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MIK Put Maya and Nahuat Symbols into a Debut Written Across an Ocean
Black Metal Post-Metal
Ajmaq came out on 1 November, written by a Salvadoran guitarist and a Galician one, with seven tracks and a title taken from the Maya calendar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
RUSSIAN CIRCLES Put Four Songs Through a Radio Room for KEXP
Post-Metal
Deficit, Harper Lewis, Empath and Eluvial, recorded in August and now out whole. A band with no singer in a format built for interviews.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
DREAD WITCH Put Cult Out Tomorrow, Four Years After Forming in Aarhus
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Eight songs of Danish doom, a guest vocal on the one everybody heard first, and a band that has moved quickly for the genre it chose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
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
NOOTHGRUSH Put Their Whole of 1996 on One Disc, Two Hundred Copies of It
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Four vinyl releases from the last four months of 1996, a radio set that circulated on dubbed cassettes, and a live track reaching CD for the first time.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
KINGDOM OF SORROW Get a Second Vinyl Pressing in Eighteen Years
Sludge Metal Metalcore
Relapse put the 2008 debut and Behind The Blackest Tears back on the format, both out of print since their first limited runs sold through.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 28, 2026
TELEPATHY Fill the Blank Side of Tempest With Two New Recordings
Sludge Metal Post-Metal
The 2017 album comes back in January with a remaster, and the side that once held only an etching now carries two re-recorded songs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
CROWBAR Will Start Writing in January, and Windstein Is Counting Drives
Sludge Metal
Nothing is recorded and nothing is dated, but there is a plan: three days a week from the first of the year, if the drummer can get there.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
MYRKUR Plays Everything on Broken Little Doll and Films It Herself
Black Metal Folk Metal
The new single has Kalandra's Katrine Stenbekk on vocals, two ballerinas in a church, and one person on every instrument.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
AGRIMONIA Break Eight Years of Silence With Of the Shadows
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Six tracks, out on 11 December through De Records, with the opener already streaming as the first piece of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE Date a Third Album for February on Pelagic
Post-Metal
The Worrier arrives on 19 February 2027, and Vanity Fair is the first song from a band that works between Berlin and Istanbul.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
RESIN TOMB Send Out Ancestral Agony From the January Album
Death Metal Sludge Metal
The sixth of eight songs from Fetid Existence, the Brisbane band's second album, which Transcending Obscurity release on 15 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
DREAD WITCH Put Cult Out on Halloween and Lead With Altar
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Aarhus band's second album arrives on 31 October through three labels at once, with Sofia Schmidt guesting on the song Altar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
CONJURER Take Twelve American Dates in a Single January
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Five headline shows with Armed For Apocalypse, then eight more on the Dopethrone run, closing in Los Angeles on 15 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
BLOOD OF THE EARTH Take the CROWBAR Weight Somewhere Quieter
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Constellation comes from Beneath A Sky That Breaks, the EP the trio put out themselves on 23 October, their fourth release so far.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
LOVE SEX MACHINE Send a Second Song Out Before Thriving
Sludge Metal
Borrow the Will follows the first preview of the album Pelagic Records release on 13 November, from the quartet out of Lille.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026