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NAPALM DEATH's BARNEY GREENWAY Was 'Blown Away' By Response To Band's Appearance On 'Tiny Desk' Concert Series blabbermouth.net/news/napalm…

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5.5: it scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, just 2 points behind Opus 5.5 (max), but at the highest Output Tokens per Task we’ve seen With max effort, Sonnet 5.5 gains 18 points over Sonnet 5 and to #2 on the Intelligence Index behind only Opus 5.5 (max). Anthropic has priced Sonnet 5.5 identically to Sonnet 5 at $0.2/$2/$10 per 1M cache input/input/output tokens, however it outputs a higher number of Output Tokens per Task and costs $7.60 per task (~50% higher than Sonnet 5’s Cost per Task) Key takeaways: ➤ Meets leading models on agentic terminal use and knowledge work: in Terminal-Bench 4.0, Claude Sonnet 5.5 reaches 64% against 60% for Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra. On AA-Briefcase (1811 vs 1822 Elo), GDPval-AA (1844 vs 1846 Elo), and AutomationBench-AA (71% vs 70% headline score), Sonnet 5.5 reaches parity with Opus 5.5, albeit with significantly higher token usage to achieve it ➤ Heaviest token use we have measured: at max effort, where it reaches performance nearing that of Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5 used ~193k Output Tokens per Intelligence Index Task. This is the highest token use we have measured on around 60% higher than Opus 5.5 (max) or Sonnet 5 (max) and ~7x GPT-6 Astra (max) ➤ Pricing remains at $2/$10 per million tokens of input/output, matching GPT-6 Sol. At this pricing Claude Sonnet 5.5 sits off the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto Frontier. At high effort levels it sits behind Opus 5.5, while lower efforts have GPT-6 Astra or Sol configurations delivering equivalent performance for lower cost. The high effort setting is the most competitive on this basis, sitting very narrowly behind GPT-6 Sol on Intelligence at effectively the same Cost per Task ➤ Behind Opus 5.5 on factual knowledge and scientific reasoning: as a smaller class model, Sonnet 5.5 still lags on factual knowledge in AA-Omniscience compared to Opus 5.5. It scores 54% against 66% for factual accuracy, though with a lower hallucination rate (47% against 59%). It also sits ~6 points lower on Humanity's Last Exam and SciCode compared to Opus These evaluations were conducted on a pre-release deployment of Claude Sonnet 5.5, which Anthropic found to have a bug that can degrade responses to requests that use structured outputs. This is fixed for the public release and Anthropic expects minimal change or slightly understated performance, but we will be re-running relevant evaluations soon. Other model details: ➤ Context window: 1 million tokens with image and text input, unchanged from Sonnet 5 ➤ Pricing: unchanged from Sonnet 5’s latest $2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens; cache writes at $2.5, cache reads $0.2 ➤ Effort settings: five (low, medium, high, xhigh, max). Intelligence Index evaluations were run at all five with Anthropic's default fallback enabled. We see Sonnet 5.5 fall back in ~0.1% of tasks across the Intelligence Index, primarily in TerminalBench 4.0, falling back to Sonnet 5 in all cases.

Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged #AliceInChains @AliceInChains #nowPlaying #vinyl #unplugged

Europe - Come This Madness @europetheband #europe #rockAlbum #vinyl #nowPlaying

The 69 Eyes - Brandon Lee (Forma Acustica) piped.video/watch?v=cKRtOUNg… #The69Eyes #69Eyes #gothicRock #gothicMetal @69eyesofficial

Classic! This was an amazing TV show back then!

OZZY & BLACK SABBATH: Back To The Beginning piped.video/lYgfWls_DNo?si=ebvb… #ozzy #OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath @BlackSabbath @OzzyOsbourne #BackToTheBeginning

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick (1991) #MorbidAngel #BlessedAreTheSick #vinyl #nowPlaying #deathMetal #metalMusic #metal

"Everything dies."⁠ ⁠ On September 21st, 1999, TYPE O NEGATIVE released their fifth album, 'World Coming Down.'⁠

On This Day in Metal September 21, 1999: Type O Negative released their fifth studio album, “World Coming Down.” Featuring fan favourites including “Everything Dies,” “Creepy Green Light,” “Pyretta Blaze” and the title track. What’s your favourite song from World Coming Down? #ThisDayInMetal #TypeONegative #WorldComingDown #Metal #HeavyMetal

In 1995 Lemmy celebrated his 50th with a special Motörhead club gig in LA. The support act: The Lemmys… aka Metallica loudersound.com/bands-artist…

1 year gone. Never forgotten.⁠ ⁠ As the frontman of AT THE GATES, TOMAS LINDBERG helped spearhead Gothenburg-style melodic death metal, releasing trailblazing albums including 1995's genre-defining 'Slaughter of the Soul.' A prolific musician, he also performed with a wide range of other bands such as SKITSYSTEM, THE CROWN, NIGHTRAGE and DISFEAR. Outside of music, he worked as a social studies teacher.⁠ ⁠ The body dies. But the legacy lives on.⁠ ⁠ 📸: Jimmy Hubbard

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We need Sarah Connor to handle that!

Gothic Illusions - September 2026 by DJ SeaWave This is a mix set I've prepared with some new and old songs. #Gothic / #DarkWave / #NewWave / #PostPunk / #AlternativeRock / #DarkRock / #gothicMetal / #goth Cover Model: Ostara Männel mixcloud.com/seawave/gothic-…

METALLICA breaks down creating the Enter Sandman Riff!!

Epic! TWISTED SISTER Plays First Concert With SEBASTIAN BACH On Lead Vocals. blabbermouth.net/news/watch-…

Lord of the Lost - Opvs Noir Vol. 3 @LordOfTheLost #LordOfTheLost #nowPlaying #vinyl

Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford loudersound.com/bands-artist…