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CLEGANE Take Six Tracks Out Themselves on 2 October
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Ocean of Black Thoughts is the Paris band's fourth album, out independently. Sun Decay came first.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 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
KONGH Put Three Songs and Thirty Nine Minutes on Dissolved in Time, Out Tomorrow
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth Kongh album arrives on 25 September through Trust No One Recordings, thirteen years after Sole Creation, and it opens on a track of almost nineteen minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
THE OCEAN Open and Close Solaris on Map Coordinates, Out Tomorrow on Pelagic
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Twelve tracks, three of them in multiple parts, and two titles that are latitude and longitude rather than words. Tangerine Dream play on one song.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
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