Symphonic Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, in Symphonic Metal.
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
TRILLIUM's Amanda Somerville Is Two Weeks From the End of Proton Therapy
Symphonic Metal
Four of six weeks of proton beam radiation are behind her, she says the tiredness is unlike anything before, and her speech has come back.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
SIRENIA Mark Twenty Five Years With One Italian Date
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The Legend Club in Milan on 1 November is the band's only Italian stop on the anniversary tour, with Vallorch opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
IGNEA Put Two Voices on the Last Song Before Monumental
Symphonic Metal
Britta Gortz of Hiraes sings against Helle Bohdanova on Harmony Manufactured, the fourth song made public days before the album arrives.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
THE ERINYES Keep All Three Singers for a Second Album in December
Symphonic Metal
Justine Daae, Mizuho Lin and Nicoletta Rosellini return to share the lead on Hide And Seek, out through Frontiers on 18 December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
DELAIN Answer the Empty Microphone With Three Singers on One Song
Symphonic Metal
We Are Fire has Fabienne Erni, Noa Gruman and Paolo Ribaldini on it, and the wider cast runs to Marko Hietala and Sharon den Adel.
Robin Aalto · 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
DELAIN Lose Their Singer and Decide Not to Replace One at All
Symphonic Metal
Diana Leah has left after years with the band, and the next album will be sung by a rotating cast of guests instead of a new vocalist.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
APOCALYPTICA Collect American Certifications Nineteen Years Late
Heavy Metal Symphonic Metal
Worlds Collide is gold in the United States and I Don't Care is double platinum, for a record that came out in 2007.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 19, 2026
FADING LIGHT Send Poltergeist Ahead of a First Album in November
Black Metal Symphonic Metal
The second single from The Spell of a New Dawn, which Apostasy Records release on 13 November as the band's debut.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
PLAGUE OF ANGELS Release the Huddersfield Concert With the Organ In It
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The December concert with organist David Pipe is out as a live album and as a full video, with the town hall organ written into the arrangements.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
SECRET RULE Date the Eleventh Album and Put a Breakdown In It
Symphonic Metal
The title track is out and the album arrives on 5 February through Rockshots, with more metalcore in it than before.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Put Acquired Immunity on 4 December
Symphonic Metal
The second album arrives on 4 December through Massacre Records, five years after the self titled one came out.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
TARJA Keeps Two Tango Demos Off the Internet on Purpose
Symphonic Metal
The song with Apocalyptica on it gets a ten inch single in November, and the two demos on the B side will not be streamed anywhere.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Put Chris Harms on Polaris
Symphonic Metal
The second track on an album that came out two weeks ago gets a video, with the singer of Lord of the Lost on it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE's Francesco Paoli Has Had His Hand Rebuilt
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
Five years after the climbing accident, tissue from his hip was transplanted into his left hand, and he published the photographs himself.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 15, 2026
NIGHTWISH and Floor Jansen Part Ways After Fourteen Years
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The band call it a mutual decision, say they will enter the studio in 2027, and have not named a replacement singer.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 15, 2026
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE's Francesco Paoli Has a New Hand
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
The Fleshgod Apocalypse singer has had reconstructive surgery, and the band built the possibility of a second one into the touring schedule.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 15, 2026