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EVIL INVADERS Could Not Agree on a Single, So the Album Says Why
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Weaponized Chaos arrives on 19 February through Napalm, with Francesco Paoli producing again and D.S.S. opening it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put an Arctic Monkeys B Side on a Covers EP
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The three track EP is out through Century Media, with two Zeke covers already known and a third that nobody saw coming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
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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
MOTÖRHEAD Remix Built For Speed and Reopen the Orgasmatron Argument
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The fortieth anniversary reissue arrives on 6 November with a Cameron Webb remix, and the reason for it is stated plainly.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 18, 2026
KAT Close the Singles for Death Is Not Enough With Dark River
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The video premiered on Friday and the band say it is the last song they will give away before the album lands on 23 October.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
SACRAL RAGE Date a Third Album and Write a Novella for It
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Ark Of Cosmic Resonance arrives on 27 November through No Remorse, with a science fiction novella attached to it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
HEATHEN Fill In the Missing Date for Lifetime in Hell
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The album arrives on 19 February 2027 through Napalm Records, which is the one thing the pre order did not say two days ago.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
MIDNIGHT Put a Live Album Out on 6 November
Speed Metal Black Metal
Satanic Attack Live! arrives through Metal Blade, and the first thing off it is Violence On Violence recorded in Los Angeles.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
WRAITH Take Over The Top Out of a History Teacher's Lesson Plan
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The Indiana band's sixth album is a First World War record written by a man who teaches the subject for a living.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
HEATHEN Open Lifetime In Hell With Escapegoat and Jason Bittner on Drums
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The first song from the new Heathen album is out with a video, produced by Zeuss, and the band take it on the road with Forbidden and Void.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
HELLOWEEN Headline Mystic Festival 2027 With the Anniversary Show
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The Polish festival names them its second headliner for 2027, with the 40 Years Anniversary production on another run of European stages.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
VENOM Footage From 1997 Surfaces Eleven Days After Cronos Died
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Video of the Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon line up at Milwaukee Metal Fest in July 1997 has gone up on YouTube this week.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 12, 2026
Peaceville Press the Album That Brought DARKTHRONE Home Again, Twenty Years On
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The Cult Is Alive returns on marble vinyl and a limited cassette, both in small numbers.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 9, 2026
ENFORCER Join Accept's Fiftieth Anniversary Tour for Twenty Four Dates in Eleven Countries
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The run opens in Leipzig on 19 November and ends in Munich on 20 December, with Dynazty also on the bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026
More Than Fifty Musicians Write About Cronos and Napalm Death's Singer Calls Him the Caveman in Chief
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Metal Underground has collected statements from the extreme metal underground a week after Conrad Lant died at sixty three.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Write a Song About Stormbringer and Open It With a Blast Beat
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Sword In The Storm is the second single from Titanblood, out 6 November through Scarlet Records, and takes its subject from Moorcock's Elric.
Robin Aalto · Oct 6, 2026
Cronos Explained His Own Songs, and Only One of Them Was About the Devil
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BraveWords has published part of a 2015 interview in which he walked through Black Metal, Witching Hour, Die Hard, Manitou and At War With Satan.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
A London Coroner Records Phil Campbell's Death as Multi-Organ Failure
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St Pancras Coroner's Court heard on Friday that the Motörhead guitarist died in March after complications from two liver transplants and bowel surgery.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 2, 2026