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GWAR Say Chuck Varga Was There Before There Was Anything to Be There For
Heavy Metal
The band's statement on the death of their co-founder credits him with the costumes, the illustrations and much of what the band became. He died a few days ago after a battle with cancer.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 28, 2026
KAT Open Death Is Not Enough With Waging War and Hold the Video Back a Week
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The first single from the Polish band's new album is out now. The album lands on 23 October through Logosound, and the video for the song premieres on 2 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
Cameron Webb Goes Back to the Orgasmatron Stems Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album gets an anniversary edition with a new remix built from the original stems, alongside a half speed remaster of the record as it was. The title track has a lyric video.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
TANK Release the Song They Left Off This Means War in 1983
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Man Who Never Was went out as a b-side instead of onto the album. Cleopatra put the album back in the shops on 23 October with the song and its demo among the bonus tracks.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
Chuck Varga, The Sexecutioner in GWAR for Thirty Seven Years, Has Died
Heavy Metal
A founding member of the band, he played the character from 1985 until 2022 and died after a battle with cancer. Casey Orr announced it on Friday night.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
WOLF Put a Second Song From Hour of the Wolf Out With a Video
Heavy Metal
Waltz Post-Mortem arrives with a clip directed by Daniel Wahlstrom, the second thing heard from the Swedish band's tenth album.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
GARGANT Put a Warrior in the Bonus Track and the Bonus Track on Both Records
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Dead Night Defiance reaches CD and limited coloured vinyl through Fireflash Records, and Burning Crusader, the extra song on both, arrives with a video.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
Sad Wings of Destiny Turns Fifty and Finally Gets the Running Order JUDAS PRIEST Wanted
Heavy Metal
Two editions, one from the original analog tapes and one newly remixed, both opening with Prelude the way the band meant the record to open in 1976.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
Cameron Webb Has Remixed Orgasmatron From the Original Stems, Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album arrives again on 6 November, with the original tapes remastered at half speed and a second version built from scratch by the man who produced Motörhead's last records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Set Their Eighth Album for March and Put Will Ramos on One of Its Songs
Heavy Metal Metalcore
Social Apocalypse arrives on 19 March through Spinefarm, ten tracks, with Lorna Shore's singer on one guest spot and Against The Current's on another, and the title track is out now with a video.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
MIDNIGHT PREY Follow a Seven Year Gap With Jenseitsritt, Out Tomorrow on Dying Victims
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Seven songs, thirty six minutes, and the first Midnight Prey album since Uncertain Times in 2019.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
ADX Put Out Their Fourteenth Album Tomorrow, Forty Four Years After Paris
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
13ème choc arrives on 25 September through Verycords, twelve songs, all of them in French, two years after L'empire du crépuscule.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
NIGHT LASER Bring Johnny Gioeli Onto Their Fifth Album, Out Tomorrow on Steamhammer
Heavy Metal
Rats in the Cradle lands on 25 September, eleven songs, with Johnny Gioeli guesting on the seven minute Heart of the Desert Rose.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
METALITE Release Discovery Tomorrow, Twelve Songs and a Fifth Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Stockholm band's fifth record arrives on 25 September through Reigning Phoenix Music, two years after Expedition One, with Starchild and Echoes of You already out as videos.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
CLOVEN HOOF Put Out Their Eleventh Album Tomorrow, With Harry Conklin Singing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Never a Prophet in Your Own Land lands on 25 September through High Roller Records, ten songs, two years after Heathen Cross and forty seven years after the band started in Wolverhampton.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
STRYPER Put Out Their Seventeenth Album Tomorrow on Frontiers
Heavy Metal
Throne of Thorns arrives on 25 September, eleven songs, none of them over four minutes and change, from the line up that reformed in 2003.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set Faces of Pain for 15 January and Hand the Cover to Uwe Jarling Again
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment releases the album; Chris Boltendahl has been running this band for more than forty years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
GWAR Put Beyond Hell on Vinyl for the First Time and It Sold Out Before Release
Heavy Metal
The twentieth anniversary edition arrives on Friday with an outro left off the 2006 record, remastered by Paul Logus.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026