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LENG TCH'E Break Nine Years of Silence With Two Songs and a Parasite Metaphor
Grindcore
Hammered into Collapse is out now and the two track EP of the same name follows on 23 October through Season of Mist, the first Leng Tch'e material since Razorgrind in 2017.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
CRYPTA Put Out the First Song With the Line Up They Finished in April
Death Metal
A Portrait Of Decay was recorded in Belgium in June, the first thing Crypta have released since Victoria Villarreal became a permanent member, and it lands ten days before a North American tour with Arch Enemy.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
WE CAME AS ROMANS Reopen Last Year's Album as Twenty Three Tracks With Seven Guests on It
Metalcore
ALL IS BEAUTIFUL... BECAUSE WE'RE DOOMED: CIRCULARITY arrives on 6 November with four new songs, six reworked ones and a guest list that runs from Bury Tomorrow to Ladrones. BORN FROM NOTHING is out now.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
Wargasm Put Out Swallow, Sign to Hopeless and Sit on a Finished Album With No Date
Industrial Metal Nu Metal
The London duo's new single arrives with a video while they are a week into a United States tour, and the record they finished earlier this year still has no release details.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
WINDWAKER Put Out dna a Month Before Their Third Album Lands on Fearless
Metalcore
smile, you're on camera. arrives on 23 October, and the band say the song is about feeling that your worst habits are hardwired.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
SLEEPING WITH SIRENS Re-Record the First Song They Ever Wrote, Seventeen Years On
Metalcore Hardcore
I'm Coming Home (Big Gulps) was cut on a MacBook in 2009 and was the band's first release. It found an audience on TikTok this year, so Kellin Quinn took it back into a studio.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 24, 2026
LANDMVRKS and Last Train Wrote a Song Together Instead of Guesting on Each Other's
Metalcore
The Very End Of Every Me is out with a lyric video, written collectively by members of the Marseille metalcore band and the Alsatian alt rock one rather than handed over as a feature.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE Set Their Eighth Album for March and Put Will Ramos on One of Its Songs
Heavy Metal Metalcore
Social Apocalypse arrives on 19 March through Spinefarm, ten tracks, with Lorna Shore's singer on one guest spot and Against The Current's on another, and the title track is out now with a video.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
EXTINCTION A.D. Put Out an Eighth Single in Eight Months and Sing Half of It in Spanish
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Escape From L.I. arrives with a lyric video, and Rick Jimenez says it is about watching the place he grew up in turn into something he does not recognise.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 24, 2026
KAMELOT Book a Second European Leg for March 2027, Twelve Dates With Cyhra
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The Dark Asylum tour returns to Europe on 5 March 2027 in Osnabrück and finishes on 20 March in Brno, with Cyhra in direct support and tickets on sale from today.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 24, 2026
CRITICAL DEFIANCE Put a Seven Minute Valparaiso on Rivers of Blood, Out Tomorrow
Thrash Metal
Eight tracks through Dying Victims Productions on 25 September, from the Chilean thrash band that already has a split with DET due in October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
MEURTRIER Turn Their First EP Into a First Album, Messe de fer Out Tomorrow
Speed Metal
Nine songs in French through Jawbreaker Records on 25 September, three years after the Quebec City band formed.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
ZEALOT CULT Follow Spiritual Sickness After Eight Years, Psalms of Filth Out Tomorrow
Death Metal
Ten tracks through Awakening Records on 25 September, the second album from the Limerick band, with two of its songs already streaming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
KONGH Put Three Songs and Thirty Nine Minutes on Dissolved in Time, Out Tomorrow
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The fourth Kongh album arrives on 25 September through Trust No One Recordings, thirteen years after Sole Creation, and it opens on a track of almost nineteen minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
DESOLATE PATHWAY Come Back From a Four Year Split With Visions in Death, Out Tomorrow
Doom Metal
Nine songs on 25 September, the third Desolate Pathway album, made by the line up that reformed this year after breaking up in 2022.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 24, 2026
VOLUCRINE Put Thirteen Songs on Chapter V: Renewal, Out Tomorrow on Inverse
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The fourth Volucrine album arrives on 25 September, two years after Etna, with three of its songs already out as videos.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
NIGHT LASER Bring Johnny Gioeli Onto Their Fifth Album, Out Tomorrow on Steamhammer
Heavy Metal
Rats in the Cradle lands on 25 September, eleven songs, with Johnny Gioeli guesting on the seven minute Heart of the Desert Rose.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026
TOMBSTALKER Take Eleven Years to Follow Black Crusades and Put Chaos Monolith Out Tomorrow
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Eight tracks through Adirondack Black Mass on 25 September, the second Tombstalker album, with two EPs filling the gap since 2015.
Robin Aalto · Sep 24, 2026