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KAT Open Death Is Not Enough With Waging War and Hold the Video Back a Week
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The first single from the Polish band's new album is out now. The album lands on 23 October through Logosound, and the video for the song premieres on 2 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
Cameron Webb Goes Back to the Orgasmatron Stems Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album gets an anniversary edition with a new remix built from the original stems, alongside a half speed remaster of the record as it was. The title track has a lyric video.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
SKUMSTRIKE's Second Album Is Out Today and Streaming Whole
Speed Metal Black Metal
Flawless Intrigue From Hell arrives on Dying Victims Productions, four years after the Montreal trio's debut, ten tracks of speed metal with thrash and death metal pulled into it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
MIDNIGHT Give Their First Live Album a Date and Play Satanic Royalty Straight Through on It
Speed Metal Black Metal
Satanic Attack Live! arrives on 6 November through Metal Blade, taken from two sold out Hollywood nights in May, with the 2011 album in its original running order and five more songs on top.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
Cameron Webb Has Remixed Orgasmatron From the Original Stems, Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album arrives again on 6 November, with the original tapes remastered at half speed and a second version built from scratch by the man who produced Motörhead's last records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
KNIFE Set Their Third Album for 18 December and Open It From the Back
Speed Metal
Into Your Nightmare arrives through Napalm Records, and the first single Shadows is the song that closes the record.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
MIDNIGHT PREY Follow a Seven Year Gap With Jenseitsritt, Out Tomorrow on Dying Victims
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Seven songs, thirty six minutes, and the first Midnight Prey album since Uncertain Times in 2019.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
ADX Put Out Their Fourteenth Album Tomorrow, Forty Four Years After Paris
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
13ème choc arrives on 25 September through Verycords, twelve songs, all of them in French, two years after L'empire du crépuscule.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
MEURTRIER Turn Their First EP Into a First Album, Messe de fer Out Tomorrow
Speed Metal
Nine songs in French through Jawbreaker Records on 25 September, three years after the Quebec City band formed.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
WHIPLASH Renamed the Album They Already Sold on Tour, and Bullet Train Is the First Song From It
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Roar arrives on 27 November through Time To Kill Records, seventeen years after the last Whiplash album, carrying the record that went out as Thrashquake on a handful of tour CDs.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set Faces of Pain for 15 January and Hand the Cover to Uwe Jarling Again
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment releases the album; Chris Boltendahl has been running this band for more than forty years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
HELLRIPPER Cover Two Zeke Songs Before the First Full North American Tour
Speed Metal Black Metal
Let's Get Drugs and Mainline go out as a digital double single while James McBain takes Coronach across Europe.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
MYSTIC PROPHECY Call the Fourteenth Album In Metal and Leave It at That
Power Metal Thrash Metal
The German band announce a November release, three years after Hellriot.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
HELLOWEEN Close the Forty Years Tour in a Sold Out Hall in Sao Paulo
Power Metal Speed Metal
The anniversary run took in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America before Saturday's finale.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
WHIPLASH Rename the Album They Sold on Tour and Send It Out Again as ROAR
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Thrashquake was a limited run sold on the road with Napalm Death; the worldwide version gets a new title, new Ed Repka art and a 27 November date.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
KAT Mark Forty Years of Metal and Hell With Ten New Songs
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
'Death Is Not Enough' arrives on 23 October through Logosound.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 21, 2026
EVIL INVADERS Break Four Years of Silence With 'Dreamstate'
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Their first release since 'Shattering Reflection' in 2022, and the lyric is about the rat race that produced it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
EVIL INVADERS Release 'Dreamstate' and Announce a Twenty Seven Date European Tour
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
The Belgian speed metal band's new single is out on Napalm Records, with a video by Jens De Vos and a run from Karlsruhe in February 2027 to London in March.
Robin Aalto · Sep 17, 2026