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VENOM Footage From 1997 Surfaces Eleven Days After Cronos Died
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Video of the Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon line up at Milwaukee Metal Fest in July 1997 has gone up on YouTube this week.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 12, 2026
URNA Stream The Great Jihad in Full, Thirteen Years On
Doom Metal Black Metal
The Sardinian black and funeral doom band put the whole album up before ATMF releases it on 16 October, their fifth and first since 2013.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
MANNVEIRA Return With Bölvunin, Five Years After Their Debut
Black Metal
Vesöld follows Vítahringur by five years and arrives on 16 October through Dark Descent, seven tracks from the Reykjavík band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
BEHEMOTH Play Their Venom Cover Live With Shagrath in Zurich
Death Metal Black Metal
The In League With Satan tour opened at Halle 622 in Zurich on 9 October with three live debuts, the Venom cover among them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
SAOR Rebuild a Song From 2014 and Keep the Gaelic Word for Rise at the Centre of It
Black Metal Folk Metal
The Awakening MMXXVI is the second song from Caledonia, out on 6 November through Season of Mist.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 11, 2026
WITHERED LAND Open a Concept Album About Leaving Home With a Song Called Vale of Sorrow
Black Metal
Judol Smutku is the first single from Piesni Vietru, six tracks due on 27 November through Immortal Frost Productions.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
CANTICUM DIABOLI Build an Album Out of Eight Italian Horrors, One of Them a Burning
Black Metal
Compendium Horribilis arrives on 11 November through Ad Noctem Records, with Giordano Bruno and the Monster of Ravenna on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
SEID Name Their Sixth Album After the City That Processes People
Black Metal
Dystopolis arrives on 11 December through ATMF, asking what is left of a person once everything runs through a system.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
AZELS MOUNTAIN Will Cross to South America for the First Time, for Three Nights in Colombia
Black Metal
Bogota, Armenia and Ibague in March 2027, announced with a video from Echa Krwi.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
SEPTICFLESH Fill Four Off Days on the Arch Enemy Tour With Their Own Headline Shows
Death Metal Black Metal
Old Town, Rock Island, Eugene and Sacramento get full sets between the co-headline dates.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026
Peaceville Press the Album That Brought DARKTHRONE Home Again, Twenty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The Cult Is Alive returns on marble vinyl and a limited cassette, both in small numbers.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 9, 2026
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Put a Blue Heron at the Centre of the Title Track From Estuary
Black Metal
The second song from the album comes with a video the band made themselves, shot in concrete ruins taken back by brambles.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
A Darksynth Producer Remixes the Song That Started ZEAL AND ARDOR
Black Metal
Carpenter Brut's version of Devil Is Fine follows the tenth anniversary edition of the album in September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
ALCEST's First Live Album Comes Out Four Years After the Night It Records
Black Metal
Live at Hellfest 2022 arrives on 4 December through Nuclear Blast, with Protection out now as the first single.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
DEAFHEAVEN Release Three Songs With No Warning and Call Them Their Closest Thing to Black Metal
Black Metal
At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb takes its title from Robert Del Tredici's photo book about the places where nuclear weapons are made.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
More Than Fifty Musicians Write About Cronos and Napalm Death's Singer Calls Him the Caveman in Chief
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Metal Underground has collected statements from the extreme metal underground a week after Conrad Lant died at sixty three.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
MORK Headline Europe for the First Time, Seventeen Nights in Seventeen Days
Black Metal
The run opens on 9 October in Drachten and closes on 25 October, with Soulburn as special guest and Monolitt at the centre of it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
Metal Blade's Black Metal Imprint Signs a One Man Project and Dates the Album for Five Weeks Later
Black Metal
The Mosaic Window join Vesperian and put Answered Prayers out on 13 November, with an older song as the first single.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 8, 2026