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CRYSTAL EYES Put 'Metal Bound' Out Ahead of a Ninth Album, 'Thunder God'
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Massacre Records releases it on 30 October. The song is about leaving a ruined Earth, and underneath that about keeping heavy metal itself.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
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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
Kai HANSEN Makes a Second Solo Record, Ten Years After the First
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The project he started in 2016 as a one off is active again, on earMUSIC, with the album he has been promising since XXX.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
AFTER INFINITY Take the Guitars and Drums Out of 'Whisper in the Air'
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The Finnish band's new single is piano, orchestra and voice, with Mika Tauriainen of Entwine singing his first release in over a decade. 'Beyond Eternity' follows on 23 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
SERIOUS BLACK Put 'Party in the Sun' Forward as Germany's Eurovision Entry
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The power metal band have submitted the single for the 2027 contest. Mario Lochert says the song is about the worldwide metal family, which is a phrase nobody has previously tried on that stage.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 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
ILIUM's 'Scythe Ballet' Reaches Bandcamp, Months After the Physical Release
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BraveWords Records has put the Australian power metal band's 2026 album out digitally. The rest of the platforms follow later in the year.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Set 'Titanblood' for 6 November and Open It With 'Ravenheart'
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The first album under the multi-record deal they signed with Scarlet Records this month. Christian Muenzner and Hannes Grossmann are still the engine of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
ETERNITY'S END Sign a Multi-Album Deal With Scarlet Records and Promise Their Fastest Record
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Christian Muenzner's neoclassical power metal project has a new album finished for this autumn, with no title announced yet.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 12, 2026
VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Join the 70000 Tons of Metal 2027 Cruise
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The Austrian band sails from Miami to Puerto Plata in January. Thirty of the sixty bands are announced, and Wolfheart premiere their new album on board.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 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
WHISPERED Release 'Honorbound', Nearly a Decade in the Making and Closing on a 24-Minute Title Track
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The Finnish band's fourth album is out today. Its closing epic is drawn from the Japanese tale of the Soga brothers' revenge.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
TEMPERANCE Give Every Song on 'Arcani' a Card From the Tarot's Major Arcana
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The Italian band's eighth album is out on 16 October via Napalm Records. 'The Tower: Lean Into Fear' is out now with a video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
BEAST IN BLACK's New Single Is About the Nightmares Anton Kabanen Had as a Teenager
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'Fear The Beast' is the title track of the band's fourth album, written about Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and the art of H. R. Giger. Asian dates follow this month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
FIREWIND Spent Two Years on a Greek Mythology Concept Album, Out in February
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'Gods, Myths & Titans' arrives 19 February, the band's first for BLKIIBLK, with separate artwork for every song. First single 'The Legend Of Achilles' is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
GLORYHAMMER Claim a World Record for Saying 'Auchtermuchty' the Most Times in a Song
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'Warriors Of Auchtermuchty' is the showdown single from 'Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath', out 16 October on Napalm Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Kai Hansen Says the Next HELLOWEEN Album Is Eighty Per Cent Finished
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Speaking to The Metal Voice about his solo record 'Born With A Hammer', out 18 September, Hansen said songs for the next Helloween album are already mixed.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026