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MIDNIGHT Make Their First Live Album Out of Two Sold-Out Nights in Hollywood
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'Satanic Attack Live!' takes 'Satanic Royalty' in album order plus five more, from the Knucklehead shows on 28 and 29 May. Out 6 November on Metal Blade.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
WRAITH Turn the First World War Into 'Descent Into Darkness', Out 13 November
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Matt Sokol teaches history by day. The Indiana band's sixth album is on Prosthetic Records and opens with a song about ignoring the signs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
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Reaper Entertainment has it. Chris Boltendahl calls it the next furious chapter, which after forty six years is a claim the band have earned the right to keep making.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put Their Two Zeke Covers Out Digitally, After the Flexi Disc
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'Let's Get Drugs' and 'Mainline' first appeared on a Decibel flexi earlier this year. James McBain explains the debt plainly enough.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Set 'Titanblood' for 6 November and Open It With 'Ravenheart'
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The first album under the multi-record deal they signed with Scarlet Records this month. Christian Muenzner and Hannes Grossmann are still the engine of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Sign a Multi-Album Deal With Scarlet Records and Promise Their Fastest Record
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Christian Muenzner's neoclassical power metal project has a new album finished for this autumn, with no title announced yet.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 12, 2026
The Punk Rock Museum Will Let Visitors Play Lemmy's Bass Through His Own Stack
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A Motorhead exhibition opens in Las Vegas on 2 October with handwritten lyrics, personal effects, and the Rickenbacker and Marshall rig set up for guests to use.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
Kai Hansen Says the Next HELLOWEEN Album Is Eighty Per Cent Finished
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Speaking to The Metal Voice about his solo record 'Born With A Hammer', out 18 September, Hansen said songs for the next Helloween album are already mixed.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026