The Daily Drop: May 22nd 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 is stacked with news. There are tour announcements from Bury Tomorrow, Deaf Havana and Good Charlotte, while Static Dress reveal the full tracklist for their imminent new album via a free online horror game. Stand Atlantic, Haken, SiM, Air Drawn Dagger, and Din of Celestial all release new tracks. There are also 17 new additions to the ‘Newish Music’ playlist.

Here’s everything you need to know for May 21st.

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Good Charlotte Unveil UK Headline Dates with Yellowcard

Good Charlotte have confirmed the UK leg of their ‘Motel Du Cap’ tour, their first UK shows since 2019. The two-date November run lands at two of the country’s largest arenas, with Yellowcard joining as support across both shows. General sale tickets go on sale May 29th at 10am.

The announcement comes as the band headline the main stage at Slam Dunk Festival this weekend.

Bury Tomorrow Announce February 2027 UK Headline Tour

Southampton metalcore outfit Bury Tomorrow have announced a three-date February 2027 UK headline run, their biggest production to date. Taking in Glasgow, Nottingham and London, the tour culminates at the O2 Academy Brixton, the band’s largest London headline show to date. Stick To Your Guns, Windwaker and Elwood Stray are confirmed as support across all three dates.

Frontman Dani Winter-Bates says: “The new chapter live… We are unbelievably proud to announce our latest headline tour. For a long time we have looked up to bands playing Brixton as a future ambition, supporting Parkway and Architects in the past, we can’t wait to bring our biggest production ever to London this time around. We are of course stoked to be able to play Glasgow and Nottingham again at two venues we love dearly, with amazing supports with us, friends old and new, in Stick to Your Guns, Windwaker and Elwood Stray. We will never get used to venues this size and certainly won’t take it for granted, let’s pack these out… as a new era of BT begins soon… see you soon.”

Pre-sale tickets are available from May 26th at 9am, with general sale opening May 28th at 9am.

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Static Dress Reveal ‘injury episode’ Tracklist via Online Horror Game

As they prepare to release their second album, ‘injury episode’, next week, Static Dress have unveiled the full tracklist via an unusual route.

‘The Magistrate’s Loop’ is a free-to-play online psychological horror game, available now at staticdress.com/tml, that sits within the band’s wider serialised fictional universe. Short and deliberately unsettling by design, it follows two previous Game Boy Colour games and leads directly into the opening chapter of ‘injury episode’. The tracklist, previously hidden behind a code carrying a secret message, is now revealed in full.

The 15-track album features a collaboration with Underoath on ‘Nostalgia Kills’. Static Dress play Slam Dunk Festival this weekend, May 23rd at Hatfield Park and May 24th at Temple Newsam Park.

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Deaf Havana Announce ‘Fools and Worthless Liars’ 15th Anniversary UK Tour

Deaf Havana have announced a UK and Ireland headline run to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their second album, ‘Fools and Worthless Liars’. The band will play the record in full at every date, with The Dangerous Summer performing their album ‘Reach For The Sun’ in its entirety as support.

The band say: “We are incredibly excited to announce that we are taking a trip down memory lane right back to the album that really kicked everything off for us, we invite you to our celebration of 15 years of ‘Fools and Worthless Liars’. Pretty much everything we have been able to do as a band has come from this record and we are eternally grateful for it. Yeah sure, we are all getting older, but it’s beautiful and humbling to think about how far this record has come and how much it has meant to so many of you lovely people and we can’t bloody wait to bring these songs back to life for you all! We’re going to be playing the FAWL in full, along with a healthy selection of bangers on the side, and it’s going to be a hell of a good time.”

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Haken Return With ‘in a fever dream’, Their First New Music in Three Years

UK progressive metal outfit Haken are back with their first new track since 2023. ‘in a fever dream’, released via InsideOut Music, and marks something of a milestone for the band. It their first recording made with an outside producer, bringing in George Lever, known for his work with Loathe and Sleep Token.

The track also marks a new chapter following the departures of guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green earlier this year. The stirring track features guest bassist Bryan Beller, known for his work alongside The Aristocrats, Dethklok and Joe Satriani.

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Stand Atlantic Share New Single ‘Velcro’

‘Velcro’ marks a new chapter for Stand Atlantic. The Sydney quartet’s latest single is their first release via new label partner Virgin Music Group, and it represents a deliberate return to the direct, hook-driven sound of their earlier work. Lyrically, it also finds frontwoman Bonnie Fraser writing about love with an openness she has spent a decade deliberately avoiding.

“I’ve spent 10 years avoiding love songs and writing only about what ended in heartbreak. On ‘Velcro’, that curse is finally broken. It’s the most honest thing I’ve written in a long time, after a really intense period of writer’s block, so recording it live, raw and unfiltered felt like the only way to do it,” Fraser explains. “The curse is officially broken, the gates are open, our lovergirl era is on, and ‘Velcro’ says you’re welcome.”

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SiM Confirm New Album ‘HOOMAN AFTER ALL’

Japanese punk-reggae-metal outfit SiM have confirmed their seventh studio album. ‘HOOMAN AFTER ALL’ is out September 2nd via UNFD, and arrives alongside the announcement of a world tour that includes a UK leg covering Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and London. Specific UK dates are yet to be announced.

Alongside the album, the band have shared new collaboration ‘BLiNDEYES’, featuring Yukina of Japanese metalcore act HANABIE. Vocalist MAH says: “Yukina added the perfect spice to my rage track. Can’t wait to tear it up live!”

The world tour includes a UK run in January 2027.

January
20th SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow
22nd The Wardrobe, Leeds
23rd Academy 3, Manchester
25th Institute 3, Birmingham
26th Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
28th The Fleece, Bristol
30th Electric Ballroom, London

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Din of Celestial Birds Sign to Big Scary Monsters & Detail ‘Takeoffs & Landings’

Leeds instrumental post-rock quintet Din of Celestial Birds have signed to Big Scary Monsters and confirmed their second album. ‘Takeoffs & Landings’ arrives August 7th, with simultaneous releases via A Thousand Arms in the US and Tomato Records in China.

A concept album built around themes of adventure, travel and the arc of a life, it was produced by Joe Clayton of Pijn at No Studio, Manchester.

Guitarist Andie Gill says: “A huge chunk of my degree was based around film soundtracks and how certain tricks are used to manipulate emotions.”

On their ambitions for the record, the band add: “The goal is that people listening to the album will feel something; either from the experiences they have had that the music evokes, or that the music takes them to new places. We want listeners to feel these adventures; to visualise huge mountains and vast oceans. Failing that, we want them to feel joy.”

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Air Drawn Dagger Drop ‘Me & My Friends (We’re Trying Asbestos We Can)’

Air Drawn Dagger are back with their first new music since last year’s debut album, ‘A Guide For Apparitions’. New single ‘Me & My Friends (We’re Trying Asbestos We Can)’ was written in a German mountain cabin between tour dates, and it shows: a communal, campfire-style chorus up against the heaviest, most chaotic music the band have recorded.

The band say: “This song was forged in a cabin in the German mountains in the brief space between tour dates. It came from a period of exhaustion, closeness, and reflection, where everything felt heightened and exposed. It documents a band in motion, writing in real time, and allowing the chaos of this period to shape the song rather than fighting against it.”

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Today’s New Songs

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

PRESIDENT – Doom Loop
Quicksand – Crystallize
SiM – Blindeyes
Haken – in a fever dream
Defects – All For Nothing
Stand Atlantic – Velcro
Pinkshift – when we were friends
Din of Celestial Birds – Takeoffs & Landings
Other Half – Give Them The Girl
Belvedere – Dormitory
Air Drawn Dagger – Me & My Friends (We’re Trying Asbestos We Can)
Petey USA – Kiss The City
Lost in Kyiv – Becoming (feat. Rebecca Need-Menear)
Shooting Daggers – My Oh My
Prince of Failure – Jaded Future
The Hardkiss – I Love You (feat. The Hara)
Distant – Rat Torture

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.