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VOYAGER Follow Seen Better Days With a Single Called Secret
Progressive Metal
The Perth band's second standalone song in two years arrives with a video, and still no album has been named behind it.
Robin Aalto · 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
HAKEN Take Thank You Scientist and Einar Solberg Across North America in March
Progressive Metal
The run opens in Austin on 4 March and crosses the continent and back, ending in Carrboro, with tickets on sale on Friday 30 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
MESHUGGAH Line Up TESTAMENT and Blood Incantation for a Fortieth Anniversary Run
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour hits North America next year, with tickets on sale on 30 October and the full itinerary still to come.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
PARIUS Put a Fourth Album Called Alchestronomy on 13 November
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Willowtip Records have the fourth album, Jamie King mixed and mastered it, and two songs from it are already up for anyone who wants them.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
BE'LAKOR Are in the Studio With Eight Songs for a Sixth Album
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Melbourne band have started recording the follow up to Coherence, eight songs long, and have put it down for sometime in 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 25, 2026
ARONIOUS Put Out a Second Song From The Ever Living Ones
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Exalted Aon follows the first preview from an album that will be their fourth, out through The Artisan Era, with no release date named yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
KLONE Name a March Date for The Moon Is Witness
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The French band's tenth album arrives on 12 March through V2 Records, three years after The Unseen, with a visualizer out now.
Robin Aalto · Oct 24, 2026
GOJIRA Take the Third Rose Bowl Night From System Of A Down
Progressive Metal Death Metal
A 10 June date was added to the two already booked in Pasadena, and the French band open that one instead of Pierce The Veil.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 24, 2026
MESHUGGAH Take the Friday at Milwaukee Metal Fest 2027
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The festival runs 14 to 16 May at The Rave, with Testament, Crowbar, Yob, Pig Destroyer and Repulsion already confirmed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME Headline a Hellfest West 2027 Built on Anniversary Sets
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Two days in Pomona in February, with Life Of Agony, Winds Of Plague, First Blood and American Me each playing a record in full.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
END OF ABYSS Finally Put the Album Behind the Singles
Progressive Metal
Escape To A New Empire is out today through Inverse Records, after a run of singles that went on long enough to become the story.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
NEKROGOBLIKON Film Their Twentieth Birthday in Kelowna and Calgary
Death Metal Folk Metal
The video for The Boiling Sea was shot on the anniversary tour the band are headlining with Aborted and Signs Of The Swarm.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Opens the Groningen Recording With War Beyond Words
Progressive Metal
The first song released from the live album of The Moth, recorded with an orchestra and choir in March 2025 and out on 6 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
NORTHLANE Push Anemoia to 27 November and Move the Home Tour to May
Progressive Metal Metalcore
Production delays move the album by four weeks, and Josh Smith's health pushes the Australian and New Zealand dates to May 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
TYR Put Out a Tenth Album Themselves, With Their Own Name on It
Progressive Metal Folk Metal
The Guardian Lie is the second song from the self-titled record the Faroese band are releasing without a label on 17 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
CHAOSBAY Sign to Metal Blade With Four Albums Already Behind Them
Progressive Metal Metalcore
The Berlin band go to the American label after a decade of releasing their own records, with a fifth album due in March.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 20, 2026
KEKAL Open an Album Called Kanata With Deception Station
Avant-garde Metal
Jeff Arwadi recorded, mixed and mastered the song himself, and the album it belongs to has neither a date nor a label yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026