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Brent Hinds's Estate Says the Case Is Not About the Cover, It Is About an Accounting He Never Got
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
A second statement, after Mastodon called the lawsuit meritless.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
OBSCURA Say They Have Filed Criminal Complaints in Germany Over Eleven Years of Publications
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The band's statement names no individuals and asks people not to speculate; it says visas for China were among the casualties.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 21, 2026
BEATEN TO DEATH Put Thirteen Songs on Vntrve and One of Them Is Called Fangad i en Battle Vest
Progressive Metal Grindcore
Out 23 October on Mas-Kina Recordings; 'Fuck the Moon' is the second song online.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 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
HYPNO5E Set 'Trame Noire' for 6 November and Put Out Two Films at Once
Progressive Metal
'Lost Fires' and 'Molecular Angel' come with the announcement. Pelagic Records has the album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
THE OCEAN Bring Tangerine Dream Onto 'Milk of My Dreams', a Week Before 'Solaris'
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth single from the album, out 25 September through Pelagic Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
HANGING GARDEN Release Dream Death Through Transcending Obscurity on 18 September
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The New York progressive death metal project, not the Finnish band of the same name, release their second album on Friday, written, played, mixed and mastered by one person.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Use Live Drums for the First Time on Album Thirteen
Avant-garde Metal
'Búcsú a piros madártól' opens 'XIII: Sárga erdő', out 20 November on Season of Mist. Tamas Katai filmed the video where the first Thy Catafalque clip was shot twenty-five years ago.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
END OF ABYSS Close the Run of Singles Before Their First Album
Progressive Metal
'Sound of Soul' is the third and last preview of 'Escape to a New Empire', out 23 October on Inverse Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
EMBERTEARS Tell the Fall of the Aztec Empire From Both Sides, Out 20 November
Progressive Metal Stoner Metal
The Hungarian solo project's third album runs nine songs of sludge, progressive metal and stoner rock, and opens with a video for 'In the Eye of the Hurricane'. Bitume Prods has it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
SEA SLEEPER Stream 'Burden of Antlers' in Full, Three Days Before It Is Out
Progressive Metal Deathcore
Eight songs the Portland band released themselves, written, as they put it, somewhere on the line between ambition and poor decision making.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ANCIIENTS Re-Record 'Humanist' From Their 2011 EP and Bring Back the Singer Who Was on It
Progressive Metal
The song first appeared on 'Snakebeard' in 2011 and later as a bonus track on 'Heart of Oak'. The new version has the current four piece playing it, with former guitarist Chris Dyck singing behind them again.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
CRONIAN's 'Terra' Reaches Vinyl Twenty Years After It Came Out
Progressive Metal
M-Theory Audio presses the Borknagar side project's 2006 debut on 13 November, limited to 300 copies, remastered by Dan Swanö.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
GOJIRA Sell Out a 1,200 Capacity Benefit Show for a St. Louis Food Bank in One Afternoon
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Tickets were $30 and all proceeds go to Operation Food Search. The show is on 18 September at The Sovereign, with Locked Shut opening.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026
MASTODON Call the Hinds Estate Lawsuit Meritless and Say They Will Not Discuss It Further
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The band's first response to the complaint filed in Fulton County: a private dispute made public, which they intend to defend.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 12, 2026
MYRATH Rework Sting's 'Shape Of My Heart' Ahead of the Next Leg of Their European Tour
Progressive Metal Folk Metal
The single follows this year's 'Wilderness Of Mirrors'. The tour opens in Metz on 17 September and runs to the end of October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
Brent Hinds' Estate Sues MASTODON, Says an $80,000 Buyout Check Came With No Accounting
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The complaint, filed in Fulton County, also objects to a recognisable image of Hinds on the artwork of 'Marrow Deep', a record he did not play on.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 11, 2026
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Filmed a Song Inside a Cave and Kept the Tape
Progressive Metal Death Metal
'Psychomanteum' was recorded live at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. 'Never in a million years did we imagine we'd one day play a show inside a cave,' says Tommy Rogers.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026