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The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Legendary metal band shock fans as member exits after seven years
MUSIC fans have been left reeling following one member's shock departure from a legendary metal band. Supporters of the group are in shock after the drummer downed his sticks and walked away just days before their massive European tour. 5 5 In Flames announced the news on the band's social media accounts, telling fans they had "parted ways" with Tanner Wayne. In a statement released on Instagram, In Flames said: "It is with profound gratitude and and appreciation that we announce our creative decision to part ways with Tanner Wayne. "His dedication and musicianship over the past several years has left, and will continue to leave, a lasting mark on this band. "We wish him nothing but the best." The Swedish band, which was formed 35 years ago, concluded: "We appreciate your support and understanding at this time and hope to see you all on tour this summer." Tanner, 37, joined In Flames in July 2018 when he replaced drummer Joe Rickard. The US musician had begun his drumming career in the hardcore punk band Underminded in 2006, but only featured on one album. He went on to drum for Chiodos and Suicide Silence before his seven-year stint with In Flames. Tanner's shock exit from the band came just days before they kicked off their European tour in Estonia. For the next month, the group - consisting of Björn Gelotte, Anders Fridén, Chris Broderick and Liam Wilson - will be performing across central Europe, eventually wrapping up Sweden. But despite Tanner walking away, the shows will go on. In Flames has already recruited a new drummer who accompanied them on their opening night in Tallin, Estonia, on Monday. Jon Rice has stepped in for the band's high profile tour and appears to have slotted right in. Alongside a photo of himself playing on stage, Jon wrote on Instagram: "Show #1 done. Thank you for the warm welcome, Tallinn. "And thank you to @inflames for having me and trusting me with your tunes." In Flames was originally formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in Gothenburg out of the Swedish death metal scene in 1990. The lineup has changed multiple times over the past three decades, however vocalist Anders Fridén and guitarist Björn Gelotte have remained consistent since 1995. 5 5
Mint
2 days ago
- Business
- Mint
THESE 5 credit cards provide liberal access to airport lounges. Check the list here
When you are a credit card user, it is vital to make use of the services and features it offers. Among others, one feature that most credit cards carry is the access to domestic and international airport lounges. This means merely by swiping the card at the reception of airport lounge, you are given access for a limited time period, say half an hour. This access is usually capped till once or twice in a three-month period. Some banks even impose monetary limits on the spend in the preceding quarter to become eligible for this entitlement. Here, we list out some credit cards which provide access to airport lounge. I. HDFC Regalia Gold Credit Card: This card by HDFC Bank allows a dozen complimentary access within India (at domestic as well international terminals). II. Axis Bank Select Credit Card: This card provides upto 12 complimentary international airport lounge access through priority pass membership. You can enjoy two complimentary domestic lounge visits per quarter on the spends of ₹ 50,000 in past three months. The priority pass is renewed automatically upon meeting ₹ 3 lakh spends in preceding card anniversary year. III. SBI Card ELITE: With this card, you can get two complimentary domestic airport lounge visits every quarter in India. It also allows six complimentary airport lounge visits per calendar year outside India (maximum two visits per quarter) with effect from July 1, 2017. IV. ICICI Bank Emeralde private metal: This card by ICICI Bank allows unlimited access to both domestic and international airport lounges for both primary and plus card members. V. HDFC Bank Infinia Credit Card (Metal Edition): This invite only credit card also provides unlimited airport lounge access across the globe for both primary and add-on member. Meanwhile, it is important to note that the banks tend to revise their rules with regards to access to lounge. Therefore, one should check the latest rules which are currently in force. For instance, Tata Neu HDFC Bank credit card has rolled out new rules which will come into force from June 10 onwards. One can click here to know more on this. Disclaimer: Mint has a tie-up with fintechs for providing credit, you will need to share your information if you apply. These tie-ups do not influence our editorial content. This article only intends to educate and spread awareness about credit needs like loans, credit cards and credit score. Mint does not promote or encourage taking credit as it comes with a set of risks such as high interest rates, hidden charges, etc. We advise investors to discuss with certified experts before taking any credit.
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
NYT ‘Connections' Hints For Wednesday, May 28: Clues And Answers For Today's Game
Each day's game of NYT Connections goes live at midnight local time. As such, 'today's Connections hints and answers' depend on where you are in the world. In case you need them, here are the Connections hints and answers for Tuesday: It's Wednesday, and you know what that means: it's time for another game of Connections! FOMO, or the fear of missing out, is a horrible phenomenon. I try to dispel it as best I can, especially in situations where there isn't much I can do to avoid missing out on something cool or interesting. That said, I do wish I'd have gotten into Electric Callboy before locking in upcoming travel plans. The degree to which I have fallen for this band is shocking (As I write this, I'm listening to their catchy, dark new single, "Revery," on repeat). They're the definition of a "fun metal thing." I'm bummed that I didn't really listen to them before they toured North America in late 2023 and early 2024. Now I'll have to wait until at least next year for them to come around to these parts on their current world tour. The band did just start a European festival run last weekend. I've seen a bunch of clips and videos, and like everything else I've seen from the band's shows (I'm wayyyy down the rabbit hole here), it seems like such a great time to see them live. Unfortunately, none of the dates line up with my upcoming trip to Scotland, so I won't be able to take a short jaunt to the mainland to see Electric Callboy while I'm that part of the world on this trip. Nor do their November, January and February European dates line up with a trip I have booked for the holidays. Had I known in advance, I would have altered my plans. I mean, I could just blow all of my reward miles to fly over and see one of their festival dates over the next few weeks. There's nothing really stopping me, other than having to go through the whole international flight slog. But I'll just be patient. There's no chance I'm booking any travel for next year until I know the group's North American tour plans. My point here is that FOMO is a ridiculous concept. Either go and do the thing you don't want to miss out on or wait patiently for your next opportunity. Fretting about it does you no good. Before we begin, we have a great little community on Discord, where we chat about NYT Connections, the rest of the NYT games and all kinds of other stuff. Everyone who has joined has been lovely. It's a fun hangout spot, and you're more than welcome to hang out with us. Discord is also the best way to give me any feedback about the column, especially on the rare (or not-so-rare) occasions that I mess something up. I don't look at the comments or Twitter much. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes. Today's NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, May 28 are coming right up. Connections is a free, popular New York Times daily word game. You get a new puzzle at midnight every day. You can play on the NYT's website or Games app. You're presented with a grid of 16 words. Your task is to arrange them into four groups of four by figuring out the links between them. The groups could be things like items you can click, names for research study participants or words preceded by a body part. There's only one solution for each puzzle, and you'll need to be careful when it comes to words that might fit into more than one category. You can shuffle the words to perhaps help you see links between them. Each group is color coded. The yellow group is usually the easiest to figure out, blue and green fall in the middle, and the purple group is usually the most difficult one. The purple group often involves wordplay. Select four words you think go together and press Submit. If you make a guess and you're incorrect, you'll lose a life. If you're close to having a correct group, you might see a message telling you that you're one word away from getting it right, but you'll still need to figure out which one to swap. If you make four mistakes, it's game over. Let's make sure that doesn't happen with the help of some hints, and, if you're really struggling, today's Connections answers. As with Wordle and other similar games, it's easy to share results with your friends on social media and group chats. If you have an NYT All Access or Games subscription, you can access the publication's Connections archive. This includes every previous game of Connections, so you can go back and play any of those that you have missed. Aside from the first 60 games or so, you should be able to find my hints via Google if you need them! Just click here and add the date of the game for which you need clues or the answers to the search query. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Scroll slowly! Just after the hints for each of today's Connections groups, I'll reveal what the groups are without immediately telling you which words go into them. Today's 16 words are... And the hints for today's Connections groups are: Need some extra help? Be warned: we're starting to get into spoiler territory. Today's Connections groups are... Spoiler alert! Don't scroll any further down the page until you're ready to find out today's Connections answers. This is your final warning! Today's Connections answers are... Another perfect game brings my streak up to 92 wins. Can I make it to 100? Here's how I fared: 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Quite the lineup of words today! Just putting this out there, the first thing that came to mind when the grid popped up and CHICAGO appeared as the first word was "things associated with stars." Anyway, that, ROCKY, GLADIATIOR, CRASH (ugh) and MOONLIGHT are all movies that won the Oscar for Best Picture. But there were five of them so something had to give. JOIN helped me figure out the yellows first, so I squared those away. WHEEL, CHAIN, PEDAL and SADDLE had to go together after that for the greens. So far, so good. But I still had the five Best Picture contenders (so to speak) in the mix. What could link BLUEST, SKAT and POPE? 🤔 SKAT seemed like the odd one out there. It made me think of scatting, but that's spelled with a "c," so I figured that there was some kind of wordplay going on. Then it dawned on me. My music recommendation theme this week is ska! It's a group of music genres with a letter added! I can't lie, I felt good about figuring that one out, because I almost never get purples when they're adding, removing or changing a letter. These ones refer to blues (BLUEST), pop (POPE), rock (ROCKY) and ska (SKAT). That left the blues for the win. We already know I figured out that connection, more or less. I feel like this particular puzzle was almost made for me. I love making connections (duh), movies and music. The bike category was less tailored to me, personally, since I barely know how to ride a bike. That's all there is to it for today's Connections clues and answers. Be sure to check my blog tomorrow for hints and the solution for Thursday's game if you need them. P.S. Keeping up with this week's ska punk theme, I saw this band last year. I never got hugely into Rancid, but I do really like a few of their songs, such as "Ruby Soho" and this one, "Time Bomb." I find it nearly impossible not to dance to this one a little: Have a great day! Stay hydrated! Call someone you love! Please follow my blog for more coverage of NYT Connections and other word games, and even some video game news, insights and analysis. It helps me out a lot! Sharing this column with other people who play Connections would be appreciated too. You can also read my weekend editions of this column at my new newsletter, Pastimes.
Forbes
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Love Or Loathe Them, Sleep Token Gave Metal It's Biggest Win Since 2019
LEEDS, ENGLAND - AUGUST 27: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Sleep Token performs on Day 3 of Leeds Festival ... More 2023 at Bramham Park on August 27, 2023 in Leeds, England. (Photo by Katja Ogrin/Redferns) Between Ghost's 2025 LP Skeletá and now Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia, metal music has now seen two No.1 charting albums within the span of a month – a feat not seen in over six years for the genre. Slipknot and TOOL's 2019 LPs, both of which released in the month of August, were the last two metal albums to chart at No.1 within the same month time span. With Ghost and Sleep Token achieving their first No.1 charting albums last month, there's a lot to be said about what this implicates for metal and hard-rock music in the mainstream. It bears comparing 2019's back-to-back No.1 metal albums to 2025's, as neither Sleep Token nor Ghost had seen this kind of charting success before, whereas Slipknot and TOOL both had – Slipknot and TOOL's 2019 album sales pale in comparison to their previous No.1 charting records. Furthermore, Ghost isn't exactly new to the scene but they're an arena touring act that's been climbing the charts over the last couple releases, so their sixth studio LP Skeletá was expected to at least make it close to No.1 in the U.S. Sleep Token, however, who only released their first LP in 2019, has seen quite the jump in their fanbase over the last two years – their previous 2023 LP Take Me Back To Eden landed at No. 16 on the U.S. Top 200 albums charts. Since then not only has Sleep Token earned their first No.1 charting album with just their fourth studio album Even In Arcadia, but they've quickly become metal's next arena and festival headliner. What's so striking about Sleep Token's soaring success is the possibilities it could mean for the future of metal, specifically its new and rising acts. For the last two decades, bands in the scene have had to earn their stripes and go above and beyond in their careers to build their fanbase and hopefully become an arena or festival headliner. Acts from the 2000s-2010s like Gojira, Trivium, Deftones and are just now getting to tour across the world as arena headliners, only 20 plus years later. While this aspect hasn't exactly changed in this decade, the means and methods of cultivating a fanbase has changed, specifically with how music consumers engage with music via social media. So many metal and hard-rock artists like Sleep Token and Ghost, have seen such viral success as a result of platforms like Tiktok and Instagram reels. Even Deftones' recent resurgence is a result of Gen-Z's fascination with the 90's-early 2000s nu metal era. However, in the case of Sleep Token, the band brilliantly utilizes their own mystique and ambiguous aura in a way that encourages their own fanbase to consistently engage with them on social media. Sleep Token's unprecedented success this year has been a result of their effective methods in attracting listeners into their fanbase via social media, as well doubling down on their enigma like-persona. Regardless of whether or not you find their music to be great or lackluster, there's a lot that other bands could take away from Sleep Token's success and more importantly how they cleverly engage with their fanbase.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Thanks to albums such as British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance, Judas Priest had ascended to metal's premier division by the mid-80s. But they hit a bump in the road with 1986's Turbo, an album that saw the veteran band trying out new technology but left many fans cold . In 2017, singer Rob Halford and bassist Ian Hill looked back on the darkness and tragedy that shaped their most divisive record. Turbo is the sore thumb in the Judas Priest catalogue. Received wisdom pitches it somewhere between a cynical sell-out with one eye on the pop market and outright career suicide. Neither is true. Turbo may have been a departure on the surface, but at heart it was a classic Priest album. On a commercial level, it was far from a flop thanks to mainstream American radio and MTV picking up on the singles Turbo Lover, Locked In and the anti-censorship broadside Parental Guidance. 'It lost us some friends,' says Priest bassist Ian Hill, a mainstay of the band since their very beginning in Birmingham at the end of the 1960s. 'But it made us as least as many as we'd lost.' Priest were coming off the back of a stellar run of success when they began work on Turbo. While their late-70s and early-80s albums had enshrined them as one of Britain's pre-eminent metal bands, the platinum-plated one-two of 1982's Screaming For Vengeance and '84's Defenders Of The Faith had turned them into bona fide rock stars in America. 'We were on top of the world,' says Rob, a man whose drily lugubrious manner is amusingly at odds with his Metal God persona. 'After slogging away for years, we'd suddenly reached that place all bands strive to get to, which is success. It was an amazing time, not only for Priest but for metal in general.' After touring Defenders Of The Faith, the band gave themselves a much-needed break. When they reconvened in Marbella in southern Spain in early 1985, they were keen to throw themselves back into the fray. But the last thing they wanted to do was merely repeat past glories. 'Some people would have been absolutely over the moon if we'd done another Defenders Of The Faith,' says Ian. 'But we felt like we'd reached the end of the line with that. Some bands get a formula and they stick to it, and people love them for it. But we've always moved forwards.' As they soaked up the sun in Marbella, they began to realise that things had changed since they had been away. Launched just a few years earlier, MTV had become a music industry powerhouse with the power to make or break bands. Many of Priest's peers had latched onto this and altered their approach to fit this revolutionary new format, chief among them ZZ Top and Billy Idol, who had begun incorporating the latest technology into their sound and serving up eye-catching videos to fit in the heavy rotation slots. 'We were definitely aware of what was going on with MTV,' says Rob. 'It was a gamechanger. It totally changed the face of music, which probably had some influence on the general outcome of Turbo.' Understandably, when electronic instrument company Roland approached Priest to see if they would be interested in being the people to try out a brand new guitarsynthesizer they had developed, the band jumped at the chance. 'It basically took the straightforward sound that you normally get if you plug a guitar into a Marshall amp, but let you alter the sound completely,' says Rob. 'It could give you a non-guitar sound. That was at the heart of Turbo. And that, I think, was part of the pushback from the purists in metal: 'Why are you messing with the sound? That's not the Priest we want to hear.'' The band weren't oblivious to the ramifications of what they were planning when they flew to the Bahamas to begin work on the album at Nassau's Compass Point Studios with longtime producer 'Colonel' Tom Allom, but they were still determined to push forward. It wasn't the only radical decision they had made. The original plan was that the new album would be a double, titled Twin Turbos. 'We wanted a double album for the price of a single one,' says Ian. 'The label weren't happy about that. They couldn't manufacture the album and flog it for what we wanted them to sell it for. So about halfway through the writing process, we decided to go with it as a single album.' Some of the tracks written for Twin Turbos would appear on their next album, 1988's Ram It Down, while others would feature as bonus tracks on subsequent reissues. But clashes with their record label were the least of Rob's worries. The singer had his own battles to deal with. Ask him today what someone might have seen if they'd have walked in halfway through the sessions, and he laughs drily. 'I'd probably have been in the corner with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a mound of coke,' he says. 'I was out of my fucking tree. That's where I was at personally. It was a point where I needed help. I don't know how the guys coped with me.' 'We all went over the top in the 80s,' says Ian. 'If you weren't going over the top, there was something wrong. But we didn't realise quite how far gone Rob was.' Rob's state of mind wasn't helped by the exotic location. 'There were tremendous distractions,' he says. 'We'd start work at six o'clock at night, then Tom Allom would have his gin and tonic and that was the end of the session. We'd all go down the pub and get loaded. We had to get the hell out of the Bahamas. Somebody said, 'Why don't we go to Miami instead?' Oh yeah, great idea. 'Cos there were no distractions there either. Ha ha ha, oh my god.' Instead, the band moved their base of operations to Los Angeles. It was there that Rob checked into rehab. 'I came out after 30 days and my life had changed in a million ways,' he says. 'The important part was my ability to understand that music is the most important thing in my life and that I don't need any other chemical influence to do what I need to do.' He may have been clean and sober, but life had one more tragic twist to throw at him. In 1986, Rob's boyfriend at the time killed himself in front of the singer. He's reluctant to talk about specifics, but his voice takes on an understandably solemn note when he recalls the impact it had on his life. 'I was with someone who was also dealing with their own self-destructive challenges,' he says. 'That was my pledge, in the memory of that person, to stay clean and sober. In fact, I just passed my 31st birthday last week. But drug addiction and alcoholism is like a curse, man. Bands ask me about the drink and the drugs, and I say, 'Fucking do it, it's a rite of passage – I hope you have a good time with it and I hope it doesn't kill you.' Because it can, and it does.' Ironically, given Rob's own personal turmoil, Turbo is resolutely uplifting, defiant and even sex-obsessed. It's there in the titles: Turbo Lover; Hot For Love; Reckless; Wild Nights, Hot And Crazy Days. Even the album's cover illustration of a woman's hand clutching a gear stick is a barely disguised visual innuendo. It also features Parental Guidance, a winking dig at the PMRC, the censorship group who had included Priest's song Eat Me Alive on their so-called 'Filthy Fifteen' – a list of songs that they claimed threatened the moral fabric of America. The PMRC successfully campaigned to put 'Parental Guidance' stickers on albums containing explicit material. 'We couldn't believe our ears when we heard about it,' says Rob. 'It's one of those things that only happens in America. I remember the day we said, 'We should write a song called Parental Guidance. Take a walk in my shoes and see what you're afraid of – it's not real. As it turns out, Turbo was a commercial success, one of the biggest ones Priest had. So the PMRC thing didn't have any knock-on effect.' That commercial success must have seemed a long way off when the album was released in April 1986. Initial reactions in the press were at best baffled and at worst outright hostile. More importantly, its synthesized sounds alienated a chunk of their fanbase who wanted Priest's traditional steel-plated twin guitar attack. 'It was a bit of a kick in the balls. It's not nice to make a record and somebody goes, 'This is shit.' But this is the balancing act – you have to write from the heart, for yourself. You need the opportunity to express yourself and bang into things when you do.' Age has been kind to Turbo. Its unconventional approach may have scared the horses at the time, but today it sounds shockingly modern. And its opening four tracks – Turbo Lover, Locked In, Private Property and Parental Guidance – are stone cold pop-metal classics, guitar-synths or not. 'It was a grand experiment,' says Ian. 'We weren't sure what the reaction would be, but we believed we were doing the right thing. And that's why it's honest.' 'The original kickback has mellowed over the years,' adds Rob. 'People appreciate it now for the songs. They've embraced it. We could bang out any of those tracks live now and they'd do the business. Judas Priest are this band that has many metal heads attached to its shoulders, and Turbo has become part of the legend.' Originally published in Metal Hammer issue 281, February 2017
