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TERROR Put a Video to 'Erase You From My World', the Song That Opens 'Still Suffer'
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Luis Hernandez directed it. The album came out in April, and the band have been doing this in Los Angeles since 2002.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
MNRK Buy the Whole BLACK LABEL SOCIETY Catalogue, Zakk Wylde's Solo Records Included
Doom Metal Groove Metal
Eleven studio albums, the live releases and the EPs change hands. The price was not disclosed, and the label had already been distributing the band for years.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 16, 2026
ABBATH Cancel Every Remaining Show of 2026, Without Saying Why
Black Metal
The statement apologises to fans and festivals and gives no reason. Nothing has been said about 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 16, 2026
VIGIL Open Their First Album With 'Nocturnal Hunger', and Nothing Else Before It
Thrash Metal
Nine songs and about forty minutes of thrash from Richmond, Virginia, out on 30 October through Shadow Kingdom Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
DUMAL Found a Darker Record by Removing the Keyboards From It
Black Metal
The Pennsylvania trio's third album, 'The Trials of Existence', arrives on 2 October through Alte Seelen, with the melodies carried by guitars alone.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
BAEST Put Out a Video for 'In Loathe and Love' as Their European Tour Opens
Death Metal
The Danish band keep working 'Colossal', their fourth album, through a headline run of Europe and the United Kingdom that starts in Rostock on 19 September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
KONVENT Put Black Metal Into the Death Doom on 'Firesky', Out 6 November
Death Metal Doom Metal
Five songs, longer than anything the Danish four piece have written before, on Napalm Records. The opening track is out with the announcement.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
AFTER INFINITY Take the Guitars and Drums Out of 'Whisper in the Air'
Power Metal
The Finnish band's new single is piano, orchestra and voice, with Mika Tauriainen of Entwine singing his first release in over a decade. 'Beyond Eternity' follows on 23 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 16, 2026
AETHER REALM Set 'Season of Bloodshed' for 11 December and Call It an Album Made of Anger
Death Metal Folk Metal
The North Carolina band open it with 'The Blood Is Calling' and an animated video. Napalm Records has the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
200 STAB WOUNDS Set 'Lowest Form' for 19 February on Metal Blade
Death Metal
The Cleveland death metal band open the campaign with 'Pangs of Conscience' and say they worked harder on this than on anything else in their lives.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
BARREN Call It Chainsaw Grind, and 'Blades' Is the Second Piece of 'Verderf'
Death Metal Grindcore
The Belgian trio's new single argues that war is not a deviation from human nature but the whole of it. Matías Dupont says so in as many words.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
FUNERAL WITCHERY Follow Four Singles With a First Album, 'Beyond the Light'
Black Metal
Black metal from Tucson, Arizona, with a creed printed on the front of it: death will take you, hell will keep you.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
EMBERTEARS Tell the Fall of the Aztec Empire From Both Sides, Out 20 November
Progressive Metal Stoner Metal
The Hungarian solo project's third album runs nine songs of sludge, progressive metal and stoner rock, and opens with a video for 'In the Eye of the Hurricane'. Bitume Prods has it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
URARV Open 'Nychta Psychis' With a Song About Not Mistaking the Sign for the Place
Black Metal
The first single from the Norwegian avant-garde black metal band's third album keeps the foundation and refuses the usual routes off it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put Their Two Zeke Covers Out Digitally, After the Flexi Disc
Speed Metal Black Metal
'Let's Get Drugs' and 'Mainline' first appeared on a Decibel flexi earlier this year. James McBain explains the debt plainly enough.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
ION VEIN Re-Record Three Songs Whose Master Tapes Vanished, and Reissue 'Beyond Tomorrow'
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Three missing masters brought the Chicago band back together. The anniversary edition lands on 20 November through Majesphere, in 250 copies on vinyl, with unreleased live material from 1999.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 15, 2026
SERIOUS BLACK Put 'Party in the Sun' Forward as Germany's Eurovision Entry
Power Metal
The power metal band have submitted the single for the 2027 contest. Mario Lochert says the song is about the worldwide metal family, which is a phrase nobody has previously tried on that stage.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026
GODFLESH Open 'Decay' With 'Master and Slave', and Justin Broadrick Says the End Is Deliberate
Industrial Metal
The album is out on 25 September through Relapse and is the second to last the band will make. He finished the vocals before hernia surgery took the screaming away from him.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 15, 2026