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E-L-R Wrote 'Oaken Reaper' Between a Farewell and a Beginning and Say So
Doom Metal Post-Metal
The next song from 'Atropa', out 6 November. Six tracks from the Bernese duo.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
MAMA DOOM Dropped the Visuals for 'Picked Clean' and Left Only the Words
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The last single before 'Eminent Womb', out 25 September on Argonauta Records. A lyric video, on purpose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Frankie Palmeri Says He Lost His Pass for Trying to Talk to Glenn DANZIG
Heavy Metal
He was watching Pantera from the side of the stage at Louder Than Life when, by his account, Danzig's security removed him.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
HOLLOW FRONT Wrote 'So Long To Yesterday' Months After Dakota Alvarez's Stroke, Not Knowing If He Would Come Back
Metalcore
He did, a year later, and finished it with them. It is the first song out of the sessions, and the band chose it deliberately.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
SABATON Recut 'Templars' With Leigh Kakaty and Tried It on Louder Than Life First
Power Metal
The new version is out through Better Noise Music, a day after the two of them played it in front of the festival without warning.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Plèvre Put Out a First Album Called 'Cité mouroir' and Do Not Explain the Title
Black Metal
Out today on Frozen Records, with two songs up on Bandcamp. Post-black metal from Paris.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
DEATHCULT Put Out 'Eat Broken Glass' Ahead of 'Cult Of The Dog' on 2 October
Black Metal
The second song from the Bergen band's new album, on Soulseller Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
NORTHER Come Back After Fifteen Years, With the Line-Up From the Records That Mattered
Power Metal Death Metal
Petri Lindroos, Kristian Ranta, Jukka Koskinen, Tuomas Planman and Heikki Saari. Wacken and Brutal Assault next summer, and new music is already being written.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 18, 2026
Mark Kelson on 'Harmony Breaks': the Point Where the Balance You Were Holding Gives Way
Gothic Metal
'Obscured Horizons' is out now through Reigning Phoenix Music, with a video for the song at its centre.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
OPERA IX Take Thirty-Eight Years of Italian Black Metal to South America
Death Metal Doom Metal
A run of headline dates in November, the band's first announced trip to the region in years.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 18, 2026
U.D.O. Name Album Twenty 'Voodoo Ranger' and Open It With 'I'll Die Trying'
Heavy Metal
Out 8 January 2027 through Reigning Phoenix Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
NASTY Fill 'Trauma' With Guests and Put 'Warrior' Out Third
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The album lands 23 October on Triple B Records, with members of LANDMVRKS and Eternal Enemy on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
EXTOL Are Making a Record Again Thirteen Years After the Last One
Thrash Metal Death Metal
'Disintegrate' is the second song from 'Aura Of Decay', out 6 November on Solid State Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
Al Jourgensen Says the Seventeenth MINISTRY Album Is the Last One, and This Time He Sounds Sure
Industrial Metal
'Singularity' is the third song from 'Hate To Go - Take Out Or Delivery', out 30 October on Cleopatra Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
BREAKDOWN OF SANITY Are Making an Album Again, Ten Years After the Last One
Metalcore
'Reveries' arrives 6 November through Blood Blast Distribution. 'Hibernate' is the third song out of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
GRIN Start a Run of Singles With 'Fuller' and Put Killing Joke Into the Second One
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
The Berlin duo will release songs one at a time until an album lands in January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
ESHTADUR Put Out Two Songs at Once and Build the Album Around an Emperor Nobody Can Name
Death Metal Black Metal
'August's Burdens' and 'Omen Of Millennia' come off 'In Darkness All Shadows Gone', out 2 October on Rockshots Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
THE OCEAN Bring Tangerine Dream Onto 'Milk of My Dreams', a Week Before 'Solaris'
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth single from the album, out 25 September through Pelagic Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026