Nu Metal News 7 November 2026: Murderdolls Book Graspop, Spineshank Welcome Jay Mills, Bobby Amaru Covers Linkin Park

Nu Metal News 7 November 2026, welcome to Saturday. Murderdolls are booked for Graspop 2027, Spineshank have welcomed Jay Mills as Robert Garcia steps away, and Bobby Amaru has a fierce new video for his cover of Linkin Park’s “Given Up”. Filter’s The Antidote is nearly finished for early 2027, Seether have covered Neil Young, and our featured band Defences land with “Death Of A Dream”. Plenty to get through, so let us go.

Murderdolls Book Graspop 2027

Nine years is a long time to wait for horror glam with teeth. Wednesday 13 and the estate of Joey Jordison have confirmed that Murderdolls will play Graspop Metal Meeting 2027 in Dessel, Belgium, from 17 to 20 June. It is the band’s first proper festival return since 2018, when Wednesday 13, Acey Slade and Eric Griffin shared a stage at Lucky Strike Live in Hollywood for a night that celebrated late drummer Ben “The Ghoul” Graves.

The announcement landed yesterday with a short teaser built around “Slit My Wrist” from Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls, the 2002 debut that turns twenty-five next year. Acey Slade shared the news as well, which is a good sign after the public trademark spat of 2022. Exact 2027 lineup details are still to come, but the names circulating are the ones fans have wanted to hear together again.

Joey Jordison founded Murderdolls alongside Wednesday 13 while he was still the engine room of Slipknot, and that dual legacy is exactly why this booking matters here. Graspop is one of Europe’s biggest metal weekends. Putting Murderdolls back on that stage is a proper homecoming for a catalogue that never stopped sounding dangerous and fun at the same time.

Spineshank Move Forward With Jay Mills

Spineshank have made it official. After sitting out recent touring, longtime bassist and vocalist Robert Garcia has stepped away to stay home with his family, and the industrial nu metal lifers have welcomed Jay Mills as a permanent member. Garcia joined in 1997, rode through the height of the early records, the 2016 hiatus and the reunion, and the band’s statement treats thirty years together with the respect it deserves.

Mills has already been crushing the recent runs on bass and vocals, after previously covering for Jonny Santos at short notice. The lineup now reads Jonny Santos, Tommy Decker, Tommy Decker Jr. and Jay Mills. Their note ends with the line that matters for 2027: extensive touring and new music are coming, and they believe these are the right four people to carry Spineshank forward.

We last had Santos in the 10 October column for Silent Civilian’s Rebirth Of The Temple anniversary dates. Today’s news is a different chapter. Wishing Rob every good thing at home, and looking forward to hearing what this version of Spineshank does next.

Bobby Amaru Covers Linkin Park’s Given Up

Saliva vocalist Bobby Amaru has a new official video for his cover of Linkin Park’s “Given Up”, directed by Toddi Babu. The song is the fourth single from Minutes To Midnight, and Amaru tears into Chester Bennington’s most unhinged chorus with the kind of respect that only comes from someone who grew up on that record.

Covering Linkin Park is not new territory for him. He and his daughter found a wide audience online with a run of covers, including a take on “Faint” that brought Mike Shinoda into the frame. This “Given Up” clip keeps that same direct energy: no soft-focus nostalgia, just a modern performance of a song that still feels like it could take the roof off.

Watch it above on his channel and share it with anyone who still has Minutes To Midnight burned into muscle memory. Linkin Park’s catalogue keeps finding new voices, and Amaru is one of the ones who actually gets why those songs hit so hard.

Filter’s The Antidote Is Nearly Done

Filter’s Richard Patrick says the follow-up to 2023’s The Algorithm, tentatively titled The Antidote, is “moments away from being done” and aimed at early 2027. Speaking to Rock 100.5 The KATT, he described it as a continuation of the industrial direction he dug back into on The Algorithm, with Brian Virtue still polishing the mix and Howie Weinberg likely to master.

New titles already in play include “Snakes In The Grass”, which the band have been playing live, plus “Hell In My Head” and “Panic Mode” written with Sam Tinnesz. Patrick is clear that he makes Filter records for himself first, and that The Antidote should still leave room for the melodic side that made “Take A Picture” a crossover forever.

We had Filter on the Breaking Benjamin 2027 arena bill in Thursday’s column. New music on top of that run is exactly what this column wants to hear. Early 2027 cannot come soon enough.

Seether Cover Neil Young’s The Needle And The Damage Done

Seether have shared their studio take on Neil Young’s “The Needle And The Damage Done”, cut for the upcoming Rare On Air compilation through Fantasy Records on 20 November. The set gathers previously unreleased in-studio and on-air performances from the band’s early years, and this cover has lived in their live set as far back as 2006 without an official studio version until now.

It follows the acoustic “Driven Under” tease and sits at the other end of the pendulum from 2024’s The Surface Seems So Far, which deliberately skipped acoustic tracks. Shaun Morgan’s connection to the song’s subject matter needs no explanation if you have followed this band at all. Hearing them honour Young’s raw original with that same directness is a quiet kind of heavy.

Rare On Air lands on 20 November. Seether also return next March for a second North American leg of the Break The Cycle 25th anniversary run with Staind, Hoobastank and Hinder, and they are on the 2027 bills for Sonic Temple and Welcome To Rockville. Plenty still coming from this corner of the genre.

Featured Band: Defences And Death Of A Dream

Defences are today’s featured band in Nu Metal News 7 November 2026. The UK quartet’s new single “Death Of A Dream” is a nu-tinged hopecore anthem with a record-scratch intro, a huge lower-register vocal from Cherry Duesbury and a refrain that sticks: “I get to decide how I wanna show up.” It is out through Long Branch Records, and the official video is below.

This is their third single of 2026 after “Metamorphosis” and “More Of Us (Than There Are Of Them)”, the latter with Skindred’s Benji Webbe, which we covered in September. Duesbury wrote the song on the summer solstice after a total upheaval in her life, and you can hear that clarity in every line. They are out right now supporting Future Palace across the EU and UK, including Leeds today.

Small and rising bands get the same space here as the giants. Defences earned this spotlight with a song that feels like a future self talking sense into the present one. If you are in the band or their team, send a horizontal press shot through our get featured page any time.

Looking Ahead: Deftones Today And A Busy Month

Dia De Los Deftones lands today at Petco Park in San Diego, with The Neighbourhood, AFI, Converge and more on the bill Deftones curated back in June. Monday 9 November is the Sevendust and Caligula’s Horse Australian presale. Prong’s European headline run opens in Rheine on 13 November. Suicide Silence’s Graceless and Seether’s Rare On Air both street on 20 November.

If you missed it, yesterday’s column had Ozzfest’s three-continent 2027 dates, Limp Bizkit closing Phillgood, Hatebreed’s Fatal Paradox and Prong’s self-titled album. Bat tickets and those Friday releases are already in motion.

Get Your Band In This Column

Today’s featured band in Nu Metal News 7 November 2026 is Defences with “Death Of A Dream”. If you are in a band or a solo artist, signed or not, you can do the same. Send us your single, your video, your tour or your EP through our get featured page. We read everything, we cover what we can verify, and small bands get the same space here as big ones.

Nu Metal News 7 November 2026, Your Questions