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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
TEMPLE OF VOID and Outer Heaven Share a Split on Relapse, Out 16 October
Death Metal Doom Metal
Two American bands, one record, and a label that has been putting out this kind of thing since before either of them existed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
A Year Without Tomas Lindberg, and AT THE GATES Say They Are Still Learning How
Death Metal
He died on 16 September 2025 at 52, of adenoid cystic carcinoma. The band's message on the anniversary does not try to make anything of it.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 16, 2026
MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE Put 'Rey Chivo' Out on Its Own, Between Records
Death Metal
The Guadalajara death metal band's single is not from an album. Agustín Preciado describes it as a case file: a child, a night, and the thing they named the Goat King.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
DEAFHEAVEN and Bosse-de-Nage Remix Their 2012 Split and Put It Out Again
Black Metal
The Flenser reissues it on 27 November, with Jack Shirley remixing the Deafheaven side and Richard Chowenhill of Agriculture the other.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set 'Faces of Pain' for 15 January, Their Twenty Fourth Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment has it. Chris Boltendahl calls it the next furious chapter, which after forty six years is a claim the band have earned the right to keep making.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
ANA Put Out 'Following the Wind', the Second Chapter of a Film They Started Earlier
Symphonic Metal
The Melbourne symphonic metal band's video continues from their documentary 'Watch Me As I Rise'. The album 'Motivated by Death' is on Eclipse Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
W.A.S.P. Open Their North American Tour With Songs They Have Never Played Live
Heavy Metal
'1984 To Headless' began in Austin with 'Easy Living', 'Mephisto Waltz' and a song from Sister, the band before the band, none of which had been performed before this year.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 16, 2026
IGNEA Bring In Combichrist for 'Prefab', a Song About Socialist Housing Blocks
Symphonic Metal
Andy LaPlegua sings on the second piece of 'Monumental', which Napalm Records releases on 23 October. Helle Bohdanova explains the title as the darker half of nostalgia.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
Kai HANSEN Makes a Second Solo Record, Ten Years After the First
Power Metal
The project he started in 2016 as a one off is active again, on earMUSIC, with the album he has been promising since XXX.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
Dani Filth Puts Fifty Years Into a Book, Out in June 2027
Death Metal Black Metal
'The Filth: My Life In Devilry And Debauchery' is written with Joel McIver and runs from a childhood in Suffolk through Never Mind The Buzzcocks and Viva La Bam.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 16, 2026
Marcus Andersson of DISFEAR Has Died After Four Years With Glioblastoma
Hardcore
He had played drums in the Stockholm band since 1998. The statement names the two friends they had already lost and ends by telling everyone to hug the people they have.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 16, 2026
XION Take 'Burned Onto You' Off 'When Stars Collide' and Give It a Video
Thrash Metal
The Swedish band's second album came out on Fireflash Records earlier this month. Robin Björk describes the writing of it as a long haul.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
HELLCOWBOYS Sign to Octopus Rising and Open With 'Ghiaccio'
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Roman four piece move to the Argonauta imprint and call the single the first chapter of a new beginning. Two albums and a single sit behind it.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
PROPHECY Premiere 'Devastated by Mankind', Thirty Five Years Into the Band
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
The Fort Worth brutal death metal five piece started in Shreveport in 1991 and put out their first album in 1998. The new video is the first thing anyone has heard from them in a while.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026