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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
MAUNAH Sing the Whole First Album Without Using a Single Word
Doom Metal Post-Metal
'Hjarta' came out on 18 September through Prophecy Productions and is streaming in full.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026
SYCOMORE Change the Line-Up, Switch to French and Cut the Songs Shorter
Sludge Metal
'Chat-Loup' is the first thing off a fifth album called 'Dégradé'.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
SUNDOWNER Call the Third Album 'Cesspool' and Name the Songs to Match
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
Out 15 October on Disdain Records. Ten tracks, and the titles do not soften anything.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
BEES MADE HONEY IN THE VEIN TREE Wrote 'Clutching at Straws' Out of a Block, and It Is Not the Marillion One
Doom Metal Post-Metal
The lead single from 'In Between Strides', their fourth album, out 18 September through Magnetic Eye Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
E-L-R Wrote 'Oaken Reaper' Between a Farewell and a Beginning and Say So
Doom Metal Post-Metal
The next song from 'Atropa', out 6 November. Six tracks from the Bernese duo.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
GRIN Start a Run of Singles With 'Fuller' and Put Killing Joke Into the Second One
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
The Berlin duo will release songs one at a time until an album lands in January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 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
ROSETTA Spent Six Years on 'Temporal Lapse' and Are Calling It the Last One
Sludge Metal
Seven songs built loosely on the five stages of grief, out 27 November on Pelagic. The band have put out a trailer explaining why they are stopping.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Desertfest London Opens 2027 With the MELVINS on Top and Two Twentieth Birthdays
Sludge Metal
Camden Town, 21 to 23 May. Monolord, Mantar, Inter Arma, Dopethrone and Year of the Cobra are on the first announcement.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
WITCH RIPPER Put Out Their KEXP Session the Day Before the Tour Starts
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
Four songs filmed at KEXP Studios in Seattle on 23 July: The Portal, Echoes and Dust, The Clock Queen, The Spiral Eye.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
DOMKRAFT Made 'Night Songs' Around a Guitarist's Year of Surgery
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Eclipse (Outlast the Night)' is the airiest thing they have written, and it comes off a record shaped by Martin Widholm's medical crisis. Out 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 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
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
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
NEUROSIS Add Ten Dates for the Album They Took a Decade to Make
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Brooklyn, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles and two sets at Roadburn 2027, in support of 'An Undying Love For A Burning World'. Tickets go on sale 11 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026