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The Wallflowers Play Bringing Down the Horse in Full at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on November 20

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4 days ago

November 11, 2026

The Wallflowers performing live at First Avenue in Minneapolis. Photo by SydKat.

Thirty years on, the album gets played the way it was sequenced. The Wallflowers bring the Bringing Down the Horse anniversary tour to O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday night, performing the 1996 breakthrough from front to back, then doing the same with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark.

The Wallflowers play O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, Shepherds Bush Green, London W12 8TT, on Friday, November 20, 2026. Doors are at 6:30 PM. The night is built around two full album performances: Bringing Down the Horse played in its entirety, followed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Long After Dark played front to back. The tour marks the first time the band has ever performed Bringing Down the Horse in full.

The London show sits near the end of the European leg of a 79 date anniversary tour of North America and Europe. The leg opened in Copenhagen on November 10 and passes through Oslo, Stockholm, Utrecht, Paris and Antwerp before London, and the whole tour closes in Dublin on November 22.

Bringing Down the Horse, released in 1996, is the band’s breakthrough album, home to “One Headlight” and “6th Avenue Heartache”. Fronted by Jakob Dylan, the band ended a nine year break from the studio with Exit Wounds, released in 2021 on New West Records.

EMPATH, Built From Volbeat, Rising And Anti-Ritual Members, Drop Their Self-Titled Debut Album

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17 hours ago

November 14, 2026

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EMPATH's four members in a black and white portrait against a dark background

Copenhagen has a new heavy rock band with serious pedigree. EMPATH, formed by members of Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual, have released their self-titled debut album today, November 13th, on Indisciplinarian — a dark and dreamy take on heavy rock built on atmosphere, melody and crushing dynamics.

EMPATH is the sound of a new, dark and dreamy heavy rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark — one that revolves around atmosphere, presence and empathy. The constellation may be new, but the four members carry solid experience from bands such as Volbeat, Rising and Anti-Ritual.

In a digital and efficiency-driven age, where humanity is increasingly giving way to mechanical coldness, EMPATH — as the name suggests — is about presence, empathy and humanity. This ethos runs like a common thread through the band’s self-titled debut album, released today, November 13th, 2026, on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats via Indisciplinarian.

Across nine songs, EMPATH blends elements of progressive metal, doom, sludge and post-rock into a sound that is as dreamy and melodic as it is heavy and riff-driven. The music was recorded live with producer Lasse Ballade (Halshug, Slægt, Eyes) at Ballade Studios in Copenhagen, with vocals tracked at Grapehouse Studios by Morten Grønnegaard. Ballade also handled mix and mastering, while the artwork was created by illustrator Jon Gotlev (Nohr).

The album was first introduced by the single “Waves,” followed by “Vessel,” both pointing toward the band’s balance of melodic clarity and dense, riff-driven weight. EMPATH plays its debut show on December 11th at Hotel Cecil in Copenhagen.

EMPATH Track Listing

1. In Absence
2. Waves
3. Vessel
4. In Formation
5. In Bloom
6. In Thought
7. In Dissent
8. In Memory
9. In Return

Before forming EMPATH, guitarist/vocalist Morten Grønnegaard played with Volbeat on the albums Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and Seal the Deal & Let’s Boogie. Bassist Christian Qvortrup played in the epic doom metal band Rising, while drummer Jakob Krogholt toured and recorded with Anti-Ritual.