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Toxicity Turns Twenty Five and Gets a Week in a Los Angeles Gallery, Free to Walk Into
Nu Metal
System Of A Down open an exhibition at Beyond The Streets on 13 October, with rare artefacts from the Toxicity era, open to the public for its whole run.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 25, 2026
DRAGONFORCE Book Twenty Two European Dates for Spring 2027, Opening in Paris
Power Metal
The run goes from 9 April to 8 May with Visions of Atlantis and Wings of Steel, and carries both the new self titled album and a set from Inhuman Rampage, which turned twenty this year.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 25, 2026
SINISTER Set Lucid Nightmares for 13 November, Ten Songs and Still Three People
Death Metal
The fifteenth Sinister album arrives through Massacre Records, made by the same three piece: Adrie Kloosterwaard, Toep Duin and Walter Jurgen Tjwa.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
MIDNIGHT Give Their First Live Album a Date and Play Satanic Royalty Straight Through on It
Speed Metal Black Metal
Satanic Attack Live! arrives on 6 November through Metal Blade, taken from two sold out Hollywood nights in May, with the 2011 album in its original running order and five more songs on top.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
SARCATOR Put Out a Second Song From The Ones We Follow, a Month Before the Album
Thrash Metal
Ain't Fit to Live arrives with a video, following In Search Of Oblivion, from the fourth Sarcator album due 30 October on Reigning Phoenix Music.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
AUTUMNFALL's Album of Twenty Five Year Old Songs Is Out Today and Streaming in Full
Black Metal
The Archaic Sins arrives through Ardua Music with an album premiere at Invisible Oranges, the fourth Autumnfall record and the one built from material written between 1998 and 2001.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
CANCER BATS Drummer Mike Peters Stops Touring at the End of the Month After Twenty Five Years
Hardcore
Ian Romano takes the touring seat from October. Peters stays with the band writing, recording, managing and booking North America.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 25, 2026
KNOCKED LOOSE Put $8,000 Into the Fundraiser for the Woman Paralysed at Their Set
Metalcore
Jamie Ulshoffer was watching the band at Louder Than Life when another attendee fell out of a tree onto her. Her spinal cord was severed. The band paid into her GoFundMe.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 25, 2026
Cameron Webb Has Remixed Orgasmatron From the Original Stems, Forty Years On
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The 1986 album arrives again on 6 November, with the original tapes remastered at half speed and a second version built from scratch by the man who produced Motörhead's last records.
Robin Aalto · Sep 25, 2026
Andy Williams Is Remembered in Buffalo on Sunday, and the Room Will Be Open to Anyone
Metalcore Hardcore
The celebration of life for the Every Time I Die guitarist, who died on 5 September at forty eight, runs five hours at Buffalo RiverWorks, free to walk into and streamed for everyone who cannot.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 25, 2026
SICKSENSE Put Out Seller's Remorse on the Day the Funerals EP Lands
Metalcore Nu Metal
The Phoenix band's fourth release arrives today, with a video co-directed by the band, and a North American run in November and December alongside Mushroomhead, Fear Factory and Primer 55.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 25, 2026
ABBIE FALLS Put Out Violence and Take Twenty Two European Dates With The Browning
Metalcore Deathcore
The Prague band's new single arrives with a video, and the tour it precedes runs from Mannheim on 23 October to Cologne on 20 November, taking in Spain, Finland and Poland on the way.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 25, 2026
ALL SHALL PERISH Cleared the $75,000 and Paid It Back With a Second Song the Same Week
Deathcore
The crowdfunding target they set for their first album since 2011 has been passed, and Led To Slaughter is the song they promised if it was. Fifteen years of silence have now produced two singles in a fortnight.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 25, 2026
CARCHARODON Put Out Their Fifth Album Tomorrow, Ten Tracks on Satanath
Stoner Metal Death 'n' Roll
Never on Your Side arrives on 26 September, three years after Sbhorror, from the Ligurian band that has been running on the same two founders since 2003.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 25, 2026
TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE End Six Years of Silence and Take a Guitarist Out of Portal
Death Metal Black Metal
Cenotaph Severance arrives on 30 October through Iron Bonehead, the fifth album and the first since 2020, with Soul Defilement streaming now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Bring a New Singer and a New Drummer to Their Eighth Album
Death Metal Black Metal
Aeon Shift is the first thing out of the line up that debuted at Orto Fest in April, and the album it comes from is due in November through Nika Records, a year before the band's thirtieth.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT Play Sixteen European Dates in Sixteen Days
Black Metal
The run opens in Dresden on 16 October and finishes in Stuttgart on 31 October, seven countries with no night off, with Conjurer in direct support.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 24, 2026
KNIFE Set Their Third Album for 18 December and Open It From the Back
Speed Metal
Into Your Nightmare arrives through Napalm Records, and the first single Shadows is the song that closes the record.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026