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DRACONICON Open Empire With We Are Tyrants
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The first song from the third album, and the singer is plain about why it matters: after what went on behind the scenes, there is finally music to share.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
CARMERIA Call Ex Cathedra Misery You Can Dance To
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Four words from the man who wrote and produced it describe the third album better than a genre list would, and he means both halves of them.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
NIGHTWISH's Kai Hahto Remembers Eleven Men in a Van and $250 a Show
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Five weeks across North America with the members of Insomnium, no space to lie down, no showers at the venues and nobody to carry the drums.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 29, 2026
ASPHODELIA Read Daphne's Escape as a Choice Rather Than a Punishment
Symphonic Metal
The Foggia band turn the laurel tree into survival rather than tragedy, on a second album built out of nine myths across forty six minutes.
Robin Aalto · 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
TRILLIUM's Amanda Somerville Is Two Weeks From the End of Proton Therapy
Symphonic Metal
Four of six weeks of proton beam radiation are behind her, she says the tiredness is unlike anything before, and her speech has come back.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
SIRENIA Mark Twenty Five Years With One Italian Date
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The Legend Club in Milan on 1 November is the band's only Italian stop on the anniversary tour, with Vallorch opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
IGNEA Put Two Voices on the Last Song Before Monumental
Symphonic Metal
Britta Gortz of Hiraes sings against Helle Bohdanova on Harmony Manufactured, the fourth song made public days before the album arrives.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
THE ERINYES Keep All Three Singers for a Second Album in December
Symphonic Metal
Justine Daae, Mizuho Lin and Nicoletta Rosellini return to share the lead on Hide And Seek, out through Frontiers on 18 December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
DELAIN Answer the Empty Microphone With Three Singers on One Song
Symphonic Metal
We Are Fire has Fabienne Erni, Noa Gruman and Paolo Ribaldini on it, and the wider cast runs to Marko Hietala and Sharon den Adel.
Robin Aalto · 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
DELAIN Lose Their Singer and Decide Not to Replace One at All
Symphonic Metal
Diana Leah has left after years with the band, and the next album will be sung by a rotating cast of guests instead of a new vocalist.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
APOCALYPTICA Collect American Certifications Nineteen Years Late
Heavy Metal Symphonic Metal
Worlds Collide is gold in the United States and I Don't Care is double platinum, for a record that came out in 2007.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 19, 2026
FADING LIGHT Send Poltergeist Ahead of a First Album in November
Black Metal Symphonic Metal
The second single from The Spell of a New Dawn, which Apostasy Records release on 13 November as the band's debut.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
PLAGUE OF ANGELS Release the Huddersfield Concert With the Organ In It
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The December concert with organist David Pipe is out as a live album and as a full video, with the town hall organ written into the arrangements.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
SECRET RULE Date the Eleventh Album and Put a Breakdown In It
Symphonic Metal
The title track is out and the album arrives on 5 February through Rockshots, with more metalcore in it than before.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Put Acquired Immunity on 4 December
Symphonic Metal
The second album arrives on 4 December through Massacre Records, five years after the self titled one came out.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
TARJA Keeps Two Tango Demos Off the Internet on Purpose
Symphonic Metal
The song with Apocalyptica on it gets a ten inch single in November, and the two demos on the B side will not be streamed anywhere.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026