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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
Turmion Katilot Land a Twelfth Album and Lead With Nae Minut
Industrial Metal
Resodance is out through Nuclear Blast, produced by Mikko Tegelman with the band, with a video for Nae Minut to open it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 23, 2026
MENTAL CRUELTY Hide a CHILDREN OF BODOM Tribute in a Song Title
Deathcore
Echoes of a Forlorn Land is out today through Century Media, and the initials of Cry Of Batariel spell C.O.B. entirely on purpose.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 23, 2026
HOSTILIA Reach a Second Album Five Years After Two Brothers Started It
Thrash Metal
The Curse of Khamun is out today through Hammerheart, nine songs about war, Italian horror cinema and the curse of Tutankhamun.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
FRONTIERER Put Fourteen Songs of Ultraviolet Parasite Out at Once
Metalcore Hardcore
The album is out, with a video for Ions and Oxygen Rockets and a November tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland with Car Bomb.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 23, 2026
BIPOLAR ARCHITECTURE Date a Third Album for February on Pelagic
Post-Metal
The Worrier arrives on 19 February 2027, and Vanity Fair is the first song from a band that works between Berlin and Istanbul.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
ADVERSOR Put a Fourth Album Behind a Song About Following Orders
Thrash Metal
This Mortal Coil arrives on 6 November, and the song previewing it is about people who hand their judgement to whoever is in charge.
Robin Aalto · Oct 23, 2026
AGRICULTURE Put the Whole Roadburn Set Online, Not Just the Record
Black Metal
Alexander van der Wallen's footage of the complete performance follows the live album that was cut from the same night.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 23, 2026
DEAFHEAVEN Open Eight American Dates for Interpol in March
Black Metal
The run starts in New Orleans on 16 March and ends in Sayreville on the 27th, two years after the bands shared a song.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026