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PEELINGFLESH Send Crackology Out Five Weeks Before the Album
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
The second preview of the self-titled record arrives with a visualizer, with Unique Leader releasing the album on 27 November.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 20, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
87 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal across 38 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
ORBITAL GATE Put Out Neurotic Biomechanical Abomination
Brutal Death Metal Slam
A lyric video for the next song from Engineering His Planetary Dominion, which the slam band release on 6 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
EXTERMINATION DISMEMBERMENT Put a Single Out on Thursday
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Unique Leader have the Belarusian slam band down for 15 October, and the film for the song went up a full day ahead of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
CORDYCEPS CORPSE Put Out a Second Album Three Years After the Project Started
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Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses arrived on 9 October through Gore House Productions, with two songs out at once.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
PARTY CANNON Withdraw From a Belgian Festival a Day Before It With a Member Unable to Travel
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Deathtober Fest in Liege goes ahead without them on 10 October. The North American run from 16 October is unaffected.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026
The First Song TRAUMATOMY Wrote for the Album Is the One That Opens It
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Entropic Obliteration is the second preview of Ascension Of The Ineffable, which Gore House Productions releases on 30 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
PEELINGFLESH Book Three Weeks of Europe With Three Bands Behind Them
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
The headline run follows the self-titled album of 27 November, with Snuffed On Sight, Corpse Pile and Girl Of Glass on the bill. Dates are not out yet.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 6, 2026
DEVOUR Drop Half Their Name and Put Ravenous Out in January
Brutal Death Metal Slam
The Paris band spent fifteen years as Devour the Fetus and announce the first album under the shorter name for 4 January.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
VILED Give Every Track on Their First Album a Second Title
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Ascension Into the Immortal Aeon is out today on New Standard Elite, a year after the band formed in Ecuador.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
New Metal Releases: 29 September to 5 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
82 records scheduled this week, led by Death Metal, Black Metal and Doom Metal across 34 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026
PARTY CANNON and INTERNAL BLEEDING Book 25 European Dates From 27 February
Brutal Death Metal Slam
The co-headline run opens in Hoogeveen and closes in Kortrijk on 25 March, with Guttural Slug opening every night.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 2026
VITALECTOMY Follow Two EPs With Panopticon Necropolis
Brutal Death Metal Slam
The Seattle band premiere a new song through Slam Worldwide, their first since a pair of EPs last year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 28, 2026
ORBITAL GATE Line Up Five Guests on an Album Due 6 November, Starting With Enterprise Earth
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Liquefying Organic Matter is out with a video, from Engineering His Planetary Dominion, a record with ALESSA, Bodysnatcher, The Callous Daoboys and Pillars Of Autumn on it as well.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
PEELINGFLESH Fill Their Self-Titled Album With Guests and Open It With 'Murderous Intent'
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
Out 27 November on Unique Leader. Mychal Soto produced, mixed and mastered it himself; Dave Otero engineered.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
THROUGH THEIR EYES Bring In A Winter's Remorse for 'And Forth Stepped the Apparatus'
Brutal Death Metal Deathcore
The Essen three piece put out a single with Dalton Evans singing on it, their third release in four years and the first since 'Brad Pitstop' earlier this year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026