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SON OF BOAR Date The Hand That Reigns for 20 November
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Five years after the debut, and written through a stretch the band say was hard for all five of them at once. The new song comes out first.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Nov 1, 2026
KALI JUGA Fill an Hour With Eight Songs on Their Second Album
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Formed last year, unsigned, and already two albums deep. The new one holds eight songs in just under an hour, three of them past nine minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
HAXMASTAREN Open Skuggor del 1 in Full, Three Days Early
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Three tracks from the Gothenburg band, their first release in five years, with a title that promises at least one more part.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
EMBERTEARS Reach Fall Of The Empire and Tell the Conquest From Both Sides
Progressive Metal Stoner Metal
One man, nine songs, and a history of the Spanish conquest written from the viewpoint of the invaders and the invaded at the same time.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
GREEN LUNG Give Away an Animated Ozymandias for Halloween
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Richard Wells drew it, Joseph Brett animated it, and Shelley wrote the words two hundred years before anyone needed them this badly.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026
LASER DRACUL Name Their Second Album After an Old Swedish Word for the Devil
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eleven years in the Swedish underground, a second album out tomorrow, and a title taken from the folklore of the band's own province.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026
New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
122 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 44 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
EARTHBONG Open Salutations to the Cultivators With a Ten Minute Bug
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Four songs across the record and the closer runs fifteen minutes, which is the measure of what this German band do.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
FLOR DE FUMO Arrive With Eight Songs and Nobody Behind Them
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eight tracks, self released on 23 October, from a Brazilian band whose titles leave no doubt about the subject matter.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Put a Second Song Out and Fill In the Rest of Megacelestial
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Proficient Dreamer arrives with the full details of the fourth album, out on 11 December through Argonauta Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
DOPETHRONE Close a Three Part Tour With Fourteen Dates in January
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Conjurer, -(16)- and Armed for Apocalypse join the Canadian trio for the last leg of the Uniworse run, starting 27 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
YOB Head the Second Wave of Desertfest London, Across Five Rooms in May
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eighteen more artists join the 21 to 23 May weekend, with Kylesa, Windhand and Lowen among them and the Roundhouse on the venue list.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
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
MOTORIK ROAD TRIP Set Their Second Album for 27 November, All of It Instrumental
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Perceptions from a Dark Earth runs eight tracks and forty four minutes, with no vocals on any of them, out through Octopus Rising and Argonauta.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
STORMBRINGER Follow the Fifth Album With a Video for Grow
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Transcendence is out on Attic Records, and the band who reached the Bloodstock main stage have put a second song from it on screen.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Date Megacelestial for 11 December
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album arrives in December and the second song from it, Proficient Dreamer, came with the announcement.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
KING BUFFALO Film Vagabond Inside the Studio They Built
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The second song from Doomsayer was recorded in the new room the band built themselves, and it was filmed in that same room.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
STONED JESUS Answer Songs to Sun Sixteen Years Later
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Seven tracks on Season of Mist, and the title is a direct reply to the debut the band made as teenagers in Kyiv.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026