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Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Power Metal.
STRATOVARIUS Reissue Infinite on Vinyl and Refuse to Remaster It
Power Metal
The 2000 album returns on 2 October as a gold vinyl double, with the original master untouched. A live video of Hunting High And Low from Tampere in 2011 arrives with it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 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
DRAGONFORCE Book Twenty Two European Dates for Spring 2027, Opening in Paris
Power Metal
The run goes from 9 April to 8 May with Visions of Atlantis and Wings of Steel, and carries both the new self titled album and a set from Inhuman Rampage, which turned twenty this year.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 25, 2026
VANISHING POINT Break Six Years With Bring Me The Night and Set the Album for 20 November
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Eremition is the seventh Vanishing Point album and the first since Dead Elysium in 2020. Chris Porcianko says the band works to quality over quantity, which is one way of describing six years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
KAMELOT Book a Second European Leg for March 2027, Twelve Dates With Cyhra
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The Dark Asylum tour returns to Europe on 5 March 2027 in Osnabrück and finishes on 20 March in Brno, with Cyhra in direct support and tickets on sale from today.
Lars Hendriks · 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
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
MYSTIC PROPHECY Call the Fourteenth Album In Metal and Leave It at That
Power Metal Thrash Metal
The German band announce a November release, three years after Hellriot.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
VIOLET ETERNAL Put Ten Songs on the Second Album and One of Them Is Called Techno Optimist
Power Metal
Out today on Rubicon Music: the third release in three years from a band split between Italy and Japan.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 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
HELLOWEEN Close the Forty Years Tour in a Sold Out Hall in Sao Paulo
Power Metal Speed Metal
The anniversary run took in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America before Saturday's finale.
Lars Hendriks · 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
DRAGONFORCE Name the Tenth Album After Themselves and Write It for Two Singers
Power Metal
Alissa White-Gluz and Alessio Garavello share the vocals, Jens Bogren produced it, and Napalm Records has it out on 19 March 2027.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
VANISHING POINT Give a Date and a Time for the First Song and Nothing Else Yet
Power Metal Progressive Metal
'Bring Me The Night' premieres on 25 September at noon Melbourne time, with the album details attached.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
ALETHEYA Put a White Lion Shaped Song at the Heavy End of Their First Album
Power Metal
'Chance To Reborn' came out on 18 September through Rockshots Records; 'Stealer' has a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
Marc Hudson Steps Back From DRAGONFORCE Over Tinnitus and His Old Vocal Coach Takes the Part
Power Metal
Alessio Garavello sings the male half of a dual-vocal album alongside Alissa White-Gluz; Hudson stays with the band off stage.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026
SABATON Gave Templars to a Pop Evil Singer on a Festival Stage and Then Released It
Power Metal
Leigh Kakaty sang the new version at Louder Than Life a day before it went up on Better Noise Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026