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BLACK SABBATH and IRON MAIDEN Send Four Men to a Texas Horror Convention
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Bill Ward, Geezer Butler, Bruce Dickinson and Nicko McBrain are all booked for Texas Frightmare Weekend in Irving next May.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
METAL ALLEGIANCE Book Anaheim Again, With Seven Guests Named
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The House of Blues show on 28 January 2027 brings in Fredrik Akesson, Bobby Blitz, John Bush, Marty Friedman, Todd La Torre and Troy Sanders.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
Gene Hoglan Will Drum for DARK ANGEL and DEATH To All on the Same Nights
Thrash Metal
The two bands tour Australia together in January 2027, and the one drummer who plays in both says the flights are the problem, not the drumming.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 23, 2026
SLAYER Play Reign In Blood Whole, Forty Years On, in Mexico City
Thrash Metal
The album came out on 7 October 1986 and was played in order on 21 October at the Palacio De Los Deportes, with Power Trip supporting.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 23, 2026
KREATOR Dig Out Footage of Themselves in Tuttlingen in 1987
Thrash Metal
Film of the band playing Blind Faith at a very early show, shot by Oliver Barth and put out by the band almost forty years later.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 22, 2026
SUICIDE SILENCE Send Out a Third Song From Graceless and Film the Drums
Deathcore
Reminders Of Hell is the third track revealed from the eighth album, and it arrives with a drum playthrough by Ernie Iniguez.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 22, 2026
ABSOLUTE DARKNESS Close Their Second Album With a Vio-lence Cover
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Bay Area band are streaming all ten songs a day early, and the last of them is World In A World from Oppressing The Masses.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
NEKROGOBLIKON Film Their Twentieth Birthday in Kelowna and Calgary
Death Metal Folk Metal
The video for The Boiling Sea was shot on the anniversary tour the band are headlining with Aborted and Signs Of The Swarm.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
KALT VINDUR Name Their Black Metal After the Hills They Live In
Doom Metal Black Metal
In Silence previews The Void Of Time, out on 27 November, from a Polish band who call what they play Subcarpathian black metal.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
ASSUMPTION Turn a Stalled Album Into Zeno's Arrow
Death Metal Doom Metal
The title track of the Italian band's third album, out on 13 November through 20 Buck Spin, came out of the limbo around their last record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
NOCTIFERIA Put a Second Song From Axiom I Out Before Their Thirtieth Year
Death Metal Black Metal
Paradox Redux follows Aeon Shift from the eighth album, out on 20 November, the first the Slovenians have made with a new singer in two decades.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
MAR DE GRISES Go Back to Season of Mist for a Fourth Album in 2027
Death Metal Doom Metal
Sixteen years after Streams Inwards, the Chilean band have re-signed with the label that released it, with the record due next year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
MACHINE HEAD and Reece Scruggs Part on the Terms He Wanted
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The guitarist who left the 2025 tour when his father was diagnosed with cancer has confirmed his exit, and has a new band ready.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
NILE's Karl Sanders Had His Neck Fused and Goes Back on Tour in Eight Weeks
Death Metal
The guitarist says the scans showed a real risk of paralysis, that recovery is going well, and that he will not headbang on a stage again.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 22, 2026
CRYPTORIUM Reach a Second Album Four Years After Forming
Death Metal
Concrete Interment is the eighth song on Through the Bowels of Ceaseless Dissonance, which Transcending Obscurity release on 30 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
TEMPLE OF VOID Film Godless Cynic Seven Months After the Album
Death Metal Doom Metal
Relapse have put out a music video for the second song on The Crawl, the album the Detroit band released back in March.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
LEX LEGION Have Eleven Songs and Enough Left Over for Two More Albums
Heavy Metal
Four fifths of King Diamond's late eighties band say drums start in two weeks and the second album could land next August.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
BLASPHEMANIAC Name Vulcano and Sarcofago Before Anyone European
Thrash Metal Black Metal
A second preview from Ataque Diabolico a Sacralidade Brasileira, out on 25 November, the band's first album since 2021.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026