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CRITICAL DEFIANCE Take Four Songs on a Split With DET, Out 23 October
Thrash Metal
'Kill Off' is the first of their side. Dying Victims Productions has 'Bloodsurge'.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
AMTHRŸA Set 'Onnen' for 11 October and Write Half of It in Japanese
Black Metal
Album four for the Italian and Swiss black metal band, on Ad Noctem Records. Nine tracks, and the titles do not stay in one language.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Jay Jay French on Replacing Dee Snider: 'Nobody Is Irreplaceable Anywhere'
Heavy Metal
Sebastian Bach is fronting Twisted Sister this autumn after Snider resigned over health, and the guitarist has an answer ready for everyone who says it cannot be done.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
Tuomas Holopainen Says the Blame for 2005 Is Fair and the Reunion Is Not Happening
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
'It was a divorce, and an ugly one at that.' Twenty-one years on, he accepts how the open letter looked and still rules out bringing Tarja Turunen back.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
RISE OF THE NORTHSTAR Put Out 'NERV(E)', Eighteen Months After Album Four
Metalcore
The Paris band's first new song since 'Chapter 04 : Red Falcon Super Battle ! Neo Paris War !!', with a video by Pavel Trebukhin.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ELUVEITIE Take Twenty-Five Years Across North America in February and March
Death Metal Folk Metal
The full routing is out, with Illumishade and Nini Music supporting the whole run.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
PAIN OF TRUTH Book Seventeen European Dates for the Album That Is Not Out Yet
Thrash Metal Crossover
Antwerp on 2 February to London on 20 February 2027, with Big Boy and Headbussa throughout and Impunity on the British nights.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
Burton C. Bell Has Not Heard 'Roboticist' and Says He Is Not Going To
Death Metal Industrial Metal
Asked about Fear Factory's first song with Milo Silvestro, the man who sang on every album until 2021 gave the shortest possible answer.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
M72 Reaches Its Hundredth Show and Keeps Going: Twelve More American Stadiums in 2027
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Vancouver on 8 May to Salt Lake City on 19 June, with Limp Bizkit and Avatar back on the bill. Tickets 25 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
The Last BLACK SABBATH Show Reaches Cinemas on 28 October, Filmed Seventeen Days Before OZZY OSBOURNE Died
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Villa Park, 5 July last year: a solo set, then the four original members on a stage together for the first time in more than twenty years. Tickets go on sale 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 17, 2026
PEELINGFLESH Fill Their Self-Titled Album With Guests and Open It With 'Murderous Intent'
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
Out 27 November on Unique Leader. Mychal Soto produced, mixed and mastered it himself; Dave Otero engineered.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ASCHEN Filmed 'Azken Arbolak' Among the Last Trees It Is About
Black Metal
Two videos at once from the Pamplona band's first album, one an ecological manifesto shot in the forests of Navarre, the other a Passion story about truth being stripped of meaning.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Desertfest London Opens 2027 With the MELVINS on Top and Two Twentieth Birthdays
Sludge Metal
Camden Town, 21 to 23 May. Monolord, Mantar, Inter Arma, Dopethrone and Year of the Cobra are on the first announcement.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
VALHALORE Release a Live Take of 'The Storm' and Say It Beats the Studio One
Folk Metal
Recorded on last year's Australian headline tour. It is the first live recording the Brisbane band have put out as a single.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
ÜBERCHRIIST Take Ten Tracks and Thirty-Eight Minutes Straight Down
Black Metal
'Dæmonic Apotheosis' is out on 25 September through Deanwell Global Music, five years after the first EP. The second single lands a week before it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
VESSELES Are Re-Recording 'Home' So Valira Nyvran Can Sing It Themselves
Black Metal
'Eternally Within Us (Reclaimed)' is the first piece of it. The album follows on 26 March 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
WITCH RIPPER Put Out Their KEXP Session the Day Before the Tour Starts
Stoner Metal Sludge Metal
Four songs filmed at KEXP Studios in Seattle on 23 July: The Portal, Echoes and Dust, The Clock Queen, The Spiral Eye.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
MIDNIGHT Make Their First Live Album Out of Two Sold-Out Nights in Hollywood
Speed Metal Black Metal
'Satanic Attack Live!' takes 'Satanic Royalty' in album order plus five more, from the Knucklehead shows on 28 and 29 May. Out 6 November on Metal Blade.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026