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HAGANE Sign Worldwide to Napalm, Everywhere Except Home
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The Tokyo band's Through the Night goes out abroad on 15 January 2027. Japan is carved out of the deal.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 30, 2026
MANA DIAGRAM Reach Their First Album Three Years After Forming
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Aether Cross arrives on 30 September through Avalon, nine tracks, half of them titled in Japanese.
Robin Aalto · Sep 29, 2026
New Metal Releases: 29 September to 5 October 2026
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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
SACRAL RAGE Sign to No Remorse Eight Years After Their Last Album
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The Athens band's third record goes to the Greek label. Their second came out in 2018 and nothing longer than a single has followed.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 28, 2026
Holy Land Reaches Vinyl Thirty Years After ANGRA Made It
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The 1996 album is remastered for its anniversary and pressed on vinyl for the first time, out on 19 October in a double gatefold and a six panel digipak.
Robin Aalto · Sep 28, 2026
BATTLE BEAST Asked One Singer and Stopped There
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Eero Sipila says the band made no shortlist after Noora Louhimo left. Marina La Torraca was the only person they considered and the only one they asked.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 2026
STRATOVARIUS Reissue Infinite on Vinyl and Refuse to Remaster It
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The anniversary run took in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America before Saturday's finale.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026