Nu Metal News 9 November 2026: Deftones Revive Melanie, Brandon Boyd Scores A Film, Sepultura Say Goodbye

Nu Metal News 9 November 2026, welcome to Monday. Deftones pulled “Melanie” out of the shelved Eros sessions at their own festival on Saturday, Incubus singer Brandon Boyd is scoring his first feature film, and Sepultura played the last show of their career in São Paulo the same night. Fear Factory have named the new song premiering on SiriusXM today, Silly Goose shot a video inside a Denny’s and announced Goose Fest, and John Tempesta has closed his 20-year chapter with The Cult. Our featured band, Cober Mouth, bring the lowest-tuned thing they have ever recorded. Plenty to get through, so let us go.

Deftones Bring Back Melanie From Eros

Deftones closed this year’s Dia de los Deftones at Petco Park in San Diego on Saturday 7 November with a 20-song headline set, and right in the middle of it they played “Melanie”. That song has not appeared in a Deftones setlist since 2008. It comes from Eros, the album the band were making when bassist Chi Cheng was badly hurt in a car accident in November 2008. Theprp, NME and Kerrang! all reported the moment, and the setlist placed it thirteenth, straight after “Rocket Skates” and just before “i think about you all the time”.

The weight of that is hard to overstate. Cheng was left in a semi-conscious state for years, the band shelved Eros and started again with what became Diamond Eyes in 2010, and Cheng died in 2013. Only one Eros track, “Smile”, has ever been officially shared, released by Chino Moreno in 2014 on the first anniversary of Cheng’s death. According to NME, Moreno told the crowd after “Melanie”: “This song doesn’t exist.” Blunt reports that Saturday was only the third documented live performance of the song, after its debut at Spaceland in Silver Lake in September 2008.

It also lands a few months after recordings said to be from Eros leaked online in June, alongside demos tied to Ohms. Deftones have not explained why “Melanie” came back now, and there is no announcement about releasing Eros, so we will not pretend there is. The rest of the night was a feast too, from “Back To School (Mini Maggit)” at the top to “Cherry Waves” and “Hexagram” in the encore. We last had Deftones in the 29 October column, when they were named among the 2027 Kilby Block Party headliners.

Brandon Boyd Scores Unknown Company

Incubus frontman Brandon Boyd is making his feature-film scoring debut. The Hollywood Reporter revealed on 7 November that Boyd and composer Gregory Rogove have written the score for Unknown Company, an independent World War II science-fiction thriller starring Ross Marquand, known for The Walking Dead and Invincible, and directed by Vincent Talenti, whose credits include Transformers: War For Cybertron.

The story follows a small unit of American soldiers sent behind enemy lines in the final days of the war to recover the wreckage of an unidentified object. A military mission turns into a confrontation with something beyond their understanding. Boyd said he had “such a great time doing this film score with my ol’ pal Greg Rogove”, explained that the two had made music together before, and that after seeing a rough cut he knew it was the right film to take the leap into writing for the screen.

“I’m a huge horror and sci-fi fan,” he added. “The film is creepy, beautiful and dark and we composed music that meets the film there.” No release date for the film was given in the reports. For a singer whose voice carried Make Yourself and Morning View onto every rock radio playlist on earth, writing mood and tension for a dark sci-fi picture is a fascinating new lane, and we are very curious to hear it. If you want the bigger picture of where Incubus sit in this story, our complete guide to nu metal has it.

Sepultura Play Their Final Show

It is over. Sepultura played the final concert of their career on Saturday 7 November at the Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo, closing the farewell run they announced in December 2023. Blabbermouth, Loudwire and Theprp all covered the night. The show was moved in September from the Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu stadium, which holds around 26,000, to the Suhai, which holds just over 9,000, with Krisiun, Sacred Reich and Metal Allegiance in support.

The band treated it as a celebration of 40 years rather than a funeral. Loudwire counted 32 songs, reaching from Morbid Visions to Quadra, with rare returns for “Itsári” (first time since 1998), “Reza” (first time since 2005), “Altered State”, “We’ve Lost You” and the Ratos de Porão cover “Crucificados Pelo Sistema”. Guests included Andreas Kisser’s son Yohan, Krisiun’s Moyses Kolesne, Torture Squad’s Amilcar Christófaro, João Gordo and Ratos de Porão, members of Chained Saint and Eminence, and former guitarist Jairo Guedz for “Biotech Is Godzilla”, “Slave New World” and “Troops Of Doom”. Max and Iggor Cavalera were not part of it.

The encore was a shortened “Ratamahatta” and “Roots Bloody Roots”, which is exactly why this belongs in a nu metal column. Roots, the 1996 album produced by Ross Robinson, is one of the records that taught a generation of downtuned bands how heavy groove could feel. We touched on Sepultura in the 5 October column. Saturday was the last word, and it sounded like a band leaving on their own terms. Obrigado, Sepultura.

Fear Factory Name The New Song Detonizer

In yesterday’s column the new Fear Factory song had a premiere slot but no name. Now it has both, plus a streaming date. Dino Cazares posted on 8 November that the track is called “Detonizer”, and the band’s own news page bills today, Monday 9 November, as the world premiere, exclusively on SiriusXM Liquid Metal channel 40, under the line “DETONATE THE SYSTEM”. The Nu-Metal Agenda reports it will play every hour, all day, and reach the major streaming services on Tuesday 10 November.

That is the change worth reporting: a title, and a date you can actually press play on. It is the second song with vocalist Milo Silvestro after “Roboticist” in August. Back then Cazares told Metal Hammer that the album will carry 10 songs, including “Roboticist” and “Detonizer”, and that it is due in 2027. He described the new song’s central figure as “a character who is fighting back against the AI, who wants to detonize the system”. After “Roboticist” built the machine, this one sounds like the uprising.

The album itself still has no public title or street date beyond 2027, so we will leave it there. The Soul Of A New Machine anniversary tour wraps this week, with Pop’s in Sauget on 10 November and Basement East in Nashville on 11 November. A brand-new single on streaming services the same day as a show is a good week to be a Fear Factory fan.

Silly Goose Shoot A Video And Announce Goose Fest

Silly Goose really did play a Denny’s. The Atlanta nu metal revivalists performed at the chain’s Norcross, Georgia location on Saturday 7 November as part of an officially approved “Goose Slam” collaboration, after frontman Jackson Foster crashed a Denny’s corporate conference in September to pitch the idea. Theprp and Lambgoat both reported on 8 November that the band used the show to film a music video for “Goodnight”, the single they released in May.

They also announced Goose Fest, a hometown event they will headline on 16 January at SkateATL. The bill behind them is Yosemite In Black, Actus Reus, Intension, Bummer Hill, All I Hear Is Birds, Zoe Bayani, Barbwire Angel, 77tth Try and Glass Edge. That is a band using its own momentum to put a stack of local and rising acts in front of a crowd, which is the best kind of scene building.

We flagged the Denny’s show itself in the 3 November column, so the gig is not the news today. The new facts are the “Goodnight” video shoot and the Goose Fest date and lineup. Silly Goose have made guerrilla shows in fast food car parks part of who they are. This time head office said yes, and the cameras were rolling.

John Tempesta Closes His Chapter With The Cult

Drummer John Tempesta has left The Cult after 20 years. In a statement on his Instagram on Saturday 7 November, he wrote: “After 20 years, my chapter with The Cult has come to an end. So many unforgettable shows, experiences, and memories.” He thanked every fan who was there along the way, said he is looking forward to getting back out there and seeing where the next chapter takes him, and signed off with “Here’s to 2027” and best wishes to the band. Blabbermouth and Theprp both carried it.

For this site, Tempesta’s name means White Zombie first. He joined them in 1994, and the following year’s Astro-Creep: 2000, with “More Human Than Human”, made them a household name and pointed straight at the industrial groove so many late-90s heavy bands chased. His CV also runs through Exodus, Testament, Rob Zombie, Helmet, Black Label Society and Scum Of The Earth. He joined The Cult in February 2006.

The Cult have not publicly addressed the departure, and no replacement has been named. They are booked on A Perfect Circle’s North American tour with Puscifer, which we covered in the 30 September column. Whoever sits behind that kit next, Tempesta leaves after two decades of shows with gratitude rather than drama. Wherever he lands in 2027, we will be listening.

Featured Band: Cober Mouth And The Drain

Cober Mouth are today’s featured band in Nu Metal News 9 November 2026, and this one is a public spotlight on a band we think you need to hear. The Bristol-based nu-metalcore trio, formed in 2023 by Cornish-born lifelong friends Adam and Dylan, released their new single “The Drain” on Friday 6 November. Adam describes it as the most low-tuned, disgusting sound Cober Mouth have ever presented, and he means that as a promise.

The idea behind it is bigger than a breakdown. “THE DRAIN confronts that which the fabric of modern western life depends on you not questioning,” Adam says, asking “why is being a modern consumer better than being a nomadic agent under your own decree?” Grave Noise called it “a banger”, singling out the crunching heaviness, the fiery vocals and the experimental touches that see it shift direction before a gurn-inducing breakdown at the end.

They have earned the attention. Metal Noise reports that “Get A Grip” has passed 49,000 Spotify streams, “Cesspit” followed with Aron Green, and their own site notes support from BBC Radio 1, Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, Spotify and Apple Music. This summer they played Till Fest in Germany to around 15,000 people, and they have shared stages with Heart of a Coward, Profiler, Avralize and Osiah. If you are in the band, send us a press shot or your next release any time through our get featured page.

Looking Ahead: Detonizer Streams Tomorrow

Fear Factory’s “Detonizer” is on SiriusXM Liquid Metal all day today and lands on streaming services on Tuesday 10 November, the same night the band play Pop’s in Sauget before Nashville on 11 November. Prong’s European headline run starts in Rheine on 13 November. Suicide Silence’s Graceless and Seether’s Rare On Air both arrive on 20 November. Further out, Silly Goose host Goose Fest at SkateATL on 16 January.

If you missed it, yesterday’s column had Fred Durst teasing a run, Ill Niño targeting February 2027 for a new album, Mark Heylmun putting his sobriety first and Oblivion Choir signing to Pavement Entertainment. And if the red hat in today’s column caught your eye, it is waiting in the shop.

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Nu Metal News 9 November 2026, Your Questions

What song did Deftones bring back at Dia de los Deftones 2026?

Deftones played “Melanie” on 7 November 2026 at Petco Park in San Diego. The song comes from Eros, the album shelved after bassist Chi Cheng’s 2008 car accident, and it had not been played live since 2008. The band have not announced any plan to release Eros.

What film is Brandon Boyd scoring?

The Incubus singer is making his feature-film scoring debut with composer Gregory Rogove on Unknown Company, an independent World War II sci-fi thriller starring Ross Marquand and directed by Vincent Talenti. No release date was given in the reports.

When was Sepultura’s final show?

Sepultura played their final concert on 7 November 2026 at the Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo, Brazil, with Krisiun, Sacred Reich and Metal Allegiance in support. The 32-song set ended with “Ratamahatta” and “Roots Bloody Roots”.

When can I hear the new Fear Factory song Detonizer?

“Detonizer” premieres on SiriusXM Liquid Metal on Monday 9 November 2026, playing every hour all day, and reaches streaming services on Tuesday 10 November. It is the second single with vocalist Milo Silvestro, from an album due in 2027.

Who is the featured band in Nu Metal News 9 November 2026?

Cober Mouth, a Bristol-based nu-metalcore trio formed in 2023 by Cornish-born friends Adam and Dylan. Their new single “The Drain” came out on 6 November 2026 and follows “Get A Grip” and “Cesspit”.