The Daily Drop: July 13th 2026

Welcome to The Daily Drop, your roundup of the latest news from the rock, metal, punk, emo, hardcore, and alternative scenes.

Today’s round-up sees Mastodon detail new album ‘Marrow Deep’ and share a monstrous new single featuring Josh Homme, while unpeople confirm their biggest UK headline tour to date. Elsewhere, Movements preview their upcoming album ‘Happier Now’ with new single ‘Separate’.

There are also 33 new additions to the ‘Newish Music’ playlist.

Here’s everything you need to know from July 13th.

Mastodon Detail New Album ‘Marrow Deep’ & Share ‘Snakes For Dinner’

Last month, Mastodon returned with ‘Your Ghost Again.’ It served as the first taster of ‘Marrow Deep,’ the prog metallers new album. Due to be released on August 28th through Loma Vista Recordings, it sees founding members Brann Dailor, Troy Sanders and Bill Kelliher be joined by guitarist Nick Johnston, and keyboardist João Nogueira. The album pulls from the ‘Three Fates of Greek’ mythology as a route into themes of loss and destiny.

“Bill, Brann, and myself are thrilled that we still have the opportunity to do this, and we’ve got other members who are just over the moon to be in the band with us,” says Mastodon bassist Sanders. “That’s a magical feeling that makes us keep wanting to go to band practice. It’s reminiscent of the very beginning of our band, where all members are hungry, we’re united, and excited to get to work. And we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to do this record.”

The announcement comes with a new single. ‘Snakes For Dinner’ features guest vocals from Queens of the Stone Age‘s Josh Homme, his first appearance on a Mastodon record since 2006’s ‘Colony of Birchmen’ from ‘Blood Mountain’. Accompanied by its psychedelic video, ‘Snakes For Dinner’ leans into Mastodon’s prog metal tendencies. With Nogueira’s keys, Dailor’s penetrative drums, and fierce guitars from Johnston and Kelliher, it makes for a promising teaser of ‘Marrow Deep’. Meanwhile, Homme’s contribution provides the track with a hypnotic finale.

‘Marrow Deep’ was co-produced by the band at their own West End Sound studio in Atlanta with Patrik Berger and Kurt Ballou, and mixed by Andrew Scheps. It follows the recent release of the short film ‘The Mastodon in the Room’, in which the band confront the fallout from founding guitarist Brent Hinds’ departure and passing.

Mastodon head out on tour across North America this autumn, with support from Deafheaven and Alcest.

unpeople Announce Biggest UK Headline Tour To Date

Fresh from main stage sets at Download Festival and Copenhell, plus a Best Breakthrough Live Artist win at the Heavy Music Awards, unpeople are stepping things up again with their biggest headline run so far. The quartet will kick off 2027 with eight UK and Ireland headline shows across, closing with a night at London’s Electric Ballroom on January 28th.

Presale tickets go live Wednesday, July 15th at 10am, with general sale following on Friday, July 17th at 10am.

The run builds on momentum around debut album ‘we are unpeople’, out October 9th via SharpTone Records, and follows singles ‘friends’, ‘clouds’, ‘the garden’ and ‘waste’.

Movements Preview ‘Happier Now’ with ‘Separate’

‘Separate’ is the latest preview from Movements‘ forthcoming album ‘Happier Now’.

The dark and brooding number serves as the album’s closing track. It exemplifies the album’s bleak tone, despite its misleading title. On the track, vocalist Patrick Miranda is confessional, giving the impression of a defeated attitude; closing with “All of me, I gave all of me”.

‘Happier Now’ is released on September 4th via Fearless Records.

Today’s New Songs

Here’s a rundown of the latest additions to our ‘Newish Music’ playlist.

Mastodon – Snakes for Dinner
Mayday Parade – Lying to Myself
Movements – Seperate
Lorna Shore – War Machine
Miss May I – Sanctuary
Anthrax – The Edge Of Perfection
Of Virtue – The End
The Linda Lindas & Hayley Williams – Closer
Wavves and Say Anything – Deathx1k
Cold Years – Dread
Defects – Signs (feat. Matt Heafy)
Jazmin Bean – Silvering Blade
Halflives – Snake // Resurrected
Brightshade – Believe
Feldspar – Heart Is A Ghetto
Knosis – Kushizashi
The Cartographer – Blood
Lumens – Cyber
Moskito – Run It Back
Lakeview and The Ghost Inside – Kill Me First
Rufio – Maps
Recollection – Intrusive Thoughts
The Haunt – Worst Taste In Men
Hark! A Shark – Dead Flowers
The Calling – Dust
Crumbling Ghost – Last of All Sleep
The Upsides – Say Follow
Dieyoung – Kerosene
Static Abyss – The Dying Hunt
Thorns – Muzzle
Space Pistol – I Can’t Sleep
Dead All Day – Superzero
Mazare & Lost in Hollywood – The End
Showoff – Turn Off The Lights
Mortez – Reaper

Keep up to date with all the latest rock, metal, punk, and beyond, by following AlreadyHeard‘s ‘Newish Music’ Playlist.

Find the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music.