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Kenny Hickey Wrote SILVERTOMB's New Song Believing He Was Close to Death
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
'Graves In The Sky' ends a seven-year silence for the band built from former Type O Negative and Danzig members. The album arrives 13 November on SPV.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
AT THE GATES Give Tomas Lindberg's Last Album a Film of Its Own
Death Metal
Costin Chioreanu has finished animated videos for every song on 'The Ghost Of A Future Dead', released as one full-length film. Lindberg died in September 2025.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
Kai Hansen Says the Next HELLOWEEN Album Is Eighty Per Cent Finished
Power Metal Speed Metal
Speaking to The Metal Voice about his solo record 'Born With A Hammer', out 18 September, Hansen said songs for the next Helloween album are already mixed.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
The Punk Rock Museum Will Let Visitors Play Lemmy's Bass Through His Own Stack
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
A Motorhead exhibition opens in Las Vegas on 2 October with handwritten lyrics, personal effects, and the Rickenbacker and Marshall rig set up for guests to use.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
PANTERA Play New Orleans for the First Time in Thirty Years at a Two-Day Festival in November
Heavy Metal Groove Metal
The Great NOLA Trendkill runs 20 and 21 November at Lakefront Arena, with Down, Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar, Eyehategod and Pig Destroyer on the bill.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026
SPIRITBOX Return With 'Mourning', Their First New Song Since 'Tsunami Sea'
Metalcore
Out today on Pale Chord and Rise Records, the single is the first new Spiritbox music in eighteen months and the first sign of what follows their number one hard rock album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Rebecca Vernon Wrote 'Devotion' in a Closed Ski Resort and a Retirement Community
Doom Metal
The Keening's second album is out 16 October on Relapse, dedicated to her father, who died in May 2025. There is a dragonfly on the cover for him.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
SVMERION and HOW TO DISAPPEAR Take Their First European Tour Out Tonight
Death Metal
Two unsigned bands from the Comarca Lagunera in northern Mexico, one death metal and one post black metal, play six rooms across Belgium, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Poland between 10 and 19 September. Neither has played Europe before.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026
Jordan Rudess to Premiere AI Project jam_bot with the MIT Chamber Chorus on 3 October
Progressive Metal
Two performances at MIT's Thomas Tull Concert Hall will debut the Dream Theater keyboardist's three-year collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 4, 2026
ALL SHALL PERISH Ask Fans for $75,000 to Finish Their Comeback Album
Deathcore
Fifteen years after their last record, the deathcore band is crowdfunding the new one on Kickstarter, with no label, no manager and a public budget breakdown.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 4, 2026
ALCEST Announce 22-Date European and UK Tour for Spring 2027 With AGRICULTURE
Black Metal
Twenty-two dates from Annecy on 12 March to Porto on 10 April 2027, with Agriculture as support. Full routing inside.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 4, 2026
CIRITH UNGOL Set 'All the Shadows' for 30 October, Title Track Out Now
Heavy Metal
The Ventura veterans' seventh album arrives on No Remorse Records with a Michael Whelan cover and an eight-song tracklist. The title track is the first single.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 4, 2026
Dave Mustaine Announces Three-City Book Tour for Memoir 'In My Darkest Hour'
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The Megadeth frontman's second memoir, about his cancer diagnosis and recovery, is out on 8 September. Events follow in New York, Boston and Manassas.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 3, 2026
NAILS Sign with Closed Casket Activities, Release Two-Song 'Fear Based Life'
Death Metal
The deal formalises a working relationship the band dates back to 2011. Two new songs are out now, a vinyl pressing follows on 9 October, and a fifth album is due in summer 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 3, 2026
LIMINAL SHROUD unveils 'Malaspina' from new album
Black Metal
LIMINAL SHROUD's new single "Malaspina" from the upcoming album 'Visions of Collapse' now streaming
Mar 30, 2026
ARMORED SAINT Revives a Classic with Metal Flair
Heavy Metal
ARMORED SAINT releases a powerful cover of 'One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison),' blending soul and heavy metal in a unique rendition.
Mar 30, 2026
FORGOTTEN TOMB premieres 'A Chill That You Can’t Taint'
Black Metal
FORGOTTEN TOMB releases 'A Chill That You Can’t Taint' from the upcoming album 'Nightfloating', available now on streaming platforms.
Mar 30, 2026
FORLORN HOPE unveils 'Down in Flames' from new EP
Heavy Metal
FORLORN HOPE releases 'Down in Flames', inspired by Flight Lt. James Brindley Nicolson's WWII heroics. Available on the 'Valour – Part 1' EP this August.
Mar 30, 2026