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SEPULTURA Move Their Final Concert From a 26,000 Arena to a Hall Holding 9,000
Thrash Metal Death Metal
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
WINTERFORGE Take 'From Hell's Heart' From Melville, With Ahab Carrying Hell Inside Him
Death Metal
The Polish band's new single comes with a lyric video made with the Brazilian filmmaker Iandro Porto.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
GOJIRA Sell Out a 1,200 Capacity Benefit Show for a St. Louis Food Bank in One Afternoon
Progressive Metal Death Metal
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
MEMORIAM Will Close Their Recording Career With a Sixth Album, 'Endgame'
Death Metal
The British death metal band say they are stopping on their own terms. Reaper Entertainment releases the album on 29 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
ABYSSUS Share 'Destined To Die' From Third Album 'The Reign'
Death Metal
The Greek death metal band's album is out on 23 October, with Rotting Christ's Konstantinos Foukarakis among the guests and a cover by Andreas Marschall.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
WHISPERED Release 'Honorbound', Nearly a Decade in the Making and Closing on a 24-Minute Title Track
Power Metal Death Metal
The Finnish band's fourth album is out today. Its closing epic is drawn from the Japanese tale of the Soga brothers' revenge.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
ORBIT CULTURE Release 'Nuclear God' From the Deluxe Edition of 'Death Above Life'
Death Metal Groove Metal
The Swedish band's new song comes with a video by Riivata Visuals. The expanded album follows on 9 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Burton C. Bell Will Tell the Story of 'Obsolete' and Ask the Room to Put Their Phones Away
Death Metal Industrial Metal
Three spoken word events in San Diego, Los Angeles and Las Vegas in October mark thirty years of the Fear Factory album. No filming, no posting.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
KONVENT Need Only Five Songs for 'Firesky', and They Are Longer Than Anything They Have Done
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Danish band's third album arrives 6 November on Napalm Records, with black metal worked into the death doom. Opening track 'Exorcise' is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Filmed a Song Inside a Cave and Kept the Tape
Progressive Metal Death Metal
'Psychomanteum' was recorded live at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee. 'Never in a million years did we imagine we'd one day play a show inside a cave,' says Tommy Rogers.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
INSOMNIUM Take 'Arch Of The Sky' From a Sami Legend About the End of the World
Death Metal
The third single from 'Netherworlds', out 16 October on Century Media, is the proggier end of the record. The video is by Patric Ullaeus.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
ARCHGOAT Stream Their Sixth Album in Full, Two Days Before It Arrives
Death Metal Black Metal
'Nightbringer, Lightbringer' runs to eleven tracks and is out 11 September through Debemur Morti Productions. The band are in their thirty-seventh year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
EPITAPHE Stream 'III' in Full, Three Days Before Release
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French trio's third album runs to five tracks, two of them past fourteen minutes, with saxophone again threaded through the death metal. Out 11 September on Aesthetic Death.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
AT THE GATES Give Tomas Lindberg's Last Album a Film of Its Own
Death Metal
Costin Chioreanu has finished animated videos for every song on 'The Ghost Of A Future Dead', released as one full-length film. Lindberg died in September 2025.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
SVMERION and HOW TO DISAPPEAR Take Their First European Tour Out Tonight
Death Metal
Two unsigned bands from the Comarca Lagunera in northern Mexico, one death metal and one post black metal, play six rooms across Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Poland between 10 and 19 September. Neither has played Europe before.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026
NAILS Sign with Closed Casket Activities, Release Two-Song 'Fear Based Life'
Death Metal
The deal formalises a working relationship the band dates back to 2011. Two new songs are out now, a vinyl pressing follows on 9 October, and a fifth album is due in summer 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 3, 2026
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER Launches 'Aftermath' From New Album
Death Metal
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER releases 'Aftermath,' the first single from their upcoming album 'Servitude', set for release on September 27 via Metal Blade.
Mar 30, 2026