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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
EARTHBONG Open Salutations to the Cultivators With a Ten Minute Bug
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Four songs across the record and the closer runs fifteen minutes, which is the measure of what this German band do.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
FLOR DE FUMO Arrive With Eight Songs and Nobody Behind Them
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eight tracks, self released on 23 October, from a Brazilian band whose titles leave no doubt about the subject matter.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Put a Second Song Out and Fill In the Rest of Megacelestial
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Proficient Dreamer arrives with the full details of the fourth album, out on 11 December through Argonauta Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 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
YOB Head the Second Wave of Desertfest London, Across Five Rooms in May
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eighteen more artists join the 21 to 23 May weekend, with Kylesa, Windhand and Lowen among them and the Roundhouse on the venue list.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 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
MOTORIK ROAD TRIP Set Their Second Album for 27 November, All of It Instrumental
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Perceptions from a Dark Earth runs eight tracks and forty four minutes, with no vocals on any of them, out through Octopus Rising and Argonauta.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
STORMBRINGER Follow the Fifth Album With a Video for Grow
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Transcendence is out on Attic Records, and the band who reached the Bloodstock main stage have put a second song from it on screen.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Date Megacelestial for 11 December
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album arrives in December and the second song from it, Proficient Dreamer, came with the announcement.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
KING BUFFALO Film Vagabond Inside the Studio They Built
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The second song from Doomsayer was recorded in the new room the band built themselves, and it was filmed in that same room.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
STONED JESUS Answer Songs to Sun Sixteen Years Later
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Seven tracks on Season of Mist, and the title is a direct reply to the debut the band made as teenagers in Kyiv.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
SONS OF ARRAKIS Date Volume III for 22 January
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The Montreal band keep numbering their albums, and the third one is set for January with Karl Daniel Liden on the mix.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · 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
BLACK ROYAL Take Extremophiles Off Abyssian Before It Lands
Heavy Metal Death Metal
Abyssian arrives on 30 October through M-Theory Audio, and the Tampere band have put a video to the latest single off it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
New Metal Releases: 13 to 19 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
76 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Heavy Metal across 39 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
ELDER's Jack Donovan Is Home, and the Pneumonia Turned Out to Be a Heart Condition
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The bassist spent about two weeks in hospital and had open heart surgery after collapsing on the American tour.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 10, 2026
DOPELORD Put Back in Print the Album They Recorded Mainly to Get Gigs
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Season of Mist reissues Magick Rites on 11 December, fourteen years after the band made it in a friend's studio.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026