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METALITE Release Discovery Tomorrow, Twelve Songs and a Fifth Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Stockholm band's fifth record arrives on 25 September through Reigning Phoenix Music, two years after Expedition One, with Starchild and Echoes of You already out as videos.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
CLOVEN HOOF Put Out Their Eleventh Album Tomorrow, With Harry Conklin Singing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Never a Prophet in Your Own Land lands on 25 September through High Roller Records, ten songs, two years after Heathen Cross and forty seven years after the band started in Wolverhampton.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set Faces of Pain for 15 January and Hand the Cover to Uwe Jarling Again
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment releases the album; Chris Boltendahl has been running this band for more than forty years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
MYSTIC PROPHECY Call the Fourteenth Album In Metal and Leave It at That
Power Metal Thrash Metal
The German band announce a November release, three years after Hellriot.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
VIOLET ETERNAL Put Ten Songs on the Second Album and One of Them Is Called Techno Optimist
Power Metal
Out today on Rubicon Music: the third release in three years from a band split between Italy and Japan.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
KINGCROWN Put Out a Video for the Song That Says Their Own Name
Heavy Metal Power Metal
We Are Kingcrown is the third track on Moonfall, which Rockshots Records released on 4 September.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
HELLOWEEN Close the Forty Years Tour in a Sold Out Hall in Sao Paulo
Power Metal Speed Metal
The anniversary run took in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America before Saturday's finale.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
INVINCIA Send Out a Third Single Three Days Before Escape Music Releases the Debut
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Tonight We Ride runs six minutes and twenty seconds; Echoes From The Past was mixed by Erik Martensson of Eclipse.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
DRAGONFORCE Name the Tenth Album After Themselves and Write It for Two Singers
Power Metal
Alissa White-Gluz and Alessio Garavello share the vocals, Jens Bogren produced it, and Napalm Records has it out on 19 March 2027.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
VANISHING POINT Give a Date and a Time for the First Song and Nothing Else Yet
Power Metal Progressive Metal
'Bring Me The Night' premieres on 25 September at noon Melbourne time, with the album details attached.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
ALETHEYA Put a White Lion Shaped Song at the Heavy End of Their First Album
Power Metal
'Chance To Reborn' came out on 18 September through Rockshots Records; 'Stealer' has a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
Marc Hudson Steps Back From DRAGONFORCE Over Tinnitus and His Old Vocal Coach Takes the Part
Power Metal
Alessio Garavello sings the male half of a dual-vocal album alongside Alissa White-Gluz; Hudson stays with the band off stage.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026
SABATON Gave Templars to a Pop Evil Singer on a Festival Stage and Then Released It
Power Metal
Leigh Kakaty sang the new version at Louder Than Life a day before it went up on Better Noise Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
SABATON Recut 'Templars' With Leigh Kakaty and Tried It on Louder Than Life First
Power Metal
The new version is out through Better Noise Music, a day after the two of them played it in front of the festival without warning.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
NORTHER Come Back After Fifteen Years, With the Line-Up From the Records That Mattered
Power Metal Death Metal
Petri Lindroos, Kristian Ranta, Jukka Koskinen, Tuomas Planman and Heikki Saari. Wacken and Brutal Assault next summer, and new music is already being written.
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
CRYSTAL THRONE Set Album Two in the Year 5150, With Earth Missing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
'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
Tuomas Holopainen Says the Blame for 2005 Is Fair and the Reunion Is Not Happening
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
'It was a divorce, and an ugly one at that.' Twenty-one years on, he accepts how the open letter looked and still rules out bringing Tarja Turunen back.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026