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A SKYLIT DRIVE Sign to Vaux Records and Open the Next Album With 'Half Hearted'
Metalcore
The label is Craig Ericson's, the man who founded Rise Records. 'Ashes' is being recorded with Ryan Furlott and Joey Sturgis and is due early in 2027.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 19, 2026
HYPNO5E Set 'Trame Noire' for 6 November and Put Out Two Films at Once
Progressive Metal
'Lost Fires' and 'Molecular Angel' come with the announcement. Pelagic Records has the album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
'The Age Of Hell' Has Been Out of Print for Five Years and Comes Back on 30 November
Metalcore Nu Metal
Three editions, all strictly limited, and a box set holding eight unreleased instrumental demos the band have kept since.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
COMEBACK KID Are Playing Minneapolis on 6 November for Matt Keil's Family
Hardcore
He played bass for them from 2008 to 2014 and died last summer after living with ALS. Every cent from the night goes to his family.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 19, 2026
'Ashen Existence' Gets a Vinyl Pressing Thirty-Four Years Late, and ENTROPY Are Half Way Through a Fifth Album
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Dan Lauzon marked the anniversary by announcing both. The record came out in 1992, against grunge and the Black Album, and did not care.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
EPITAPHE Put 'III' Out and Refuse to Walk Away From What Made 'II' Work
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French band's third album arrived on 11 September through Aesthetic Death on CD and vinyl and Gurgling Gore on tape.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
BEES MADE HONEY IN THE VEIN TREE Wrote 'Clutching at Straws' Out of a Block, and It Is Not the Marillion One
Doom Metal Post-Metal
The lead single from 'In Between Strides', their fourth album, out 18 September through Magnetic Eye Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
SARCATOR Call 'In Search Of Oblivion' the Power Ballad on an Album That Does Not Have Any
Thrash Metal
The second song from 'The Ones We Follow', out 30 October on Reigning Phoenix Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 19, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put 'Dark Sister' Out and Open It Up With 'Spellbound Machine'
Heavy Metal
The Los Angeles band's second album, produced by Max Morton, is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
MESSA Put Out 'Reveal' From Freak Valley Before Twenty European Dates
Doom Metal
The song is from 'The Spin', out last year on Metal Blade. The tour runs from Marseille on 27 October to Trezzo sull'Adda on 21 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
SOMN Give 'Consecration' Four Songs and Thirty-Six Minutes, and No Way Out of Them
Black Metal
'The Loyal Hand' opens the Saint Petersburg band's second album, out 20 November on AOP Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
MØRKGRIM Started in 1994 and Are Only Now Releasing a First Album, Written on a Farm With No Running Water
Black Metal
'Sǫgur frá Norðfirði' is out 2 October on Soulseller Records. Hrafngrímnir wrote and recorded it where he still lives, without municipal water or a flushing toilet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DORO Puts Out 'Wild At Heart' Before the Winter Tour, With Alissa White-Gluz on 'Touch Of Evil'
Heavy Metal
Nine tracks on her own Rare Diamonds Productions, and the Magic Winter tour opens on 11 December.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Visas Take MOONSPELL Off the CRADLE OF FILTH Tour, and Blackbraid Take the Slot
Gothic Metal
'Majestic In Death II' marks thirty years of 'Dusk... And Her Embrace'. Worm and Black Satellite open.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 18, 2026
DEATH DEALER UNION Put Out 'Spellbound Machine', Filmed Five Days Before It Appeared
Heavy Metal
The Los Angeles four piece's new single arrived on their own channel on 18 September, five days after the video was shot. It follows 'Dark Sister', the album they released this year.
Robin Aalto · Sep 18, 2026
DEVIL'S HOUR Put the First Song From 'Hellbound & Hammered' Out and Do Not Clean It Up
Punk Metal
'Forging The Steel' is the first single from the second album, on The Crawling Chaos Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
VREDENSDAL Was Over, and Then the Goblin Reaper Went Back to the 2023 Tapes
Black Metal
'Consortium of Fools' comes off 'Mystery & Power', out in October, made of music he recorded before he ended the project.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
NIGHT LASER Wrote '19CR490' as a Middle Finger to People Who Traded Their Humanity for Power
Heavy Metal
From 'Rats In The Cradle', out 25 September on Steamhammer. The Hamburg band tour with Axel Rudi Pell after it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026