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DUNGEON SERPENT Needed Five Years for a Second Album and Damian Herring Mixed It
Death Metal
'Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms' lands on 30 October through Profound Lore.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
CARNAL DESECRATION Set 'Ancient Malediction' for 15 October, Their Second in Four Years
Death Metal Black Metal
'The Casket Born' is online now. Thrash Records have the album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
VULGAR MEPHITIS Open and Close Their First Album With the Same Dust
Brutal Death Metal
'From Dust' came out last week on Willowtip Records. Eight tracks, the first and the seventh being the two halves of one line.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
IN OBSCURITY REVEALED Name Eight Songs After the Same Thing Going Wrong
Death Metal
'Consecrated by Rot' is streaming from 'Caustic Maelstrom', out 9 October on Personal Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
EPITAPHE Put 'III' Out and Refuse to Walk Away From What Made 'II' Work
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French band's third album arrived on 11 September through Aesthetic Death on CD and vinyl and Gurgling Gore on tape.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
NORTHER Come Back After Fifteen Years, With the Line-Up From the Records That Mattered
Power Metal Death Metal
Petri Lindroos, Kristian Ranta, Jukka Koskinen, Tuomas Planman and Heikki Saari. Wacken and Brutal Assault next summer, and new music is already being written.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
EXTOL Are Making a Record Again Thirteen Years After the Last One
Thrash Metal Death Metal
'Disintegrate' is the second song from 'Aura Of Decay', out 6 November on Solid State Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
OPERA IX Take Thirty-Eight Years of Italian Black Metal to South America
Death Metal Doom Metal
A run of headline dates in November, the band's first announced trip to the region in years.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 18, 2026
MASTER Set 'Among The Seeds Of Death' for 16 October and Put the Title Track Out
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The second song from the album, on Hammerheart Records. Nine tracks, and the titles are as blunt as they have been since 1983.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
ESHTADUR Put Out Two Songs at Once and Build the Album Around an Emperor Nobody Can Name
Death Metal Black Metal
'August's Burdens' and 'Omen Of Millennia' come off 'In Darkness All Shadows Gone', out 2 October on Rockshots Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
THE BLEEDING Close 'Godless Communion' With a Cannibal Corpse Cover, Out Today
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Album two for the London death and thrash band, on Redefining Darkness Records, and most of it is already streaming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
HANGING GARDEN Release Dream Death Through Transcending Obscurity on 18 September
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The New York progressive death metal project, not the Finnish band of the same name, release their second album on Friday, written, played, mixed and mastered by one person.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
BESOTTEN Spent Years on a Five-Track Album and Two of Them Run Past Ten Minutes
Death Metal Doom Metal
'Cruentation' is the shortest way into 'Eye of the Monolithicrypt', out 6 November on Transcending Obscurity.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Douglas Vetter II Wrote 'Snake Oil' About His Own Family and a Friend He Could Not Help
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The second single from 'Witness to a Dying World', out 23 October, and the first song the Absolute Darkness guitarist has written end to end.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
FATE UNBURIED Wrote Twelve Tracks on a Relationship Falling Apart and Gave It No Ending
Death Metal Groove Metal
'Expecting Nothing' comes off 'Neraspeme', out 16 October on Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MASTIC SCUM Set 'VOID' for 29 October and Say It Widens Rather Than Replaces
Grindcore Brutal Death Metal
Eleven tracks, the seventh album, on MDD Records. The cover is out; the tracklist and the first single are not.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
NECROCENE Named the Next Geological Age After What Ate the Last One
Death Metal
'Scumocracy', the Tuscan band's first album, is streaming in full before its release on 18 September through Personal Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
A BEHEMOTH Compilation Went to Number One in Poland, in Every Category at Once
Death Metal Black Metal
'I, Scvlptor' is not a studio album and Nergal says so himself. It still topped every OLiS sales category on release.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 17, 2026