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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
QUIET RIOT Took Seven Hundred Auditions and Gave the Job to a Twenty Three Year Old
Heavy Metal
John Torra, from Long Island, replaces Jizzy Pearl after an open call.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Back To The Beginning Goes Into Cinemas on 28 October
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The Villa Park farewell, cut into a film, with a pre-sale on 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
DORO Wrote Most of Wild At Heart in the Last Few Weeks So the Tour Would Have New Songs
Heavy Metal
'Rock You 2 Death' is out first; the album follows on 11 December, ahead of the Magic Winter run.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
KAT Mark Forty Years of Metal and Hell With Ten New Songs
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
'Death Is Not Enough' arrives on 23 October through Logosound.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
KING KRAKEN Wrote Shadows Fall After The Blair Witch Project and Put the Melody in the Verses
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
The Cardiff band's third single of the year, engineered by Romesh Dodangoda and Tom Cory.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
WOLF Made the Tenth Album Fit on One Side of a Ninety Minute Tape
Heavy Metal
'Hour of the Wolf' arrives on 20 November, opening with the first single 'Death Satellite'.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026