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LEACH Release 'Strength To Strength', the Second Single From Their EP Psychosomatic
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Borås band's four track EP about living with mental illness is out on 9 October, and they play I Scream Metal Fest in Gothenburg the day after.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
XION's Second Album 'When Stars Collide' Is Out on Fireflash Records
Thrash Metal
Eight songs from the Falun five piece, recorded at Sellnoise Studios with Jonas Arnberg and out on CD, purple vinyl and digital.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
OBJECTOR Play Their First Romanian Shows in Timișoara, Craiova and Bucharest
Thrash Metal
The Turnhout thrash band play Nemesis Art Club on 17 September, the Metal Bunker XIV festival in Craiova on the 18th and Omen Bar in Bucharest on the 19th.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 13, 2026
HIGH PARASITE Release 'The Screams That Come' Ahead of Their London Metalfest Slot
Gothic Metal
Aaron Stainthorpe's band put out a stand alone single on Spinefarm, produced by Paradise Lost's Gregor Mackintosh.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
GODSLAVE Return With a Self Titled Album, Five Years After 'Positive Aggressive'
Thrash Metal
The German thrash band mark the Metalville release with a lyric video for 'The Road Not Taken'.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
ELFFOR Premiere an Excerpt of 'Urkhal' From a Three Way Split Out in November
Black Metal
The track appears on Roi des Forêts - Basoen Jauna, shared with Erroiak and Hyver and due on 11 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
MUERTO Release an Official Video for 'Veil of Desolation' From Their Third Album
Black Metal
Transcending Obscurity Records posted the clip on 11 September, five months after Eclipsed Realms arrived.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 13, 2026
SNĚŤ Release 'V bažinách vědomí', Five Years After the Debut, on Two Labels at Once
Death Metal
Thirty seven minutes of Czech death metal through Me Saco Un Ojo and Dark Descent. The title means In the Swamps of Consciousness, which is roughly where the record leaves you.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
IN OBSCURITY REVEALED Preview 'Caustic Maelstrom' With 'Consecrated by Rot'
Death Metal
The second song from the Mexican band's second album, out on 9 October through Personal Records. Eight years separate it from the first one.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
DOMINION Open Their Debut Album Campaign, With Two Bassists in the Line-Up
Death Metal
'Mortification of Thy Flesh' arrives on 12 October via Sinistrari Records, recorded in Massachusetts last November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
BARBARIAN PROPHECIES Release 'Echoes', Sung Partly in Galician
Death Metal Black Metal
The Spanish melodic death metal band's new album is out through Base Record Production.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
CRONIAN's 'Terra' Reaches Vinyl Twenty Years After It Came Out
Progressive Metal
M-Theory Audio presses the Borknagar side project's 2006 debut on 13 November, limited to 300 copies, remastered by Dan Swanö.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
ETERNITY'S END Sign a Multi-Album Deal With Scarlet Records and Promise Their Fastest Record
Power Metal Speed Metal
Christian Muenzner's neoclassical power metal project has a new album finished for this autumn, with no title announced yet.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 12, 2026
FILTH Stream 'Death Exhibition', Recorded Entirely on Analogue Equipment
Death Metal
The Swedish trio's second album is out now, with two linked instrumentals at its centre. Me Saco Un Ojo and Rotted Life share the release.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
CARTILAGE Set Their Third Album Inside a Hospital Where the Surgeon Is the Horror
Death Metal Grindcore
'Operating Altar' is out on Everlasting Spew Records, nine tracks that tell one story from a medical student's final year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026
VISIONS OF ATLANTIS Join the 70000 Tons of Metal 2027 Cruise
Power Metal
The Austrian band sails from Miami to Puerto Plata in January. Thirty of the sixty bands are announced, and Wolfheart premiere their new album on board.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026
SEPULTURA Move Their Final Concert From a 26,000 Arena to a Hall Holding 9,000
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The farewell show stays on 7 November in São Paulo, now at the Suhai Music Hall. Existing tickets remain valid and refunds are available.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 12, 2026
WINTERFORGE Take 'From Hell's Heart' From Melville, With Ahab Carrying Hell Inside Him
Death Metal
The Polish band's new single comes with a lyric video made with the Brazilian filmmaker Iandro Porto.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 12, 2026