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SEVEN METAL SINS Go From Forming to a Festival Stage in Two Years
Heavy Metal Power Metal
A live video from Mennecy Metal Fest, filmed by a French band that did not exist before April 2024 and has one album out.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
TE DEUM Reach a Fourth Album Thirty One Years After Forming
Death Metal Doom Metal
Gates to the Unknown arrives on 20 November through Moon Records, opening with Funeral Song, from a band that has lost decades to hiatus.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
IRON SAVIOR Call Their New Single the Most Commercial Song on the Album
Power Metal Speed Metal
Piet Sielck says so himself about Climbing Higher, from Deathbringer, out on 13 November in the band's thirtieth year.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
GOLGOTHAN REMAINS Date a Third Album for 20 November
Death Metal
Born From Darkness Absolute runs seven songs, arrives through Dark Descent on 20 November, and opens with An Emanation of Exorcism.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
REVENANT Come Back With Four of the Men Who Made One Album
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The New Jersey band who released one album in 1991 have reformed with four original members and a drummer from Prime Evil.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 22, 2026
ORBIT CULTURE and ARMORED SAINT Added to Into The Grave 2027
Death Metal Groove Metal
The Leeuwarden festival adds six bands, with Orbit Culture back after 2023 and Armored Saint arriving for the first time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 22, 2026
Pensees Nocturnes Build a Lost Archive Around Their Eighth Album
Black Metal
Et Merde is the first song from Alignement Desastre, an album five years in the making and wrapped in an invented archive.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
MANNTRA Date Wild Hunt for Christmas Day and Bring In Fabienne Erni
Folk Metal
The title track of the Croatian band's next album arrives with Eluveitie's Fabienne Erni singing on it, five weeks before the record.
Robin Aalto · Oct 22, 2026
MISERY INDEX Put Overthrow Back on Vinyl With a Split Attached
Death Metal Grindcore
The debut EP returns on 15 December with a new vinyl master and three songs from the 2002 split with Commit Suicide.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Will Not Say What Follows Run For Your Lives
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Rod Smallwood, 47 years into managing the band, declines to say what comes after the tour, and gives an update on Nicko McBrain.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 22, 2026
BROKEN BY THE SCREAM Sold Out Seven of Thirteen European Shows
Death Metal Metalcore
Parallel Universe is the four vocalist band's second Metal Blade single, out after a European run that sold out most of its headline dates.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 22, 2026
ENDLESS CHAIN Put Two Voices Against Each Other on Save Me
Gothic Metal
The third song from Nothingness, out on 20 November through M-Theory Audio, sets Ville Hovi and Aki Salonen against one another.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
UNDERWATER FATHER Reach a First Album Two Years After Forming
Death Metal Black Metal
Karsimysten Tie is the first song from a debut album Inverse Records have pencilled in for early 2027, from a band formed in 2024.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
DEAD END FINLAND Build Carbon Out of Two Years of Singles
Death Metal
Mercy of Fools joins Adrenaline, The Reason and Remembrance on Carbon, the sixth album, which Inverse Records release on 12 March.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
DREAD WITCH Put Cult Out on Halloween and Lead With Altar
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
The Aarhus band's second album arrives on 31 October through three labels at once, with Sofia Schmidt guesting on the song Altar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
BOKKERIJDERS Give Away the Whole Debut a Day Early
Black Metal
Crush Kill Destroy is streaming in full before Personal Records release it on 23 October, five years after the band formed in Ghent.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
DISCHORDIA Name the Fourth Album Nocturne and Leave the Date Blank
Death Metal
The Oklahoma City trio follow Triptych with Nocturne on Transcending Obscurity, announced with The Path Of The Hunter and no release date.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026
RESIN TOMB Send Out Ancestral Agony From the January Album
Death Metal Sludge Metal
The sixth of eight songs from Fetid Existence, the Brisbane band's second album, which Transcending Obscurity release on 15 January 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 22, 2026