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ANTHRAX Play a Second Maiden Date Without Charlie Benante, This Time With Derek Roddy
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Roddy drummed at the Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on 2 October, four days after Mike Heller filled in at the Alamodome.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
Milo Silvestro Says Sounding Like Burton C. Bell Is Why He Got the Job
Death Metal Industrial Metal
The Fear Factory singer says the new album runs to ten songs and arrives next year, and that the resemblance was never an act.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER Sign to Napalm With a Thirteenth Album Already Two Years Old
Heavy Metal Death Metal
The contract is new, the record is not: the band say they have been writing it for almost two years and expect it in summer 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 2, 2026
SCAR SYMMETRY Book Four Nights Across Sweden and Finland
Death Metal Groove Metal
Two headline shows in each country in late May 2027. No venues yet.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 2, 2026
Napalm Sign DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER Thirty One Years In
Heavy Metal Death Metal
A thirteenth album has been two years in the making and is promised for the summer of 2027. The tour between Christmas and New Year comes first.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 1, 2026
ANTHRAX Found a Drummer at Two in the Afternoon and Played the Alamodome at Half Past Six
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Mike Heller of Raven filled in for Charlie Benante in San Antonio, supporting Iron Maiden and Megadeth, having never played an Anthrax song.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 30, 2026
METHANE Put Demolate Out Tomorrow, Eight Tracks and No Apologies for Any of Them
Groove Metal
Fireflash Records release the Borlange band's album on CD on 30 September.
Robin Aalto · Sep 29, 2026
New Metal Releases: 29 September to 5 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
82 records scheduled this week, led by Death Metal, Black Metal and Doom Metal across 34 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026
ANTHRAX Fill Their Night Off From Iron Maiden With a Club Show
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The band played the Roxy in West Hollywood on Saturday, between the two nights supporting Iron Maiden at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
BRUJERIA Take Gira Revolucion Through Sixteen European Cities in March
Death Metal Grindcore
The headline run opens in Copenhagen on 4 March 2027 and ends in Athens on 21 March, with Criminal in support throughout.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
REPENTANCE Give the Song Shaun Glass Wrote to Shaun Glass
Death Metal Doom Metal
Fade Into Silence is out with a video, dedicated to the guitarist who died earlier this year. The album it comes from was postponed after his death and now arrives on 27 November.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
HATESPHERE Take a Third Song Off Guillotine, Two Weeks Before the Album
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Mouth Filled With Barbed Wire arrives with a video, from a record Scarlet Records put out on 9 October, and the band call it a song about choosing defiance.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Bring a New Singer and a New Drummer to Their Eighth Album
Death Metal Black Metal
Aeon Shift is the first thing out of the line up that debuted at Orto Fest in April, and the album it comes from is due in November through Nika Records, a year before the band's thirtieth.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
FATE UNBURIED Take Seventeen Years to Reach a Second Album
Death Metal Groove Metal
Expecting Nothing arrives with a video, three weeks before Neraspeme on 16 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
INCITE Put Out a Lyric Video for Chucked Off in the Middle of the Soulfly Tour
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The song is from Savage New Times; the American run with Soulfly and Nailbomb goes on until 15 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
THE BLACK THUNDER Sing in Polish and English in the Same Song for the First Time
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Ash in My Marrow is the second single from Time Obliteration, the third album, out 16 October on Pagan Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
PRONG Send Out Fear The Sun and Put a Bananarama Cover on the CD
Thrash Metal Industrial Metal
The fourteenth album is self-titled, arrives 6 November on Napalm Records, and Andy Sneap mixed it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
TELMA Name Savvina Batsi Their Singer and Introduce Her With Two Songs From the Back Catalogue
Groove Metal
Giannis Paparseniou joins on guitar at the same time; the Greek band's next record has no title and no date yet.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026