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Chewy Mongrain Writes VOIVOD's Next Album Around a Teaching Timetable

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Three tracks are recorded and about eight are in progress. The rest waits for the band's October run through the United States, and for the guitarist's college term.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 27, 2026

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DEVIN TOWNSEND Sets the Film of The Moth's First Performance for 6 November

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Lexin is out as a clip from the Groningen concert of March 2025, and the whole night arrives on live CD and Blu-ray on 6 November.

Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026

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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

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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

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VOLUCRINE Put Thirteen Songs on Chapter V: Renewal, Out Tomorrow on Inverse

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The fourth Volucrine album arrives on 25 September, two years after Etna, with three of its songs already out as videos.

Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026

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THE OCEAN Open and Close Solaris on Map Coordinates, Out Tomorrow on Pelagic

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Twelve tracks, three of them in multiple parts, and two titles that are latitude and longitude rather than words. Tangerine Dream play on one song.

Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026

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NORTHLANE Send Out a Third Single Five Weeks Before the Seventh Album

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Crucified follows two others off Anemoia, which lands on 30 October.

Sasha Kellerman · Sep 23, 2026

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TEMIC Filmed the Ashes Video on a Cruise Ship and Put the Song First on the Album

Progressive Metal

Third advance single from a concept record about loss, shot aboard Cruise to the Edge.

Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026

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NEVERMORE Book Twenty One European Dates for Next Spring, Opening in Berlin

Progressive Metal Groove Metal

The Liminal Spaces tour starts on 29 April and ends with two shows in Turkey, with Rivers of Nihil and Urne supporting.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026

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Brent Hinds's Estate Says the Case Is Not About the Cover, It Is About an Accounting He Never Got

Progressive Metal Sludge Metal

A second statement, after Mastodon called the lawsuit meritless.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026

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OBSCURA Say They Have Filed Criminal Complaints in Germany Over Eleven Years of Publications

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The band's statement names no individuals and asks people not to speculate; it says visas for China were among the casualties.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 21, 2026

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BEATEN TO DEATH Put Thirteen Songs on Vntrve and One of Them Is Called Fangad i en Battle Vest

Progressive Metal Grindcore

Out 23 October on Mas-Kina Recordings; 'Fuck the Moon' is the second song online.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 20, 2026

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VANISHING POINT Give a Date and a Time for the First Song and Nothing Else Yet

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'Bring Me The Night' premieres on 25 September at noon Melbourne time, with the album details attached.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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HYPNO5E Set 'Trame Noire' for 6 November and Put Out Two Films at Once

Progressive Metal

'Lost Fires' and 'Molecular Angel' come with the announcement. Pelagic Records has the album.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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THE OCEAN Bring Tangerine Dream Onto 'Milk of My Dreams', a Week Before 'Solaris'

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The fourth single from the album, out 25 September through Pelagic Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026

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HANGING GARDEN Release Dream Death Through Transcending Obscurity on 18 September

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The New York progressive death metal project, not the Finnish band of the same name, release their second album on Friday, written, played, mixed and mastered by one person.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026

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THY CATAFALQUE Use Live Drums for the First Time on Album Thirteen

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'Búcsú a piros madártól' opens 'XIII: Sárga erdő', out 20 November on Season of Mist. Tamas Katai filmed the video where the first Thy Catafalque clip was shot twenty-five years ago.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026

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END OF ABYSS Close the Run of Singles Before Their First Album

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'Sound of Soul' is the third and last preview of 'Escape to a New Empire', out 23 October on Inverse Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026