Groove Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Groove Metal.
GOJIRA Take the Third Rose Bowl Night From System Of A Down
Progressive Metal Death Metal
A 10 June date was added to the two already booked in Pasadena, and the French band open that one instead of Pierce The Veil.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 24, 2026
MESHUGGAH Take the Friday at Milwaukee Metal Fest 2027
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The festival runs 14 to 16 May at The Rave, with Testament, Crowbar, Yob, Pig Destroyer and Repulsion already confirmed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
METAL ALLEGIANCE Book Anaheim Again, With Seven Guests Named
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The House of Blues show on 28 January 2027 brings in Fredrik Akesson, Bobby Blitz, John Bush, Marty Friedman, Todd La Torre and Troy Sanders.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
MACHINE HEAD and Reece Scruggs Part on the Terms He Wanted
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The guitarist who left the 2025 tour when his father was diagnosed with cancer has confirmed his exit, and has a new band ready.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Put a Second Song From Axiom I Out Before Their Thirtieth Year
Death Metal Black Metal
Paradox Redux follows Aeon Shift from the eighth album, out on 20 November, the first the Slovenians have made with a new singer in two decades.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
ORBIT CULTURE and ARMORED SAINT Added to Into The Grave 2027
Death Metal Groove Metal
The Leeuwarden festival adds six bands, with Orbit Culture back after 2023 and Armored Saint arriving for the first time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
VOICE OF RUIN Cut the Next Record to Four Songs
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Swiss band return on 11 February with a four track EP, and Breed Of Servants is out now as the first song from it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
OVERKILL Go to Basinfirefest for the First Time, With Three Czech Decades Around Them
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The four day festival in Spalene Porici runs from 23 to 26 June 2027, with Metal Church and Sanctuary also on the international wave.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
SOILWORK Put Out a New Song in the Middle of the Anniversary Tour
Death Metal Metalcore
Night Whispers & Shining Lights arrives while the band are on the road in Europe with Amon Amarth, in the year they turn thirty.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
MACHINE HEAD Put Out Sutures With No Warning at All
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The song arrived unannounced, weeks after Robb Flynn talked about closing the UNATONED cycle, with Zack Ohren co-producing again.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
BRUJERIA Add Seven Iberian Dates in November Before the March Tour
Death Metal Grindcore
Five headlining shows in Spain and two in Portugal come weeks before the sixteen city European run already booked for March.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
87 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal across 38 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
MESHUGGAH Go to Sonic Temple in the Year They Turn Forty
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The Swedish band join Testament and Sylosis on a bill that already has Iron Maiden headlining, with the full line-up due later this week.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
NEVERMORE's Bloodstock Set Comes Out as the Tour Fills Up
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The River Dragon Has Come, filmed at Catton Park in August, is the first proper footage of this version of the band.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
PANTERA Sign 666 Copies of a Book of Ross Halfin's Photographs
Heavy Metal Groove Metal
Three hundred pages, an A3 format, and every one of the 666 numbered copies signed by the four men currently touring.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
EXHORDER Cancel Three Dates and End Their Year There
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Omaha, Iowa City and Evansville are off, no reason has been given for any of them, and the band say album five is what comes next.
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
HATESPHERE Take a Third Song Off Guillotine
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The twelfth album came out last Friday, and the band are still releasing from it, this time with Tue Madsen's mix doing the work.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026