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METALLICA Put Until It Sleeps Into the Sphere Set on the Fourth Night

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The Load single is the newest addition to a residency that runs to March and alternates between two setlists.

Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026

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GAMMACIDE's 1987 Demo Is Back on Cassette, Made by the Last Big Tape Plant in America

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Old Guarde Records has reissued the five song demo from the original tapes, with the J card copied from the 1987 packaging.

Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026

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GRAVITON Date Their Second Album for 13 November, Eleven Years After Forming

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Dissent Into Madness is the first song from the self titled record, the band's first for Skepsis Recordings.

Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026

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Silicium Have Become SICKMIND, and the First Album Under the New Name Is Out Now

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Babel Tower runs ten tracks, is self released, and has two members of Gorod on it.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026

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LEPER COLONY Reach a Third Album Looking for the Point Where Florida Meets Stockholm

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Back to Primal Sludge came out on 9 October through Testimony Records and is streaming in full.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026

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HOSTILIA Finish Their Album Campaign by Refusing to Fix the Playing

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No Mercy For The Weak is the last single before The Curse of Khamun, recorded with no click tracks and no digital correction.

Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026

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XENOS A.D. Add a London Date in the Pub Where Iron Maiden Started

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The Sicilian band play the Cart & Horses on 15 November, the fifth date of their European run's second leg.

Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026

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DIETH Sign to Fireflash and Put the New Line-Up on a Song the Same Day

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Pound of Flesh is the first music with Tobias Cristiansson on bass, and the first under the new deal.

Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026

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A REPUGNANT Song From 2003 Turns Up Inside a Horror Film With Watain's Singer on It

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Tobias Forge supervised a new video for Premature Burial for V/H/S/Mixtape, and the performance credits name Erik Danielsson.

Tomas Berglund · Oct 10, 2026

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Chuck Billy Will Talk About His Memoir With David Ellefson in an Arizona Bookstore

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Changing Hands in Tempe hosts the two on 29 October, twelve days before Permuted Press publishes the book.

Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026

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Peaceville Press the Album That Brought DARKTHRONE Home Again, Twenty Years On

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The Cult Is Alive returns on marble vinyl and a limited cassette, both in small numbers.

Ben Ashworth · Oct 9, 2026

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MASTIC SCUM Put a Second Song From Void Out and Bring Three Guests With the Album

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Arise // Erase arrives as a single and a lyric visualiser. Void holds eleven tracks and lands on 30 October.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026

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DEATHAWAITS Borrow Aborted's Singer for the Second Song Off French Bulldog Invasion

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Royal Canine has Sven de Caluwe on it, and the album lands on 22 January.

Sasha Kellerman · Oct 9, 2026

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ENFORCER Join Accept's Fiftieth Anniversary Tour for Twenty Four Dates in Eleven Countries

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The run opens in Leipzig on 19 November and ends in Munich on 20 December, with Dynazty also on the bill.

Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026

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Charlie Benante Says It Was Vertigo That Took Him Off Two Stadium Shows With Iron Maiden

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The Anthrax drummer told Metal Rules he could not lift his head, and a doctor told him not to fly to Mexico City.

Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026

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POWER TRIP Put Out Two Songs, Their First New Music Since Nightmare Logic

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Precinct 3 and Scavenger were aired on SiriusXM first. Blake Ibanez co-produced them with Jacob Hansen, who mixed and mastered.

Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026

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More Than Fifty Musicians Write About Cronos and Napalm Death's Singer Calls Him the Caveman in Chief

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Metal Underground has collected statements from the extreme metal underground a week after Conrad Lant died at sixty three.

Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026

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Kerry King and Tom Araya Will Host the Metal Station in Grand Theft Auto VI

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The Chamber carries Slayer, Pantera and Black Sabbath so far. The game arrives on 19 November.

Ben Ashworth · Oct 8, 2026