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ELDER Stop the Tour While Their Bassist Is in Hospital With Pneumonia
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Jack Donovan kept playing while ill and was admitted in Portland last week. The band say the rest of the run is postponed for as long as his treatment lasts.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 28, 2026
KORN's Blind Turns Up in a Homeland Security Video, and the Band Say Nothing
Nu Metal
It is the second time in under a year that an early Korn song has soundtracked a United States government post, and the second time the band have not commented.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 28, 2026
GWAR Say Chuck Varga Was There Before There Was Anything to Be There For
Heavy Metal
The band's statement on the death of their co-founder credits him with the costumes, the illustrations and much of what the band became. He died a few days ago after a battle with cancer.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 28, 2026
Chewy Mongrain Writes VOIVOD's Next Album Around a Teaching Timetable
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Three tracks are recorded and about eight are in progress. The rest waits for the band's October run through the United States, and for the guitarist's college term.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 27, 2026
MISERY INDEX Have Twelve Songs and Will Cut Some of Them
Death Metal Grindcore
The eighth album arrives in 2027 through Season of Mist. Vocals are being tracked now, guitars separately, and the band say not everything written will make it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
ARCH ENEMY Hand Nemesis to Their Third Singer and Film the Result
Death Metal
The 2005 song comes back as a live video shot on this summer's European run, with Lauren Hart singing what Angela Gossow first recorded.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
KATATONIA Lose a Guitarist to a Visa Office for the Second Time This Year
Death Metal Doom Metal
Nico Elgstrand misses the China and Japan shows over visa problems and rejoins the band in New Zealand. In February the same thing kept him off the North American tour.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
ANTHRAX Fill Their Night Off From Iron Maiden With a Club Show
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The band played the Roxy in West Hollywood on Saturday, between the two nights supporting Iron Maiden at the BMO Stadium in Los Angeles.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
TURMION KÄTILÖT Reach Their Twelfth Album With a Month to Spare
Industrial Metal
Amon-Ra is the third single from Resodance, out 23 October on Nuclear Blast. Toni Hiltunen directed the video.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 27, 2026
WOLFBRIGADE Show a Second Song From Howl From Underground
Punk Metal Hardcore
Doomrunner arrives as an official video directed, filmed and edited by Jacob Frossen, the second thing heard from the Swedish band's coming album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
I HELVETE Set Halla for 6 November and Put Two Songs Up First
Death Metal Black Metal
The third album from the Seinajoki band arrives in November, with two tracks already streaming ahead of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
STRATOVARIUS Reissue Infinite on Vinyl and Refuse to Remaster It
Power Metal
The 2000 album returns on 2 October as a gold vinyl double, with the original master untouched. A live video of Hunting High And Low from Tampere in 2011 arrives with it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
BRUJERIA Take Gira Revolucion Through Sixteen European Cities in March
Death Metal Grindcore
The headline run opens in Copenhagen on 4 March 2027 and ends in Athens on 21 March, with Criminal in support throughout.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 27, 2026
LUMSK Build Einsemda Out of a Poet Who Died at Thirty Five
Folk Metal
Haust pa Torget is the second single from an album set to selected poems by Tor Jonsson. Einsemda arrives on 30 October through Karisma Records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
KAT Open Death Is Not Enough With Waging War and Hold the Video Back a Week
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The first single from the Polish band's new album is out now. The album lands on 23 October through Logosound, and the video for the song premieres on 2 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
VINGULMORK Put a Declaration of War Out From Their New Album
Thrash Metal
Krigserklaering arrives as a lyric video from Barmhjertighetens Fallitt, the Oslo band's new full-length, out earlier this month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
MESSIER 16 Keep Mollusk Herald Short and Let the Album Do the Sprawling
Death Metal Black Metal
The single from Shouts from the Cliffs of Heterodoxy is the compact one. The Oslo band's third album arrives on 23 October through Time To Kill Records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
LAMENTARI Build a Song Around a Man Robbed of His Eyes After Burial
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
OCULI LAPIDIS is the last single before ANTE AURORAM, out on 13 November. Daniel Lonberg says it began with the idea of hatred that does not stop at death.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026