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SAXON Give Medusa a Greek Myth and Hand the UK Leg to ARMORED SAINT
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second song off Gods Of Thunder arrives with a Peter Sallai sleeve, and the album's British dates now have a Los Angeles support act.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
DYNAZTY Sign to Napalm Records and Date Dark Arts for March
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Swedish band's tenth album arrives on 5 March with twelve songs, a new label behind it and a support tour with Accept already booked.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 27, 2026
ARMORED SAINT Looked for a Singer After John Bush Left, Then Stopped Looking
Heavy Metal
Phil Sandoval tells Eonmusic the band thought about replacing Bush in 1992 and dropped the idea almost as soon as they had it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST Take the Saturday as Tuska 2027 Splits Its Days
Heavy Metal
Fourteen names were added and the three days now have headliners: Children Of Bodom, Judas Priest and Lorna Shore, one each.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Film Fields of Pain and Call It a Metaphor
Heavy Metal
The song comes off Steelmachine, and Jack the Riffer explains that the war imagery is about something closer to home.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
SAFFIRE Date a Fifth Album for February and Change Label
Heavy Metal
Last Man Down arrives on 19 February through Pride and Joy Music, recorded and mixed by the band's own guitarist.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
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
RATA BLANCA's First Singer Saul Blanch Has Died at Seventy Five
Heavy Metal Power Metal
He sang on the self titled debut in 1988, the record that opened the door for heavy metal in Argentina, and died on 20 October.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
BRUCE DICKINSON Books a Solo Year for 2027 and Calls It PsychoGod
Heavy Metal
Europe from June to December, with Evergrey on the November leg, and new solo material recorded between Iron Maiden commitments.
Lars Hendriks · 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
METALLICA Put Out Fade To Black From the Third Night at the Sphere
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The 8 October performance is online, from a residency of twenty four nights where no song is played twice in the same weekend.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 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
SAXON Bring Back the Thirty Foot Eagle for Four Dates in March
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second European leg runs through March, and the stage prop built for Denim And Leather comes out in Brussels, Zurich, Cologne and Tilburg.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
SAXON Book Milan and Florence for March on the Gods of Thunder Tour
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Alcatraz on 18 March and the Viper at Tenax on 19 March, with tickets from ten in the morning on 27 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
Nicko McBrain Says IRON MAIDEN Should Have Dropped the Keys for BLAZE BAYLEY
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The drummer told Classic Album Review the band never transposed the songs and should have taken them down half a step or a whole one.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
WICKED ASYLUM Are Splitting Up After Almost Eighteen Years
Heavy Metal
The Milan four piece have announced the end in a statement and will play two more shows, the first of them on 7 November.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
MAGICK TOUCH Name a Fifth Album Fusa and Lead With Every Last Drop
Heavy Metal
The Bergen trio have dated the record for 26 February through Edged Circle Productions and sent out the first song ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
SAXON's Former Drummer Nigel Durham Has Died at Sixty One
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
He played on Destiny in 1988 and spent ten years afterwards in Oliver and Dawson Saxon, the band the original members kept running.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026