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HAXPROCESS Set 'Endlessly Flowing Cascades of Grief' for 4 December, Their Third in Four Years
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Jacksonville band have put out a record every eighteen months since 2023. Two songs from this one are already up.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
BONJOUR TRISTESSE Name Album Five 'Disaster Triumphant', Out 20 November
Black Metal
The Munich post-black metal project's first record since 'The World Without Us' in 2024. AOP Records has it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Use Live Drums for the First Time on Album Thirteen
Avant-garde Metal
'Búcsú a piros madártól' opens 'XIII: Sárga erdő', out 20 November on Season of Mist. Tamas Katai filmed the video where the first Thy Catafalque clip was shot twenty-five years ago.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
DOMKRAFT Made 'Night Songs' Around a Guitarist's Year of Surgery
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
'Eclipse (Outlast the Night)' is the airiest thing they have written, and it comes off a record shaped by Martin Widholm's medical crisis. Out 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
FROZEN SOUL Headline Twenty-Four European Dates With Darkest Hour in Tow
Death Metal
Cologne on 27 January to Stockholm on 25 February 2027, with Denial Of Life and Dethroned on the whole run. Tickets on 18 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
LAMB OF GOD Take Two Nights of Their Own Out of the Five Finger Death Punch Tour
Metalcore Groove Metal
Budapest on 31 January and Esch-sur-Alzette on 6 February 2027, with Bleed From Within, on the gaps in a run of arenas.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
CRO-MAGS Record 'Everybody's Gonna Die' Again, Forty Years After the Demo
Thrash Metal Hardcore
The song goes on a re-recorded 'The Age of Quarrel', due 13 November through BLKIIBLK.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
NILE and CORONER Split the Bill for Thirty-One American Dates in Spring 2027
Death Metal
From Greenville on 2 March to Leesburg on 11 April, with Syn Absence opening and one more guest still unnamed.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 17, 2026
ARCHITECTS Break an Eighteen-Month Silence With 'Machine' Before the Korn Arenas
Metalcore
Written by Dan Searle and Sam Carter, produced by Searle, out on Epitaph. It is the first new song since 'The Sky, the Earth & All Between' in early 2025.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
TRIVIUM Open Album Eleven With a Riff Paolo Gregoletto Sat On for Six Years
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
'Dead Inside of Me' is the first thing anyone has heard from the follow-up to 'In the Court of the Dragon'. The album has no title and no date yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 17, 2026
Five Years On, DUNGEON SERPENT Return With 'Rainland's Elegy' and Modal Jazz
Death Metal
'Rainland's Elegy' opens 'Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms', the Vancouver project's second album and first for Profound Lore, out 30 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
Caligari Records Put Out GROTESQUERIES' EP 'Nightmare Delirium' on 30 October
Death Metal
Caligari Records has it. The Boston band's first album came in 2023, two years after the EP that started them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
REVOCATION Give 'Data Corpse' a Video, a Year After the Album It Is From
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Dave Davidson says the song is about social media companies mining private life for profit. 'New Gods, New Masters' came out on Metal Blade last September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
CRYSTAL EYES Put 'Metal Bound' Out Ahead of a Ninth Album, 'Thunder God'
Power Metal
Massacre Records releases it on 30 October. The song is about leaving a ruined Earth, and underneath that about keeping heavy metal itself.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
WRAITH Turn the First World War Into 'Descent Into Darkness', Out 13 November
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Matt Sokol teaches history by day. The Indiana band's sixth album is on Prosthetic Records and opens with a song about ignoring the signs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
END OF ABYSS Close the Run of Singles Before Their First Album
Progressive Metal
'Sound of Soul' is the third and last preview of 'Escape to a New Empire', out 23 October on Inverse Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
ENDLESS CHAIN Put Out 'Down', the Song That Set the Direction for 'Nothingness'
Gothic Metal
It was the first thing written for the album, which M-Theory Audio releases on 20 November. Ville Hovi calls it a plea to the universe.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
USURPATOR Put Their Second Album on Bandcamp Without Waiting for Anyone
Doom Metal Black Metal
'Litany of Blood and Steel' follows 'Atonement' from 2022. The Vienna band play black and doom metal and have released it themselves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026