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UNDEROATH Close Their Warped Tour Run in Mexico City and Put Out One Last Video From Long Beach

Metalcore Hardcore

'Damn Excuses' comes off 'Voyeurist' and back into the set because, Chris Dudley says, they want to get gnar.

Lars Hendriks · Sep 19, 2026

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Clown Says the Masks Were Not Ready, So SLIPKNOT Kept Themselves Out of Their Own Video

Nu Metal

A five minute film about the 'Arsenal' shoot has Shawn Crahan explaining an absence people had already noticed.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026

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Matt Camacho Will Miss His First FORBIDDEN Tour Since 1987 and Chris Kontos Sits Out With Him

Thrash Metal

Avery Thurman and Eli Lucas take the fall run with Heathen and Void, starting 23 October in Las Vegas.

Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026

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MINISTRY Put Out Another Song From the Album They Are Calling the Last One

Industrial Metal

'Singularity' arrives as a video, from 'Hate To Go - Take Out Or Delivery'.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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SABATON Gave Templars to a Pop Evil Singer on a Festival Stage and Then Released It

Power Metal

Leigh Kakaty sang the new version at Louder Than Life a day before it went up on Better Noise Music.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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MENTAL CRUELTY Name a Song After the Winter That Comes Before the End of the World

Metalcore Deathcore

'Frost' is out ahead of 'Echoes of a Forlorn Land', due 23 October through Century Media.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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HULDER Cut Six Weeks of European Stages Into One Video and Left the Story Out

Black Metal

'…And We Shall Sing' is the fifth song on 'Verbolgen' and the clip is nothing but the tour.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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DUNGEON SERPENT Needed Five Years for a Second Album and Damian Herring Mixed It

Death Metal

'Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms' lands on 30 October through Profound Lore.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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THY LEGACY Put Eight Songs on Their Debut and Two of Them Are Under Two Minutes

Heavy Metal

'The Call' came out on 11 September through Nameless Grave Records, thirty-two minutes of heavy metal from Crete.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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VELNIAS Have Taken Six Years Over a Fourth Album and Greg Chandler Mastered It

Doom Metal Folk Metal

'Substrate Haruspex' is out on 30 October through Eisenwald, with 'Corporeal Anathema' online first.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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CARNAL DESECRATION Set 'Ancient Malediction' for 15 October, Their Second in Four Years

Death Metal Black Metal

'The Casket Born' is online now. Thrash Records have the album.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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VULGAR MEPHITIS Open and Close Their First Album With the Same Dust

Brutal Death Metal

'From Dust' came out last week on Willowtip Records. Eight tracks, the first and the seventh being the two halves of one line.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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SUNDOWNER Call the Third Album 'Cesspool' and Name the Songs to Match

Stoner Metal Sludge Metal

Out 15 October on Disdain Records. Ten tracks, and the titles do not soften anything.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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ORBITA Put Four Songs on Their First Album and One of Them Runs Fourteen Minutes

Doom Metal Stoner Metal

'Nèkyia' is streaming from 'Farewell to All We've Lost', out 9 October through Aural Music.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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FVNERAL FVKK Reach 'The Beast of Speyer', and the Album Is Called 'Indecent Idols'

Doom Metal

Out 23 October on Dying Victims Productions. Seven tracks, opening on a confession and closing on a possession.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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SERVANT Put Out 'De Profundis' and Open the Album With the Night Itself

Black Metal

'Lux Ex Inferis' arrives 2 October on AOP Records. Nine tracks, from In Noctem to Hypnos I See You.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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OBSIDIAN CHURCH Get 'Stonebound' Pressed Seven Months After Putting It Out

Doom Metal

The Palermo band's first album arrives on vinyl and CD on 30 November through Dying Victims Productions.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026

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IN OBSCURITY REVEALED Name Eight Songs After the Same Thing Going Wrong

Death Metal

'Consecrated by Rot' is streaming from 'Caustic Maelstrom', out 9 October on Personal Records.

Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026