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A BEHEMOTH Compilation Went to Number One in Poland, in Every Category at Once
Death Metal Black Metal
'I, Scvlptor' is not a studio album and Nergal says so himself. It still topped every OLiS sales category on release.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 17, 2026
KRALLICE Go Back to Profound Lore for Album Sixteen, Thirteen Records Later
Black Metal
'Scour Order' is streaming in full a day early, with the band back to the line-up that made the first three, and a first European headline tour behind it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MENTAL CRUELTY Build 'Frost' Out of the Three-Year Winter Before Ragnarok
Metalcore Deathcore
From 'Echoes Of A Forlorn Land', out 23 October on Century Media. Jens Bogren produced it, and the singer made the mask himself.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
KNOCKED LOOSE Recorded 'Laugh Tracks' in a Week and a Half and It Changed Everything
Metalcore
Ten years on, a 5,000-copy vinyl with a holographic cover, shipping 13 November through Pure Noise, with the rest of the catalogue repressed alongside it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
'It's Your Stage': What Dave Mustaine Tells Himself on the Stairs Every Night
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
A Q&A with Rolling Stone's Kory Grow for the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', on the farewell tour, the hand condition and two finished songs nobody has heard.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
London May Broke a Finger on Day One of the ANTHRAX Video and Asked Them to Keep Filming
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
'Cursum Perficio' arrives on 18 September, ten years after the last Anthrax album. Don Argott directed the title track's video in black and white.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ARCHETYPE X Put 'Void' Out on Doubt and Keep Walking Anyway
Death Metal Metalcore
The Barcelona band's first single since 2024, premiered by metal.de. It arrives on streaming tomorrow.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
METHANE Wrote 'Research Chemicals' About the Men Tim Scott Grew Up Around
Groove Metal
A super soldier song with the joke turned inward. 'Demolate' is out 2 October on Fireflash Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
CLAUSTROFOBIA Come Home to Brazil at Bangers Open Air, Seven Years On
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Thirty-two years, seven albums and a Rock in Rio slot, and they have not played their own country since 2019.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
EVIL INVADERS Break Four Years of Silence With 'Dreamstate'
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Their first release since 'Shattering Reflection' in 2022, and the lyric is about the rat race that produced it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
EVIL INVADERS Release 'Dreamstate' and Announce a Twenty Seven Date European Tour
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
The Belgian speed metal band's new single is out on Napalm Records, with a video by Jens De Vos and a run from Karlsruhe in February 2027 to London in March.
Robin Aalto · Sep 17, 2026
GRYMHEART Name Album Two 'Wake Not The Beast' and Open It With the Title Track
Death Metal Folk Metal
Out 20 November on Scarlet Records, produced at Blacksmith Studio by Gabor Kovacs, with a sleeve by Gyula Havancsak.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
THE DREAD CREW OF ODDWOOD Named a New Song After an Old Album and Meant It
Folk Metal
'Rust & Glory' is standalone, mixed and mastered by Anna Murphy, and is about what chasing the thing costs you.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ROSETTA Spent Six Years on 'Temporal Lapse' and Are Calling It the Last One
Sludge Metal
Seven songs built loosely on the five stages of grief, out 27 November on Pelagic. The band have put out a trailer explaining why they are stopping.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
FORBIDDEN Board 70000 Tons of Metal, Which Sails From Miami on 14 January
Thrash Metal
Scar Symmetry, Visions of Atlantis and Visceral Disgorge are announced with them. Four days to Puerto Plata and back.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
NOCTIS IMPERIUM Are Giving Away Everything 'Resistencia' Earns, Three Months After the Earthquakes
Death Metal Black Metal
All proceeds from the Bandcamp sales go to La Guaira through Los Teques Apoya, for medical supplies, food and materials.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
CRYSTAL THRONE Set Album Two in the Year 5150, With Earth Missing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
'Electrical Savior' is the second single from 'Chantry Of Sacrifice', out 2 October. The record follows the last human alive back through time to find out where the planet went.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
SAIDAN Take Their Japanese Ghost Stories to Japan in October
Black Metal
The Nashville duo have built four albums out of onryō and splatter films. Next month they play the country the imagery comes from.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026