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CRO-MAGS Have Nine Songs Tracked and Six More Waiting
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Harley Flanagan does the maths out loud: nine recorded, six written, and he expects the six to become eight. That is seventeen songs for one album.
Sasha Kellerman · Nov 1, 2026
TURNSTILE Said No to a METALLICA Tour and Hetfield Told the Story Himself
Hardcore
The biggest support slot in metal was offered and declined, and the band who offered it went on the radio to explain why the refusal made sense.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
Zack de la Rocha Calls TURNSTILE a Bridge Back to Bad Brains
Hardcore
A band that sells out arenas gets described by someone who watched the first wave as a doorway rather than a destination, and he names what is behind it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
ODIOUS SANCTION Have Been at This Since 1993 and Release Nine More Tomorrow
Death Metal Hardcore
Thirty three years out of Cleveland, a self released album and song titles that do not pretend the subject is anything other than what it is.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 30, 2026
HOPE COLLAPSE Break Twenty One Years of Silence With Age of Heathens
Death Metal Hardcore
One EP in 2005, nothing after it, and now a debut album from four men who were in the New York hardcore scene the first time round.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 29, 2026
MALEVOLENCE Book Fourteen British and Irish Dates and Skip the Obvious Cities
Metalcore Hardcore
The Sheffield band open in Southampton on 4 February and finish at home on the 20th, with Guilt Trip and Bodyweb in support throughout.
Lars Hendriks · 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
BRAT Film the Song They Like Playing Most and Head Out With Napalm Death
Death Metal Grindcore
Spit On His Grave comes off Manslayer and gets a video from Jeff Van Gerwen, days before a European run supporting Napalm Death.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
TURNSTILE Draw an Estimated Sixty Thousand to the Washington Monument
Hardcore
Organisers put the crowd at the free 24 October benefit at sixty thousand, and the fundraiser behind it has gone past 230,000 dollars.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
TURNSTILE's Brendan Yates Lifts a Fan Onto the Stage in Washington
Hardcore
Security were walking her out of the backstage area during T.L.C. when the singer reached down and pulled her up instead.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
AGRIMONIA Break Eight Years of Silence With Of the Shadows
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Six tracks, out on 11 December through De Records, with the opener already streaming as the first piece of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
FRONTIERER Put Fourteen Songs of Ultraviolet Parasite Out at Once
Metalcore Hardcore
The album is out, with a video for Ions and Oxygen Rockets and a November tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland with Car Bomb.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 23, 2026
CONJURER Take Twelve American Dates in a Single January
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Five headline shows with Armed For Apocalypse, then eight more on the Dopethrone run, closing in Los Angeles on 15 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
XIBALBA Take Japan in March With Disembodied
Death Metal Metalcore
The Pomona band and the Minneapolis hardcore veterans share a March run, with the Japanese band Palm supporting every show.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
ONE STEP CLOSER Set Zero for February and Give Away Two Songs at Once
Hardcore
The Wilkes-Barre band return to Run For Cover with a third album, announced with two singles and a single video covering both.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 21, 2026
PEELINGFLESH Send Crackology Out Five Weeks Before the Album
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
The second preview of the self-titled record arrives with a visualizer, with Unique Leader releasing the album on 27 November.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 20, 2026
DISFEAR Give The Last Nail a Second Song Before 20 November
Hardcore
Shackled To Our Vice follows Early Graves from the album Relapse put out next month, the first Disfear record in eighteen years.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
NAPALM DEATH Book the Campaign For Musical Destruction Again for 2027
Death Metal Grindcore
Misery Index, Author and Punisher, Habak and Piece join the winter run, a year after the 2026 leg of the same series.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026