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New Metal Releases: 10 to 16 November 2026
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98 records scheduled this week, led by Death Metal, Black Metal and Heavy Metal across 36 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 10, 2026
HELLRIPPER Clear Their Visas and Join the HAVOK Tour Late
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The Scottish band were booked as direct support for the whole run and missed the opening dates while the paperwork was stuck.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 7, 2026
KALAPÁCS Lose Sárközi Lajos, Their Guitarist Since the Start
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The guitarist who helped write Omen's best known album and founded the band with its singer in 2000 has died at fifty nine.
Tomas Berglund · Nov 7, 2026
MIDNIGHT Mark Satanic Attack Live With a Satanic Royalty Clip
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The live album is out today through Metal Blade, and the title track of the 2011 record is the second song lifted from it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 6, 2026
Rock The Lakes 2027 Gathers Thirty Four Bands Around HELLOWEEN
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Thirty four acts beside Lake Neuchatel next August, with Children Of Bodom billed for an exclusive Swiss show after ten years away.
Lars Hendriks · Nov 6, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Send Legends Never Die Out Before Faces Of Pain
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The second song from the twenty fourth album comes with an animated video, two months before the record arrives in January.
Robin Aalto · Nov 6, 2026
Motorhead Let Cameron Webb Explain What He Found in the Orgasmatron Tapes
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A short film has the producer walking through his remix of the 1986 album and what the original multitracks gave up when he opened them.
Tomas Berglund · Nov 5, 2026
KNIFE Open Their Third Album With a Song the Festivals Already Heard
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Nightmare is the opening track of Into Your Nightmare, out on 18 December through Napalm Records, and the band played it all summer before releasing it.
Robin Aalto · Nov 4, 2026
New Metal Releases: 3 to 9 November 2026
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84 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 37 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 3, 2026
HIRAX Open a Seventh Album With Vigilante and a Guest From Sodom
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Andy Brings plays the lead, Max Norman mixed it, and Katon W. De Pena says it was the first song written for the next record.
Robin Aalto · Nov 3, 2026
HELLOWEEN Take the Forty Years Tour to Heavy Week-End in June, Manson Closes It
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Three headliners across 4, 5 and 6 June at an open-air amphitheatre holding twenty thousand a day, with four bands a night and nothing clashing.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 29, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Take The Abyss Watchers Out of Dark Souls and Into Titanblood
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The third single from the album due on 6 November is the longest way round on it, and the band name early Dream Theater as the reason.
Robin Aalto · Oct 28, 2026
BAT Open the Vault for Cronos and Release a VENOM Cover Taped in 2015
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Recorded during the Wings Of Chains sessions and left unreleased for over ten years, the cover surfaced after Conrad Lant's death.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
MYSTIC PROPHECY Send Out Angels Are Falling From In Metal
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The lyric film is the next piece from a fourteenth album the band named In Metal and then refused to explain any further.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
IRON SAVIOR Call Their New Single the Most Commercial Song on the Album
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Piet Sielck says so himself about Climbing Higher, from Deathbringer, out on 13 November in the band's thirtieth year.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
ARMORY Stream Echoes of the Astrolith in Full Two Days Early
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Dying Victims put the Swedish band's fifth album out on 23 October, and the whole thing is already online to hear two days early.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
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