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PARALLEL MINDS Name a Song After Bhopal and Date Its Video for 6 November
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The third video from an album about forgotten tragedies takes the 1984 gas disaster, and the band frame it as corporate negligence rather than fate.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
MÉS Send Out Dying Star Three Years After The Scent of Death
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
An unsigned French band with two albums behind them puts out the first new song since 2023, with a video, and no record announced behind it yet.
Robin Aalto · Nov 1, 2026
CRO-MAGS Have Nine Songs Tracked and Six More Waiting
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Harley Flanagan does the maths out loud: nine recorded, six written, and he expects the six to become eight. That is seventeen songs for one album.
Sasha Kellerman · Nov 1, 2026
ZARRAZA Put a Kobyz Through Kreator Two Weeks Before Kreator Arrive
Groove Metal
Kreator play Kazakhstan for the first time in November. A band from Almaty have timed a video of their Kreator cover, bowed Kazakh strings and all.
Sasha Kellerman · Nov 1, 2026
SERPENT Reach a Debut Album Twenty Six Years After Forming
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Six demos, a decade of silence, and then a guitarist from Sorcerer joined. The first Serpent album arrives on 13 November with a soprano on one song.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 31, 2026
LOST SOCIETY's Samy Elbanna Tells Young Bands Not to Wait To Be Found
Thrash Metal Metalcore
Too young for bar gigs, he and his friends built a festival at a youth centre instead. That is the whole of the advice he gives now, in one anecdote.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
FORBIDDEN Film a Whole Chicago Set With Two Stand In Players
Thrash Metal
Fifteen songs from a club in Chicago, filmed properly, and the rhythm section on the footage is not the one on the records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
SARCATOR Name Their Own Genre on The Ones We Follow
Thrash Metal
Death's rock is the band's own term for what the fourth album does, and it arrives with a new bassist and a launch show six days away.
Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026
POWER TRIP Ask Dallas for Five Dollars and a Sunday Evening
Thrash Metal Crossover
Free admission, limited capacity, and the only price of entry is a five dollar donation to a Dallas charity. The room is being filmed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
METALLICA's Ride the Lightning Painting Goes on a Wall in November
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Two of the most reproduced images in metal exist as physical paintings. From 5 November you can stand in front of both of them in San Francisco.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 31, 2026
LAMB OF GOD Take the Headbangers Boat to Europe for the First Time in 2028
Metalcore Groove Metal
The cruise has run out of American ports to repeat. In 2028 it sails from Southampton to Spain, with six names on the bill so far.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 31, 2026
CRITICAL FEAR Date Dark Fate for December and Open It With a Sword
Thrash Metal
Nine tracks through Hammerheart on 11 December, and the first song out of the Brazilian band's third album looks a long way back for its subject.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
METAL CHURCH Film Dead To Rights at a Festival and Put It Out as the Video
Heavy Metal Power Metal
No studio clip, no concept: the title track gets a video made entirely of the current line-up playing it in front of a European crowd in August.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
GROB Reach a First Album Seven Years After Starting on Cassette
Thrash Metal Death Metal
A studio project built to make rotten and catchy metal for an underground tape label has ended up with a debut album on 6 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 30, 2026
TERAMAZE Reach Japan for the First Time, Opening for DGM in December
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Two Tokyo nights on 3 and 4 December, booked off the back of a festival bill the two bands shared in the United States.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 30, 2026
BLOOD THIRSTY DEMONS Build Equilibrium Out of Hermetic Reading, Out Tomorrow
Thrash Metal
Liber Librae opens it, the title track closes it, and in between an Italian thrash band works through occult philosophy without winking.
Robin Aalto · Oct 30, 2026
VIGIL Stream Primordial Rites Whole a Day Before Shadow Kingdom Release It
Thrash Metal
Nine songs and forty minutes from a Richmond band whose label reaches for Whiplash and Znowhite rather than the famous four.
Robin Aalto · Oct 29, 2026
DEATH ANGEL's Dennis Pepa Gets a Bay Area Benefit With Half the Scene on It
Thrash Metal
Stage 4 cancer, a lost job, and a January night at the DNA Lounge with members of Exodus, Slayer, Testament and Forbidden on the bill.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 29, 2026