WYWA: The Return of Converge, New Lamb of God, Rob Zombie’s New Song, And More
Before we take a much-needed break to enjoy the holiday and stuff our faces full of food, we’ve got one more edition of While You Were Away ready for ya. This week, we’re rocking out to new Rob Zombie and Lamb of God, plus celebrating the return of Converge, and more. Check it out after the jump.
Lamb of God share new single ‘Parasocial Christ’
Days after announcing their 2026 tour, Lamb of God have released new single, “Parasocial Christ,” and it’s a heavy one.
“The Information Age has birthed the attention economy, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars anchored in keeping eyeballs firmly glued to screens, thus generating ad revenue,” explains frontman Randy Blythe. “Every second spent clicking and scrolling through the trivial and/or sordid details of other people’s lives, people that you will most likely never meet – celebrities, politicians, influencers – is another dollar in some already obscenely wealthy tech bro’s wallet. You are a product, and you are being sold in a marketplace you have no share in.
“The irony of you reading this via some social media platform or music news aggregator site is not lost on me,” he adds. “Nevertheless, I hope this song might make you consider who and what you give your attention to. Fuck the clickbait, put down the phone and go live your life – it’s waiting for you out in what’s left of the real world.”
Watch the video below.
Rob Zombie unleashes new song ‘Heathen Days’
Rob Zombie offers another sample of his upcoming album, The Great Satan, with new single “Heathen Days.”
The follow up to “Punks and Demons” is a short but sweet rager made for boot stomping and fist pumping. The track “invokes the ungodly days when chaos and war were constantly at your back,” according to a press release.
Watch the video below.
The Great Satan drops February 27th. Pre-order it here.
Converge announce new album, share title track
Converge have announced their new album, Love Is Not Enough, out February 13th via Deathwish/Epitaph. They’ve also shared the record’s title track.
Frontman Jacob Bannon says the band’s first album since 2017 “does a thing that no other Converge record does – it keeps ramping up. And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently, and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
He continues: “I think that realism is missing from a lot of modern music of any genre, but especially our genre. Things either go super raw and almost chaotic to the point where it’s distracting, or bands take the life out of what they’re doing by editing every aspect. Sometimes the perfect take is the one that has some wildness to it. It’s not perfectly executed. There’s a lot of powerful moments on this record and a lot of angry moments. The realism amplifies that.”
Watch the video for “Love Is Not Enough” below. Pre-order the album here.
The Cure share trailer for upcoming concert film ‘The Show of a Lost World’
The Cure have unveiled the trailer for their new concert film, The Show of a Lost World, which opens in theaters worldwide on December 11th.
The film captures the band’s 2024 performance at the Troxy in London, where they performed their new album Songs of a Lost World in full, along with other songs from throughout their career. Watch the trailer below.
Tickets for The Show of a Lost World are on sale now. Get yours here. The film will also be released on DVD/Blu-ray later next month.
Tours on sale this week
Mötley Crüe will embark on a tour next year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Carnival of Sins and the 45th anniversary of the band. “The Return of the Carnival of Sins” jaunt starts July 17th in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania, and wraps up September 26th in Ridgefield, Washington. Special guests include Tesla and Extreme. Get all the details here.
“Weird Al” Yankovic has extended his “Bigger & Weirder Tour” into next year with a new run of North American dates. The next part of the tour kicks off May 26th in Hollywood, Florida, and runs through October 17th in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Tickets are on sale now.
VOWWS will support their latest album, I’ll Fill Your House With An Army, with a string of European headlines. The brief tour starts February 14th in Berlin and runs through February 22nd in London. See all their dates, including their shows with Kim Dracula, here.
The Devil Wears Prada recently announced a spring 2026 US tour with Four Year Strong, Split Chain, and I Promised the World. The tour kicks off on March 13th in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and concludes on April 13th in Nashville, Tennessee. See all the dates here.
