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DISSIMULATOR Walk a City That Was Not Built for People on 'Neon Metropolis'

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The Quebec technical death and thrash band have put out the first piece of 'Artifice Dissolves', their second album for 20 Buck Spin, and Claude Leduc explains it as a night walk through a megacity that has no use for anyone in it.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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DEATHAWAITS Name Their Next Album After a 'French Bulldog Invasion', Out in January

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The French slamming death metal band have put out the title track with a video. The album follows on 22 January 2027.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026

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ESTERTOR Share the Title Track of 'Evil Black Church', Out 23 October on Black Lion

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The Barcelona thrash band have put out the first piece of their third album, a record built on the Italian horror films of the seventies and eighties, seventeen years after they started and five since their last one.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026

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HERETICS Put Out 'Smell the Ashes', a Song Built on the Opening of Half-Life 2

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The third single from 'Of Poets and Prophets' carries orchestration through almost the whole song, and the video that came with it announces the departure of the drummer who founded the band.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026

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ULTRA-VIOLENCE Put Out 'All My Life', the Title Track of the EP They Released Themselves

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Seventeen years after four fifteen year olds from Turin started a thrash band, the fourth line up releases an EP with no label behind it.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026

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LEACH Release 'Strength To Strength', the Second Single From Their EP Psychosomatic

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The Borås band's four track EP about living with mental illness is out on 9 October, and they play I Scream Metal Fest in Gothenburg the day after.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026

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XION's Second Album 'When Stars Collide' Is Out on Fireflash Records

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Eight songs from the Falun five piece, recorded at Sellnoise Studios with Jonas Arnberg and out on CD, purple vinyl and digital.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026

Metal Bunker XIV poster: Pale Winter, Ruyned, Objector and Aeon of Death on Friday, Avatar, Wormgod, RawKing and Doomsday Astronaut on Saturday, 18 and 19 September, CCS Craiova, Backstage News

OBJECTOR Play Their First Romanian Shows in Timișoara, Craiova and Bucharest

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The Turnhout thrash band play Nemesis Art Club on 17 September, the Metal Bunker XIV festival in Craiova on the 18th and Omen Bar in Bucharest on the 19th.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 13, 2026

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GODSLAVE Return With a Self Titled Album, Five Years After 'Positive Aggressive'

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The German thrash band mark the Metalville release with a lyric video for 'The Road Not Taken'.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026

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ETERNITY'S END Sign a Multi-Album Deal With Scarlet Records and Promise Their Fastest Record

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Christian Muenzner's neoclassical power metal project has a new album finished for this autumn, with no title announced yet.

Ben Ashworth · Sep 12, 2026

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SEPULTURA Move Their Final Concert From a 26,000 Arena to a Hall Holding 9,000

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The farewell show stays on 7 November in São Paulo, now at the Suhai Music Hall. Existing tickets remain valid and refunds are available.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026

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BULLETBELT Write the Theme for 'Deathgasm 2', Ten Years After the First One

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The New Zealand band return to the horror comedy franchise they scored in 2015, in a video directed by Alex Hargreaves.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026

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GOJIRA Sell Out a 1,200 Capacity Benefit Show for a St. Louis Food Bank in One Afternoon

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Tickets were $30 and all proceeds go to Operation Food Search. The show is on 18 September at The Sovereign, with Locked Shut opening.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026

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Dave Mustaine Writes That Ellefson's Time in MEGADETH 'Was Likely Near' Before the 2021 Scandal

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An excerpt from the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', published by Rolling Stone, goes back over a partnership of nearly forty years.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 11, 2026

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LOST SOCIETY and Hokka Announce a Two-Week European Tour for February

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Nine dates from Hamburg to Berlin, with a London show at The Dome. The two Finnish bands just released a song together.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 11, 2026

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CORONER Remaster 'The Favorite Game' From Their 1995 Compilation for a New EP

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The song comes with a music video and appears on 'Ex Nucleo (The Remastered Extraction)', out on 18 September through Sanctuary Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026

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ISKALD Open 'Curse of the Mind' With 'The Other Realm', Chapter One of a Descent Into Helheim

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The Norwegian band's sixth album is out on 25 September via Dusktone, a concept record in four chapters joined by ritual invocations.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026

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HARLOTT Release 'Exsequiis', Their First Album in Six Years

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The Melbourne thrash band's fifth album is out on Metal Blade Records, which is streaming it in full.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026