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OPHIS Start the Encased In Deathlike Layers Tour Three Weeks Before the Album
Death Metal Doom Metal
Eight German dates from 6 November to 24 April, and the first of them falls three weeks before the record it is named after comes out.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 2, 2026
NIHILO Reach Abyss on the Same Four Year Clock They Have Kept Since 2010
Death Metal
The fifth album arrives on 3 November through Xtreem Music, ten songs, and the fourth record in a row to land exactly four years after the last.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 2, 2026
OKKULTIST Play The Unyielding Bond Live in the Studio Before Releasing It
Death Metal
The Lisbon band put the song out as a studio performance first, with no release date attached to the proper version yet.
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
DEBAUCHERY Share War of the Beast Hordes from a Double Album Split
Death Metal Death 'n' Roll
Two discs on Napalm Records, one from Debauchery and one from Balgeroth, and the two projects sit on the same channel under the same man.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
DEAD TWILIGHT Name Five Kinds of Death and Call the Record Totentanz
Brutal Death Metal
The Sicilian band's fourth album runs eight tracks, five of them German titles for a different way of dying, and it has been out since 30 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
CRESCENDIUM Bracket DRAC With a Prologue and an Epilogue
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Six tracks, and the first and last are named Prologue and Epilogue. The second album arrives on 11 November, with the video for Dämmerlicht out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
OPETH Got Into the Norwegian Scene Because Nobody Had Seen Their Faces
Death Metal
Silhouette photographs kept the band's appearance a secret, and Mikael Åkerfeldt says that is the only reason a scene that wanted to kill hippies let them in.
Tomas Berglund · Nov 1, 2026
SERPENT Reach a Debut Album Twenty Six Years After Forming
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Six demos, a decade of silence, and then a guitarist from Sorcerer joined. The first Serpent album arrives on 13 November with a soprano on one song.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
EREBOROS Put From Oblivion to the Grave Out on Two Labels at Once
Death Metal
The debut album arrives digital, on vinyl through one label and on CD through another, which is how a Brazilian death metal band reaches two markets.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
DYING FETUS Send Four Early Records Back to Vinyl in December
Death Metal Grindcore
Four releases between 1995 and 2000, each in several new colour variants, with merchandise built around the artwork. The catalogue is the product now.
Ben Ashworth · 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
DEVOUR Lock Ravenous Behind a Halloween Horror Story
Brutal Death Metal Slam
No stream and no single. The songs from the January album unlock one at a time as you play through a choose your path horror story that opens tonight.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
Samy Elbanna Says the CHILDREN OF BODOM Plan Stops Where the Announcements Do
Power Metal Death Metal
Two nights became a run of festivals. The singer carrying the songs says he knows no more about what follows than anyone reading the announcements.
Tomas Berglund · 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
BEYOND GRACE Take Our Kingdom Undone to JT Soar for a Live Recording
Death Metal
A small Nottingham room, a death metal band five years past the album, and the title track recorded there rather than in a studio with a budget.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026