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STARKILL Wrote a Whole Album, Threw It Away, and Start Again With Death On Display
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Hanging Up My Halo is dated 22 January, with symphonic production by Francesco Ferrini of Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
LOVEBITES Will Not Play Live at All in 2027
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The Tokyo band say they are taking a year away from the stage, months after their fifth album.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026
DRAGONLAND Take a Third Single Off Prophecies Two Weeks Before It Arrives
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Rolling Waves is out now, and the seventh album follows on 23 October through Scarlet Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026
ANKOR Reach UNFD Twenty Three Years After Forming in Catalonia
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I See Red is dated 20 November, and the single ITACHI, blood moon is out now. The line-up now runs from Bristol to Athens.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 9, 2026
Geoff Tate Says Again That There Were No Knives in Brazil in 2012
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The former Queensryche singer told the Beardo and Weirdo podcast that the stories around his exit were what a lawsuit produces.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
FORGOTTEN TALES Date Other Times for February and Call It a Return to the Riffs
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The album arrives on 12 February 2027 through Rockshots Records, with A Thousand Lies out now as the first single and video.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
DRAGONLAND Hand Their Seventh Album to Fredrik Nordstrom and Press Five Hundred Records of It
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Rolling Waves is the third single from Prophecies, out 23 October on Scarlet Records. The vinyl run is 350 plus 150 copies.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
TUNGSTEN Reach Their Fifth Album in Seven Years, With Three of Its Songs Already Out
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Ashes arrives on 9 October through Reigning Phoenix Music. Bite My Tongue, The North Will Rise and Sunshine of Fall came out ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
EMBRACE OF SOULS Film the Plague Chapter of Their Medieval Concept Album Live
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The clip comes from The Battle Of The Dead, out since 22 May on Rockshots, with three Italian dates between late October and the end of November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
MAESTRICK Name Hans Zimmer and Gustav Holst in the Same Breath as Spiritbox
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Zion comes through Frontiers Music with a new line-up behind it, and the band call it the start of a new chapter.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Write a Song About Stormbringer and Open It With a Blast Beat
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Sword In The Storm is the second single from Titanblood, out 6 November through Scarlet Records, and takes its subject from Moorcock's Elric.
Robin Aalto · Oct 6, 2026
New Metal Releases: 6 to 12 October 2026
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61 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 33 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 6, 2026
SEVEN KINGDOMS Set Their Sixth Album for January and Keep the Whole Thing at Morrisound
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Sono Sola arrives on 27 January 2027 through Reigning Phoenix Music, ten tracks, mixed by Jim Morris and mastered by BJ Ramone.
Robin Aalto · Oct 6, 2026
Anette Olzon Sings Fourteen NIGHTWISH Songs in Sao Paulo and Says the Bitterness Had to Go First
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Footage of the 26 September concert at Teatro APCD is online, with a band, an orchestra and a choir behind her.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
I AM YOUR GOD Put Out a Sentenced Cover on the Day Sentenced Ended, Twenty One Years On
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Farewell went out on 1 October, the anniversary of the last Sentenced show at Club Teatria in Oulu, as the fourth single from an EP of five covers.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
METALITE Reach the Third Video From Discovery Ten Days After the Album
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Neon Rain is the fourth track on the Stockholm band's fifth record, which Reigning Phoenix released on 25 September.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
IN VAIN Open Architects of Mayhem With Its Shortest Song
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The Madrid band's seventh album arrives on 5 November through Fighter Records, and Spit on the Dead is out ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
FORGOTTEN TALES Sign to Rockshots Sixteen Years After Their Last Album
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The Quebec City band are active again with their original singer, a new rhythm section and a record called Other Times promised for 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 5, 2026