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I HELVETE Set Halla for 6 November and Put Two Songs Up First
Death Metal Black Metal
The third album from the Seinajoki band arrives in November, with two tracks already streaming ahead of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
KAT Open Death Is Not Enough With Waging War and Hold the Video Back a Week
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The first single from the Polish band's new album is out now. The album lands on 23 October through Logosound, and the video for the song premieres on 2 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
NOCTURNIS Ask Whether the Last Refuge Still Shelters Anyone
Black Metal
Der Letzte Hort is the second single from Drangsal, an album about witch persecution that arrives on 6 November through Fetzner Death Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
MESSIER 16 Keep Mollusk Herald Short and Let the Album Do the Sprawling
Death Metal Black Metal
The single from Shouts from the Cliffs of Heterodoxy is the compact one. The Oslo band's third album arrives on 23 October through Time To Kill Records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
HAGEL Hand the Microphone Over and Let Their Guitarist Stop Singing
Doom Metal Black Metal
Iveth Herrera joined in 2024 and takes lead vocals on The Veil of Shadows, a five track mini-album out on 6 November through Personal Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
ASENBLUT Move Fourteen Places Up the German Chart in Two Years
Thrash Metal Black Metal
Urgewalt entered the Official German Album Charts at number 11, against number 25 for Entfesselt in 2024. It is the band's best result at home in twenty years.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 26, 2026
AZARATH Open Scorn Eternal With the Song That Closes It
Death Metal Black Metal
Herald of the Unseen is the first thing heard from the Polish band's new album and the last track on it. Scorn Eternal arrives on 20 November through Agonia Records, six years after Saint Desecration.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
INVOCATION and Embrace of Thorns Split Twenty Two Minutes Between Them
Death Metal Black Metal
Three new tracks each on a mini-album out 30 October through Iron Bonehead Productions, and for the Greek half it is the first recorded music in four years.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
SKUMSTRIKE's Second Album Is Out Today and Streaming Whole
Speed Metal Black Metal
Flawless Intrigue From Hell arrives on Dying Victims Productions, four years after the Montreal trio's debut, ten tracks of speed metal with thrash and death metal pulled into it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
AUTUMNFALL's Album of Twenty Five Year Old Songs Is Out Today and Streaming in Full
Black Metal
The Archaic Sins arrives through Ardua Music with an album premiere at Invisible Oranges, the fourth Autumnfall record and the one built from material written between 1998 and 2001.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
MIDNIGHT Give Their First Live Album a Date and Play Satanic Royalty Straight Through on It
Speed Metal Black Metal
Satanic Attack Live! arrives on 6 November through Metal Blade, taken from two sold out Hollywood nights in May, with the 2011 album in its original running order and five more songs on top.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Bring a New Singer and a New Drummer to Their Eighth Album
Death Metal Black Metal
Aeon Shift is the first thing out of the line up that debuted at Orto Fest in April, and the album it comes from is due in November through Nika Records, a year before the band's thirtieth.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE End Six Years of Silence and Take a Guitarist Out of Portal
Death Metal Black Metal
Cenotaph Severance arrives on 30 October through Iron Bonehead, the fifth album and the first since 2020, with Soul Defilement streaming now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT Play Sixteen European Dates in Sixteen Days
Black Metal
The run opens in Dresden on 16 October and finishes in Stuttgart on 31 October, seven countries with no night off, with Conjurer in direct support.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 24, 2026
KROLOK Name Their New Album After Three Slovak Castles, Out Tomorrow on Osmose
Black Metal
Hričov - Súľov - Lietava lands on 25 September, six tracks, the third Krolok album and the first in five years.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
UBUREN Release Their Fourth Album Tomorrow, Three Years After Usurp the Throne
Black Metal Viking Metal
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
NOKTURNAL MORTUM Put Out a Forty Four Minute EP Tomorrow, Their First Record in Four Years
Black Metal Folk Metal
Біль | Hurt arrives on 25 September through Oriana Music, six tracks long, ending on a live recording, the first Nokturnal Mortum release since 2022.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
ABORYM Return Tomorrow With Metachaos, Their First Album in Five Years
Black Metal Industrial Metal
The ninth Aborym album arrives on 25 September through Avantgarde Music, nine tracks, with a guitarist and a drummer who joined the band last year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026