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GRAYSCALE SEASON Close Their Album Run With mov
Metalcore
The guitarist wrote the whole instrumental at home before anybody else heard it, and the producer liked one breakdown enough to use it twice.
Sasha Kellerman · Nov 1, 2026
LOST SOCIETY's Samy Elbanna Tells Young Bands Not to Wait To Be Found
Thrash Metal Metalcore
Too young for bar gigs, he and his friends built a festival at a youth centre instead. That is the whole of the advice he gives now, in one anecdote.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
BLIND CHANNEL Close Painstream With a Video That Leaves Them Out of It
Metalcore Nu Metal
The sixth album is out, and the last single arrives with the first clip the band have made that does not have any of the five of them in it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
IN THIS MOMENT Play I Want To Believe Live on SiriusXM
Gothic Metal Metalcore
A song written with a guest vocalist on it goes to a radio studio, and the album behind it is the band's first for a new label after nine records.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
HOLLOW FRONT Reach a Third Single From No Love Without Despair
Metalcore
Three singles out, six weeks to the album, and a record the band paid for out of their own pockets after a year that nearly ended them.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
ZAO Play Liberate Te Ex Inferis Whole and the Footage Is Out in 4K
Metalcore
A record from 1999 performed front to back at a festival, and a year later the whole set arrives online in 4K rather than on a phone camera.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's Jesse Leach Would Rather Have Four Songs Than an Album
Metalcore
Leach does the arithmetic out loud: a record gives you maybe five songs that survive into the set, so he wants to skip straight to those five.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 31, 2026
LAMB OF GOD Take the Headbangers Boat to Europe for the First Time in 2028
Metalcore Groove Metal
The cruise has run out of American ports to repeat. In 2028 it sails from Southampton to Spain, with six names on the bill so far.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
DARKEST HOUR Call Suffer Divine a Love Letter to Melodic Death Metal
Death Metal Metalcore
The eleventh album is out with Mark Lewis producing, and the guitarist says the whole thing was built around what two guitars can do.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 30, 2026
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN Put Dissociation Back Out With Eight Unheard Demos
Metalcore
The album they broke up on turns ten in December, and the reissue carries demos of eight of its songs plus a full instrumental version.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 29, 2026
MOODRING Have Most of an Album Written and Hunter Young Wants It Out
Metalcore Nu Metal
The singer who launched a fundraiser this month for three chronic illnesses says the record exists and that he and Austin Coupe have gone back to it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 29, 2026
PARKWAY DRIVE Take the Thursday as Graspop Names Four for Its Thirtieth
Metalcore
Dessel gets Parkway Drive on 17 June, Faith No More on the 18th, and Blink-182 and Marilyn Manson sharing the Saturday on opposite stages.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 28, 2026
ENTHEOS Put Hell Is a Part of Me Out and Keep the Programming Audible
Metalcore Deathcore
The American duo's new song arrives through Metal Blade, with the electronics sitting on top of the riffs rather than hidden underneath them.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 28, 2026
PARKWAY DRIVE Take Home Into Cinemas on 12 November
Metalcore
The documentary shot at the Sydney Opera House opens in Australian cinemas first and reaches North America six days later.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 28, 2026
THE PLOT IN YOU Open a World Tour With Twenty Seven North American Dates
Metalcore
The run starts in St. Louis on 12 March and finishes in Nashville on 18 April, and the band are calling it only the first part.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 28, 2026
KINGDOM OF SORROW Get a Second Vinyl Pressing in Eighteen Years
Sludge Metal Metalcore
Relapse put the 2008 debut and Behind The Blackest Tears back on the format, both out of print since their first limited runs sold through.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 28, 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
AFTER THE BURIAL Lose Japan Too When the NORTHLANE Australian Tour Falls
Progressive Metal Metalcore
The band were supporting Northlane in Australia, and without those dates the Japanese shows no longer work on their own.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026