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OVERKILL Take Burning Up Latin America Out in Late February
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The run goes from late February to mid March 2027, with the follow up to Scorched expected at some point in the same year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
FORESHADOW Lead With a Song Written in the Late Eighties
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
This Harvest That You've Sown comes off Here Down On Earth, the 1991 demo recorded properly at last, and the words have not dated.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
MESHUGGAH Line Up TESTAMENT and Blood Incantation for a Fortieth Anniversary Run
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour hits North America next year, with tickets on sale on 30 October and the full itinerary still to come.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
MAWIZA Take the Mapuche Songs Acoustic on a First EP
Metalcore Groove Metal
Wuzapiwken is the lead single from IN MONGELETEW, out 6 November, the first record the Chilean band have made without the distortion.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 26, 2026
WARPIT Date a Debut Album for November and Send Out Beast
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Cagliari band have put Legends From The Giants' Land down for 27 November and released the second song from it today.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
KLONE Name a March Date for The Moon Is Witness
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The French band's tenth album arrives on 12 March through V2 Records, three years after The Unseen, with a visualizer out now.
Robin Aalto · Oct 24, 2026
GOJIRA Take the Third Rose Bowl Night From System Of A Down
Progressive Metal Death Metal
A 10 June date was added to the two already booked in Pasadena, and the French band open that one instead of Pierce The Veil.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 24, 2026
MESHUGGAH Take the Friday at Milwaukee Metal Fest 2027
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The festival runs 14 to 16 May at The Rave, with Testament, Crowbar, Yob, Pig Destroyer and Repulsion already confirmed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
METAL ALLEGIANCE Book Anaheim Again, With Seven Guests Named
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The House of Blues show on 28 January 2027 brings in Fredrik Akesson, Bobby Blitz, John Bush, Marty Friedman, Todd La Torre and Troy Sanders.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
MACHINE HEAD and Reece Scruggs Part on the Terms He Wanted
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The guitarist who left the 2025 tour when his father was diagnosed with cancer has confirmed his exit, and has a new band ready.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Put a Second Song From Axiom I Out Before Their Thirtieth Year
Death Metal Black Metal
Paradox Redux follows Aeon Shift from the eighth album, out on 20 November, the first the Slovenians have made with a new singer in two decades.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
ORBIT CULTURE and ARMORED SAINT Added to Into The Grave 2027
Death Metal Groove Metal
The Leeuwarden festival adds six bands, with Orbit Culture back after 2023 and Armored Saint arriving for the first time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
VOICE OF RUIN Cut the Next Record to Four Songs
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Swiss band return on 11 February with a four track EP, and Breed Of Servants is out now as the first song from it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
OVERKILL Go to Basinfirefest for the First Time, With Three Czech Decades Around Them
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The four day festival in Spalene Porici runs from 23 to 26 June 2027, with Metal Church and Sanctuary also on the international wave.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
SOILWORK Put Out a New Song in the Middle of the Anniversary Tour
Death Metal Metalcore
Night Whispers & Shining Lights arrives while the band are on the road in Europe with Amon Amarth, in the year they turn thirty.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
MACHINE HEAD Put Out Sutures With No Warning at All
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The song arrived unannounced, weeks after Robb Flynn talked about closing the UNATONED cycle, with Zack Ohren co-producing again.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
BRUJERIA Add Seven Iberian Dates in November Before the March Tour
Death Metal Grindcore
Five headlining shows in Spain and two in Portugal come weeks before the sixteen city European run already booked for March.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
87 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal across 38 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026