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TROLLFEST Send Three Trolls After a Star on the Walk of Fame
Folk Metal
Claiming the Walk of Fame is the second and last single before Trollywood, the Norwegian band's tenth album, arrives on 6 November through Reaper Entertainment.
Robin Aalto · Sep 26, 2026
NERVOCHAOS Sing in Portuguese for the First Time in Thirty Years
Death Metal
Lorde dos Mortos is the second preview of Chaosmongers, out 13 November through Black Lion Records, and the first song the Sao Paulo band have recorded entirely in their own language.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
INVOCATION and Embrace of Thorns Split Twenty Two Minutes Between Them
Death Metal Black Metal
Three new tracks each on a mini-album out 30 October through Iron Bonehead Productions, and for the Greek half it is the first recorded music in four years.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
ABYSSUS Cut the Third Single From The Reign Down to a Punk Length
Death Metal
The Prophecy is the shortest and fastest thing the Greek band have shown from their third album, which arrives on 23 October. Konstantinos Analytis says it was written for the stage.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
AZARATH Open Scorn Eternal With the Song That Closes It
Death Metal Black Metal
Herald of the Unseen is the first thing heard from the Polish band's new album and the last track on it. Scorn Eternal arrives on 20 November through Agonia Records, six years after Saint Desecration.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
FRONTIERER Put Out Our Mainframe Earache a Month Before Ultraviolet Parasite
Metalcore Hardcore
The fifth Frontierer album lands on 23 October, from the band that splits itself between Edinburgh and Missouri and calls itself transatlantic noise terrorists.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 26, 2026
WHARFLURCH Follow Their Protagonist Off Earth and Into the Fungal Empire
Death Metal Doom Metal
Mycodeath and Rebirth in the Outer Clusters is out and streaming whole, the sequel to a 2021 album and a story about fungi seeding planets to grow something that can think.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 26, 2026
HOLLOW FRONT Paid for Their Fourth Album Themselves and Call Its Existence a Miracle
Metalcore
No Love Without Despair arrives on 11 December with no label and no management behind it, after years the band say nearly ended it and a stroke that took their singer off guitar.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 26, 2026
REPENTANCE Give the Song Shaun Glass Wrote to Shaun Glass
Death Metal Doom Metal
Fade Into Silence is out with a video, dedicated to the guitarist who died earlier this year. The album it comes from was postponed after his death and now arrives on 27 November.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 26, 2026
WOLFBRIGADE Say the Universe Owes Them Nothing and Keep Running Anyway
Punk Metal Hardcore
Doomrunner is out with a video, from Howl From Underground, which Metal Blade release on 9 October. It is their twelfth album if you count the three they made as Wolfpack, and they do.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 25, 2026
SKUMSTRIKE's Second Album Is Out Today and Streaming Whole
Speed Metal Black Metal
Flawless Intrigue From Hell arrives on Dying Victims Productions, four years after the Montreal trio's debut, ten tracks of speed metal with thrash and death metal pulled into it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
CARNATION Open Symphony in Flesh With a Song About Criticism Turning Predatory
Death Metal
Blackmouth is the first track on an album out 16 October, and the band have booked one release show in Flanders, at Zappa in Antwerp on 7 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
HATESPHERE Take a Third Song Off Guillotine, Two Weeks Before the Album
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Mouth Filled With Barbed Wire arrives with a video, from a record Scarlet Records put out on 9 October, and the band call it a song about choosing defiance.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
TROLLFEST Send Trolls to Hollywood on Their Tenth Album, Out 6 November
Folk Metal
Claiming the Walk Of Fame is the second and last single before Trollywood, a record about trolls chasing fame in a city that pushes every promise to absurdity.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
ORBITAL GATE Line Up Five Guests on an Album Due 6 November, Starting With Enterprise Earth
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Liquefying Organic Matter is out with a video, from Engineering His Planetary Dominion, a record with ALESSA, Bodysnatcher, The Callous Daoboys and Pillars Of Autumn on it as well.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
RAMMSTEIN Put Out the First Song From the Foro Sol Film, Four Years After It Was Shot
Industrial Metal
Armee der Tristen is the first footage from Rammstein Live In Mexico City, which Paul Dugdale cut from three nights in October 2022. Cinemas on 4 November, live album on the 20th.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 25, 2026
Sad Wings of Destiny Turns Fifty and Finally Gets the Running Order JUDAS PRIEST Wanted
Heavy Metal
Two editions, one from the original analog tapes and one newly remixed, both opening with Prelude the way the band meant the record to open in 1976.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
VANISHING POINT Break Six Years With Bring Me The Night and Set the Album for 20 November
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Eremition is the seventh Vanishing Point album and the first since Dead Elysium in 2020. Chris Porcianko says the band works to quality over quantity, which is one way of describing six years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026