Gothic Metal News
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VLAD IN TEARS Date Six German Shows for December and Put Out a Christmas Song
Gothic Metal
The Undead tour runs six German venues between 3 and 12 December. The single that arrives ahead of it is a Christmas song, and the band say it is not one.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 1, 2026
IN THIS MOMENT Play I Want To Believe Live on SiriusXM
Gothic Metal Metalcore
A song written with a guest vocalist on it goes to a radio studio, and the album behind it is the band's first for a new label after nine records.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Join Four Italian Bands for the First Doom Over Naples
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
A single night, five bands, a published running order down to the quarter hour, and eighteen euro to get in before the fee. It starts on Sunday.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
SIDEWALK MAFIA Sign to Octopus Rising and Skip the Next Album
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
A band with two albums behind them sign a deal and announce they will not be making a third one yet. Two songs are coming instead, one at a time.
Robin Aalto · 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
DAWN OF SOLACE Put More Growling Into Skeletons, Out in February
Death Metal Doom Metal
Ten tracks for 12 February, and the quiet half of Tuomas Saukkonen's output is getting heavier rather than softer with age.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
THE ETERNAL Put Obscured Horizons Out Through Reigning Phoenix
Gothic Metal
The Melbourne band's new song arrives with a lyric video, more than twenty years into a career spent on the melancholy end of doom.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026
CLOAK Date a Fourth Album for February and Name It Above, Below, and Through
Black Metal Gothic Metal
Metal Blade put the Atlanta band's next record out on 12 February, four years after Black Flame Eternal and with nothing else said yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
CREMATORY Hand Ravens Calling to Rolf Munkes at Wacken, and the Tape Surfaces
Death Metal Gothic Metal
Wacken's own crew filmed the thirty fifth anniversary set, and the song that got out has the guitarist singing it rather than Felix Stass.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
FINAL GASP Keep Aftermath Off New Day Symptoms and Put It on Floppy Vinyl
Gothic Metal
The Boston band's leftover from this year's album session goes out as a flexi disc with the November issue of Decibel and nowhere else.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
ECNEPHIAS Build an Album Out of Eight Horror Films and Sing It in Italian
Death Metal Doom Metal
Liturgia Della Notte arrives on 11 December through My Kingdom Music, six years after the last one, with one song per film.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
ELYSION Pull Dead Loves Off Identity and Call It Their Most Romantic Song
Gothic Metal
The third single from the Athens band's fourth album, out since 16 October on Massacre Records, goes further into gothic than the first two.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
ROTTING CHRIST and DEATH ANGEL Take the Friday at Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The sixteenth edition runs on 11 and 12 December with thirty bands on two stages, and the warm up party is the night before.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
SIRENIA Mark Twenty Five Years With One Italian Date
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The Legend Club in Milan on 1 November is the band's only Italian stop on the anniversary tour, with Vallorch opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
ENDLESS CHAIN Put Two Voices Against Each Other on Save Me
Gothic Metal
The third song from Nothingness, out on 20 November through M-Theory Audio, sets Ville Hovi and Aki Salonen against one another.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
MOONSPELL Take God Is a Vampire to Belgrade With IOTUNN Under Them
Gothic Metal
The Portuguese band play Zappa Barka on 2 April 2027, with Iotunn as special guests and the Spanish duo TodoMal opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
LACUNA COIL Mark Twenty Years of Karmacode by Recutting Fragile
Gothic Metal
Fragile XX is a new version of the Karmacode song, released with a SWARM remix of a track from last year's album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
UPON SHADOWS Open an Eighth Album From Uruguay With a Luciferian Song
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The Great Shadow is the first piece of Golden Flame, which the duo plan for 2027, and Tony Lindgren mastered it in Sweden.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026