Symphonic Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Symphonic Metal.
STARKILL Wrote a Whole Album, Threw It Away, and Start Again With Death On Display
Power Metal Death Metal
Hanging Up My Halo is dated 22 January, with symphonic production by Francesco Ferrini of Fleshgod Apocalypse.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026
Amanda Somerville Names the Tumour Herself and Says It Cannot Be Operated On
Symphonic Metal
She was diagnosed on 8 September with diffuse midline glioma and is undergoing radiation and chemotherapy in Germany.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
MORTEMIA Reach the Thirteenth Guest Singer, and This One Sings the Pet Shop Boys
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
Jane Odintsova of Imperial Age takes It's a Sin, the latest in Morten Veland's one song at a time covers project.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
FATUM AETERNUM Come Back After Three Years With Six Members and a String Section
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
As Above So Below is self produced, built on electric violin and cello, and takes its title from the hermetic axiom.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
VICTORIA K Take a Third Single Off Their Coming Album and Open for Katatonia on the Way
Symphonic Metal
Incubus follows Oh So Weary and Take It All, and the Melbourne band also play three Australian dates with Paradise Lost.
Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026
ELEINE Put the German Line in the Chorus and Aim It at Liars
Symphonic Metal
Ich Sehe Dich is the new single from The Water Taste Of Blood, out 4 December on Algoth Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
Parkway Drive Return to Italy After Eight Years and Close the Ferrara Sunday
Symphonic Metal Deathcore
The Ferrara Summer Festival opens its 2027 announcements with Parkway Drive on Sunday 20 June, and Lorna Shore on the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
AFTER FOREVER Put Out the Tilburg Footage a Year After the Two Nights
Symphonic Metal
The Dutch band played two 25th anniversary shows at 013 Poppodium in October 2025. The pro-shot video of Follow In The Cry is out now.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
Anette Olzon Sings Fourteen NIGHTWISH Songs in Sao Paulo and Says the Bitterness Had to Go First
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Footage of the 26 September concert at Teatro APCD is online, with a band, an orchestra and a choir behind her.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
Floor Jansen Says the Brief for Hytress Was Heavier, and Not Her Band
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The second solo album arrives on 15 January 2027 through REVAMP Music and Warner Music, and she told Imperiumi what she was looking for and why.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
DRACONICON Rebuild as a Five Piece With a Violinist and Date Empire for 2027
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Grym Hunter takes lead vocals as well as rhythm guitar, and the band say the restructuring was deliberate rather than a gap.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
INDUCTION Hand Gods Of Steel to Kai Hansen, Who Happens to Be the Guitarist's Father
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
A physical edition bonus track from LOVE KILLS! returns with a new guest vocal, days before a tour with Tungsten and Kilmara.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
EPICA Put the Amsterdam Orchestra Night Out as a Digital Album
Symphonic Metal
Live at The Symphonic Synergy was recorded at AFAS Amsterdam in September 2024, and Consign To Oblivion is out as a live video.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Release Acquired Immunity Across Three Time Zones
Symphonic Metal
Eleven tracks on Massacre Records from a band split between Germany, the United States and Canada.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
NIGHTWISH Mark Thirty Years With a Box Set and a Live Tribal From Amsterdam
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The Greatest 30 Years On Earth is out on 11 December through Nuclear Blast, as a 4LP box and a 3CD earbook, with an interview going back to Kitee.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
SECRET RULE Reach an Eleventh Album and Angela Di Vincenzo Explains the Title
Symphonic Metal
Someone Killed the Pope is the title track, out now as a video. Rockshots Records release the album on 5 February 2027.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
BRYMIR Cover Scooter Three Days Before Their Darkest Album
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
How Much Is The Fish, in melodic death metal, with sea pollution underneath the joke. What We Leave Behind lands on 2 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026
ZORNHEYM Close the Asylum Story Tomorrow With Descending Into Madness
Death Metal Black Metal
The third album lands on 30 September through Noble Demon. Ten tracks, and the doctor does not recover.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026