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Back To The Beginning Goes Into Cinemas on 28 October

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The Villa Park farewell, cut into a film, with a pre-sale on 24 September.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026

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Aesthetic Death Give States of Horror a Digibook a Year After It Came Out

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The reissue lands on 30 September, with a third Destruction of Orion album already being written.

Ben Ashworth · Sep 21, 2026

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PALE REFLECTION Put Out 'Fading Daylight', Seven Years After the Singles That Open It

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The Brazilian death doom band release their first album today, on their own, with the three songs they put out in 2019 finally sitting on a record.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026

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Zakk Wylde Started Singing at Keg Parties and Has Never Stopped Calling It the Easy Part

Doom Metal Groove Metal

Chaoszine filmed him in Helsinki in August, before Black Label Society played Hellsinki Metal Festival.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 20, 2026

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SOMNENT Name the Songs After the Damage and Call the Album an Heirloom

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Out 30 October through Ardua Music, with 'Severed Ties' and 'The Feeding Hand' among the eight.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026

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MAUNAH Sing the Whole First Album Without Using a Single Word

Doom Metal Post-Metal

'Hjarta' came out on 18 September through Prophecy Productions and is streaming in full.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026

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VELNIAS Have Taken Six Years Over a Fourth Album and Greg Chandler Mastered It

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'Substrate Haruspex' is out on 30 October through Eisenwald, with 'Corporeal Anathema' online first.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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ORBITA Put Four Songs on Their First Album and One of Them Runs Fourteen Minutes

Doom Metal Stoner Metal

'Nèkyia' is streaming from 'Farewell to All We've Lost', out 9 October through Aural Music.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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OBSIDIAN CHURCH Get 'Stonebound' Pressed Seven Months After Putting It Out

Doom Metal

The Palermo band's first album arrives on vinyl and CD on 30 November through Dying Victims Productions.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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FVNERAL FVKK Reach 'The Beast of Speyer', and the Album Is Called 'Indecent Idols'

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Out 23 October on Dying Victims Productions. Seven tracks, opening on a confession and closing on a possession.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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BEES MADE HONEY IN THE VEIN TREE Wrote 'Clutching at Straws' Out of a Block, and It Is Not the Marillion One

Doom Metal Post-Metal

The lead single from 'In Between Strides', their fourth album, out 18 September through Magnetic Eye Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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EPITAPHE Put 'III' Out and Refuse to Walk Away From What Made 'II' Work

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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

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MESSA Put Out 'Reveal' From Freak Valley Before Twenty European Dates

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The song is from 'The Spin', out last year on Metal Blade. The tour runs from Marseille on 27 October to Trezzo sull'Adda on 21 November.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026

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MAMA DOOM Dropped the Visuals for 'Picked Clean' and Left Only the Words

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The last single before 'Eminent Womb', out 25 September on Argonauta Records. A lyric video, on purpose.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026

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E-L-R Wrote 'Oaken Reaper' Between a Farewell and a Beginning and Say So

Doom Metal Post-Metal

The next song from 'Atropa', out 6 November. Six tracks from the Bernese duo.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026

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OPERA IX Take Thirty-Eight Years of Italian Black Metal to South America

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A run of headline dates in November, the band's first announced trip to the region in years.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 18, 2026

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BESOTTEN Spent Years on a Five-Track Album and Two of Them Run Past Ten Minutes

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'Cruentation' is the shortest way into 'Eye of the Monolithicrypt', out 6 November on Transcending Obscurity.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026

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The Last BLACK SABBATH Show Reaches Cinemas on 28 October, Filmed Seventeen Days Before OZZY OSBOURNE Died

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Villa Park, 5 July last year: a solo set, then the four original members on a stage together for the first time in more than twenty years. Tickets go on sale 24 September.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026