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THE BLACK THUNDER Sing in Polish and English in the Same Song for the First Time
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Ash in My Marrow is the second single from Time Obliteration, the third album, out 16 October on Pagan Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE Put Faceless Out Three Days Before the Album It Belongs To
Death Metal Doom Metal
The single and its video are out now; Lay Me Down O Silent Fear follows on 25 September through Steamhammer.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
NECROMASS Sign to Dusktone for an Album Due Fourteen Years After the Last One
Black Metal
The Florentine black metal band has three full-lengths since 1992 and the newest of them is from 2013. The next is booked for the middle of 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 22, 2026
WHIPLASH Rename the Album They Sold on Tour and Send It Out Again as ROAR
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Thrashquake was a limited run sold on the road with Napalm Death; the worldwide version gets a new title, new Ed Repka art and a 27 November date.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
BRAT Put Seventeen Tracks on Manslayer and Bring In Revocation and Walls of Jericho
Death Metal Grindcore
Third advance song from the second album, out on Friday through Prosthetic Records, with a Napalm Death support run behind it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
PRONG Send Out Fear The Sun and Put a Bananarama Cover on the CD
Thrash Metal Industrial Metal
The fourteenth album is self-titled, arrives 6 November on Napalm Records, and Andy Sneap mixed it.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
DRAGONFORCE Name the Tenth Album After Themselves and Write It for Two Singers
Power Metal
Alissa White-Gluz and Alessio Garavello share the vocals, Jens Bogren produced it, and Napalm Records has it out on 19 March 2027.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
ALA Send Out Kill For Satan, the Second Single From a Serbian Debut Due on 23 October
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Damir Mirojevic built the band while he was in Kolac, and Wormholedeath releases The Dragon's Return next month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
MASSTERON Put the Whole of Their Debut Online Two Days Before ATMF Releases It
Death Metal Black Metal
Six tracks and thirty seven minutes of Polish black death, recorded live in the studio, streaming in full ahead of 24 September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
TELMA Name Savvina Batsi Their Singer and Introduce Her With Two Songs From the Back Catalogue
Groove Metal
Giannis Paparseniou joins on guitar at the same time; the Greek band's next record has no title and no date yet.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
TEMIC Filmed the Ashes Video on a Cruise Ship and Put the Song First on the Album
Progressive Metal
Third advance single from a concept record about loss, shot aboard Cruise to the Edge.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
ISKALD Took Eight Years and Came Back With Four Chapters Set in Helheim
Thrash Metal Black Metal
'Curse of the Mind' is the sixth album and the first concept record; Dusktone releases it on 25 September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 22, 2026
NEVERMORE Book Twenty One European Dates for Next Spring, Opening in Berlin
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The Liminal Spaces tour starts on 29 April and ends with two shows in Turkey, with Rivers of Nihil and Urne supporting.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 22, 2026
Ghostkid Lost the Whole Band in May and Put the New One Behind Rabbit Masks
Metalcore Nu Metal
Caliban's Iain Duncan, ex-Electric Callboy drummer David Friedrich and ex-We Butter The Bread With Butter bassist Axel One join Sushi for 'Follow The White Rabbit'.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 22, 2026
CHAINED SAINT Follow Their DuVall Produced Debut With the 'Rise To Fall' EP
Thrash Metal
The South Florida four piece put out a video for "Punk" ahead of a five song EP on 9 October, two years after William DuVall produced their first album.
Robin Aalto · Sep 22, 2026
Back To The Beginning Goes Into Cinemas on 28 October
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The Villa Park farewell, cut into a film, with a pre-sale on 24 September.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
Brent Hinds's Estate Says the Case Is Not About the Cover, It Is About an Accounting He Never Got
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
A second statement, after Mastodon called the lawsuit meritless.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026
QUIET RIOT Took Seven Hundred Auditions and Gave the Job to a Twenty Three Year Old
Heavy Metal
John Torra, from Long Island, replaces Jizzy Pearl after an open call.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 22, 2026