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POLTERGEIST Follow Their First Album with the Single Advocatus Diaboli
Black Metal
Four minutes released on 31 October by the Brazilian band, a year after their debut full length and eight after the demo that opened everything.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
MIK Put Maya and Nahuat Symbols into a Debut Written Across an Ocean
Black Metal Post-Metal
Ajmaq came out on 1 November, written by a Salvadoran guitarist and a Galician one, with seven tracks and a title taken from the Maya calendar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
SONUM Build Bewitched by Evil as One Piece in Five Named Movements
Death Metal Black Metal
Twenty eight minutes due on 27 November through Dusktone, written as a single arc and divided into parts rather than songs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
K.F.R. Close Total Art on a Fifteen Minute Track With Déhà on Drums
Black Metal
Twelve albums into a project that started in Paris and now works from New York, and the last of its six new tracks runs over a quarter of an hour.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
ALKHEMIA Film Nonsense on a Slag Heap in Northern France
Black Metal
A black hill of mining waste, where almost nothing grows. The band say they did not want to illustrate the words, they wanted to film the ground they end in.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
SATYRICON Read a 1990s Prediction Back to 9,400 People in Oslo
Black Metal
A British magazine wrote in the early nineties that Norwegian black metal would be gone before anyone noticed. Satyr quoted it from a sold out arena stage.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 1, 2026
FERNDAL Release Asuras Two Years After Recording It
Black Metal Folk Metal
The album was produced in autumn 2024 and arrives on 4 December 2026. The behind the scenes footage is dated November 2024, which makes the gap plain.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
AODON Reach Three Songs Out of Khamsin Before Its November Date
Black Metal
One man writes all the music and sings it. Another writes the words. Three pieces of the fourth album are out, and the record follows on 27 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
NOCTURNIS Build Tituba Around the Woman Salem Accused First
Black Metal
She confessed under pressure, stayed in jail past the trials, and was then sold to pay the jail debt. The new song is named after her.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
BLOEDMAAN Name Their Third Album After a Castlevania From 2001
Black Metal
Circle of the Moon was a handheld game before it was a black metal record, and the track titles stay inside that castle for all eight of them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
ABHORRENCY Name a Song After Books Bound in Human Skin
Death Metal Black Metal
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is a real practice with a real name, and it is the first thing out of a second album that will not arrive until 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
GOATVÖID HOLOKÄUST Fit Sixteen Songs Into Thirty Seven Minutes
Black Metal
The second album lands seven years after the first and runs shorter than most, sixteen tracks with half of them under two and a half minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
CRADLE OF FILTH Turn Dusk and Her Embrace Into Sterling Silver
Death Metal Black Metal
The thirtieth anniversary already produced a coffin shaped reissue box. Now it produces a made to order ring in 925 silver from a London workshop.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 31, 2026
DANTALION Name Their Tenth Album After Themselves, Twenty Years In
Death Metal Doom Metal
A band usually uses its own name on the first record. Dantalion have waited until the tenth, two decades after the demo that started them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
NOCTIS IMPERIUM Send the Money From I Am to Nick Barker's Transplant Fund
Death Metal Black Metal
Nick Barker is waiting for a kidney. The nine minutes he played for a Venezuelan band are now on sale, and the proceeds go to his campaign.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
ENSLAVED Mark Mið Release Day With a Joik From Johan Sara Jr
Black Metal Viking Metal
The seventeenth album is out on Nuclear Blast, and the focus track hands a long stretch of itself to a Sami singer rather than to a guitar.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
YOTH IRIA Add Three Balkan Headline Shows Before the Thulcandra Tour
Black Metal
Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia come first, one headline night in each, with the European run alongside Thulcandra starting only in March 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
ARCKANUM Break Eight Years of Silence Tomorrow, in Old Swedish
Black Metal
Eleven songs on Darkness Shall Rise, titles nobody can pronounce on sight, and one man who has been doing this alone since 1992.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026