Power Trip Frontman Dead At 35

Sad news in the world of thrash.

Riley Gale, frontman for the thrash metal/hardcore punk group Power Trip has passed away on Monday. He was 35.

His family wrote in a statement:

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No word yet on what caused his passing.

The Dallas based thrash quintet formed in 2008 and have released two full-lengths, their latest being 2017’s Nightmare Logic on Southern Lord Records (Darkest Hour, High On Fire, Xibalba). Power Trip have performed with Ozzy Osbourne, Lamb Of God, The Black Dahlia Murder, August Burns Red, and Municipal Waste.

Rest In Peace, Riley.

Is The Next Punk Goes Album “Punk Goes 2000s”?

Because honestly Fearless, if it’s another goddamn Punk Goes Pop album, I’m gonna scream.

An hour ago, Punk Goes updated their profile pictures and banners with a black on black logo. Not only that, the beloved music series released an image showing an away message with the lyrics to Mayday Parade’s “Three Cheers For Five Years” followed by “brb :]”. What does it all mean?

Could we actually be getting a new entry in the Punk Goes series this year? And could it possibly be about the 2000s? It seems like it.

No more info has been given out about the upcoming Punk Goes album. It will be the nineteenth album in the series.

The last album released in the series was Punk Goes Pop Vol. 7 in 2017. It featured artists like The Amity Affliction, Grayscale, Seaway, Dance Gavin Dance, and Eat Your Heart Out, covering people like Ed Sheeran, Drake, The Chainsmokers, Bruno Mars, and twenty one pilots.

Fearless Records (Get Scared, The Plot In You, Starset) created the first album in the Punk Goes series back in 2000 with Punk Goes Metal. That album had The Aquabats!, New Found Glory, Strung Out, AFI, and Rx Bandits, covering Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer, AC/DC, and Judas Priest. Since then, there have been seventeen releases in the series, including Christmas, 90’s, Acoustic, Crunk, and Classic Rock. Numerous bands like Yellowcard, Rise Against, Motion City Soundtrack, Gym Class Heroes, Jack’s Mannequin, The Devil Wears Prada, Chiodos, We The Kings, Miss May I, Sparks The Rescue, Sleeping With Sirens, Like Moths To Flames, Real Friends, Motionless In White, Upon A Burning Body, This Wild Life, and New Years Day, have appeared on various compilations.

Tool, Def Leppard, Reel Big Fish, More To Play Download Festival 2019

England’s beloved Download Festival has revealed the first wave of artists set to play next year’s festival.

Legendary British rockers Def Leppard (who will be performing their fourth studio album Hysteria in full), progressive metal giants Tool, and Iowan metal group Slipknot, are set to headline the seventeenth annual rock festival at Donington Park. Other bands scheduled to appear include Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, Die Antwoord, Whitesnake, Rob Zombie, Trivium, Amon Amarth, Carcass, Delain, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, Opeth, Power Trip, Reel Big Fish, Skindred, Starset, Tesla, The Amity Affliction, and Underoath.

Download Festival started back in 2003 and has featured numerous artists in the world of rock, metal, pop-punk, post-hardcore, and punk. Bands like Iron Maiden, Less Than Jake, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Metallica, My Chemical Romance, Bowling For Soup, As I Lay Dying, The All-American Rejects, KoЯn, Guns N’ Roses, Paramore, Silverstein, Unearth, Simple Plan, Incubus, Coheed And Cambria, Mötley Crüe, You Me At Six, Volbeat, AC/DC, Rage Against The Machine, Porcupine Tree, Bring Me The Horizon, System Of A Down, Frank Turner, NOFX, Black Veil Brides, Rise Against, Gorgol Bordello, Enter Shikari, Rammstein, The Offspring, Fall Out Boy, Aerosmith, Hands Like Houses, Parkway Drive, Yellowcard, All Time Low, Municipal Waste, Don Broco, Sleeping With Sirens, Pierce The Veil, Basement, Bad Religion, Mayday parade, and Ozzy Osbourne, have appeared at the festival.

The festival has also branched out to other countries like France, Spain, Australia, and starting next year, Japan.

Ozzy Osbourne will headline the Australian Download Festival, which takes place March 9th thought the 11th, along with Ghost, Alice In Chains, Frenzal Rhomb, I Prevail, and The Fever 333. Ozzy will also headline the first Download Festival appearance in Japan on March 21st with Slayer, Arch Enemy, Anthrax, and Halestorm. 

Riot Fest Tease Some Bands For This Year’s Lineup

At 8 AM central time, Riot Fest, the famous punk rock festival in Chicago, Ill., teased their audience with a three and a half minute video with polka versions of songs from bands that are apparently playing this year at Douglas Park.

Those Idiots, a polka band from Buffalo, are known for doing polka versions of popular songs, covering everyone from Lady Gaga to Ozzy Osbourne.

The Buffalo based polka band Those Idiots played short snippets of punk and rock songs in the video, showing them appearing in places such as inside a bathroom, oustide Pinwheel Records, and the Jumbotron at Guaranteed Rate Field (that’s where the White Sox play).

Riot Fest has been going on since 2005 and has branched out to other cities such as Denver, Colo., and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Throughout the years, many bands have played these festivals such as The Misfits, Jawbreaker, Rise Against, Wu-Tang Clan, Blink-182, Post Malone, No Doubt, Mayday Parade, Snoop Dogg, and Cap’n Jazz.

While Riot Fest hasn’t confirmed anything yet (the video states that it “contains NO lineup hints”), people have deciphered what the songs Those Idiots were playing in the video. The bands and songs are:

“I’m Shipping Up to Boston” – Dropkick Murphys

“Loser” – Beck

“Great Balls of Fire” – Jerry Lee Lewis

“Call Me” – Blondie

“Radio Radio” – Elvis Costello

“We’ve Had Enough” – Alkaline Trio

The full Riot Fest lineup will be announced tonight at 8 PM central time (9 PM eastern). Tickets will also go on sale at the same time.