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TESSERACT Move The Descent to March and Tell Anyone Who Booked a Hotel They Are Sorry
Progressive Metal
The UK and Germany run of 30 October to 8 November is postponed to March 2027. Existing tickets stay valid.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 6, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Film Tombok From the Album With Real Drums on It
Avant-garde Metal
Season of Mist have a video for the song, from the thirteenth Thy Catafalque record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
DARK AGES Drop the Concept After Forty Four Years and Let the Songs Separate
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Blind Faith arrives on 6 November through Andromeda Relix, the Verona band's sixth album and the first they have not built around one story.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Says He Is Back on Stage Because The Moth Lost Him a Year of Income
Progressive Metal
On the Sixty Scales And The Truth podcast he described the finances behind the Metamorphosis tour, and the year that came with them.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
VOIVOD Cancel Ten American Dates and Will Not Name a New Time
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
A family health emergency, the fourth illness the band have announced this year, and no rescheduled dates offered.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
A FOREST OF STARS Get Four Continental Dates Out of a Year They Wanted More From
Progressive Metal Black Metal
Utrecht, Berlin, Munster and Ghent in the first week of December, with Nemorous in support, after four UK shows in late November.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
RISE ABOVE DEAD Have a Singer Again After Twelve Years Without One
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Andrea Rondanini is back on Voidmass, out 27 November through Argonauta Records, with Drowning Slowly the first thing out.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
TEMIC Give Ceiba Away in Full on the Day It Arrives
Progressive Metal
Eleven tracks through Season of Mist, a new bassist, and a ten minute song at the end of a record about loss.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
DISILLUSION Lose Their Guitarist and Keyboard Player on the Same Morning
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Ben Haugg and Frederic Ruckert leave with immediate effect after ten and eight years, and every booked show still goes ahead.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 2, 2026
MANES Break Eight Years of Silence for To Burn Is To Shine
Black Metal Avant-garde Metal
The album arrives 27 November on Avantgarde Music, and Stones In Your Pocket is out from it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
TWINTERA Open Zero With a Four Digit Number
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Ten tracks from the Verona band arrive tomorrow, twenty one years after they started.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
SOULS OF DIOTIMA Put Arcade Out Today With Three Videos Already Spent
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Eleven tracks from the Sardinian band, one of them in Italian.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
CRESCENDIUM Burn Their Heroine Alive and Let Her Come Back Worse
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Chandra is out with a video shot in Finnish forests. DRAC, a six track concept album, follows on 11 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
NUMENTO Put a Kantele at the Centre of a True Crime Song
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Folie a Deux is the fourth single from an EP due later this year, and it ends in black metal.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
NORTHLANE Book North America From 12 February to 18 March
Progressive Metal Metalcore
Allt, Aviana and Reliqa support the run behind Anemoia, which the band release themselves on 30 October.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 29, 2026
FAITH NO MORE Take the First Headline Slot at Mystic Festival 2027
Avant-garde Metal
Gdansk, Letnica, 10 to 12 June. They are the first name the festival has announced.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 29, 2026
New Metal Releases: 29 September to 5 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
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
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