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PROPHECY Premiere 'Devastated by Mankind', Thirty Five Years Into the Band

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The Fort Worth brutal death metal five piece started in Shreveport in 1991 and put out their first album in 1998. The new video is the first thing anyone has heard from them in a while.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026

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KONVENT Put Black Metal Into the Death Doom on 'Firesky', Out 6 November

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Five songs, longer than anything the Danish four piece have written before, on Napalm Records. The opening track is out with the announcement.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026

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BAEST Put Out a Video for 'In Loathe and Love' as Their European Tour Opens

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The Danish band keep working 'Colossal', their fourth album, through a headline run of Europe and the United Kingdom that starts in Rostock on 19 September.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026

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AETHER REALM Set 'Season of Bloodshed' for 11 December and Call It an Album Made of Anger

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The North Carolina band open it with 'The Blood Is Calling' and an animated video. Napalm Records has the record.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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BARREN Call It Chainsaw Grind, and 'Blades' Is the Second Piece of 'Verderf'

Death Metal Grindcore

The Belgian trio's new single argues that war is not a deviation from human nature but the whole of it. Matías Dupont says so in as many words.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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200 STAB WOUNDS Set 'Lowest Form' for 19 February on Metal Blade

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The Cleveland death metal band open the campaign with 'Pangs of Conscience' and say they worked harder on this than on anything else in their lives.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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BOCC Put Out 'Demolarium', a First Album Seven Years in the Making

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The Barcelona death doom band have released their debut full-length through Night Terrors Records and partners, after two demos, two EPs and a handful of singles.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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ABYSSIC Sign to Soulseller for 'Trollsyn', Their Fourth Album, Due Early 2027

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The Norwegian symphonic doom and death band have a new label and a record behind it. They formed in 1997 and have released three albums since 2016.

Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026

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ORIGIN'HELL Open 'Reign of Infamy' With Their First Track in Years, Out 2 October

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The band from Rennes have been going since 2001 and put out three albums in seven years, then went quiet. Grave New World releases the new one.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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NOROTH and Mörtual Preview the Split They Share on 30 October

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A song each from Seattle and Costa Rica, out through Night Terrors and Goat Throne Records, and neither of them sounds like it was recorded this decade, which is the point.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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DISSIMULATOR Walk a City That Was Not Built for People on 'Neon Metropolis'

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The Quebec technical death and thrash band have put out the first piece of 'Artifice Dissolves', their second album for 20 Buck Spin, and Claude Leduc explains it as a night walk through a megacity that has no use for anyone in it.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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ALLOCER Put Out 'Vivisection Protocol', a Year After the 'Worship' EP

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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

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DEATHAWAITS Name Their Next Album After a 'French Bulldog Invasion', Out in January

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The French slamming death metal band have put out the title track with a video. The album follows on 22 January 2027.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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GORGATRON Sign to Time To Kill Records, Twelve Years After Their Last Album for Anyone Else

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The Fargo death metal and grindcore band have a deal with the Italian label and an album called 'Turmoil' behind it. They are not a band that hurries: three albums in twenty one years.

Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026

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THROUGH THEIR EYES Bring In A Winter's Remorse for 'And Forth Stepped the Apparatus'

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The Essen three piece put out a single with Dalton Evans singing on it, their third release in four years and the first since 'Brad Pitstop' earlier this year.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026

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MOTHER OF GRAVES Release 'The Silent Weight of the Stars' From an Album Due 16 October

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The second single from 'The Light That Keeps Us', with a video by David Jaggar. It is the Indianapolis band's third album and their first as a five piece on Profound Lore.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026

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WINTERSUN's Next Album Grows Again: One More Song, Past Seventy Minutes

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Jari Maenpaa says he wrote another track while recovering from illness this year, that the vocals are about ninety percent finished, and that the bonus material will be the largest the band have done.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 14, 2026

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HERETICS Put Out 'Smell the Ashes', a Song Built on the Opening of Half-Life 2

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The third single from 'Of Poets and Prophets' carries orchestration through almost the whole song, and the video that came with it announces the departure of the drummer who founded the band.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026