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CHILDREN OF BODOM's Songs Have a Singer Who Says He Should Not Be the One
Power Metal Death Metal
Samy Elbanna of Lost Society puts the uncomfortable part plainly: for him to be standing there, something devastating had to happen first.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 28, 2026
Jorn Lande Made Demos With Tony Iommi Twenty Years Before BLACK SABBATH's Guitarist Called Again
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The singer says he travelled to work with Iommi during the writing of Fused, and the job went to Glenn Hughes instead.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 28, 2026
METALLICA's Assistant Engineer on Kill 'Em All Writes It Down at Last
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Andrew Wroblewski was in the room at MusicAmerica Studios in May 1983, and forty three years later he has published the photographs.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 28, 2026
PARKWAY DRIVE Take Home Into Cinemas on 12 November
Metalcore
The documentary shot at the Sydney Opera House opens in Australian cinemas first and reaches North America six days later.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 28, 2026
FUNERALIUM Finish a Fifth Album and Put It in Early 2027
Doom Metal
Six years after Decrepit, the Paris funeral doom band have the recording done and nothing else announced: no title, no date beyond a season.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
MUDVAYNE's Chad Gray Covers Christina Aguilera and Knows How It Sounds
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The singer ties the Linda Perry lyric to his own sobriety, and says nobody had him covering a pop song on their bingo card for 2026.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 28, 2026
SPIRITUAL DECEPTION Name The Void Below After Point Nemo
Brutal Death Metal
The coordinates in the title belong to the spot in the Pacific furthest from any land, where space agencies drop what they bring down.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
IN VAIN Finish Their Run of Singles With Eyes of the Underdog
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Three singles, three songs, and all of them the first three tracks of Architects of Mayhem in the order they appear on it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 28, 2026
SOLYSTALGIA Film Funeral Four Months After the Album It Sits On
Death Metal Doom Metal
A band a year old with one record to their name put a video to the slowest thing on it, through a label that specialises in exactly that.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
BEENKERVER Date Doodlot for 6 November and Keep Singing in Dutch
Black Metal
Six songs, all titled in Dutch, from a one man project four years old that has already put out two albums and a split through Vendetta.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
FIR BOLG Put Vae Victis Up a Month Before Triskelion
Black Metal
The French band's second preview of the November album takes its title from what the Gauls were told after they sacked Rome and lost anyway.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
KINGDOM OF SORROW Get a Second Vinyl Pressing in Eighteen Years
Sludge Metal Metalcore
Relapse put the 2008 debut and Behind The Blackest Tears back on the format, both out of print since their first limited runs sold through.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 28, 2026
MESHUGGAH Add Welcome To Rockville to a Day That Already Had a Tour in It
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Daytona in May, announced hours after the forty year anniversary run, with Testament on both the festival bill and the tour.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 28, 2026
THE PLOT IN YOU Open a World Tour With Twenty Seven North American Dates
Metalcore
The run starts in St. Louis on 12 March and finishes in Nashville on 18 April, and the band are calling it only the first part.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 28, 2026
GAEREA Hand Shallow to a Psytrance Act and Promise Three More Versions
Black Metal
After a decade of keeping everything in house, the Portuguese band open one song from Loss to four outside collaborators, starting with dance music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 28, 2026
PAIN Premiered I Don't Give A Fukk Live in Mallorca Without Rehearsing It
Industrial Metal
Peter Tagtgren says the band had not played in a while and had no practice before the festival, and put the new song out live anyway.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
AFTER THE BURIAL Lose Japan Too When the NORTHLANE Australian Tour Falls
Progressive Metal Metalcore
The band were supporting Northlane in Australia, and without those dates the Japanese shows no longer work on their own.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
MALEVOLENCE Book Fourteen British and Irish Dates and Skip the Obvious Cities
Metalcore Hardcore
The Sheffield band open in Southampton on 4 February and finish at home on the 20th, with Guilt Trip and Bodyweb in support throughout.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026