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ASGRAUW Give Away the Last Song on Solips Before the Record Arrives
Black Metal
Nadirflux closes the eighth track album, out on 12 November, and is the third song the band have made public from it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
OVERKILL Go to Basinfirefest for the First Time, With Three Czech Decades Around Them
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The four day festival in Spalene Porici runs from 23 to 26 June 2027, with Metal Church and Sanctuary also on the international wave.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
EVIL INVADERS Could Not Agree on a Single, So the Album Says Why
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
Weaponized Chaos arrives on 19 February through Napalm, with Francesco Paoli producing again and D.S.S. opening it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
MOONSPELL Take God Is a Vampire to Belgrade With IOTUNN Under Them
Gothic Metal
The Portuguese band play Zappa Barka on 2 April 2027, with Iotunn as special guests and the Spanish duo TodoMal opening.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
IGNEA Put Two Voices on the Last Song Before Monumental
Symphonic Metal
Britta Gortz of Hiraes sings against Helle Bohdanova on Harmony Manufactured, the fourth song made public days before the album arrives.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
LOVE SEX MACHINE Send a Second Song Out Before Thriving
Sludge Metal
Borrow the Will follows the first preview of the album Pelagic Records release on 13 November, from the quartet out of Lille.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
KORN and IRON MAIDEN Headline Boardwalk Rock, Back After a Year Off
Nu Metal
The festival returns to Ocean City on 14 to 16 May 2027, with Korn opening the weekend and Bad Omens on the second night.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
LACUNA COIL Mark Twenty Years of Karmacode by Recutting Fragile
Gothic Metal
Fragile XX is a new version of the Karmacode song, released with a SWARM remix of a track from last year's album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
SOILWORK Put Out a New Song in the Middle of the Anniversary Tour
Death Metal Metalcore
Night Whispers & Shining Lights arrives while the band are on the road in Europe with Amon Amarth, in the year they turn thirty.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
ONE STEP CLOSER Set Zero for February and Give Away Two Songs at Once
Hardcore
The Wilkes-Barre band return to Run For Cover with a third album, announced with two singles and a single video covering both.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 21, 2026
DOPETHRONE Close a Three Part Tour With Fourteen Dates in January
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Conjurer, -(16)- and Armed for Apocalypse join the Canadian trio for the last leg of the Uniworse run, starting 27 January.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 21, 2026
HELLRIPPER Put an Arctic Monkeys B Side on a Covers EP
Speed Metal Black Metal
The three track EP is out through Century Media, with two Zeke covers already known and a third that nobody saw coming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 21, 2026
FORBIDDEN Clear the Last Song Two Days Before the Album and the Tour
Thrash Metal
Single Point Failure is the final preview of the self-titled record, out on Friday, the same night the headlining tour starts in Las Vegas.
Robin Aalto · Oct 21, 2026
YOB Head the Second Wave of Desertfest London, Across Five Rooms in May
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Eighteen more artists join the 21 to 23 May weekend, with Kylesa, Windhand and Lowen among them and the Roundhouse on the venue list.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
NAPALM DEATH Book the Campaign For Musical Destruction Again for 2027
Death Metal Grindcore
Misery Index, Author and Punisher, Habak and Piece join the winter run, a year after the 2026 leg of the same series.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
DISFEAR Give The Last Nail a Second Song Before 20 November
Hardcore
Shackled To Our Vice follows Early Graves from the album Relapse put out next month, the first Disfear record in eighteen years.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
PEELINGFLESH Send Crackology Out Five Weeks Before the Album
Brutal Death Metal Hardcore
The second preview of the self-titled record arrives with a visualizer, with Unique Leader releasing the album on 27 November.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 20, 2026
MACHINE HEAD Put Out Sutures With No Warning at All
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The song arrived unannounced, weeks after Robb Flynn talked about closing the UNATONED cycle, with Zack Ohren co-producing again.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026