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ALA Send Out Kill For Satan, the Second Single From a Serbian Debut Due on 23 October
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Damir Mirojevic built the band while he was in Kolac, and Wormholedeath releases The Dragon's Return next month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
WATCHER Started as One Man in 2023 and Are Four People by the Second Album
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'Mistress of Our Time' is streaming in full before Dying Victims releases it on 25 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Ian Hill Missed a JUDAS PRIEST Show for the First Time, With a Torn Tendon in His Arm
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Dave Rimmer of Uriah Heep took the bass at the Eventim Apollo on Monday.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
QUIET RIOT Took Seven Hundred Auditions and Gave the Job to a Twenty Three Year Old
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John Torra, from Long Island, replaces Jizzy Pearl after an open call.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Back To The Beginning Goes Into Cinemas on 28 October
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The Villa Park farewell, cut into a film, with a pre-sale on 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
DORO Wrote Most of Wild At Heart in the Last Few Weeks So the Tour Would Have New Songs
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'Rock You 2 Death' is out first; the album follows on 11 December, ahead of the Magic Winter run.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
KAT Mark Forty Years of Metal and Hell With Ten New Songs
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'Death Is Not Enough' arrives on 23 October through Logosound.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
KING KRAKEN Wrote Shadows Fall After The Blair Witch Project and Put the Melody in the Verses
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The Cardiff band's third single of the year, engineered by Romesh Dodangoda and Tom Cory.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
WOLF Made the Tenth Album Fit on One Side of a Ninety Minute Tape
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'Hour of the Wolf' arrives on 20 November, opening with the first single 'Death Satellite'.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
METALLICA Ask Las Vegas for Blood, for the Fifth Time
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Another Red Cross campaign through All Within My Hands.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 21, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Rebuilt Three Quarters of the Band and Then Made a Third Album
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Thilo Herrmann, Mike Stark and Fabian Watermann all arrived before 'Steelmachine', out 16 October on Fireflash.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 20, 2026
THE HEADLESS GHOST Set a Second Album for Late November and Let Alvaro Valverde Paint It
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'Legacy of the Dead' has eight songs and comes out on Punishment 18 Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026
Peace Sells Turned Forty on Saturday and the Box Set Follows Six Days Later
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Megadeth put a limited edition of the 1986 album out on 25 September.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 20, 2026
Dave Mustaine Says Naming a Party Costs a Band Half Its Audience
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Asked on Metal Hammer Greece's TV War whether he can still say what he used to, the Megadeth leader answered at length.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026
THY LEGACY Put Eight Songs on Their Debut and Two of Them Are Under Two Minutes
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'The Call' came out on 11 September through Nameless Grave Records, thirty-two minutes of heavy metal from Crete.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put 'Dark Sister' Out and Open It Up With 'Spellbound Machine'
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The Los Angeles band's second album, produced by Max Morton, is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DORO Puts Out 'Wild At Heart' Before the Winter Tour, With Alissa White-Gluz on 'Touch Of Evil'
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Nine tracks on her own Rare Diamonds Productions, and the Magic Winter tour opens on 11 December.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put Out 'Spellbound Machine', Filmed Five Days Before It Appeared
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The Los Angeles four piece's new single arrived on their own channel on 18 September, five days after the video was shot. It follows 'Dark Sister', the album they released this year.
Robin Aalto · Sep 18, 2026