Progressive Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Progressive Metal.
PAIN OF SALVATION Play Finland for the First Time in Ten Years, at a Festival in Tampere
Progressive Metal
Ankea Festival adds seven acts for 18 and 19 June 2027, among them Plini and Einar Solberg.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 12, 2026
THE OCEAN Book the Second Half of the Solaris Tour, Twenty Seven Dates in Four Weeks
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Expedition II runs from Bremen on 23 January to Leipzig on 20 February, with A.A. Williams on selected nights.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 11, 2026
ONLY HUMAN Film Their First Headline Show and Put One Song From It Online
Progressive Metal
Breach was recorded at the Copenhagen release party for Planned Obsolescence, the Danish band's debut album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL Mark Thirty Years by Putting a Live Album Inside the New One
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Shrine Of The Useless Gods comes with a video by their own drummer, and the first edition of Lost Memories carries ten live songs from Palermo.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
MASTODON Press One Hundred and Seventy Records With Fossil Dust in the Vinyl
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
A fan gave them the mastodon teeth twenty years ago. A university geology department ground them fine enough not to ruin the playback.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 9, 2026
MALEDICTUS Reach a Fourth Single Before Their First Album Is Even Out
Progressive Metal Gothic Metal
Siren's Lullaby arrives with a video, and Lazarvs follows on 13 November through Fireflash Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026
THE OCEAN Put a Milan Date on Solaris and Open the Sale the Same Morning
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The Legend Club on 9 February 2027, with a support act still to be named. Tickets went up at ten this morning.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
SADIST Carry Thirty Years of Tribe to Eight Dates and Two of Them Leave Italy
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Five Italian dates in October, Moscow and Saint Petersburg in November, Rome on 5 December. More are promised.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
TESSERACT Book North America for January After Postponing Their Autumn Dates in Europe
Progressive Metal
Eighteen dates open on 7 January at Irving Plaza with Entheos and Sunborn along. Tickets go on general sale on 9 October at ten in the morning local time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
OBSCURA Put Out Their Shortest Song as a Video on the Way to Mexico
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Prolonging gets a Mirko Witzki video days before the next leg of the A Sonication tour. Steffen Kummerer calls it one of the shortest and fastest things the band have done.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
IGORRR Take Secret Chiefs 3 and Fange Across Europe for Thirteen March Dates
Industrial Metal Avant-garde Metal
The run goes from 13 to 31 March 2027 behind Amen, which has Scott Ian, Trey Spruance and Mike Leon on it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
TESSERACT Move The Descent to March and Tell Anyone Who Booked a Hotel They Are Sorry
Progressive Metal
The UK and Germany run of 30 October to 8 November is postponed to March 2027. Existing tickets stay valid.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 6, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Film Tombok From the Album With Real Drums on It
Avant-garde Metal
Season of Mist have a video for the song, from the thirteenth Thy Catafalque record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
DARK AGES Drop the Concept After Forty Four Years and Let the Songs Separate
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Blind Faith arrives on 6 November through Andromeda Relix, the Verona band's sixth album and the first they have not built around one story.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Says He Is Back on Stage Because The Moth Lost Him a Year of Income
Progressive Metal
On the Sixty Scales And The Truth podcast he described the finances behind the Metamorphosis tour, and the year that came with them.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
VOIVOD Cancel Ten American Dates and Will Not Name a New Time
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
A family health emergency, the fourth illness the band have announced this year, and no rescheduled dates offered.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
A FOREST OF STARS Get Four Continental Dates Out of a Year They Wanted More From
Progressive Metal Black Metal
Utrecht, Berlin, Munster and Ghent in the first week of December, with Nemorous in support, after four UK shows in late November.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
RISE ABOVE DEAD Have a Singer Again After Twelve Years Without One
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Andrea Rondanini is back on Voidmass, out 27 November through Argonauta Records, with Drowning Slowly the first thing out.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026