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NIGHT LASER Wrote '19CR490' as a Middle Finger to People Who Traded Their Humanity for Power
Heavy Metal
From 'Rats In The Cradle', out 25 September on Steamhammer. The Hamburg band tour with Axel Rudi Pell after it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Frankie Palmeri Says He Lost His Pass for Trying to Talk to Glenn DANZIG
Heavy Metal
He was watching Pantera from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life when, by his account, Danzig's security removed him.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
NASTY Fill 'Trauma' With Guests and Put 'Warrior' Out Third
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The album lands 23 October on Triple B Records, with members of LANDMVRKS and Eternal Enemy on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
U.D.O. Name Album Twenty 'Voodoo Ranger' and Open It With 'I'll Die Trying'
Heavy Metal
Out 8 January 2027 through Reigning Phoenix Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
BLACKMENT Release Pandemonium Portrait Through Inverse Records on 18 September
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The Finnish melodic metal band's second album was moved from June to give its last five songs more time, and is out on Friday.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
'It's Your Stage': What Dave Mustaine Tells Himself on the Stairs Every Night
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A Q&A with Rolling Stone's Kory Grow for the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', on the farewell tour, the hand condition and two finished songs nobody has heard.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
CRYSTAL THRONE Set Album Two in the Year 5150, With Earth Missing
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'Electrical Savior' is the second single from 'Chantry Of Sacrifice', out 2 October. The record follows the last human alive back through time to find out where the planet went.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Jay Jay French on Replacing Dee Snider: 'Nobody Is Irreplaceable Anywhere'
Heavy Metal
Sebastian Bach is fronting Twisted Sister this autumn after Snider resigned over health, and the guitarist has an answer ready for everyone who says it cannot be done.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
M72 Reaches Its Hundredth Show and Keeps Going: Twelve More American Stadiums in 2027
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Vancouver on 8 May to Salt Lake City on 19 June, with Limp Bizkit and Avatar back on the bill. Tickets 25 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
The Last BLACK SABBATH Show Reaches Cinemas on 28 October, Filmed Seventeen Days Before OZZY OSBOURNE Died
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Villa Park, 5 July last year: a solo set, then the four original members on a stage together for the first time in more than twenty years. Tickets go on sale 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
TRIVIUM Open Album Eleven With a Riff Paolo Gregoletto Sat On for Six Years
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'Dead Inside of Me' is the first thing anyone has heard from the follow-up to 'In the Court of the Dragon'. The album has no title and no date yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment has it. Chris Boltendahl calls it the next furious chapter, which after forty six years is a claim the band have earned the right to keep making.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
W.A.S.P. Open Their North American Tour With Songs They Have Never Played Live
Heavy Metal
'1984 To Headless' began in Austin with 'Easy Living', 'Mephisto Waltz' and a song from Sister, the band before the band, none of which had been performed before this year.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 16, 2026
ION VEIN Re-Record Three Songs Whose Master Tapes Vanished, and Reissue 'Beyond Tomorrow'
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Three missing masters brought the Chicago band back together. The anniversary edition lands on 20 November through Majesphere, in 250 copies on vinyl, with unreleased live material from 1999.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026
CANDLEMASS Played London Without Johan Längqvist, Who Was Taken to Hospital Before the Show
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Felipe Plaza Kutzbach sang most of it at short notice, with Aaron Stainthorpe and Tony Dolan taking parts. The band say they still do not know much about their singer's condition.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 15, 2026
ADRIAN BENEGAS Puts Out 'Growing Hearts' With Herbie Langhans Singing and Sascha Paeth Mixing
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The Paraguayan composer's new single came out on 11 September with a hand drawn animated video he says was made without any AI.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
BULLETBELT Write the Theme for 'Deathgasm 2', Ten Years After the First One
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The New Zealand band return to the horror comedy franchise they scored in 2015, in a video directed by Alex Hargreaves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
ABSOLUTE POWER Share the Title Track of Their Second Album, With Tim 'Ripper' Owens
Heavy Metal
Shane Embury and Simon Efemey's heavy metal project returns fifteen years after its debut. The album is out on 6 November via Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026