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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
JADED HEART Sign to Frontiers for the Sixteenth Album, Thirty Six Years In
Heavy Metal
Toxic arrives on 15 January 2027 and the first single, One By One, is out now.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
THE HEADLESS GHOST Follow King of Pain With a Second Album in November
Heavy Metal
Legacy Of The Dead comes out on Punishment 18 Records, produced by the band and finished at TMH Studios.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
QUIET RIOT Pick a Twenty Three Year Old From Seven Hundred Applicants
Heavy Metal
John Torra, from Long Island, is the band's new singer after an open call that drew more than 700 submissions.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026
BLAZE BAYLEY Had Finished the Album the Day Before His Heart Attack, and Says People Get That Backwards
Heavy Metal
Three years after a quadruple bypass, the singer told Rocking With Jam Man that the embarrassment was worse than the fear.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 23, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST Close the European Tour Without Ian Hill, and Uriah Heep's Bassist Stands In
Heavy Metal
A damaged tendon in his left arm kept the founding bassist off the stage; Dave Rimmer of Uriah Heep played the Faithkeepers tour's last show instead.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026
RAM Return After Seven Years and the Release Show Is Their Bassist's Last
Heavy Metal
Against arrives on 9 October through Metal Blade; Tobias Petterson plays his final show with the band at the Gothenburg launch.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
KINGCROWN Put Out a Video for the Song That Says Their Own Name
Heavy Metal Power Metal
We Are Kingcrown is the third track on Moonfall, which Rockshots Records released on 4 September.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
INVINCIA Send Out a Third Single Three Days Before Escape Music Releases the Debut
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Tonight We Ride runs six minutes and twenty seconds; Echoes From The Past was mixed by Erik Martensson of Eclipse.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
THE BLACK THUNDER Sing in Polish and English in the Same Song for the First Time
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Ash in My Marrow is the second single from Time Obliteration, the third album, out 16 October on Pagan Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
ALA Send Out Kill For Satan, the Second Single From a Serbian Debut Due on 23 October
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Damir Mirojevic built the band while he was in Kolac, and Wormholedeath releases The Dragon's Return next month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
WATCHER Started as One Man in 2023 and Are Four People by the Second Album
Heavy Metal
'Mistress of Our Time' is streaming in full before Dying Victims releases it on 25 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Ian Hill Missed a JUDAS PRIEST Show for the First Time, With a Torn Tendon in His Arm
Heavy Metal
Dave Rimmer of Uriah Heep took the bass at the Eventim Apollo on Monday.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026