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COAL CHAMBER Lose Mikey Cox to a Shattered Femur Before the Halloween Show
Nu Metal
The drummer broke the bone in a pickup basketball game, needed surgery and three pins, and will not walk for six weeks after a year of chemo.
Tomas Berglund · 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
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Add a Fourth Rose Bowl Night for June
Nu Metal
The Pasadena run is now four nights, on 5, 6, 10 and 12 June, two of them with Pierce The Veil and two of them with Gojira.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
Chris Fehn Authenticates His Own SLIPKNOT Mask on Pawn Stars
Nu Metal
The former percussionist turned up on the History Channel show to verify a mask, a signed drumhead and a guitar priced at 35,000 dollars.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Put a Second Song From Axiom I Out Before Their Thirtieth Year
Death Metal Black Metal
Paradox Redux follows Aeon Shift from the eighth album, out on 20 November, the first the Slovenians have made with a new singer in two decades.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
KORN and IRON MAIDEN Headline Boardwalk Rock, Back After a Year Off
Nu Metal
The festival returns to Ocean City on 14 to 16 May 2027, with Korn opening the weekend and Bad Omens on the second night.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
GRADIENCE Book Six UK Dates in March With SURVIVALIST Alongside Them
Metalcore Nu Metal
The duo take Anomaly to Britain for the first time, with Survivalist co-headlining a run that starts in Huddersfield on 2 March.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
SLIPKNOT's Wembley Support Slot for MARILYN MANSON Draws a Councillor's Objection
Nu Metal
Anton Georgiou of Brent Council has asked the stadium to reconsider, and the council says it has no control over who is booked.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 19, 2026
SALIVA Put Out Rivers a Year to the Day After Sam Rivers Died
Nu Metal
The song for the late Limp Bizkit bassist was already on the August album; the video arrived on the anniversary of his death.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 19, 2026
SLIPKNOT Are Recording Many, Many Songs, Eloy Casagrande Says
Nu Metal
The drummer told a Colombian station the sessions are producing a lot of material and that nobody in the room is thinking about how it will land.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
TETRARCH's Diamond Rowe Played Enter Sandman to Seventy Thousand
Metalcore Nu Metal
The guitarist covered Metallica at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday night, in the city she grew up in, and has now said what it meant.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 14, 2026
TETRARCH's Guitarist Will Play Inside the Stadium Where She Watched Metallica
Metalcore Nu Metal
Diamond Rowe performs at the Falcons and Ravens game on 11 October at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, in the city she grew up in.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026
Chad Gray Went Back On Stage With a Healing Blood Vessel on His Vocal Cord
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The Mudvayne singer resumed his solo tour in Las Vegas on 7 October after cancelling two Californian shows. A doctor cleared him to carry on with extreme caution.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
A Scope Found One of Chad Gray's Vocal Folds Twice the Width of the Other
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The Mudvayne singer describes a haemorrhage he never noticed and a broken blood vessel. Two California shows are off; the tour is due to resume on 7 October.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 6, 2026
Chad Gray Calls Off San Diego and Santa Ana to Save His Voice
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The Mudvayne singer cancelled two California dates after falling ill at Aftershock, and expects to resume in Las Vegas on 7 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 5, 2026
BLIND CHANNEL Build a Single Out of the Fermi Paradox and a 1977 Radio Signal
Metalcore Nu Metal
Into The Void, with Aaron Pauley of Of Mice & Men, is the last piece before Painstream, which Century Media release on 30 October.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 5, 2026
Hunter Young Spends Twenty Three Hours a Day in the Dark and Has No Insurance
Metalcore Nu Metal
A fundraiser has been opened for the Moodring guitarist and singer, whose treatment is costed at about 100,000 dollars a year.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
New Metal Releases: 29 September to 5 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
82 records scheduled this week, led by Death Metal, Black Metal and Doom Metal across 34 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 29, 2026