Phillip “Fish” Fisher left the group again in late 2021
News of a new Rise Against album began to surface in early 2021 when the band began posting cryptic videos on their social media accounts. These videos eventually lead to the announcement of Nowhere Generation on March 17, 2021. Along with “Broken Dreams, Inc” being included on the track list,…
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On November 1, 2021, author Greg Prato issued a follow-up book to A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other , simply titled Shannon , and featured all-new interviews with either people who knew Shannon or were admirers of his music (plus a “roundtable discussion” with Stevens…
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On July 23, 2021, the White-fronted version of Alcatrazz released another single, “Sword of Deliverance”, and announced that their fifth album, titled V , would be released on October 15, 2021. Music videos were released for the singles “Turn of the Wheel” on June 4, 2021 and “Sword of Deliverance”…
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On July 31, 2021, One Ok Rock held a livestreamed acoustic performance titled “Day to Night Acoustic Session” from the Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater in Yamanashi, Japan. They played more than ten songs, including a cover of Hikaru Utada ‘s 1999 song ” First Love “. On October 21, 2021, One…
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For the band’s 30th anniversary in 2021, a partnership with Japanese TV-broadcasting station WOWOW was made.
The 2021 television series ” We Are Lady Parts “, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, used the song title “Ain’t No One Gonna Honour Kill My Sister But Me,” pulled without permission from or attribution to The Kominas’s track “No One Gonna Honor Kill My Baby (but me)” from…
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In 2021, Cog stirred controversy when frontman Flynn Gower shared posts of anti-vaccination rhetoric and conspiracies surrounding COVID-19 on social media, while also publicly voicing his support for the anti-lockdown protests in New South Wales.
B’z covered “Sexual Violet No. 1” by Masahiro Kuwana for 2021’s Take Me to Kazemachi! , a tribute album to the song’s lyricist, Takashi Matsumoto .
In 2021, the band announced that their upcoming 11th studio album would be their last. On December 15, 2022, the first single for the album, “Metatropolis”, was released, along with the album’s name, Omni , as well as the announcement that it would be a double album, with Pt. 1…
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