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ELDER Stop the Tour While Their Bassist Is in Hospital With Pneumonia
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Jack Donovan kept playing while ill and was admitted in Portland last week. The band say the rest of the run is postponed for as long as his treatment lasts.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 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
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
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
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
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE Put Out Their Fourteenth Album Tomorrow, Four Years After the Last
Death Metal Doom Metal
Lay Me Down O Silent Fear arrives on 25 September through Steamhammer, ten songs, the first Lacrimas Profundere record since 2022.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
DESOLATE PATHWAY Come Back From a Four Year Split With Visions in Death, Out Tomorrow
Doom Metal
Nine songs on 25 September, the third Desolate Pathway album, made by the line up that reformed this year after breaking up in 2022.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
KONGH Put Three Songs and Thirty Nine Minutes on Dissolved in Time, Out Tomorrow
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth Kongh album arrives on 25 September through Trust No One Recordings, thirteen years after Sole Creation, and it opens on a track of almost nineteen minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
KING BUFFALO Built a Studio, Then Made the Seventh Album In It
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Doomsayer arrives on 4 December, self-released at home and through Stickman Records in Europe, with The Slick and the Dead out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
Uncle Acid Follow a Giallo Concept Album With Shapes of Midnight
Doom Metal
Out now on Killer Candy Records, and the first thing Kevin Starrs has made since Nell' Ora Blu went all the way into Italian cinema.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
KATATONIA Announce Two Shows in China Five Days Before Playing Them
Death Metal Doom Metal
Shanghai on 27 September, Shenzhen on 28 September, then Japan and an Australian and New Zealand run in October.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE Put Faceless Out Three Days Before the Album It Belongs To
Death Metal Doom Metal
The single and its video are out now; Lay Me Down O Silent Fear follows on 25 September through Steamhammer.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
Back To The Beginning Goes Into Cinemas on 28 October
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The Villa Park farewell, cut into a film, with a pre-sale on 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Aesthetic Death Give States of Horror a Digibook a Year After It Came Out
Doom Metal
The reissue lands on 30 September, with a third Destruction of Orion album already being written.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 21, 2026
PALE REFLECTION Put Out 'Fading Daylight', Seven Years After the Singles That Open It
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Brazilian death doom band release their first album today, on their own, with the three songs they put out in 2019 finally sitting on a record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
Zakk Wylde Started Singing at Keg Parties and Has Never Stopped Calling It the Easy Part
Doom Metal Groove Metal
Chaoszine filmed him in Helsinki in August, before Black Label Society played Hellsinki Metal Festival.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 20, 2026
SOMNENT Name the Songs After the Damage and Call the Album an Heirloom
Death Metal Doom Metal
Out 30 October through Ardua Music, with 'Severed Ties' and 'The Feeding Hand' among the eight.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026