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FUNERAL WITCHERY Follow Four Singles With a First Album, 'Beyond the Light'
Black Metal
Black metal from Tucson, Arizona, with a creed printed on the front of it: death will take you, hell will keep you.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put Their Two Zeke Covers Out Digitally, After the Flexi Disc
Speed Metal Black Metal
'Let's Get Drugs' and 'Mainline' first appeared on a Decibel flexi earlier this year. James McBain explains the debt plainly enough.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
URARV Open 'Nychta Psychis' With a Song About Not Mistaking the Sign for the Place
Black Metal
The first single from the Norwegian avant-garde black metal band's third album keeps the foundation and refuses the usual routes off it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ARCTOS Return With 'A Path Apart' on 6 November, Seven Years After the First Album
Black Metal
The Edmonton melodic black metal band have set their second full-length for Northern Silence Productions.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
DÉTRESSE Set 'Misères' for 9 October, Their Second Album in Two Years
Black Metal
The black metal duo split between Austria and Quebec follow 'Pessimismes' quickly. Vendetta Records has the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
STERNWEH Release 'Sehnflucht', a First Album Made Entirely by One Person at Home
Black Metal
Christian Witt writes horror and fantasy novels and started the project in 2025. The record is out through Bandcamp and Spotify, with his wife Yvonne singing on parts of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ALLOCER Put Out 'Vivisection Protocol', a Year After the 'Worship' EP
Death Metal Black Metal
The Perth five piece stay where they have been since 2022, on the line between melodic death metal and deathcore, and the new single comes with a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
AUTUMNFALL Reveal 'Crystal Skies' From 'The Archaic Sins', an Album of Songs Written Before 2001
Black Metal
Jussi Hanninen went back to compositions he wrote for Fall of the Leafe between 1998 and 2001, arranged seven of them again and added one new song. The album arrives on 25 September through Ardua Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
COLD RAVEN Put Out 'My Dark Passenger' on Ad Noctem, With a Video by Moviedel
Black Metal
The Milan band's fourth single since 2022 arrives with a video and a line about the shadow being something to accept rather than defeat.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
ELFFOR Premiere an Excerpt of 'Urkhal' From a Three Way Split Out in November
Black Metal
The track appears on Roi des Forêts - Basoen Jauna, shared with Erroiak and Hyver and due on 11 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
MUERTO Release an Official Video for 'Veil of Desolation' From Their Third Album
Black Metal
Transcending Obscurity Records posted the clip on 11 September, five months after Eclipsed Realms arrived.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
BARBARIAN PROPHECIES Release 'Echoes', Sung Partly in Galician
Death Metal Black Metal
The Spanish melodic death metal band's new album is out through Base Record Production.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
BULLETBELT Write the Theme for 'Deathgasm 2', Ten Years After the First One
Heavy Metal Power Metal
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
SERVANT Reach Their Fourth Album in Five Years With 'De Profundis'
Black Metal
The German band's 'Lux Ex Inferis' arrives on 2 October through AOP Records. Lethian of Nornír guests on the new song.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
WAYFARER's New Album Carries One of Tony Stella's Last Covers
Black Metal Folk Metal
'Riders of the Setting Sun' is up for pre-order with the single 'Hollow Hearts On The Trail To Eden', produced by Ben Chisholm of Chelsea Wolfe's band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
EMPEROR Headline Luppolo In Rock 2027 in Cremona, With SAMAEL on the Same Bill
Black Metal
The Italian festival runs from 16 to 18 July 2027 at the Colonie Padane. Vicious Rumors and Demon are also added.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 11, 2026
Thirty Years On, CRADLE OF FILTH Reissue 'Dusk… And Her Embrace' in a Coffin Box
Death Metal Black Metal
Music For Nations releases the anniversary edition on 30 October, on splattered vinyl and as a numbered coffin box CD with two bonus tracks.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
FIRTAN Share 'Kalika's Tongue', the Third Song From 'Helios'
Black Metal Pagan Metal
The German band's new album is out on 2 October via AOP Records, with twelve tracks that close on a Bathory cover.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026