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MISERY INDEX Have Twelve Songs and Will Cut Some of Them
Death Metal Grindcore
The eighth album arrives in 2027 through Season of Mist. Vocals are being tracked now, guitars separately, and the band say not everything written will make it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
KATATONIA Lose a Guitarist to a Visa Office for the Second Time This Year
Death Metal Doom Metal
Nico Elgstrand misses the China and Japan shows over visa problems and rejoins the band in New Zealand. In February the same thing kept him off the North American tour.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
ARCH ENEMY Hand Nemesis to Their Third Singer and Film the Result
Death Metal
The 2005 song comes back as a live video shot on this summer's European run, with Lauren Hart singing what Angela Gossow first recorded.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
BRUJERIA Take Gira Revolucion Through Sixteen European Cities in March
Death Metal Grindcore
The headline run opens in Copenhagen on 4 March 2027 and ends in Athens on 21 March, with Criminal in support throughout.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
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
OBBROBRIUS Open Usurped With a Song That Never Bothers With a Chorus
Death Metal
Leviathan's Cage is the first track of the Italian band's second album, out on 6 November through Over The Border Records, and it runs on riffs and two solos instead.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
DEATHWARDS Take Their Debut Album Through Dante's Circles
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Sore Weight Of Repentance is the second song out from Realms of Sin, which arrives on 30 October through Sepulchral Voice Records, nine years after the Chilean band formed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
LAMENTARI Build a Song Around a Man Robbed of His Eyes After Burial
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
OCULI LAPIDIS is the last single before ANTE AURORAM, out on 13 November. Daniel Lonberg says it began with the idea of hatred that does not stop at death.
Robin Aalto · 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
Shane Embury Puts the Seventeenth NAPALM DEATH Album at the End of 2027
Death Metal Grindcore
The bassist told Pod Scum the songs exist as bare bones, recorded with guitars and bass first, and that touring will keep the record from arriving sooner.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
VICTIMS OF CONTAGION Take Seven Years Over Egregore and Hand a Solo to Chris Poland
Death Metal
The Pittsburgh band's second album follows Lamentations of the Flesh Bound from 2019, and the former Megadeth guitarist plays on Forced March.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Board 70000 Tons of Metal for January 2027
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Connecticut band are among the thirty acts announced so far for the cruise, which sails from Miami to the Dominican Republic and back from 14 to 18 January 2027.
Lars Hendriks · 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
ABYSSUS Cut the Third Single From The Reign Down to a Punk Length
Death Metal
The Prophecy is the shortest and fastest thing the Greek band have shown from their third album, which arrives on 23 October. Konstantinos Analytis says it was written for the stage.
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
NERVOCHAOS Sing in Portuguese for the First Time in Thirty Years
Death Metal
Lorde dos Mortos is the second preview of Chaosmongers, out 13 November through Black Lion Records, and the first song the Sao Paulo band have recorded entirely in their own language.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
REPENTANCE Give the Song Shaun Glass Wrote to Shaun Glass
Death Metal Doom Metal
Fade Into Silence is out with a video, dedicated to the guitarist who died earlier this year. The album it comes from was postponed after his death and now arrives on 27 November.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
WHARFLURCH Follow Their Protagonist Off Earth and Into the Fungal Empire
Death Metal Doom Metal
Mycodeath and Rebirth in the Outer Clusters is out and streaming whole, the sequel to a 2021 album and a story about fungi seeding planets to grow something that can think.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026