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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
CROWBAR Will Start Writing in January, and Windstein Is Counting Drives
Sludge Metal
Nothing is recorded and nothing is dated, but there is a plan: three days a week from the first of the year, if the drummer can get there.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
MYRKUR Plays Everything on Broken Little Doll and Films It Herself
Black Metal Folk Metal
The new single has Kalandra's Katrine Stenbekk on vocals, two ballerinas in a church, and one person on every instrument.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
AGRIMONIA Break Eight Years of Silence With Of the Shadows
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Six tracks, out on 11 December through De Records, with the opener already streaming as the first piece of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE Date a Third Album for February on Pelagic
Post-Metal
The Worrier arrives on 19 February 2027, and Vanity Fair is the first song from a band that works between Berlin and Istanbul.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
RESIN TOMB Send Out Ancestral Agony From the January Album
Death Metal Sludge Metal
The sixth of eight songs from Fetid Existence, the Brisbane band's second album, which Transcending Obscurity release on 15 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
DREAD WITCH Put Cult Out on Halloween and Lead With Altar
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Aarhus band's second album arrives on 31 October through three labels at once, with Sofia Schmidt guesting on the song Altar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
CONJURER Take Twelve American Dates in a Single January
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Five headline shows with Armed For Apocalypse, then eight more on the Dopethrone run, closing in Los Angeles on 15 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
BLOOD OF THE EARTH Take the CROWBAR Weight Somewhere Quieter
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Constellation comes from Beneath A Sky That Breaks, the EP the trio put out themselves on 23 October, their fourth release so far.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
LOVE SEX MACHINE Send a Second Song Out Before Thriving
Sludge Metal
Borrow the Will follows the first preview of the album Pelagic Records release on 13 November, from the quartet out of Lille.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
DOPETHRONE Close a Three Part Tour With Fourteen Dates in January
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Conjurer, -(16)- and Armed for Apocalypse join the Canadian trio for the last leg of the Uniworse run, starting 27 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
87 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal across 38 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
CROWBAR Join Primus and Clutch at Sonic Temple 2027
Sludge Metal
The festival runs from 13 to 16 May at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, and the full bill is promised for next week.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 15, 2026
NÏSTI Build an EP About Grief Around a Roman Goddess
Doom Metal Post-Metal
Four tracks of synth doom from Germany, built around the Roman goddess attached to Saturn and what she was given.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
RESIN TOMB Put Eight Songs on a January Second Album
Death Metal Sludge Metal
The Brisbane five piece return on 15 January through Transcending Obscurity, with two of the eight tracks already streaming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
SHAKHTYOR Let a Voice Onto an Instrumental Record
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Hamburg trio have been wordless since 2009, and the second song from Simulacron has members of UR singing on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
MASTODON's Brann Dailor Ties Marrow Deep to Two Deaths
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The drummer tells The Downbeat Podcast that the album's cover art and its lyrics came out of losing Brent Hinds and his own mother.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 14, 2026
SUNDOWNER Put Cesspool Out on Thursday Without a Label
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
The Adelaide band's third album is a digital release with nobody behind it, their tenth record of any kind since 2020.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026