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GORY BLISTER Sign to Dusktone, the Second Italian Band the Label Has Taken This Week
Death Metal
The eighth album is booked for 2027, thirty six years after the band formed.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 23, 2026
GWAR Put Beyond Hell on Vinyl for the First Time and It Sold Out Before Release
Heavy Metal
The twentieth anniversary edition arrives on Friday with an outro left off the 2006 record, remastered by Paul Logus.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
HELLRIPPER Cover Two Zeke Songs Before the First Full North American Tour
Speed Metal Black Metal
Let's Get Drugs and Mainline go out as a digital double single while James McBain takes Coronach across Europe.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
GRAVE DIGGER Set Faces of Pain for 15 January and Hand the Cover to Uwe Jarling Again
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Reaper Entertainment releases the album; Chris Boltendahl has been running this band for more than forty years.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
ENSLAVED Send Out a Third Song From Mid and Book a Tour They Share With Solstafir
Black Metal Viking Metal
Tales Of Trees follows Solar Will and Spirit Helper; the album arrives on 30 October through Nuclear Blast.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
THE HEADLESS GHOST Follow King of Pain With a Second Album in November
Heavy Metal
Legacy Of The Dead comes out on Punishment 18 Records, produced by the band and finished at TMH Studios.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
JADED HEART Sign to Frontiers for the Sixteenth Album, Thirty Six Years In
Heavy Metal
Toxic arrives on 15 January 2027 and the first single, One By One, is out now.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
EISREGEN Book Six Shows for November and December and Close the Year in Erfurt
Death Metal Black Metal
The Herbstrituale run keeps the band's yearly pattern, ending at From Hell in Erfurt.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026
MYSTIC PROPHECY Call the Fourteenth Album In Metal and Leave It at That
Power Metal Thrash Metal
The German band announce a November release, three years after Hellriot.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
NORTHLANE Send Out a Third Single Five Weeks Before the Seventh Album
Progressive Metal Metalcore
Crucified follows two others off Anemoia, which lands on 30 October.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 23, 2026
KING BUFFALO Built a Studio, Then Made the Seventh Album In It
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Doomsayer arrives on 4 December, self-released at home and through Stickman Records in Europe, with The Slick and the Dead out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
FATE UNBURIED Take Seventeen Years to Reach a Second Album
Death Metal Groove Metal
Expecting Nothing arrives with a video, three weeks before Neraspeme on 16 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
QUIET RIOT Pick a Twenty Three Year Old From Seven Hundred Applicants
Heavy Metal
John Torra, from Long Island, is the band's new singer after an open call that drew more than 700 submissions.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026
BLAZE BAYLEY Had Finished the Album the Day Before His Heart Attack, and Says People Get That Backwards
Heavy Metal
Three years after a quadruple bypass, the singer told Rocking With Jam Man that the embarrassment was worse than the fear.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 23, 2026
East Bay Ray Has Parkinson's Disease and Intends to Keep Playing
Punk Metal
The only member who has been in Dead Kennedys since 1978 will tour in October, and the band say he will carry on as long as his health allows.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 23, 2026
TERROR Give the Opening Track of Their Tenth Album a Video Five Months After Release
Thrash Metal Hardcore
Erase You From My World leads Still Suffer, out since April on Flatspot Records and produced by Todd Jones and Taylor Young.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 23, 2026
GATES OF ISHTAR Announce a Fourth Album Twenty Nine Years After the Third
Death Metal
Murder The Light arrives on The Circle Music on 21 January 2027; the band's last record came out in 1998.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST Close the European Tour Without Ian Hill, and Uriah Heep's Bassist Stands In
Heavy Metal
A damaged tendon in his left arm kept the founding bassist off the stage; Dave Rimmer of Uriah Heep played the Faithkeepers tour's last show instead.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 23, 2026