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EXTERMINATION DAY Date Forty Miles of Bad Road and Send Out Fill the Swamp
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The album lands on 27 November through Argonauta, and the second song off it is aimed squarely at a sitting cabinet member.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
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
ECNEPHIAS Build an Album Out of Eight Horror Films and Sing It in Italian
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Liturgia Della Notte arrives on 11 December through My Kingdom Music, six years after the last one, with one song per film.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
ANATOMIA Split a Record With Purulency and Give a Cover Each
Death Metal Doom Metal
Two songs on Pulverised Records, and both of them are covers: the Japanese band take on Funebre, the Americans on Amorphis.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi Says the Solo Album Took Twenty One Years Because Nothing Was Due
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
At seventy eight he describes a working week with no deadline in it, which is the opposite of every record he made before.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
OPHIS Date Encased In Deathlike Layers for 27 November
Death Metal Doom Metal
Six tracks over roughly an hour, out through FDA Records, with a warm up in Wolfsburg and a release party at home in Hamburg.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 25, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi Put a Riff on William Shatner's Metal Album
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Rob Halford, Dave Lombardo, Brian May and John Moyer are on it too, and the man singing is ninety five years old.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
MOTHERTOMB Sign to Ripple Music Three Months After Their First Album
Doom Metal
The Michigan four piece released Dying To Live in July on Death Box and have moved to a label with a far longer reach in the style.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 24, 2026
THE OBSESSED Finished an Album and Booked the Studio Again for December
Doom Metal
Wino says the record is mixed and mastered and with the label, held to March because a guitarist is having a baby.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
OPHIS Take Ten Minutes Over The Astral Tomb
Death Metal Doom Metal
The first piece of Encased In Deathlike Layers runs ten minutes, which for this Hamburg band is a normal opening gambit.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
FIMIR Call the Album Cosmic Heavy Doom and Mean All Three Words
Doom Metal
Old Master is the second song out ahead of a record due on 27 November through Argonauta, after Pain of the World.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
DANTALION Name Their Tenth Album After Themselves
Death Metal Doom Metal
Seven songs, out on 1 November through Base Record Production, with Whispers From the Inner Abyss already on film.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
EARTHBONG Open Salutations to the Cultivators With a Ten Minute Bug
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Four songs across the record and the closer runs fifteen minutes, which is the measure of what this German band do.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
FLOR DE FUMO Arrive With Eight Songs and Nobody Behind Them
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eight tracks, self released on 23 October, from a Brazilian band whose titles leave no doubt about the subject matter.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Born Again Tapes Were Lost, and Iommi Has Them Back
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The multitracks sat unfound for years in a record company store room, and the remix that fans keep arguing about is finally possible.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 24, 2026
CASTLE Film Evil Nun Seven Weeks After Carrie Chains Arrived
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The video comes from the album Hammerheart released on 4 September, and the band have gone back to it rather than moved on.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Put a Second Song Out and Fill In the Rest of Megacelestial
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Proficient Dreamer arrives with the full details of the fourth album, out on 11 December through Argonauta Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
MOTHER OF GRAVES Put a New Song on a Flexi Nobody Can Buy Separately
Death Metal Doom Metal
A Terrible Famine of Words goes out through the Decibel Flexi Series, and the only way to get it is a subscription before 31 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026