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WRAITH Turn the First World War Into 'Descent Into Darkness', Out 13 November
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
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
REVOCATION Give 'Data Corpse' a Video, a Year After the Album It Is From
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Dave Davidson says the song is about social media companies mining private life for profit. 'New Gods, New Masters' came out on Metal Blade last September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
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
TERROR Put a Video to 'Erase You From My World', the Song That Opens 'Still Suffer'
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Luis Hernandez directed it. The album came out in April, and the band have been doing this in Los Angeles since 2002.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
HELLCOWBOYS Sign to Octopus Rising and Open With 'Ghiaccio'
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Roman four piece move to the Argonauta imprint and call the single the first chapter of a new beginning. Two albums and a single sit behind it.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
XION Take 'Burned Onto You' Off 'When Stars Collide' and Give It a Video
Thrash Metal
The Swedish band's second album came out on Fireflash Records earlier this month. Robin Björk describes the writing of it as a long haul.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
MNRK Buy the Whole BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Catalogue, Zakk Wylde's Solo Records Included
Doom Metal Groove Metal
Eleven studio albums, the live releases and the EPs change hands. The price was not disclosed, and the label had already been distributing the band for years.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
VIGIL Open Their First Album With 'Nocturnal Hunger', and Nothing Else Before It
Thrash Metal
Nine songs and about forty minutes of thrash from Richmond, Virginia, out on 30 October through Shadow Kingdom Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put Their Two Zeke Covers Out Digitally, After the Flexi Disc
Speed Metal Black Metal
'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'
Power Metal Speed Metal
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
ORIGIN'HELL Open 'Reign of Infamy' With Their First Track in Years, Out 2 October
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The band from Rennes have been going since 2001 and put out three albums in seven years, then went quiet. Grave New World releases the new one.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
DISSIMULATOR Walk a City That Was Not Built for People on 'Neon Metropolis'
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Quebec technical death and thrash band have put out the first piece of 'Artifice Dissolves', their second album for 20 Buck Spin, and Claude Leduc explains it as a night walk through a megacity that has no use for anyone in it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
DEATHAWAITS Name Their Next Album After a 'French Bulldog Invasion', Out in January
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The French slamming death metal band have put out the title track with a video. The album follows on 22 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ESTERTOR Share the Title Track of 'Evil Black Church', Out 23 October on Black Lion
Thrash Metal
The Barcelona thrash band have put out the first piece of their third album, a record built on the Italian horror films of the seventies and eighties, seventeen years after they started and five since their last one.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
HERETICS Put Out 'Smell the Ashes', a Song Built on the Opening of Half-Life 2
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The third single from 'Of Poets and Prophets' carries orchestration through almost the whole song, and the video that came with it announces the departure of the drummer who founded the band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
ULTRA-VIOLENCE Put Out 'All My Life', the Title Track of the EP They Released Themselves
Thrash Metal Metalcore
Seventeen years after four fifteen year olds from Turin started a thrash band, the fourth line up releases an EP with no label behind it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
LEACH Release 'Strength To Strength', the Second Single From Their EP Psychosomatic
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Borås band's four track EP about living with mental illness is out on 9 October, and they play I Scream Metal Fest in Gothenburg the day after.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
XION's Second Album 'When Stars Collide' Is Out on Fireflash Records
Thrash Metal
Eight songs from the Falun five piece, recorded at Sellnoise Studios with Jonas Arnberg and out on CD, purple vinyl and digital.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026