Gothic Metal News
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CHILD OF CAESAR Open the Revived Combat Records With Alive
Gothic Metal
Alive is the opening single from Child of Caesar's next album and the revived label's first release.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 12, 2026
HORIZON OF AEONS Cover a Song Older Than the Band That Made It Famous
Gothic Metal
Yksi Ainoa Ikkuna is their tribute to Agents, and the composition itself is credited as traditional.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Turn Shelley's Ruined Statue on the People Who Make Things
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Ozymandias is the title track and second single from the album Lifeforce Records puts out on 20 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
MORTEMIA Reach the Thirteenth Guest Singer, and This One Sings the Pet Shop Boys
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
Jane Odintsova of Imperial Age takes It's a Sin, the latest in Morten Veland's one song at a time covers project.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
FATUM AETERNUM Come Back After Three Years With Six Members and a String Section
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
As Above So Below is self produced, built on electric violin and cello, and takes its title from the hermetic axiom.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
MALEDICTUS Reach a Fourth Single Before Their First Album Is Even Out
Progressive Metal Gothic Metal
Siren's Lullaby arrives with a video, and Lazarvs follows on 13 November through Fireflash Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Take a Shelley Sonnet for a Title and Hand the Record to Dan Swano
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Ozymandias is the title track and second single from the album, out 20 November on Lifeforce Records. Nine songs, mixed and mastered by Dan Swano.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
TYPE O NEGATIVE's Live Album Goes to Their Original Mixer, and a Found Cassette Holds an October Rust Song
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Kenny Hickey told Loaded Radio the editing is nearly done and that Mike Marciano will mix it. He is aiming for the first quarter of next year.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
New Metal Releases: 6 to 12 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
61 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 33 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 6, 2026
MOONSPELL Book Thirty One European Nights for Their Thirty Fifth Year
Gothic Metal
The God Is A Vampire Tour opens on 4 March 2027 in Langen and runs into April, with Iotunn and TodoMal on every date.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 5, 2026
TYPE O NEGATIVE Have a Gold Single Sixteen Years After They Stopped Being a Band
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Kenny Hickey says I Don't Wanna Be Me has passed 250 million streams, and credits TikTok for it and for Crowbar's 1.9 million Spotify listeners.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 5, 2026
THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's 1994 Demos Get a CD for the First Time, Five Hundred Copies Only
Death Metal Doom Metal
Fifteen remastered tracks on Cosmic Key Creations on 9 October, eight never on CD before and one never released at all.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
CULTUS SANGUINE Send a Second Song Out Before Tears Painted Sky
Doom Metal Black Metal
My Wounds Are Eternal follows When Silence Devours. My Kingdom Music release the album on 9 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026
KATATONIA Lose a Guitarist to a Visa Office for the Second Time This Year
Death Metal Doom Metal
Nico Elgstrand misses the China and Japan shows over visa problems and rejoins the band in New Zealand. In February the same thing kept him off the North American tour.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE Put Out Their Fourteenth Album Tomorrow, Four Years After the Last
Death Metal Doom Metal
Lay Me Down O Silent Fear arrives on 25 September through Steamhammer, ten songs, the first Lacrimas Profundere record since 2022.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
EISREGEN Book Six Shows for November and December and Close the Year in Erfurt
Death Metal Black Metal
The Herbstrituale run keeps the band's yearly pattern, ending at From Hell in Erfurt.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026
Maria Brink Has Been Talking About a Solo Album Since 2017 and Now It Has a Name
Gothic Metal Metalcore
Coven arrives between In This Moment's ninth album and their tenth, and she describes it as the quiet side of her work.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
KATATONIA Announce Two Shows in China Five Days Before Playing Them
Death Metal Doom Metal
Shanghai on 27 September, Shenzhen on 28 September, then Japan and an Australian and New Zealand run in October.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026