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HULDER Cut the '...And We Shall Sing' Video From Their Own European Tour Footage
Black Metal
From 'Verbolgen', out now on 20 Buck Spin and Season of Mist. Everything in the clip was filmed on the road this year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
MASTER Set 'Among The Seeds Of Death' for 16 October and Put the Title Track Out
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The second song from the album, on Hammerheart Records. Nine tracks, and the titles are as blunt as they have been since 1983.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
THE BLEEDING Close 'Godless Communion' With a Cannibal Corpse Cover, Out Today
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Album two for the London death and thrash band, on Redefining Darkness Records, and most of it is already streaming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
GRAYSCALE SEASON Name the Second Single After a Japanese Word for Helpless Frustration
Metalcore
'Yarusenai' comes off 'The Weight of Things We Cannot Touch', out 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU Have an Album Again, and a Tour for a Record That Turns Twenty
Metalcore
'Glow In The Dark Skin' comes off 'Howls From The Holographic Heart', out 16 October on Equal Vision, their first since 2019.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 18, 2026
HANGING GARDEN Release Dream Death Through Transcending Obscurity on 18 September
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The New York progressive death metal project, not the Finnish band of the same name, release their second album on Friday, written, played, mixed and mastered by one person.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
BLACKMENT Release Pandemonium Portrait Through Inverse Records on 18 September
Heavy Metal
The Finnish melodic metal band's second album was moved from June to give its last five songs more time, and is out on Friday.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
KRALLICE Return to Profound Lore With Scour Order, Out 18 September
Black Metal
Written for Roadburn and premiered there, the new Krallice album is out on Friday through the label that released the band's first three records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ANTHRAX Release Cursum Perficio on Friday, Their First Album in Ten Years
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The twelfth Anthrax album arrives on 18 September, a decade after For All Kings, made by the same five players and carrying a Latin title the band say is not necessarily a farewell.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MANNTRA Ask Whether the Watcher Simply Got Tired of Watching
Folk Metal
'Wild Hunt' arrives on 25 December through Napalm Records, with 'Watcher Watcher' out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
CAGE FIGHT Started as a Bedroom Project and Are Headlining Ten Nights in November
Metalcore Hardcore
Birmingham on 1 November to Lille on the 15th, behind 'Exuvia'. BRAT, Negative Frame, Soul Splitter and Kabbel take turns on the bill.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
FATE UNBURIED Wrote Twelve Tracks on a Relationship Falling Apart and Gave It No Ending
Death Metal Groove Metal
'Expecting Nothing' comes off 'Neraspeme', out 16 October on Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Douglas Vetter II Wrote 'Snake Oil' About His Own Family and a Friend He Could Not Help
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The second single from 'Witness to a Dying World', out 23 October, and the first song the Absolute Darkness guitarist has written end to end.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
BESOTTEN Spent Years on a Five-Track Album and Two of Them Run Past Ten Minutes
Death Metal Doom Metal
'Cruentation' is the shortest way into 'Eye of the Monolithicrypt', out 6 November on Transcending Obscurity.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MASTIC SCUM Set 'VOID' for 29 October and Say It Widens Rather Than Replaces
Grindcore Brutal Death Metal
Eleven tracks, the seventh album, on MDD Records. The cover is out; the tracklist and the first single are not.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
SUFFERING QUOTA Built an Album Out of the Boulder Rolling Back Down
Grindcore
Twelve tracks on depression and the quiet despair of routine, streaming in full before 18 September. 7 Degrees and Tartarus have it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
NECROCENE Named the Next Geological Age After What Ate the Last One
Death Metal
'Scumocracy', the Tuscan band's first album, is streaming in full before its release on 18 September through Personal Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
SINISTER Make Album Fifteen With Three People and No Ornament
Death Metal
'Lucid Nightmares' is out 13 November on Massacre Records. Walter Jurgen Tjwa plays both guitar and bass on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026