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ELDER's Jack Donovan Is Home, and the Pneumonia Turned Out to Be a Heart Condition
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The bassist spent about two weeks in hospital and had open heart surgery after collapsing on the American tour.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 10, 2026
DOPELORD Put Back in Print the Album They Recorded Mainly to Get Gigs
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Season of Mist reissues Magick Rites on 11 December, fourteen years after the band made it in a friend's studio.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
HIPPIE DEATH CULT Break Three Years of Silence With a Standalone Single
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Blood, Grit and Bone is their first new studio recording since 2023 and the first since Blacklight Media signed them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
YOB Come Back in December After Surgery on the Nerve Damage in Mike Scheidt's Left Hand
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Three Pacific Northwest dates close the year: Portland and Eugene with Wayfarer, then Rain City Doom Fest in Seattle.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 7, 2026
HIPPIE DEATH CULT Let Their Guitarist Produce, Engineer, Mix and Master It
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Grit, Blood & Bone arrives through Metal Blade, written by Laura Phillips and engineered, mixed, mastered and produced by Eddie Brnabic.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
GOBLIN COCK End Seven Years of Quiet Tomorrow, and Close With a Ska Cover
Stoner Metal
Traumanaut lands on 6 October through Joyful Noise Recordings, the fifth Goblin Cock album and the first since 2019.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
CATHEDRAL Go Back Into The Guessing Game and Come Out With a Rethink
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The 2010 double album returns on 30 October through Rise Above Records, remixed and retitled The Guessing Game (Rethink).
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
GOAT MAJOR Date Death Comes Twice for 23 October
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The title track is out with a video by Marc Bond, and Ripple Music have the album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 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
ELDER Stop the Tour While Their Bassist Is in Hospital With Pneumonia
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Jack Donovan kept playing while ill and was admitted in Portland last week. The band say the rest of the run is postponed for as long as his treatment lasts.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 2026
CARCHARODON Put Out Their Fifth Album Tomorrow, Ten Tracks on Satanath
Stoner Metal Death 'n' Roll
Never on Your Side arrives on 26 September, three years after Sbhorror, from the Ligurian band that has been running on the same two founders since 2003.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
KING BUFFALO Built a Studio, Then Made the Seventh Album In It
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Doomsayer arrives on 4 December, self-released at home and through Stickman Records in Europe, with The Slick and the Dead out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
THE BLACK THUNDER Sing in Polish and English in the Same Song for the First Time
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Ash in My Marrow is the second single from Time Obliteration, the third album, out 16 October on Pagan Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
KING KRAKEN Wrote Shadows Fall After The Blair Witch Project and Put the Melody in the Verses
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
The Cardiff band's third single of the year, engineered by Romesh Dodangoda and Tom Cory.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
ORBITA Put Four Songs on Their First Album and One of Them Runs Fourteen Minutes
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Nèkyia' is streaming from 'Farewell to All We've Lost', out 9 October through Aural Music.
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
MAMA DOOM Dropped the Visuals for 'Picked Clean' and Left Only the Words
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The last single before 'Eminent Womb', out 25 September on Argonauta Records. A lyric video, on purpose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026