Gothic Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Gothic Metal.
FINAL GASP Keep Aftermath Off New Day Symptoms and Put It on Floppy Vinyl
Gothic Metal
The Boston band's leftover from this year's album session goes out as a flexi disc with the November issue of Decibel and nowhere else.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
ECNEPHIAS Build an Album Out of Eight Horror Films and Sing It in Italian
Death Metal Doom Metal
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
ELYSION Pull Dead Loves Off Identity and Call It Their Most Romantic Song
Gothic Metal
The third single from the Athens band's fourth album, out since 16 October on Massacre Records, goes further into gothic than the first two.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
ROTTING CHRIST and DEATH ANGEL Take the Friday at Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The sixteenth edition runs on 11 and 12 December with thirty bands on two stages, and the warm up party is the night before.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
SIRENIA Mark Twenty Five Years With One Italian Date
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The Legend Club in Milan on 1 November is the band's only Italian stop on the anniversary tour, with Vallorch opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
ENDLESS CHAIN Put Two Voices Against Each Other on Save Me
Gothic Metal
The third song from Nothingness, out on 20 November through M-Theory Audio, sets Ville Hovi and Aki Salonen against one another.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
MOONSPELL Take God Is a Vampire to Belgrade With IOTUNN Under Them
Gothic Metal
The Portuguese band play Zappa Barka on 2 April 2027, with Iotunn as special guests and the Spanish duo TodoMal opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
LACUNA COIL Mark Twenty Years of Karmacode by Recutting Fragile
Gothic Metal
Fragile XX is a new version of the Karmacode song, released with a SWARM remix of a track from last year's album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
UPON SHADOWS Open an Eighth Album From Uruguay With a Luciferian Song
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The Great Shadow is the first piece of Golden Flame, which the duo plan for 2027, and Tony Lindgren mastered it in Sweden.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
Rock Hard Festival Open 2027 With TRIPTYKON Playing Monotheist
Death Metal Doom Metal
Seven names for the Pentecost weekend in Gelsenkirchen, including two separate Aaron Stainthorpe projects on the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
PLAGUE OF ANGELS Release the Huddersfield Concert With the Organ In It
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The December concert with organist David Pipe is out as a live album and as a full video, with the town hall organ written into the arrangements.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
VLAD IN TEARS Build a Double Album Called Undead
Gothic Metal
The new song arrives ahead of a double record due on 4 December through Metalville, and the band insist it is not a love song.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
MOTUS TENEBRAE Reach Twenty Five Years With In Sorrow's Requiem
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
The Tuscan band put a film to one song off the new album, their sixth, a quarter of a century after they started.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
CHILD OF CAESAR Open the Revived Combat Records With Alive
Gothic Metal
Alive is the opening single from Child of Caesar's next album and the revived label's first release.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 12, 2026
HORIZON OF AEONS Cover a Song Older Than the Band That Made It Famous
Gothic Metal
Yksi Ainoa Ikkuna is their tribute to Agents, and the composition itself is credited as traditional.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Turn Shelley's Ruined Statue on the People Who Make Things
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Ozymandias is the title track and second single from the album Lifeforce Records puts out on 20 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
MORTEMIA Reach the Thirteenth Guest Singer, and This One Sings the Pet Shop Boys
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
Jane Odintsova of Imperial Age takes It's a Sin, the latest in Morten Veland's one song at a time covers project.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
FATUM AETERNUM Come Back After Three Years With Six Members and a String Section
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
As Above So Below is self produced, built on electric violin and cello, and takes its title from the hermetic axiom.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026