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A backstage interview with Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation at the Rock Imperium 2026 Festival. We're talking about the new Within Temptation album and the turn in stylistic direction Within Temptation are going to make on it, as we well as about the social activism aspect of it.

Sharon also opens up about Within Temptation love for Iron Maiden and which song(s) was inspired by the Metal legends, the 30th Anniversary of Within Temptation, setlist selection and much more. Enjoy!

I was able to attend the Judas Priest concert in Warsaw, so let’s talk about the Faithkeepers Tour setlist, its production, the show itself, and hear a special message to all the Metal Pilgrims from the Metal Gods themselves!

Judas Priest are about to kick off one of the most anticipated, and definitely one of the most intriguing and mysterious tours of 2026.

So today, let's take a look at what Judas Priest will most likely do, and what they definitely will not do on the band's upcoming 2026 Faithkeepers tour. Here you go!

Now, first of all, because of the tour's title, many fans naturally assume that it might be yet another retrospective tour similar to the one Judas Priest did last year, including myself at first, only this time concentrating on the band's legendary Defenders of the Faith album. Which, by the way, I, for the record, would absolutely not mind, as it is absolutely no secret that Defenders of the Faith is actually my absolute favorite Judas Priest record.

But running a little bit ahead of myself here, no, it will not be such a tour. And I actually had a rather extensive chat with Richie Faulkner in one of our latest interviews on this channel about this tour, among other things, which you should check out if you haven't seen it yet after watching this video. And he did confirm that the Faithkeepers tour will not concentrate on any specific record, and instead celebrate the entire legacy of Judas Priest. Which on one hand seems like a pretty amazing thing, but on the other, makes pretty much any predictions about which songs they will and will not play almost impossible to make, simply because of how many albums and songs this band has after 56 year of existence.

But we will try nevertheless.

In 1991, Metallica released the Black Album and became the biggest metal band on earth. But by 1996, they already looked like a completely different band. And at the center of that change was one man, Bob Rock.

So today, let's take a look at whether Bob Rock was the genius who saved Metallica from the grunge grave, or the producer who slowly destroyed the band's identity, and then answer the question whether Metallica were wrong to work with Bob Rock back in the 1990s. Here you go!

Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition is finally out. And after watching it, I realized that it was definitely not what I expected from it.
As expected, this film is not really concentrating on any specific given era of Iron Maiden, but rather covers the entire history of this band. But not really, because if you think about it, it actually covers only specific, most important moments of Iron Maiden's history, and is in fact much more broad, general, and way less nerdy than, for example, the History of Iron Maiden series or most of the videos which I release in our Up the Iron series on this video. Which is absolutely okay, 'cause I guess it would be pretty much impossible to fit the entire 50-year long history of Iron Maiden, one of the greatest heavy metal bands on the planet, into a short two-hour long film.
But at the same time, even if we put that aside, there was still a couple of rather strange choices that the film crew came up with, which I feel like I kinda want to share with you.