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Peter Joseph Rejoins THE ABSENCE Thirteen Years After Leaving
Death Metal
The guitarist played on the Tampa band's first three albums before parting ways in 2013, and comes back as a permanent member.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 12, 2026
GORGATRON Lead Their Fifth Album With Cleansed
Death Metal Grindcore
Turmoil arrives on 11 December through Time To Kill Records, ten tracks and the Fargo band's first record for the label.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
LEGION OF THE DAMNED Book Their First Tour Across Mexico
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Dutch band have only ever played Mexico City; the new run takes them around the country, with the dates published on the tour poster.
Lars Hendriks · 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
THE GATHERING Bring the Mandylion Line Up Back on a Live Album
Death Metal Doom Metal
Echoes Of Mandylion comes from five nights in Nijmegen in August 2025, the original line up's first shows together in eleven years.
Robin Aalto · Oct 12, 2026
STARKILL Wrote a Whole Album, Threw It Away, and Start Again With Death On Display
Power Metal Death Metal
Hanging Up My Halo is dated 22 January, with symphonic production by Francesco Ferrini of Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
UNLEASHED Play Countess Bathory in Athens for the Man Who Made Johnny Hedlund Want a Band
Death Metal
Six days after Cronos's death was announced, the Swedish band covered Venom on stage in Greece.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
BLOOD OF ANGELS Sign With a Booking Agency Instead of Another Label
Death Metal
SoundsRock takes the Tampa band onto its international roster, a year after they headlined across Europe.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 11, 2026
Eternal Sign to Frontiers' Death Metal Imprint After Five Years of Doing It Themselves
Death Metal
BLKIIBLK takes the Phoenix four piece, whose second album is due in 2027, ahead of a first European tour with Suffocation.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 11, 2026
A Melodic Death Metal Project Started in Occupied Kherson Reaches a Berlin Screening
Death Metal
Anger Outburst's video for Feel the Fear was selected for the Silver Screening at the Berlin Music Video Awards.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
DARKEST HOUR Book Thirteen December Dates With Judiciary, Starting the Day the Fear Factory Run Ends
Death Metal Metalcore
The headlining tour opens on 1 December in Austin and closes on 13 December at home in Washington.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 11, 2026
FILTH Book Eight December Dates With NARCOTIC WASTELAND and Killcrown
Death Metal
A Very Filthy Christmas Tour runs from 11 December in Portage, Indiana to 20 December in Albany, New York.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026
MACERATION Leave Dan Swano After Two Records and Put Out the First Song Without Him
Death Metal
The Fall of Virtue opens Mercy to the Miserable, the Danish band's fourth album, mixed by Lawrence Mackrory for 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
Silicium Have Become SICKMIND, and the First Album Under the New Name Is Out Now
Death Metal Groove Metal
Babel Tower runs ten tracks, is self released, and has two members of Gorod on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
ATAVISTIA Finish a Song They Abandoned in 2022 and Put It on the Deluxe Edition
Death Metal
Beneath The Elder Stone was cut from Old Gods Awaken, rewritten almost completely and released four years later.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
DOMINION Put Their Whole Debut Album Online Before It Is Released
Death Metal
Mortification of Thy Flesh is streaming in full on Sinistrari Records, after a line-up change and a winter in a Massachusetts studio.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
LEPER COLONY Reach a Third Album Looking for the Point Where Florida Meets Stockholm
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Back to Primal Sludge came out on 9 October through Testimony Records and is streaming in full.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
DIETH Sign to Fireflash and Put the New Line-Up on a Song the Same Day
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Pound of Flesh is the first music with Tobias Cristiansson on bass, and the first under the new deal.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026