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ASCHEN Filmed 'Azken Arbolak' Among the Last Trees It Is About
Black Metal
Two videos at once from the Pamplona band's first album, one an ecological manifesto shot in the forests of Navarre, the other a Passion story about truth being stripped of meaning.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
VESSELES Are Re-Recording 'Home' So Valira Nyvran Can Sing It Themselves
Black Metal
'Eternally Within Us (Reclaimed)' is the first piece of it. The album follows on 26 March 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ÜBERCHRIIST Take Ten Tracks and Thirty-Eight Minutes Straight Down
Black Metal
'Dæmonic Apotheosis' is out on 25 September through Deanwell Global Music, five years after the first EP. The second single lands a week before it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
BONJOUR TRISTESSE Name Album Five 'Disaster Triumphant', Out 20 November
Black Metal
The Munich post-black metal project's first record since 'The World Without Us' in 2024. AOP Records has it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MIDNIGHT Make Their First Live Album Out of Two Sold-Out Nights in Hollywood
Speed Metal Black Metal
'Satanic Attack Live!' takes 'Satanic Royalty' in album order plus five more, from the Knucklehead shows on 28 and 29 May. Out 6 November on Metal Blade.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
USURPATOR Put Their Second Album on Bandcamp Without Waiting for Anyone
Doom Metal Black Metal
'Litany of Blood and Steel' follows 'Atonement' from 2022. The Vienna band play black and doom metal and have released it themselves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
DEAFHEAVEN and Bosse-de-Nage Remix Their 2012 Split and Put It Out Again
Black Metal
The Flenser reissues it on 27 November, with Jack Shirley remixing the Deafheaven side and Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture the other.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
Dani Filth Puts Fifty Years Into a Book, Out in June 2027
Death Metal Black Metal
'The Filth: My Life In Devilry And Debauchery' is written with Joel McIver and runs from a childhood in Suffolk through Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Viva La Bam.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 16, 2026
ABBATH Cancel Every Remaining Show of 2026, Without Saying Why
Black Metal
The statement apologises to fans and festivals and gives no reason. Nothing has been said about 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 16, 2026
DUMAL Found a Darker Record by Removing the Keyboards From It
Black Metal
The Pennsylvania trio's third album, 'The Trials of Existence', arrives on 2 October through Alte Seelen, with the melodies carried by guitars alone.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
FUNERAL WITCHERY Follow Four Singles With a First Album, 'Beyond the Light'
Black Metal
Black metal from Tucson, Arizona, with a creed printed on the front of it: death will take you, hell will keep you.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put Their Two Zeke Covers Out Digitally, After the Flexi Disc
Speed Metal Black Metal
'Let's Get Drugs' and 'Mainline' first appeared on a Decibel flexi earlier this year. James McBain explains the debt plainly enough.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
URARV Open 'Nychta Psychis' With a Song About Not Mistaking the Sign for the Place
Black Metal
The first single from the Norwegian avant-garde black metal band's third album keeps the foundation and refuses the usual routes off it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ARCTOS Return With 'A Path Apart' on 6 November, Seven Years After the First Album
Black Metal
The Edmonton melodic black metal band have set their second full-length for Northern Silence Productions.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
DÉTRESSE Set 'Misères' for 9 October, Their Second Album in Two Years
Black Metal
The black metal duo split between Austria and Quebec follow 'Pessimismes' quickly. Vendetta Records has the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
STERNWEH Release 'Sehnflucht', a First Album Made Entirely by One Person at Home
Black Metal
Christian Witt writes horror and fantasy novels and started the project in 2025. The record is out through Bandcamp and Spotify, with his wife Yvonne singing on parts of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ALLOCER Put Out 'Vivisection Protocol', a Year After the 'Worship' EP
Death Metal Black Metal
The Perth five piece stay where they have been since 2022, on the line between melodic death metal and deathcore, and the new single comes with a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
AUTUMNFALL Reveal 'Crystal Skies' From 'The Archaic Sins', an Album of Songs Written Before 2001
Black Metal
Jussi Hanninen went back to compositions he wrote for Fall of the Leafe between 1998 and 2001, arranged seven of them again and added one new song. The album arrives on 25 September through Ardua Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026