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ENSLAVED Mark Mið Release Day With a Joik From Johan Sara Jr

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The seventeenth album is out on Nuclear Blast, and the focus track hands a long stretch of itself to a Sami singer rather than to a guitar.

Robin Aalto · Oct 31, 2026

ENSLAVED Put Mið Out Tomorrow, Eight Tracks and One of Them Eight Minutes

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Nuclear Blast release the album on Friday, opening on a track that lasts seventy nine seconds and closing on one that takes over seven minutes.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 29, 2026

New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026

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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

ASH OF ASHES Send The River Ahead of a Seven Song Third Album

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All Must Wither arrives on 30 October with seven songs, the last of them over seventeen minutes long, longer than the four before it together.

Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026

VARANG NORD Headline the Baltics Next Month With a Bagpipe and a Talharpa

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The Latvian band take a run of headline shows across the Baltic countries in November, a year after the album Mygla.

Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026

UBUREN Release Their Fourth Album Tomorrow, Three Years After Usurp the Throne

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Døsdans i aske arrives on 25 September through Dusktone, seven tracks split between Norwegian and English titles, from the brothers who have run the band since 2010.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026

ENSLAVED Send Out a Third Song From Mid and Book a Tour They Share With Solstafir

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Tales Of Trees follows Solar Will and Spirit Helper; the album arrives on 30 October through Nuclear Blast.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026