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Chewy Mongrain Writes VOIVOD's Next Album Around a Teaching Timetable
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
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
DEVIN TOWNSEND Sets the Film of The Moth's First Performance for 6 November
Progressive Metal
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
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
VOLUCRINE Put Thirteen Songs on Chapter V: Renewal, Out Tomorrow on Inverse
Progressive Metal Death Metal
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
THE OCEAN Open and Close Solaris on Map Coordinates, Out Tomorrow on Pelagic
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
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
NORTHLANE Send Out a Third Single Five Weeks Before the Seventh Album
Progressive Metal Metalcore
Crucified follows two others off Anemoia, which lands on 30 October.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 23, 2026
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
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
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
OBSCURA Say They Have Filed Criminal Complaints in Germany Over Eleven Years of Publications
Progressive Metal Death Metal
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
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
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
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
THE OCEAN Bring Tangerine Dream Onto 'Milk of My Dreams', a Week Before 'Solaris'
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth single from the album, out 25 September through Pelagic Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
HANGING GARDEN Release Dream Death Through Transcending Obscurity on 18 September
Progressive Metal Death Metal
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
THY CATAFALQUE Use Live Drums for the First Time on Album Thirteen
Avant-garde Metal
'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
END OF ABYSS Close the Run of Singles Before Their First Album
Progressive Metal
'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