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WITHERED LAND Film a Song From an Album About Leaving Home
Black Metal
Imia Na Kamieni comes from Piesni vietru, out on 27 November, and the Belarusian band sing it in their own language.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
CRYSTAL BALL Reach Thirteen Albums Without Anyone Noticing
Heavy Metal
Good to the Bone is out through Massacre Records, from a Swiss band with thirteen albums behind it since 1998.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
CUTTERRED FLESH Keep Going Twenty Five Years Into Czech Death Metal
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
The Letter U is out through Transcending Obscurity, from a Karlovy Vary band with seven albums and a quarter of a century behind it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
GODSLUT Build Their Title Track Out of Several Broken Relationships
Death Metal
The fourth single from the Polish band's second album now has a film, and a fretless bass guest from an old band of the guitarist's.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
LENG TCH'E Put the Whole of Hammered into Collapse Up at Once
Grindcore
Season of Mist are streaming the whole of the EP, the Belgian band's first complete release after nine years of silence.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
MOTHER OF GRAVES Put a New Song on a Flexi Nobody Can Buy Separately
Death Metal Doom Metal
A Terrible Famine of Words goes out through the Decibel Flexi Series, and the only way to get it is a subscription before 31 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Put a Second Song Out and Fill In the Rest of Megacelestial
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Proficient Dreamer arrives with the full details of the fourth album, out on 11 December through Argonauta Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
VOMITORY Book Two Weeks of Asian Headline Shows
Death Metal
The Swedish band will play Asia across November and December, headlining, with most of the dates and venues now confirmed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
CHEMICIDE Name a Sixth Album and Put It on Listenable
Thrash Metal
Self Devour runs ten songs, arrives through Listenable Records in 2027, and was recorded across three studios in San Jose.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
MYSTIC PROPHECY Send Out Angels Are Falling From In Metal
Power Metal Thrash Metal
The lyric film is the next piece from a fourteenth album the band named In Metal and then refused to explain any further.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
DRAGONY Cover the Theme From a 1985 He-Man Film and Mean It
Power Metal
I Have the Power comes from The Secret of the Sword, and the Viennese band have been building this joke into their albums for a decade.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
Tony Iommi of BLACK SABBATH Puts Out From The Dark, With Jorn Lande Singing
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The album arrives today with Jorn Lande co-writing every song, Becky Baldwin on bass and Karl Brazil on drums.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
SIRENIA Mark Twenty Five Years With One Italian Date
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The Legend Club in Milan on 1 November is the band's only Italian stop on the anniversary tour, with Vallorch opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
END OF ABYSS Finally Put the Album Behind the Singles
Progressive Metal
Escape To A New Empire is out today through Inverse Records, after a run of singles that went on long enough to become the story.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
OERHEKS Write Four Songs About One Flemish River
Black Metal
De Stroom arrives on 24 November, forty one minutes in four tracks about the Demer valley, after five demos and no album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
NECRONAUTICAL Lead With the Last Song on the Record
Black Metal
Enemy of the Grave closes The Second Death, out on 4 December, and the Manchester band released it first on purpose.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
BLACK SABBATH Recorded a Song on 13 That Geezer Butler Had Never Heard
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Tony Iommi says Rick Rubin would only speak to him, and that one Monday the band recorded a song nobody else in the room knew.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 23, 2026
WOLF Measure Their Tenth Album Against One Side of a Cassette
Heavy Metal
Walpurgis Night is the third song from Hour of the Wolf, out on 20 November, an album the band wrote to a length rather than a plan.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026