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SLAUGHTERCULT Put Their Second Album Out Tomorrow, Four Years After Forming
Grindcore Brutal Death Metal
Eleven tracks on Vicious Instinct Records, from a Sydney band that has released something almost every year since 2022.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
BASSAIUM Break Roughly Eighteen Years of Silence and Cover Disrupt While They Are At It
Death Metal
Out today on Bang the Head Records: twelve songs from a Tokyo band that formed in 1998 and then stopped.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
CHOSEN UNDEAD Turn Four Singles and an EP Into a Twelve Track Debut in Under Two Years
Metalcore
Out today, released by the band themselves: everything they have put online since 2024 plus six songs nobody has heard.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 23, 2026
VIOLET ETERNAL Put Ten Songs on the Second Album and One of Them Is Called Techno Optimist
Power Metal
Out today on Rubicon Music: the third release in three years from a band split between Italy and Japan.
Robin Aalto · Sep 23, 2026
HAIL CONJURER Close the Tenth Album With Thirteen and a Half Minutes of Golden Pages of Contempt
Black Metal
Out today: six songs recorded across five weeks last winter, digital on Crypt of the Wizard and vinyl shared with Into Endless Chaos.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 23, 2026
KINGCROWN Put Out a Video for the Song That Says Their Own Name
Heavy Metal Power Metal
We Are Kingcrown is the third track on Moonfall, which Rockshots Records released on 4 September.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
HELL-BORN Mark Thirty Years With a Seventh Album Called VII
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Blood In Stone is the second single; Deformeathing Production releases the seven track record on 9 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
RAM Return After Seven Years and the Release Show Is Their Bassist's Last
Heavy Metal
Against arrives on 9 October through Metal Blade; Tobias Petterson plays his final show with the band at the Gothenburg launch.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY Re-Sign With Massacre Records the Year Their Trilogy Ends
Death Metal
Three albums in four years finished a single story; the new deal covers whatever comes after it, and a North American tour with Nervosa follows in 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 22, 2026
NUCLEARHAMMER Release a Recording They Made Eight Years Ago
Death Metal Black Metal
Xaos 333 was tracked in 2018 and Iron Bonehead puts it out on 25 September; the three songs are streaming now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
INCITE Put Out a Lyric Video for Chucked Off in the Middle of the Soulfly Tour
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The song is from Savage New Times; the American run with Soulfly and Nailbomb goes on until 15 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
Uncle Acid Follow a Giallo Concept Album With Shapes of Midnight
Doom Metal
Out now on Killer Candy Records, and the first thing Kevin Starrs has made since Nell' Ora Blu went all the way into Italian cinema.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
Maria Brink Has Been Talking About a Solo Album Since 2017 and Now It Has a Name
Gothic Metal Metalcore
Coven arrives between In This Moment's ninth album and their tenth, and she describes it as the quiet side of her work.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
ELECTRIC CALLBOY Take On You Say Run With the Man Who Wrote It
Metalcore
The My Hero Academia theme gets a tenth anniversary version, made with composer Yuki Hayashi.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 22, 2026
KATATONIA Announce Two Shows in China Five Days Before Playing Them
Death Metal Doom Metal
Shanghai on 27 September, Shenzhen on 28 September, then Japan and an Australian and New Zealand run in October.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
HELLOWEEN Close the Forty Years Tour in a Sold Out Hall in Sao Paulo
Power Metal Speed Metal
The anniversary run took in Europe, North America, Asia and Latin America before Saturday's finale.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
NILE Book December Dates Across Europe and Say It Is Shorter Than They Wanted
Death Metal
The last run of the year opens in Lodz on 1 December, with Intrepid, Redsphere and Orecus in support.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
INVINCIA Send Out a Third Single Three Days Before Escape Music Releases the Debut
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Tonight We Ride runs six minutes and twenty seconds; Echoes From The Past was mixed by Erik Martensson of Eclipse.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026