows from 16 July: Nationals Park in Washington DC, Citi Field in Queens, Parc Jean Drapeau in Montreal, Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Soldier Field in Chicago, Hersheypark Stadium, Fenway Park in Boston, FirstBank Stadium in Nashville, Daikin Park in Houston, Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and Chase Field in Phoenix. South America closes it out in September across Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Bogota.

The support list is the part worth staring at. Wembley gets Marilyn Manson, Lorna Shore and Hatebreed. North America has Bring Me The Horizon in direct support, with Acid Bath, Lamb of God, Motionless In White, Kublai Khan TX, Polyphia, Loathe and Vended rotating underneath. That is a bill built to make a long day in a stadium feel worth it rather than a cash grab with two openers, and Vended earning a spot on it is a nice touch.

Tickets move quickly. Slipknot’s own site lists an artist presale on Tuesday 29 September at 10am local, a Knotfest presale at noon the same day, and general sale on Friday 2 October at 10am local. The band also ran launch events at Wembley and SoFi today, with early ticket access, a merch pop-up and a multi-story Tribal S set alight. If you are already planning what to wear to a stadium in July, our festival outfit guide covers the heat, the mud and the walk back to the car.

Evergreen Terrace Take On Bleed American

Jacksonville’s Evergreen Terrace have spent twenty five years being very good at other people’s songs. The Writer’s Block records turned covers into a genuine part of their identity rather than a novelty, and the versions of Bad Religion, Billy Joel and Neil Young they cut back then still get played by people who never heard the originals. So a new one is news.

This time it is the title track from Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American, the 2001 album that went double platinum and made a generation of teenagers think emo could sound like a stadium. It lands on 30 October through Arson Theory, with pre-saves already live. The original song itself was certified gold in the United States in July of this year, which tells you how much life it still has.

Covers are a fair way to judge a band. You find out fast whether they can hold a melody without their own riffs propping it up. Evergreen Terrace have never had trouble there, and putting a Jacksonville hardcore band up against one of the cleanest choruses of the decade is a good bet. Alien Ant Farm’s comeback earlier this week was a reminder that a great cover can outlive everything around it. This one has a higher bar and a better band attempting it.

Spiritbox Open AEW All Out With Perfect Soul

Spiritbox soundtracked the cold open of AEW All Out in Chicago on Saturday night. The song was "Perfect Soul", from 2025’s Tsunami Sea, and it carried the video package that set up Jon Moxley against Will Ospreay for the men’s world title. Wrestling cold opens are a genuinely hard sync to land. The music has to do the emotional lifting in ninety seconds with no lyrics you can follow, and "Perfect Soul" has exactly the kind of slow, swelling menace that job needs.

This is not an accident of taste. AEW music director Mikey Rukus has been putting heavy music in front of a wrestling audience for years, and the production team clearly share the habit. For a band in the middle of a European headline run with Jinjer and Dying Wish, having your song open a pay-per-view in your absence is about as efficient as promotion gets.

Spiritbox also released "Mourning" earlier this month, which most people are reading as the front edge of album three. Nothing has been confirmed, and we will not pretend otherwise, but two songs in a month from a band who do not waste moves is worth watching.

Devin Shidaker Opens Spirit Wound With Ten Minutes Of Doom

Devin Shidaker, guitarist and vocalist in The Acacia Strain, has started something on his own. Spirit Wound is his project alone, and the first song, "The Light Refuses Me", went up on Bandcamp on Saturday 26 September. It runs past ten minutes. He wrote, recorded, produced and played all of it, and by his own account the whole thing came together in a single afternoon this summer.

Shidaker has described the year behind it as one of heavy personal loss, and the song as grief arriving in a stream of consciousness. He calls it doom, with the caveat that it is something different for him. That is a fair description. It moves at the pace of a slow tide rather than a breakdown, and the weight is in the sustain and the space rather than the impact. The early Bandcamp comments are reaching for Warning, Type O Negative and Crowbar, which is decent company for a first song.

It will reach the rest of the streaming platforms this week. Right now Bandcamp is the place, which is the honest way to hear it anyway. There is something to be said for a musician in a band of that size putting a ten minute song out with no label, no rollout and no single edit. Repentance did something similar yesterday with a song written by their late guitarist Shaun Glass. Grief keeps producing the most direct music in heavy circles.

Silly Goose Take The Grand Slam Campaign To Denny’s Head Office

Atlanta’s Silly Goose have built a following by playing where bands are not supposed to play. Drive-thrus, forecourts, fast food dining rooms. Last week they took the bit to its logical end and turned up at a Denny’s corporate conference to pitch the chain on a Grand Slam collaboration in person, with cameras rolling.

Frontman Jackson Foster says there have been open lines of communication with the company since. Blink-182 played a Denny’s once and the chain already runs a merch tie-in with Live Without, so the idea is less far fetched than it sounds. Either way, walking into a room full of franchise executives with a rap rock pitch takes a particular kind of nerve, and the band have never been short of it.

They are on the road across North America through November with Cheem, Hotbox and Muttlee rotating through the bill, from St Louis down to Jacksonville. The Bad Behavior EP is the best entry point if you have not heard them, and their whole presentation, from the JNCO silhouette to the video treatments, sits right in the middle of what our nu metal aesthetic guide tries to pin down. They are one of the few new bands doing the revival thing with an actual sense of humour.

Featured Band: 156/Silence Get Their Christmas Burns Red Call

156/Silence are five men from Pittsburgh who have been grinding since 2015 and have never once made an easy record. Jack Murray sings, Jimmy Howell and Ryan Wilkinson play guitar, Mike Ernst plays bass and Kyle O’Connell drums. What they do sits where hardcore punk, post-hardcore and mathcore overlap, which in practice means riffs that refuse to land where you expect and a vocal that sounds like it costs something to deliver.

This year they released From A Distance, their sixth album and their first for Pure Noise Records, and it is the clearest thing they have made. The title track brings in Alex Reade of Make Them Suffer and gives the record its best moment, a chorus that opens up without softening anything underneath it. If you came to them through Narrative or People Watching, this is the one where the songwriting caught up with the aggression.

Now they have the December booking. Christmas Burns Red runs as a one day main event on 3 December at the Lancaster Marriott and Convention Center in Pennsylvania, with August Burns Red hosting, plus Underoath, Atreyu, Emery and a headliner still under wraps. There is a kick off party the night before. Being the Pennsylvania band on a Pennsylvania institution’s bill, alongside names that size, is the kind of booking that changes what a band can ask for next year. December is filling up fast, and this is the show we would most like a ticket to.

Looking Ahead: A Tuesday Of Queues

Tomorrow is a ticket day. Slipknot’s artist presale opens at 10am local on Tuesday 29 September, the Knotfest presale follows at noon, and general sale is Friday 2 October at 10am local. Nineteen stadiums across three continents means demand is going to be ugly in the good way, and the Wembley date in particular is likely to be the fastest of the lot.

After that the autumn calendar takes over. Evergreen Terrace’s "Bleed American" arrives on 30 October, Suicide Silence put Graceless on 20 November, and Christmas Burns Red closes the year on 3 December. Spirit Wound’s "The Light Refuses Me" should be on the rest of the streaming platforms within days. We will be back tomorrow with whatever Tuesday throws up.

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