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DEATHWARDS Take Their Debut Album Through Dante's Circles
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Sore Weight Of Repentance is the second song out from Realms of Sin, which arrives on 30 October through Sepulchral Voice Records, nine years after the Chilean band formed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
NOCTURNIS Ask Whether the Last Refuge Still Shelters Anyone
Black Metal
Der Letzte Hort is the second single from Drangsal, an album about witch persecution that arrives on 6 November through Fetzner Death Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
OBBROBRIUS Open Usurped With a Song That Never Bothers With a Chorus
Death Metal
Leviathan's Cage is the first track of the Italian band's second album, out on 6 November through Over The Border Records, and it runs on riffs and two solos instead.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 27, 2026
ETERNAL Put Three Years of Singles Behind Them and Release the Album Tomorrow
Thrash Metal
Conspiracy of Warheads, the Athens band's debut full-length, arrives on 28 September through Floga Records, with a song on it called Theater of Thrash in case anyone was unsure.
Robin Aalto · Sep 27, 2026
HAGEL Hand the Microphone Over and Let Their Guitarist Stop Singing
Doom Metal Black Metal
Iveth Herrera joined in 2024 and takes lead vocals on The Veil of Shadows, a five track mini-album out on 6 November through Personal Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
TANK Release the Song They Left Off This Means War in 1983
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Man Who Never Was went out as a b-side instead of onto the album. Cleopatra put the album back in the shops on 23 October with the song and its demo among the bonus tracks.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
Shane Embury Puts the Seventeenth NAPALM DEATH Album at the End of 2027
Death Metal Grindcore
The bassist told Pod Scum the songs exist as bare bones, recorded with guitars and bass first, and that touring will keep the record from arriving sooner.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
Cameron Webb Goes Back to the Orgasmatron Stems Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album gets an anniversary edition with a new remix built from the original stems, alongside a half speed remaster of the record as it was. The title track has a lyric video.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
GARGANT Put a Warrior in the Bonus Track and the Bonus Track on Both Records
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Dead Night Defiance reaches CD and limited coloured vinyl through Fireflash Records, and Burning Crusader, the extra song on both, arrives with a video.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Board 70000 Tons of Metal for January 2027
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Connecticut band are among the thirty acts announced so far for the cruise, which sails from Miami to the Dominican Republic and back from 14 to 18 January 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 26, 2026
WOLF Put a Second Song From Hour of the Wolf Out With a Video
Heavy Metal
Waltz Post-Mortem arrives with a clip directed by Daniel Wahlstrom, the second thing heard from the Swedish band's tenth album.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
VICTIMS OF CONTAGION Take Seven Years Over Egregore and Hand a Solo to Chris Poland
Death Metal
The Pittsburgh band's second album follows Lamentations of the Flesh Bound from 2019, and the former Megadeth guitarist plays on Forced March.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
Chuck Varga, The Sexecutioner in GWAR for Thirty Seven Years, Has Died
Heavy Metal
A founding member of the band, he played the character from 1985 until 2022 and died after a battle with cancer. Casey Orr announced it on Friday night.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
FUTURE PALACE Start the Deep Blue Tour Without Their Drummer
Metalcore
Johannes Fruchtenicht will miss at least the first six dates for family reasons and Silas Fischer of Annisokay takes the stool. The tour opens in Warsaw on 29 September.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 26, 2026
ASENBLUT Move Fourteen Places Up the German Chart in Two Years
Thrash Metal Black Metal
Urgewalt entered the Official German Album Charts at number 11, against number 25 for Entfesselt in 2024. It is the band's best result at home in twenty years.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 26, 2026
MUNICIPAL WASTE's Whole Bloodstock Set Goes Up, Sixteen Songs and No Gaps
Thrash Metal Crossover
The festival has released pro shot video of the band's Friday afternoon on the Ronnie James Dio Stage, played on 7 August at Bloodstock's twenty fifth anniversary.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Sets the Film of The Moth's First Performance for 6 November
Progressive Metal
Lexin is out as a clip from the Groningen concert of March 2025, and the whole night arrives on live CD and Blu-ray on 6 November.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
EPICA Give The Skeleton Key to an Orchestra and a Choir
Symphonic Metal
The song comes from The Symphonic Synergy, recorded at AFAS Live in Amsterdam on 20 September 2024 with a full orchestra and choir behind the band.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026