Metal News
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TYGERS OF PAN TANG Go Heavier on New Album 'Electrifyed'
Hard Rock Heavy Metal
More than forty years after they helped shape the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, the band went back to the raw energy of their early records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
EMPEROR Headline Luppolo In Rock 2027 in Cremona, With SAMAEL on the Same Bill
Black Metal
The Italian festival runs from 16 to 18 July 2027 at the Colonie Padane. Vicious Rumors and Demon are also added.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 11, 2026
GREEN LUNG Release 'Necropolitan', Named After London's Seven Victorian Garden Cemeteries
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album is out through Nuclear Blast, with an animated visualiser for 'Dance to the Grave' and a December tour with High On Fire.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
MYRATH Rework Sting's 'Shape Of My Heart' Ahead of the Next Leg of Their European Tour
Progressive Metal Folk Metal
The single follows this year's 'Wilderness Of Mirrors'. The tour opens in Metz on 17 September and runs to the end of October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
ABSOLUTE POWER Share the Title Track of Their Second Album, With Tim 'Ripper' Owens
Heavy Metal
Shane Embury and Simon Efemey's heavy metal project returns fifteen years after its debut. The album is out on 6 November via Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
Dave Mustaine Writes That Ellefson's Time in MEGADETH 'Was Likely Near' Before the 2021 Scandal
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
An excerpt from the memoir 'In My Darkest Hour', published by Rolling Stone, goes back over a partnership of nearly forty years.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 11, 2026
ISKALD Open 'Curse of the Mind' With 'The Other Realm', Chapter One of a Descent Into Helheim
Thrash Metal Black Metal
The Norwegian band's sixth album is out on 25 September via Dusktone, a concept record in four chapters joined by ritual invocations.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
MEMORIAM Will Close Their Recording Career With a Sixth Album, 'Endgame'
Death Metal
The British death metal band say they are stopping on their own terms. Reaper Entertainment releases the album on 29 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
SUICIDE SILENCE Set Eighth Album 'Graceless' for 20 November, Title Track Out Now
Metalcore Deathcore
The album is out through Century Media, produced by Austin Coupe. The band tours North America with Emmure, AngelMaker and Synestia first.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
WHISPERED Release 'Honorbound', Nearly a Decade in the Making and Closing on a 24-Minute Title Track
Power Metal Death Metal
The Finnish band's fourth album is out today. Its closing epic is drawn from the Japanese tale of the Soga brothers' revenge.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 11, 2026
MISS MAY I Close Eighth Album 'No Place For Me' With 'Highbrow Thieves', Now an Animated Video
Metalcore
Solid State Records releases the album on 2 October. The band then co-headlines the Perpetual Iron Tour with Born Of Osiris.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
ABYSSUS Share 'Destined To Die' From Third Album 'The Reign'
Death Metal
The Greek death metal band's album is out on 23 October, with Rotting Christ's Konstantinos Foukarakis among the guests and a cover by Andreas Marschall.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Thirty Years On, CRADLE OF FILTH Reissue 'Dusk… And Her Embrace' in a Coffin Box
Death Metal Black Metal
Music For Nations releases the anniversary edition on 30 October, on splattered vinyl and as a numbered coffin box CD with two bonus tracks.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
ELECTRIC CALLBOY Take the Tanzneid World Tour to Europe's Arenas in 2027, With BLOODYWOOD
Metalcore
Twenty-one dates from Dublin's 3Arena on 21 January to Gliwice on 4 March, including Co-op Live in Manchester and the Accor Arena in Paris.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026
CORONER Remaster 'The Favorite Game' From Their 1995 Compilation for a New EP
Thrash Metal
The song comes with a music video and appears on 'Ex Nucleo (The Remastered Extraction)', out on 18 September through Sanctuary Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026
Brent Hinds' Estate Sues MASTODON, Says an $80,000 Buyout Check Came With No Accounting
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The complaint, filed in Fulton County, also objects to a recognisable image of Hinds on the artwork of 'Marrow Deep', a record he did not play on.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 10, 2026
LOST SOCIETY and Hokka Announce a Two-Week European Tour for February
Thrash Metal Metalcore
Nine dates from Hamburg to Berlin, with a London show at The Dome. The two Finnish bands just released a song together.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 10, 2026
HARLOTT Release 'Exsequiis', Their First Album in Six Years
Thrash Metal
The Melbourne thrash band's fifth album is out on Metal Blade Records, which is streaming it in full.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 10, 2026