Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills performs during 2025 When We Were Young festival at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on October 18, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)
If you ever wondered what Ice Nine Kills would sound like if they were from the 1980s, we finally have an answer.
The horror-themed outfit has unearthed a new song called “Hell or High Slaughter” recorded by a hair metal band called Grave Diggler, which, according to a press release, featured the fathers of every INK member.
However, as seen in the “Hell or High Slaughter” video, the Grave Diggler members look an awful lot like Spencer Charnas and company in Mötley Crüe-esque wigs.
“What people don’t know is that the way that Ice Nine Kills actually met is that all of our fathers were in Grave Diggler,” Charnas, ever committed to the bit, says in a statement.
You can watch the “Hell or High Slaughter” video on YouTube. The song is also featured in the new horror movie sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, in theaters now.
Ice Nine Kills released a new song called “Twisting the Knife” for another horror film, Scream 7, in February.
‘Everything Glows’ album artwork. (Columbia Records)
Cannons have released a new song called “Light as a Feather,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Everything Glows.
“Opening in slow-motion with keyboards sighing behind twinkling stereoscopic guitars, [‘Light as a Feather’] soon explodes into a dance anthem,” a press release reads.
A visualizer for “Light as a Feather” is now available on YouTube.
Everything Glows, the follow-up to 2023’s Heartbeat Highway, drops March 27. It also includes the previously released songs “Starlight,” “All I Need” and “These Nights.”
Cannons will launch a U.S. tour with Bob Moses on March 31 in Phoenix.
The Iran South Pars Gas Complex Company is pictured on Thursday, June 23, 2005 in Assaluyeh, Iran. Ramin Talaie/Bloomberg via Getty Images
(LONDON) — Israel’s strike on the world’s largest natural gas field could severely impact Iran’s energy sector and several nearby Gulf states, energy experts told ABC News.
On Wednesday, Israel launched air strikes on South Pars, a natural gas field that covers about 3,700 square miles and serves as a vital source of fuel for Iran. It is located offshore in the Persian Gulf and contains about 1,800 trillion cubic feet of usable gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
South Pars accounts for about 70% of the gas Iran consumes, Ira Joseph, a senior research associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, told ABC News.
David G. Victor, a professor of innovation and public policy at the University of California at San Diego, agreed on the importance of South Pars to Iran.
“It’s the single most important natural gas field to Iran,” he told ABC News. “If you start tanking the Iranian economy, eventually, other parts of that infrastructure are going to start falling apart too.”
South Pars is part of a giant gas field that transverses to other nations — another section, the North Dome, is part of the same natural gas field but lies in Qatari territorial waters.
Combined, South Pars and the North Field account for about 10% of the gas traded in the world and about 20% of the world’s liquified natural gas (LNG) annual exports, Joseph noted.
Iran also exports gas into Turkey, Iraq and Central Asia — so those exports have been disrupted by the war, according to Joseph. Turkey acquires up to 15% of its gas from Iran, he added.
The U.S. is relatively insulated from natural gas price shocks due to the strikes on Iran’s gas fields because the U.S. is a big producer and doesn’t have enough export capacity to fully link itself to Asian and European markets, Catherine Wolfram, a professor of energy economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told ABC News.
Countries like Japan, Korea and the Europeans who are dependent on imports will take a big hit to their supply as a result of the attack on South Pars, she said.
But the impacts of the strikes on the South Pars field extend “far beyond” energy prices, Naho Mirumachi, a professor of environmental politics at King’s College in London, told ABC News.
The current volatility of gas production can have “serious” impacts on agriculture and the global production of food, especially since natural gas is vital for fertilizer production, she noted. Fertilizer shortages or higher prices of fertilizer will likely translate to increases in food costs, according to Mirumachi.
“Food production cannot wait for gas production to return to normal, so farmers and businesses could face declining crop yields,” she said.
There has never been an attack of this magnitude on South Pars field because of a historical understanding within the region to not disrupt or inhibit each other’s vital infrastructure, according to the University of California’s Victor.
“There had been a kind of norm that exists in many wars, which is, don’t attack each other’s vital infrastructure,” he said. “Both sides had an interest in not obliterating each other’s energy infrastructure and then causing this enormous harm in the global market.”
The strike on South Pars triggered an escalation of attacks on oil and gas facilities in the region.
Iran launched a series of retaliatory strikes against the vital energy infrastructure in nearby Gulf states. It issued evacuation orders for several energy assets in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, before hitting the world’s largest LNG terminal — an import and export facility — at Ras Laffan in Qatar.
“Targeting energy infrastructure constitutes a threat to global energy security, as well as to the peoples of the region & its environment,” a spokesperson for the QatariMinistry of Foreign Affairs wrote in a post on X on Wednesday.
In a social media post late Wednesday, President Donald Trump said neither the U.S. nor Qatar was aware Israel would attack the South Pars Gas Field, calling for Israel to not do so again unless Iran continues attacking Qatar’s LNG facilities.
“NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar,” Trump said.
Iran warned that it would target energy facilities throughout the region.
The attacks on energy centers began on March 7, with Israeli air strikes on major Iranian oil storage facilities causing “black rain” to fall on the Tehran, Iran’s capital with nearly 10 million residents. The Israeli military said the facilities were struck because they were “used by the Military Forces of the Iranian Terror Regime in Tehran.”
On March 11, the International Energy Agency announced it would release 400 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserve — the largest-ever release of reserve oil in the group’s history — in response to the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz. A fifth of the global oil supply passes through the waterway, which lies between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.
The U.S. also executed a strike on Kharg Island on March 13. The small island is situated in the Persian Gulf, off the southwestern coast of Iran, and processes 90% of Iranian oil exports.
Every military target on Kharg Island was “obliterated,” Trump said in a social media post. But its oil infrastructure was left intact.
The conflict has sent energy prices soaring, with Brent crude — the international standard for oil — peaking at $119 per barrel on Thursday morning.
BTS, ‘THE COMBACK LIVE | ARIRANG’ (Courtesy Netflix)
As BTS gets ready to headline their Netflix concert, THE COMEBACK LIVE, on Saturday, one of their members is nursing an injury.
The band’s record label, Big Hit, has announced that RM injured his ankle during rehearsals for the concert and was taken to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a sprain and a partial ligament tear. He will have to wear a cast and “strictly limit movement” for two weeks.
While RM will still take part in the Netflix concert, the statement noted that his “on-stage performance, including choreography, will be partially limited.”
RM shared a photo of the medical walking boot he’s now wearing on his left foot following his injury. During a live session with the group, he told fans, “I’m not able to perform right away, but I’ll be on stage … I’ll be singing and hyping everyone up. I’ll try hard to recover for the [tour], so please don’t worry because it’s not … serious.”
The special, BTS’ first full concert as a group since 2022, coincides with the release of their new album, ARIRANG.
BTS’ THE COMEBACK LIVE debuts Saturday at 7 a.m. ET.
Many people have been inspired by Adele’s vocals, but Shakira has apparently been inspired by her concert venue.
This fall she’ll be performing a three-night residency in Madrid, Spain, at Shakira Stadium, a temporary venue that can hold more than 50,000 fans per night. The space will be similar to the purpose-built stadium space used by Adele when she played her residency in Munich, Germany, in 2024.
The three-night residency runs Sept. 25, 26 and 27, and marks Shakira’s first performances in Spain in eight years. The event will be “an immersive cultural destination,” according to a press release. In addition, Shakira will curate a series of activities across Madrid encompassing concerts, exhibits, talks, workshops, movies, food and literature, called “Es Latina.”
A ticket presale begins Tuesday via Ticketmaster, followed by the general sale March 27 at livenation.es.
The residency will mark the final dates of Shakira’s current tour, which has become the highest-grossing tour ever by an Hispanic artist.
Latto’s Big Mama nickname has taken on a new meaning: she’s expecting her first child.
She revealed the news on her new single “Business & Personal (Intro),” where she reflects on her growth, success and resilience despite critics and humble beginnings.
“Car seat, got a kid on the way (Kid on the way),” she raps, later adding, “This baby ain’t slowing s*** down but the horsepower.” She also mentions the pregnancy in lines about “tryna hide my belly” and taking prenatal vitamins.
The music video further confirms the news, blending childhood home footage with present-day scenes. It opens with Latto painting on her bedroom floor and later shows her preparing a crib, and putting together a scrapbook with baby photos and a positive pregnancy test. In other moments, she flexes her changing body while tending to her garden and counting money.
“Business & Personal” serves as the lead single for Latto’s upcoming album, Big Mama, arriving on May 29. The cover art features her holding a baby cheetah with her baby bump on display.
Latto has not identified the father of her child. She confirmed to TMZ in September that she was in a relationship with 21 Savage, calling him “my man, my man, my man.” Fans believe he’s included in the music video, using his tattoos as clues and pointing to his baby photos in Latto’s scrapbook.
Ali Staking talks about how she and her family reacted to Eric Richins’ sudden death and Kouri Richins’ subsequent murder trial. (ABC News)
(NEW YORK) — After Kouri Richins was charged with murder for fatally poisoning her husband with fentanyl, a friend of the Utah mother of three had a difficult time reconciling that.
In an exclusive interview with “20/20,” Ali Staking said she and her children were “devastated” about the sudden 2022 death of 39-year-old Eric Richins.
“I said, along the way, ‘Sometimes it looks like Kouri might have done it,'” Staking recalled saying to her children. “Then my kids would say, ‘Well, did she?’ And I’d say ‘I don’t think so. But, you know, it sometimes looks like it.'”
A Summit County jury ultimately found 35-year-old Kouri Richins guilty of aggravated murder on Monday, after prosecutors argued during the three-week trial that she killed her husband for financial gain by giving him a lethal dose of fentanyl in a cocktail.
Eric Richins was found dead in bed on March 4, 2022. An autopsy determined that he died from fentanyl intoxication, and the level of fentanyl in his blood was approximately five times the lethal dosage, according to the charging document. The medical examiner determined the fentanyl was “illicit fentanyl,” not medical grade, according to the charging document.
Kouri Richins, who self-published a children’s book on grief following her husband’s death, was arrested in May 2023 following a lengthy investigation.
The charges alleged that she spiked his drink with a lethal dose of fentanyl that she purchased illicitly, and that she also gave her husband a sandwich laced with fentanyl on Valentine’s Day two weeks before his death in an initial, failed attempt to kill him.
Prosecutors argued that Kouri Richins wanted a “fresh start” and to leave her husband, but didn’t want to leave his money. They said she was in “financial desperation” due to her house flipping business’ debts and needed a significant influx of cash immediately.
According to prosecutors, she believed she would have financially benefited from her husband’s death — without realizing that his assets were in a trust overseen by one of his sisters.
A jury found her guilty of all five counts, including aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder, after about three hours of deliberations on Monday. She was also found guilty of insurance fraud for taking out a $100,000 insurance policy on her husband’s life with his forged signature and also for submitting a claim following his death.
Kouri Richins, who had pleaded not guilty and asserted her innocence from jail, did not testify during the trial and the defense called no witnesses. Her sentencing has been scheduled for May 13. She faces 25 years to life in prison.
Staking, who testified during the trial, said she was “very surprised that there was no defense.”
ABC News contributor Brian Buckmire suggested this was a reflection of the defense’s confidence.
“They may believe the prosecution didn’t make out their case, that having any witness on the stand wouldn’t make sense because they’ve already won their case,” he told “20/20.”
Staking said it was “surreal” learning that Eric Richins had died, describing him as a “dedicated dad” and a “goofy cowboy dude who loved to dance.”
“He had so much more life to live and he wanted so much for his boys,” she said. “I’m gonna remember just how much he loved them.”
Kouri Richins also faces more than two dozen charges in a separate case filed last year, including allegations that she committed mortgage fraud in 2021. The charging document alleges she submitted falsified bank statements in support of mortgage loan applications for her realty business, committed money laundering and issued bad checks.
The charges in the case also allege she murdered her husband for financial gain as she “stood on the precipice of total financial collapse.”
She has not yet entered a plea to those charges.
Staking said she wants Eric Richins to be remembered as a “loving dad.”
“I believe Eric is with his kids all the time every day,” she said. “I don’t think there’s anywhere else he’d wanna be.”
2026 Country Music Hall of Fame inductees (Country Music Association)
Tim McGraw will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2026, along with singer/songwriter Paul Overstreet and bluegrass legends the Stanley Brothers.
Tim is the 2026 modern era artist, with 60-plus top-10 hits to his credit and nearly 30 number ones.
“Everything good in my life has come from country music,” he says. “From my best memories as a kid, to meeting my wife, to this music community, to the friendships I’ve made along the way. To represent country music at the highest level is the greatest honor anyone could bestow on me.”
“I admit, I’ve imagined this moment many times through my career,” he continues, “worked towards it, thought of how I could be the kind of artist who was worthy of it. But my imagination didn’t do it justice. As I stand here, I’ll be the first to tell you I’m only worthy of it because it’s not mine alone.”
Paul will be inducted in the songwriter category, awarded every third year. He found his first success in 1982 with George Jones’ “Same Ole Me,” and notched his first #1 with the Forester Sisters’ “I Fell in Love Again Last Night.” “On the Other Hand” was the first of four number ones for Randy Travis.
His “When You Say Nothing at All” was a hit for both Keith Whitley and Alison Krauss, and he wrote more recent hits like Blake Shelton’s “Some Beach.” He also scored his own number ones with “I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love” and “Daddy’s Come Around.”
Ralph Stanley and Carter Stanley go in the hall as the 2026 veterans era artist. Starting their career in 1946, they became bluegrass pioneers, known for standards like “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow,” “Rank Stranger” and “Angel Band.”
Rainbow Kitten Surprise has released a new song called “Sixteen.”
The track follows the band’s 2025 album, bones, which spawned the single “Dang.”
“This track is slightly different from a lot of what bones carries, so we didn’t actually include it on the record but we’re happy that people are going to hear it,” RKS says in a statement.
You can watch a visualizer for “Sixteen” on YouTube.
Rainbow Kitten Surprise is currently on a U.S. tour, which concludes March 25 in Austin, Texas. They’ll launch another leg in July.
Cover of Aerosmith’s self-titled debut album (Capitol Records / UMe)
Aerosmith’s new box set, Aerosmith (Legendary Edition), celebrating their self-titled debut album, is out now. To mark the occasion, the Boston rockers have dropped a new lyric video for their iconic tune “Dream On.”
The trippy video features archival images and footage from the band’s early days.
Aerosmith (Legendary Edition) comes in variety of formats, including a limited-edition five-LP collector’s set. This edition includes the original album remastered on clear vinyl, along with a 2024 Album Mix on translucent red vinyl.
The set features a 1973 live performance at the Boston venue Paul’s Mall on black vinyl, as well as previously unreleased studio tracks, also on black vinyl. Additionally, it includes a UV cloud-effect 12-inch vinyl, featuring both the 2024 remaster and 2024 mix of the band’s iconic single “Dream On.”
It even comes with a hardcover book featuring never-before-seen photos, plus liner notes with new interviews with Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Tom Hamilton, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer.
Aerosmith (Legendary Edition) is also available digitally, as four-LP and three-CD sets, as well as a single LP (in both black and translucent red vinyl) and a single CD.
Released in January 1973, Aerosmith was not an immediate hit for the band but eventually peaked at #21 in 1976. Aerosmith’s now-signature tune “Dream On” is one of the tracks on the record, though it wasn’t a hit when it came out. It reached the top 10 when it was rereleased in December 1975.
