Nu Metal News — 8 September 2026: Spiritbox Surprise Drop, Ill Nino’s New Voice, NOLA Trendkill Rumour

Nu Metal News 8 September 2026 — welcome back. The column took a few days off and the genre did not, so treat this as a catch-up: a surprise Spiritbox single, Ill Nino putting their new singer on tape, a rumoured rival Fear Factory waking up, a country superstar covering Limp Bizkit in an Iowa field, and a New Orleans festival poster nobody will confirm. One thing first. Andy Williams of Every Time I Die died on 6 September at 48. He was not a nu metal musician, but half this scene grew up in rooms his band helped fill.

Spiritbox Drop Mourning With No Warning

Spiritbox teased “Mourning” on Instagram on 7 September with a premiere time attached and nothing else — no album title, no pre-save campaign, no eight-week rollout. The video went live that evening at 7:00PM PST, which is why you will see the release dated 7 September by North American outlets and 8 September by European ones. It is a standalone single on Rise Records, not a lead-off track, and the band have not attached it to a follow-up for last year’s Tsunami Sea.

Mike Stringer co-directed the clip with Alex Bemis and co-produced the song with Dan Braunstein, the same pairing behind a lot of the band’s recent output. Musically it sits closer to the grey, mid-paced end of Spiritbox than the djent-forward one: Courtney LaPlante spends most of the runtime in her clean register and saves the scream for a single structural hinge rather than sprinkling it through. It is a restrained song from a band who could have coasted on a heavier one.

The timing is not accidental. Spiritbox open a European and UK headline run at Glasgow’s SEC Centre on 12 September with Jinjer and Dying Wish supporting, wrapping on 9 October in Paris. Worth noting a small discrepancy: Louder counted 18 dates on that routing while ThePRP counted 19. We have not been able to reconcile the two against the band’s own listing, so take the exact number with a pinch of salt and the start and end dates as solid.

Ill Nino Put Tommy Roulette On Record With Born To Suffer

Ill Nino revealed Tommy Roulette as their singer at a Lakewood, Ohio show in July 2025 and then made everyone wait more than a year for a recording. “Born To Suffer (Nacido Pa Sufrir)” arrived with a Tom Flynn-directed video on 4 September, which makes it the first properly finished thing the Roulette lineup has put its name to. Dave Chavarri and Laz Pina co-produced. A full-length is in progress but undated.

The song is a deliberate reset rather than a reinvention. The Latin percussion is high in the mix, the riff is a blunt drop-tuned chug, and the Spanish-language hook is the part that sticks. Roulette does not try to be Cristian Machado; he is drier, more barked, less prone to the melodic swoops that defined Revolution Revolucion. Whether that reads as a loss or a clean break probably depends on which decade of this band you arrived in.

There is a wider pattern here worth naming. This is the second veteran nu metal band inside a fortnight to hand a legacy catalogue to a new voice on record: we covered Fear Factory finally putting Milo Silvestro on tape at the end of August, and the reaction split along exactly the same lines. Bands who survive twenty-five years mostly do it by replacing people. The audiences who stayed that long are the ones least willing to let them.

Worth flagging one date confusion doing the rounds. A preview clip of “Born To Suffer” went out back in January 2026, so some outlets have the song filed under that month. The finished single and video are 4 September releases. If you saw the title and thought you had already heard it, you probably heard about thirty seconds of it eight months ago.

Raymond Herrera Is Back Behind The Kit For Angst Fabrik

On 7 September, footage surfaced of Raymond Herrera tracking drums for Angst Fabrik, the long-simmering Christian Olde Wolbers project whose name translates from German as, yes, fear factory. The caption that went with it — “after 16 years away from the kit, the machine woke back up, still runs” — is the first hard confirmation that Herrera is not just attached in principle but actually playing again.

What is established: Wolbers has said 14 songs were written as of August 2025 and that studio sessions happened that autumn. What is not established is almost everything else. There is no label, no title, no release window and no confirmed vocalist. Burton C. Bell was photographed with Wolbers in January 2025 and then visibly drifted away from the project; treating him as a member on the strength of one hang would be wishful thinking.

The framing everyone reaches for is “rival Fear Factory”, and it is not unfair, but it is worth being precise about the legal reality. Dino Cazares holds the Fear Factory trademarks and is the one touring the name, most recently with Milo Silvestro fronting the band — we watched that lineup take the Milo era onstage in Poznan in late August. Angst Fabrik cannot be Fear Factory. It can be two thirds of the rhythm section that made Obsolete and Digimortal sound the way they did, which for a lot of people is the part that mattered.

Islander Draw A Line Under Grief As Marketing

Over the weekend, Greenville’s Islander posted a short, pointed statement about the current fashion for rush-releasing covers when a famous musician dies. “We love a good cover,” they wrote. “We just never want somebody’s death to become our marketing plan.” They followed it with the line that actually does the work: there is a difference between honouring an influence and racing to capitalise on a moment.

Nobody was named, and Islander did not need to name anybody. The context is the Bad Wolves Dolly Parton cover, which we have now written about three times, most recently when the band and AJ Rebollo issued a correction worth reading in full. In fairness to Bad Wolves, the facts there are messier than the discourse: the track was recorded weeks before Parton died, she was meant to appear on it, and the proceeds go to her Imagination Library.

Which is rather the point Islander are making. Once the practice becomes common enough, the audience stops distinguishing between the band who planned a tribute for a year and the band who booked a studio the morning after the news broke. Everybody gets read as an opportunist. We are one source deep on this one — the quotes come from Islander’s own account, relayed by ThePRP — but it is the band speaking about themselves, which is about as primary as sourcing gets.

Carrie Underwood Covered Break Stuff, And Iowa Lost It

On 5 September at Velocity Festival, held at the Field of Dreams site in Dyersville, Iowa, Carrie Underwood worked a block of covers into her set: Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer”, Papa Roach’s “Scars” — a song she has actually guested on — Collective Soul’s “Shine”, and then, in a red cap, Limp Bizkit’s “Break Stuff” to close it out.

The internet did what the internet does. Whiskey Riff ran it as “goes full Fred Durst”, Metal Injection filed it under “for some reason”, and a decent chunk of country Twitter treated it as a personal affront. Rolling Stone and Billboard both covered it straight, which tells you the reach. Underwood has been open about loving late-90s and early-00s nu metal for years, including an American Idol segment in 2025, so this is less a swerve than a hobby finally getting a big enough stage.

The genuinely interesting bit is the venue. A cornfield in eastern Iowa, a country headliner, and forty thousand people who knew every word to a Limp Bizkit song released in 1999. Nu metal’s rehabilitation stopped being a subculture argument some time ago; this is what it looks like when it finishes. If you are planning to be in a field yourself this season, our guide to putting together a metal festival outfit covers the practical side.

Only fan-filmed clips exist, shared to Instagram and YouTube. We have embedded the official Limp Bizkit video above rather than hotlinking somebody’s phone footage; there is no official release of Underwood’s version and, as far as anyone has said, no plan for one.

Live Nation And The Great NOLA Trendkill Rumour

A lineup graphic began circulating on 7 September for something called The Great NOLA Trendkill, sited at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans and attributed to Live Nation. The names on it: Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosion Of Conformity, Eyehategod, Power Trip, Pig Destroyer, plus a couple of smaller names in Herkaleion and Rade.

Be clear about the status: this is unconfirmed. Lambgoat, ThePRP and Metal Addicts all ran it, and all three ran it as a rumour rather than an announcement. No date has appeared. No on-sale has appeared. Live Nation has said nothing on the record. A lineup graphic that spreads this fast is usually either a leak or a mock-up, and from the outside those two things look identical.

For what it is worth, the shape of it is plausible. That is a New Orleans and Southern-metal bill almost to the band, and the title nods to Pantera’s 1996 record The Great Southern Trendkill — you will see it misattributed to 1994 in a few places, which is a decent tell for who is copying whom. Festival season announcements have been landing early this year; we covered Extreme Thing returning to Las Vegas next March last week. Treat this one as a maybe until somebody sells a ticket.

All Human End A Ten-Year Silence With Horror Porn

The small-band story of the week belongs to All Human, the Aurora, Colorado project led by Adam Rupert Fisher of Fear Before The March Of Flames and Orbs. Their third album, Horror Porn, and the Eviscerating Climax, arrives on 30 October — ten years and change after 2016’s Teenagers, You Don’t Have To Die. Thirteen tracks. Self-released, with no label involved at any stage.

The credits are a Colorado-and-New-Jersey family affair. Brian and John Ferrara of Trophy Scars are involved throughout; John co-produced and mixed alongside the band and Max Winne, Scott Hull mastered at MasterDisk, and Dan Grant contributes keys and backing vocals. Fisher’s own explanation for the decade-long gap is characteristically unserious: blame Covid, blame the most dreadful of ex-lovers, blame Max making him redo every guitar part a hundred times.

The rollout is old-fashioned and, frankly, sensible: a single every other Friday until release, starting with “Fly In Honey” on 18 September. No streaming-playlist gamesmanship, no surprise drop, just a band putting a record out on its own money. It is the mirror image of Patient Sixty-Seven signing to SBG after ten years of doing it themselves — two bands, two opposite answers to the same question about what a label is actually for in 2026.

Looking Ahead: Glasgow, Then A Fortnight Of Singles

The next ten days are busier than this week was. Spiritbox open in Glasgow on 12 September. All Human premiere “Fly In Honey” on 18 September. coldrain line up OPTIMIZE OPTDEMISE for 25 September, which we flagged in our most recent edition alongside an October release calendar that is already uncomfortably full.

Further out, Boltcutter take Misery Whip across North America from 20 October to 13 November, sixteen dates from Amityville Music Hall through Gods Of Chaos Fest in Chicago and out to The Echo in Los Angeles. And if The Great NOLA Trendkill is real, an announcement has to land soon — arena-scale festivals do not sell tickets on a lineup graphic and a shrug.

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Nu Metal News 8 September 2026 — Your Questions

Is Spiritbox’s “Mourning” taken from a new album?

No. “Mourning” is a standalone single on Rise Records, released with no advance campaign on 7 September 2026 (8 September in European time zones). Spiritbox have not announced a follow-up to Tsunami Sea, and nothing in the release framed the song as a lead single.

Who is Ill Nino’s new singer?

Tommy Roulette, previously of Jynx. He was revealed at a Lakewood, Ohio show in July 2025, and “Born To Suffer (Nacido Pa Sufrir)”, released 4 September 2026, is his first recorded appearance with the band. A full-length album is in progress but has no announced release date.

Is Angst Fabrik the same band as Fear Factory?

No. Angst Fabrik is Christian Olde Wolbers’ separate project, now confirmed to feature Raymond Herrera on drums. Dino Cazares holds the Fear Factory trademarks and continues that band with vocalist Milo Silvestro. Angst Fabrik has no label, no title and no release date announced.

Is The Great NOLA Trendkill festival confirmed?

Not at the time of writing. A lineup graphic naming Pantera, Down, Crowbar, Corrosion Of Conformity, Eyehategod, Power Trip and Pig Destroyer at New Orleans’ Lakefront Arena circulated on 7 September 2026, but no dates, no on-sale and no statement from Live Nation have followed. Every outlet reporting it has labelled it a rumour.

When does All Human’s new album come out?

Horror Porn, and the Eviscerating Climax is due 30 October 2026, self-released. It is the band’s first album in ten years and runs to thirteen tracks. The lead single, “Fly In Honey”, premieres on 18 September, with further singles every other Friday until release.