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THROUGH THEIR EYES Bring In A Winter's Remorse for 'And Forth Stepped the Apparatus'
Brutal Death Metal Deathcore
The Essen three piece put out a single with Dalton Evans singing on it, their third release in four years and the first since 'Brad Pitstop' earlier this year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
AS I LAY DYING Put Their Own Name on Album Nine, Due 5 February
Metalcore
Ten songs on Napalm Records, produced by Tim Lambesis and Chris Clancy and mastered by Ted Jensen, with 'Polarized' and 'Retribution' arriving tomorrow. The first full record from the line-up rebuilt after 2024.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
RAMMSTEIN's Foro Sol Film Gets a Teaser, Four Years After the Cameras Rolled
Industrial Metal
Paul Dugdale cut 'Live in Mexico City' from three nights in October 2022 and it runs to two and a half hours. Cinema listings point at November; the band have confirmed nothing.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
Two Nights at The 8x10 for the Twenty Fifth Birthday of 'Prowler in the Yard'
Grindcore
Pig Destroyer play the 2001 album end to end in Baltimore on 24 and 25 October, each night with a different pair of support acts, inside a run that reaches Glasgow and New Orleans before December.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 14, 2026
Pete Koller Says SICK OF IT ALL Will Go On, at His Brother's Request
Punk Metal
In a video posted on Saturday the guitarist said Lou Koller left the band two instructions before he died in July. Keep going was the first. How they keep going is not decided.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 14, 2026
WINTERSUN's Next Album Grows Again: One More Song, Past Seventy Minutes
Death Metal
Jari Maenpaa says he wrote another track while recovering from illness this year, that the vocals are about ninety percent finished, and that the bonus material will be the largest the band have done.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 14, 2026
MOTHER OF GRAVES Release 'The Silent Weight of the Stars' From an Album Due 16 October
Death Metal Doom Metal
The second single from 'The Light That Keeps Us', with a video by David Jaggar. It is the Indianapolis band's third album and their first as a five piece on Profound Lore.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
MAISON DIEU Open Their Debut Album With 'Dio Ci Vuole Nudi', a Song That Starts on a Tagelharpa
Doom Metal
The trio from Ancona put out the first single from 'Citta Nascosta', which Octopus Rising and Argonauta release on 23 October, eleven years after the band formed and one after their first EP.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
ANCIIENTS Re-Record 'Humanist' From Their 2011 EP and Bring Back the Singer Who Was on It
Progressive Metal
The song first appeared on 'Snakebeard' in 2011 and later as a bonus track on 'Heart of Oak'. The new version has the current four piece playing it, with former guitarist Chris Dyck singing behind them again.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
AUTUMNFALL Reveal 'Crystal Skies' From 'The Archaic Sins', an Album of Songs Written Before 2001
Black Metal
Jussi Hanninen went back to compositions he wrote for Fall of the Leafe between 1998 and 2001, arranged seven of them again and added one new song. The album arrives on 25 September through Ardua Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
ESTERTOR Share the Title Track of 'Evil Black Church', Out 23 October on Black Lion
Thrash Metal
The Barcelona thrash band have put out the first piece of their third album, a record built on the Italian horror films of the seventies and eighties, seventeen years after they started and five since their last one.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
EPITAPHE Release 'III', Five Songs and Fifty Four Minutes on Aesthetic Death
Death Metal Doom Metal
The French band's third album keeps the saxophone and the acoustic passages, and was mastered by Greg Chandler of Esoteric.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
COLD RAVEN Put Out 'My Dark Passenger' on Ad Noctem, With a Video by Moviedel
Black Metal
The Milan band's fourth single since 2022 arrives with a video and a line about the shadow being something to accept rather than defeat.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
HERETICS Put Out 'Smell the Ashes', a Song Built on the Opening of Half-Life 2
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The third single from 'Of Poets and Prophets' carries orchestration through almost the whole song, and the video that came with it announces the departure of the drummer who founded the band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
SACRELIGIOUS Put Out 'Occasion for War' Two Years After Forming in Gothenburg
Death Metal
The debut album Brutality Incarnated is out on 25 September, self released, recorded at Studio Fredman, with a Stockholm show on the day it lands.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 14, 2026
ULTRA-VIOLENCE Put Out 'All My Life', the Title Track of the EP They Released Themselves
Thrash Metal Metalcore
Seventeen years after four fifteen year olds from Turin started a thrash band, the fourth line up releases an EP with no label behind it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
ELEINE Set 'The Water Taste of Blood' for 4 December and Release 'Liars Linger'
Symphonic Metal
The Landskrona band's fifth album arrives on Algoth Records with twelve songs, two of them sung in Swedish and German, and the fourth single is out now with a visualizer.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
ADRIAN BENEGAS Puts Out 'Growing Hearts' With Herbie Langhans Singing and Sascha Paeth Mixing
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Paraguayan composer's new single came out on 11 September with a hand drawn animated video he says was made without any AI.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026