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DYNAZTY Open Their Napalm Debut With The Mission and a Date Behind Accept
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Dark Arts arrives on 5 March 2027, and before that the Swedish band play Milan on 2 December on Accept's fiftieth anniversary run.
Robin Aalto · Nov 2, 2026
STRYPER Let One Christmas Song Off a Physical Only Album and Onto Streaming
Heavy Metal
The Greatest Gift of All has been a disc you had to buy since it came out. Go Tell It On The Mountain is the first track to leave that rule behind.
Ben Ashworth · Nov 2, 2026
BRUCE DICKINSON Put Eighteen Songs Down in Three Weeks and Says None of It Is AI
Heavy Metal
Twelve hour days for three weeks at Studio 606, eighteen songs recorded, and a first single he says is about ten days away.
Robin Aalto · Nov 2, 2026
MEGADETH's Teemu Mäntysaari Plays Symphony Of Destruction on Finnish Television
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A Halloween episode of a Finnish guessing game show, broadcast live from his home city, with a Megadeth song and a Battle Beast singer on the same stage.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
CRUCIFIED BARBARA Lose Both UK Shows After Hard Rock Hell Is Called Off
Heavy Metal
The festival on 6 November was the reason the London show on 7 November existed. With the festival gone, the club date at The Dome goes with it.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 1, 2026
VIPER QUEEN Reach a First Album by Rebuilding Four Songs They Already Had
Heavy Metal
Munich City Nights arrives on 13 November with nine songs, and four of them are marked as 2026 versions of singles the band put out between 2022 and 2024.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
Queensrÿche's Todd La Torre Warms Up on Powerslave and Films It
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He says plainly that he does not care if it cracks. The reason he was singing at all is that demo work on the next album was about to continue.
Tomas Berglund · Nov 1, 2026
MÉS Send Out Dying Star Three Years After The Scent of Death
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An unsigned French band with two albums behind them puts out the first new song since 2023, with a video, and no record announced behind it yet.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
ACCEPT Put David Reece Back on Their Stage After Thirty Seven Years
Heavy Metal
He nearly deleted the email as spam. It was Wolf Hoffmann, asking the singer of one Accept album from 1989 to come back for two nights.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
MASTER MASSIVE Put Out a Fourth Single in a Year That Already Had an Album
Heavy Metal
A band formed in 1993 has released an album and four singles in 2026, which is a heavier year of output than most of their first three decades held.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
SAVATAGE's Hall Of The Mountain King Gets a Cover From Tommy Johansson
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The song turns forty next year and has just been played twice in public by two different parties, once at Wacken by the band and once in a bedroom studio.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
JADED HEART Send Out We Come Alive and Name Who Wrote What
Heavy Metal
The second song from Toxic comes with its credits spelled out: words by the singer, music by the bassist and a guitarist borrowed from Eclipse.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
SCARBLADE Release Two Videos in the Week Guardians of Time Arrives
Heavy Metal
Two singles at once, both with videos, both arriving the same week as the album they come from. One of them is the title track.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
Nicko McBrain Names the IRON MAIDEN Fills He Could No Longer Play
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Two years after he stopped, the drummer says exactly which parts had gone: the Trooper intro, the middle of Somewhere In Time, forty two years of fills.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
METALLICA's Ride the Lightning Painting Goes on a Wall in November
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Two of the most reproduced images in metal exist as physical paintings. From 5 November you can stand in front of both of them in San Francisco.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi Calls the Dio Comparison Unfair
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Jorn Lande has carried the Dio comparison for twenty years. The man who hired him says the comparison misses what he was actually listening for.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
METAL CHURCH Film Dead To Rights at a Festival and Put It Out as the Video
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No studio clip, no concept: the title track gets a video made entirely of the current line-up playing it in front of a European crowd in August.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
PRETTY MAIDS Play Naestved for the First Time in Forty Five Years
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Eight bands added for August, a Danish institution headlining a town it has somehow never played, and a new album promised for next year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026