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KING KRAKEN Wrote Shadows Fall After The Blair Witch Project and Put the Melody in the Verses
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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
METALLICA Ask Las Vegas for Blood, for the Fifth Time
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Another Red Cross campaign through All Within My Hands.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 21, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Rebuilt Three Quarters of the Band and Then Made a Third Album
Heavy Metal
Thilo Herrmann, Mike Stark and Fabian Watermann all arrived before 'Steelmachine', out 16 October on Fireflash.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 20, 2026
THE HEADLESS GHOST Set a Second Album for Late November and Let Alvaro Valverde Paint It
Heavy Metal
'Legacy of the Dead' has eight songs and comes out on Punishment 18 Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026
Peace Sells Turned Forty on Saturday and the Box Set Follows Six Days Later
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Megadeth put a limited edition of the 1986 album out on 25 September.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 20, 2026
Dave Mustaine Says Naming a Party Costs a Band Half Its Audience
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Asked on Metal Hammer Greece's TV War whether he can still say what he used to, the Megadeth leader answered at length.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026
THY LEGACY Put Eight Songs on Their Debut and Two of Them Are Under Two Minutes
Heavy Metal
'The Call' came out on 11 September through Nameless Grave Records, thirty-two minutes of heavy metal from Crete.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put 'Dark Sister' Out and Open It Up With 'Spellbound Machine'
Heavy Metal
The Los Angeles band's second album, produced by Max Morton, is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DORO Puts Out 'Wild At Heart' Before the Winter Tour, With Alissa White-Gluz on 'Touch Of Evil'
Heavy Metal
Nine tracks on her own Rare Diamonds Productions, and the Magic Winter tour opens on 11 December.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put Out 'Spellbound Machine', Filmed Five Days Before It Appeared
Heavy Metal
The Los Angeles four piece's new single arrived on their own channel on 18 September, five days after the video was shot. It follows 'Dark Sister', the album they released this year.
Robin Aalto · Sep 18, 2026
NIGHT LASER Wrote '19CR490' as a Middle Finger to People Who Traded Their Humanity for Power
Heavy Metal
From 'Rats In The Cradle', out 25 September on Steamhammer. The Hamburg band tour with Axel Rudi Pell after it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Frankie Palmeri Says He Lost His Pass for Trying to Talk to Glenn DANZIG
Heavy Metal
He was watching Pantera from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life when, by his account, Danzig's security removed him.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
NASTY Fill 'Trauma' With Guests and Put 'Warrior' Out Third
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The album lands 23 October on Triple B Records, with members of LANDMVRKS and Eternal Enemy on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
U.D.O. Name Album Twenty 'Voodoo Ranger' and Open It With 'I'll Die Trying'
Heavy Metal
Out 8 January 2027 through Reigning Phoenix Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
BLACKMENT Release Pandemonium Portrait Through Inverse Records on 18 September
Heavy Metal
The Finnish melodic metal band's second album was moved from June to give its last five songs more time, and is out on Friday.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
'It's Your Stage': What Dave Mustaine Tells Himself on the Stairs Every Night
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A Q&A with Rolling Stone's Kory Grow for the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', on the farewell tour, the hand condition and two finished songs nobody has heard.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
CRYSTAL THRONE Set Album Two in the Year 5150, With Earth Missing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
'Electrical Savior' is the second single from 'Chantry Of Sacrifice', out 2 October. The record follows the last human alive back through time to find out where the planet went.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026