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OBJECTOR Play Their First Romanian Shows in Timișoara, Craiova and Bucharest

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The Turnhout thrash band play Nemesis Art Club on 17 September, the Metal Bunker XIV festival in Craiova on the 18th and Omen Bar in Bucharest on the 19th.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 13, 2026

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GODSLAVE Return With a Self Titled Album, Five Years After 'Positive Aggressive'

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The German thrash band mark the Metalville release with a lyric video for 'The Road Not Taken'.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026

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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

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SEPULTURA Move Their Final Concert From a 26,000 Arena to a Hall Holding 9,000

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The farewell show stays on 7 November in São Paulo, now at the Suhai Music Hall. Existing tickets remain valid and refunds are available.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026

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BULLETBELT Write the Theme for 'Deathgasm 2', Ten Years After the First One

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The New Zealand band return to the horror comedy franchise they scored in 2015, in a video directed by Alex Hargreaves.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026

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GOJIRA Sell Out a 1,200 Capacity Benefit Show for a St. Louis Food Bank in One Afternoon

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Tickets were $30 and all proceeds go to Operation Food Search. The show is on 18 September at The Sovereign, with Locked Shut opening.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026

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Dave Mustaine Writes That Ellefson's Time in MEGADETH 'Was Likely Near' Before the 2021 Scandal

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An excerpt from the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', published by Rolling Stone, goes back over a partnership of nearly forty years.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 11, 2026

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LOST SOCIETY and Hokka Announce a Two-Week European Tour for February

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Nine dates from Hamburg to Berlin, with a London show at The Dome. The two Finnish bands just released a song together.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 11, 2026

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CORONER Remaster 'The Favorite Game' From Their 1995 Compilation for a New EP

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The song comes with a music video and appears on 'Ex Nucleo (The Remastered Extraction)', out on 18 September through Sanctuary Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026

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ISKALD Open 'Curse of the Mind' With 'The Other Realm', Chapter One of a Descent Into Helheim

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The Norwegian band's sixth album is out on 25 September via Dusktone, a concept record in four chapters joined by ritual invocations.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026

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HARLOTT Release 'Exsequiis', Their First Album in Six Years

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The Melbourne thrash band's fifth album is out on Metal Blade Records, which is streaming it in full.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026

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ORBIT CULTURE Release 'Nuclear God' From the Deluxe Edition of 'Death Above Life'

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The Swedish band's new song comes with a video by Riivata Visuals. The expanded album follows on 9 October.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026

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Burton C. Bell Will Tell the Story of 'Obsolete' and Ask the Room to Put Their Phones Away

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Three spoken word events in San Diego, Los Angeles and Las Vegas in October mark thirty years of the Fear Factory album. No filming, no posting.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026

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FORBIDDEN Release the First Song From Their First Album in Sixteen Years

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'Burning the Lungs of Earth' comes from a self-titled record due 23 October on BLKIIBLK, the Bay Area band's first full-length since 2010.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026

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HAVOK Share 'The Ultimate Weapon' Days Before Two Headline Tours Begin

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The Colorado thrash band put out the single through BLKIIBLK ahead of a European run this month and a 26-date North American headline tour in the autumn.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026

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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

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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

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PANTERA Play New Orleans for the First Time in Thirty Years at a Two-Day Festival in November

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The Great NOLA Trendkill runs 20 and 21 November at Lakefront Arena, with Down, Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod and Pig Destroyer on the bill.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026