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FAITH NO MORE Bring Trey Spruance Back for the 2027 Shows
Avant-garde Metal
The guitarist who played on King For A Day takes over from Jon Hudson for every date of next year's long return.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 11, 2026
KEKAL Send a Second Song Out of Kanata
Avant-garde Metal
After Deception Station, a second track from the coming album, with a lyric video and the usual refusal to settle.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 9, 2026
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Press Live At Olympia Into Bandcamp Friday
Death Metal Black Metal
Eight songs from a Paris night last October, out on the one day a month when the platform keeps nothing from the sale.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 7, 2026
NEKROGOBLIKON Reach New Zealand for the First Time in March
Death Metal Folk Metal
The Los Angeles band return to Australia in March 2027 and cross to New Zealand, which they have never played before.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 5, 2026
IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT Sign to Metal Blade With the Album Already Recorded
Death Metal Black Metal
The New York trio move to Metal Blade having finished tracking their first record for the label, again with Colin Marston behind the desk.
Ben Ashworth · Nov 4, 2026
JASMENO Build an Album on a Virtual Orchestra and Borrow Half of Norway
Progressive Metal Symphonic Metal
The Polish project's third video takes the opening track of Assemblage of Cinematic Idioms, with Yusaf Parvez of Dodheimsgard singing on it.
Robin Aalto · Nov 4, 2026
BLUT AUS NORD's Vindsval Opens a Second Entity and Calls It NΩX
Black Metal Industrial Metal
Stases arrives on 11 December through Debemur Morti, and the first thing Vindsval does is explain why the record does not carry his own band's name.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 2, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Invent a Folk Song for the Volga and Put a Choir Behind It
Avant-garde Metal
The third song from the thirteenth album is a folk tune that never existed, sung about a people Tamas Katai first heard of at school.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
NIGHTMARER Take Chorus Of Suffering Through Nine German Rooms in Spring
Death Metal Avant-garde Metal
Berlin on 25 March, then eight more with Haeresis, all of them clubs and none of them in a city that needs explaining to anybody else.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 29, 2026
NEKROGOBLIKON Film Their Twentieth Birthday in Kelowna and Calgary
Death Metal Folk Metal
The video for The Boiling Sea was shot on the anniversary tour the band are headlining with Aborted and Signs Of The Swarm.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
KEKAL Open an Album Called Kanata With Deception Station
Avant-garde Metal
Jeff Arwadi recorded, mixed and mastered the song himself, and the album it belongs to has neither a date nor a label yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
CHAOS MOTION End a Seven Year Silence With Paroxysmal Entity
Death Metal Avant-garde Metal
The Mexican duo, now working out of France, open their self titled second album for Transcending Obscurity after seven years away.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
IGORRR Take Secret Chiefs 3 and Fange Across Europe for Thirteen March Dates
Industrial Metal Avant-garde Metal
The run goes from 13 to 31 March 2027 behind Amen, which has Scott Ian, Trey Spruance and Mike Leon on it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Film Tombok From the Album With Real Drums on It
Avant-garde Metal
Season of Mist have a video for the song, from the thirteenth Thy Catafalque record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
A FOREST OF STARS Get Four Continental Dates Out of a Year They Wanted More From
Progressive Metal Black Metal
Utrecht, Berlin, Munster and Ghent in the first week of December, with Nemorous in support, after four UK shows in late November.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
MANES Break Eight Years of Silence for To Burn Is To Shine
Black Metal Avant-garde Metal
The album arrives 27 November on Avantgarde Music, and Stones In Your Pocket is out from it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
FAITH NO MORE Take the First Headline Slot at Mystic Festival 2027
Avant-garde Metal
Gdansk, Letnica, 10 to 12 June. They are the first name the festival has announced.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 29, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Use Live Drums for the First Time on Album Thirteen
Avant-garde Metal
'Búcsú a piros madártól' opens 'XIII: Sárga erdő', out 20 November on Season of Mist. Tamas Katai filmed the video where the first Thy Catafalque clip was shot twenty-five years ago.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026