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CRESCENDIUM Bracket DRAC With a Prologue and an Epilogue
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Six tracks, and the first and last are named Prologue and Epilogue. The second album arrives on 11 November, with the video for Dämmerlicht out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
PARALLEL MINDS Name a Song After Bhopal and Date Its Video for 6 November
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The third video from an album about forgotten tragedies takes the 1984 gas disaster, and the band frame it as corporate negligence rather than fate.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
SAVATAGE's Hall Of The Mountain King Gets a Cover From Tommy Johansson
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The song turns forty next year and has just been played twice in public by two different parties, once at Wacken by the band and once in a bedroom studio.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
WIND ROSE Lose Federico Gatti After Almost Eight Years
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The drummer goes with no replacement named and a statement short enough to fit on a postcard, which is usually a sign nobody is angry.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
TERAMAZE Reach Japan for the First Time, Opening for DGM in December
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Two Tokyo nights on 3 and 4 December, booked off the back of a festival bill the two bands shared in the United States.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
EMBERTEARS Reach Fall Of The Empire and Tell the Conquest From Both Sides
Progressive Metal Stoner Metal
One man, nine songs, and a history of the Spanish conquest written from the viewpoint of the invaders and the invaded at the same time.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Invent a Folk Song for the Volga and Put a Choir Behind It
Avant-garde Metal
The third song from the thirteenth album is a folk tune that never existed, sung about a people Tamas Katai first heard of at school.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
Desertfest Berlin Put KYLESA, WINDHAND and Brutus Next to the MELVINS in May
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Nine more names only three weeks after the first announcement, and the cheapest tickets for the May weekend are already gone.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 29, 2026
VOIVOD Announce the Death of Christine McDonald, Snake's Partner
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
She was a painter, and the singer left the band's touring year to be with her. The band have asked for privacy and said the rest in a short statement.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 29, 2026
NIGHTMARER Take Chorus Of Suffering Through Nine German Rooms in Spring
Death Metal Avant-garde Metal
Berlin on 25 March, then eight more with Haeresis, all of them clubs and none of them in a city that needs explaining to anybody else.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 29, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Puts the Groningen Night of The Moth on Disc for 6 November
Progressive Metal
War Beyond Words is the first thing out of the live album, which arrives on CD and Blu-ray six months after the studio record it comes from.
Robin Aalto · Oct 28, 2026
MESHUGGAH Add Welcome To Rockville to a Day That Already Had a Tour in It
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Daytona in May, announced hours after the forty year anniversary run, with Testament on both the festival bill and the tour.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 28, 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
VOYAGER Follow Seen Better Days With a Single Called Secret
Progressive Metal
The Perth band's second standalone song in two years arrives with a video, and still no album has been named behind it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
122 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 44 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
HAKEN Take Thank You Scientist and Einar Solberg Across North America in March
Progressive Metal
The run opens in Austin on 4 March and crosses the continent and back, ending in Carrboro, with tickets on sale on Friday 30 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
MESHUGGAH Line Up TESTAMENT and Blood Incantation for a Fortieth Anniversary Run
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour hits North America next year, with tickets on sale on 30 October and the full itinerary still to come.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
PARIUS Put a Fourth Album Called Alchestronomy on 13 November
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Willowtip Records have the fourth album, Jamie King mixed and mastered it, and two songs from it are already up for anyone who wants them.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026