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FORBIDDEN Tune Single Point Failure Back to Twisted Into Form
Thrash Metal
The second video from the self titled album puts the guitars back in standard E and builds a thrash song around an electromagnetic pulse.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
TOWARDS HELLFIRE Finish a Third Album for Early 2027
Death Metal Black Metal
Four years old, two albums out, and the Poznan band have already tracked a third with nothing but a season attached to it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
VOIDHANGER Put a Live Dyskretny Urok Upadku Online
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Polish trio's live footage from this year arrives between records, with nothing announced behind it and nothing needed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
YOTH IRIA Film Dare to Rebel and Line Up a March Run With THULCANDRA
Black Metal
The Greek band put a video to the opening song from Gone With The Devil and announce European dates in March with Thulcandra and Vorga.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
FINAL GASP Keep Aftermath Off New Day Symptoms and Put It on Floppy Vinyl
Gothic Metal
The Boston band's leftover from this year's album session goes out as a flexi disc with the November issue of Decibel and nowhere else.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
VOYAGER Follow Seen Better Days With a Single Called Secret
Progressive Metal
The Perth band's second standalone song in two years arrives with a video, and still no album has been named behind it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
COAL CHAMBER Lose Mikey Cox to a Shattered Femur Before the Halloween Show
Nu Metal
The drummer broke the bone in a pickup basketball game, needed surgery and three pins, and will not walk for six weeks after a year of chemo.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
ARMORED SAINT Looked for a Singer After John Bush Left, Then Stopped Looking
Heavy Metal
Phil Sandoval tells Eonmusic the band thought about replacing Bush in 1992 and dropped the idea almost as soon as they had it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
DYNAZTY Sign to Napalm Records and Date Dark Arts for March
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Swedish band's tenth album arrives on 5 March with twelve songs, a new label behind it and a support tour with Accept already booked.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 27, 2026
SAXON Give Medusa a Greek Myth and Hand the UK Leg to ARMORED SAINT
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second song off Gods Of Thunder arrives with a Peter Sallai sleeve, and the album's British dates now have a Los Angeles support act.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST Take the Saturday as Tuska 2027 Splits Its Days
Heavy Metal
Fourteen names were added and the three days now have headliners: Children Of Bodom, Judas Priest and Lorna Shore, one each.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
URISK Lead Call With The Hauled and the Waif
Black Metal
The first song from the second album, out since 2 October on Vendetta, from a Bonn duo writing about Scotland losing its wild.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Film Fields of Pain and Call It a Metaphor
Heavy Metal
The song comes off Steelmachine, and Jack the Riffer explains that the war imagery is about something closer to home.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
FORESHADOW Lead With a Song Written in the Late Eighties
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
This Harvest That You've Sown comes off Here Down On Earth, the 1991 demo recorded properly at last, and the words have not dated.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
ISKALD Put the Whole of Curse of the Mind Up in One Piece
Thrash Metal Black Metal
The sixth album and first concept record is streaming complete, four chapters of a descent into Helheim, out since 25 September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
HAXPROCESS Put Condemnation of Eternal Misery Out Through Transcending Obscurity
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The song comes off Endlessly Flowing Cascades of Grief, the third album from a band six years old and already on its third label home.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
EXTERMINATION DAY Date Forty Miles of Bad Road and Send Out Fill the Swamp
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The album lands on 27 November through Argonauta, and the second song off it is aimed squarely at a sitting cabinet member.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
SAFFIRE Date a Fifth Album for February and Change Label
Heavy Metal
Last Man Down arrives on 19 February through Pride and Joy Music, recorded and mixed by the band's own guitarist.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026