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FERNDAL Release Asuras Two Years After Recording It
Black Metal Folk Metal
The album was produced in autumn 2024 and arrives on 4 December 2026. The behind the scenes footage is dated November 2024, which makes the gap plain.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
WIND ROSE Lose Federico Gatti After Almost Eight Years
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The drummer goes with no replacement named and a statement short enough to fit on a postcard, which is usually a sign nobody is angry.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
ALESTORM Start a Ninth Album and Name a Song After the Pope
Power Metal Folk Metal
Recording began today in Czechia with their usual producer, and the band have listed the song titles before anybody asked for them.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
AETHER REALM Bring Taj Jewett In for Broken Fist, the Second From Season of Bloodshed
Death Metal Folk Metal
The North Carolina band's second preview of the December album arrives with a guest vocal and a video from Napalm Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
122 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 44 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
MYRKUR Plays Everything on Broken Little Doll and Films It Herself
Black Metal Folk Metal
The new single has Kalandra's Katrine Stenbekk on vocals, two ballerinas in a church, and one person on every instrument.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
NEKROGOBLIKON Film Their Twentieth Birthday in Kelowna and Calgary
Death Metal Folk Metal
The video for The Boiling Sea was shot on the anniversary tour the band are headlining with Aborted and Signs Of The Swarm.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
MANNTRA Date Wild Hunt for Christmas Day and Bring In Fabienne Erni
Folk Metal
The title track of the Croatian band's next album arrives with Eluveitie's Fabienne Erni singing on it, five weeks before the record.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
SAOR Cross to Latin America for the First Time, Playing the First Two Albums
Black Metal Folk Metal
February 2027 brings the Scottish project its first Latin American dates, with a set built from Roots and Aura.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
TYR Put Out a Tenth Album Themselves, With Their Own Name on It
Progressive Metal Folk Metal
The Guardian Lie is the second song from the self-titled record the Faroese band are releasing without a label on 17 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
WAYLANDER Write a Song About the Weapon the Bards Actually Had
Black Metal Folk Metal
Mallachtai is the third preview of Mac Tire, out on 6 November, and it is about satire as a tool of real power.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
WAYFARER Bring Munly J Munly Onto the Third Song From Riders of the Setting Sun
Black Metal Folk Metal
The Colorado band hand a verse to a Denver songwriter from well outside metal, on a record Ben Chisholm produced.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
VETTEN ÄPÄRÄT Break Ten Years of Silence With a Song Called Mother
Folk Metal
The Helsinki band follow a 2016 debut with a second album next year, and open it with a song about a child escaping a violent home.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
ORPHANED LAND Take Their Orchestra Show Out of the Middle East for the First Time
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Israeli band will play their Exclusive Orchestra Show on the January cruise, with Starkill and Vintersorg added to the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
ASH OF ASHES Send The River Ahead of a Seven Song Third Album
Folk Metal Viking Metal
All Must Wither arrives on 30 October with seven songs, the last of them over seventeen minutes long, longer than the four before it together.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
TROLLFEST Answer the AI Complaints by Making the Same Clip Again
Folk Metal
After the first version drew criticism for its generated imagery, the band made a second one and said it contains no Super Intelligence.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
SVARTSOT Headline Europe in February With Two Support Bands
Folk Metal
The Danish band take Trold from home and Morgarten from Switzerland out with them across Europe in February next year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
HARPYIE Announce a Farewell Album and Call It the Flood
Folk Metal Metalcore
Nach uns die Sintflut arrives on 11 December and the band have said it is the last one, with the first song out now.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026