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New Metal Releases: 13 to 19 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
76 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Heavy Metal across 39 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 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
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
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
VAREGO Give a Homeless Man a Name and Build a Ballad Around What He Remembers
Sludge Metal
Sierra Nevada was premiered by Metal Hammer Italia. The band call it a dark rock ballad with tribal rhythms under it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
RWAKE Played Their New Album Live the Day After It Came Out and Kept the Tape
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Built From Stardust is out on 13 November. It is The Return of Magik start to finish, recorded in Little Rock the day after the record arrived.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
CULT OF LUNA Open a Seventy One Minute Tenth Album With Its Fastest Song
Sludge Metal Post-Metal
The Rift is the third single from In the Shadow of Your Shadow, out 6 November on the band's own Red Creek, with Joe Duplantier of Gojira guesting elsewhere on the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
DOWN Put Out a Second Song From Their First Album in Nineteen Years
Sludge Metal
The Myth follows Blood Oath from Volume V, which arrives on 20 November through Nuclear Blast and ends a wait that began in 2007.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
BOSS KELOID Take Five Years Over a Sixth Album and Send Out a Second Song
Sludge Metal
Pedestal follows the first single from Float & Aperture, which Church Road Records releases on 23 October.
Robin Aalto · Oct 6, 2026
New Metal Releases: 6 to 12 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
61 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 33 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 6, 2026
LOVE SEX MACHINE Picture a Slaughterhouse Run by Cows on The Herd
Sludge Metal
Thriving arrives on 13 November through Pelagic Records, and the first single comes with the bleakest joke on the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 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
KITA Recorded Their Second Album With Their Own Guitarist Behind the Desk
Death Metal Sludge Metal
Ikuinen arrives on 20 November, recorded and mixed by Jonne Hirvonen across two studios, with two songs already up.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
HUNTSMEN Have Split Up, and They Say Nobody Fell Out
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Chicago band announced the end themselves and called the decision mutual. Three albums and three EPs in ten years.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 2, 2026
HEXER Fit Three Songs on an EP and Name It After the Middle One
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
A Black Flame in Cosmic Void arrives tomorrow on Crawling Chaos.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
WHORES. Book Ten December Dates and Keep One of Them Secret
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
From Nashville on 1 December to Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on 13 December. The 11th is listed as TBA on purpose.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 2, 2026
SPLENDIDULA Finished a Song Their Bassist Left Behind and Kept His Title
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Peter Chromiak wrote the riffs of Donkerte and named it before he died in 2022. The lyric video is out now.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 1, 2026
ArcTanGent Books NEUROSIS and BLOOD INCANTATION to Open Its New Site
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Both headline the festival for the first time, from 19 to 21 August 2027, at a new ground in the Cotswolds.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 1, 2026