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THE ERINYES Keep All Three Singers for a Second Album in December
Symphonic Metal
Justine Daae, Mizuho Lin and Nicoletta Rosellini return to share the lead on Hide And Seek, out through Frontiers on 18 December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
CHAOSBAY Sign to Metal Blade With Four Albums Already Behind Them
Progressive Metal Metalcore
The Berlin band go to the American label after a decade of releasing their own records, with a fifth album due in March.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 20, 2026
SINISTER Reach a Fifteenth Album, Out on 13 November
Death Metal
The Strangulation opens Lucid Nightmares, ten tracks of the Dutch band's traditional death metal, with Adrie Kloosterwaard still at the centre.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
BRUJERIA Add Seven Iberian Dates in November Before the March Tour
Death Metal Grindcore
Five headlining shows in Spain and two in Portugal come weeks before the sixteen city European run already booked for March.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
KEKAL Open an Album Called Kanata With Deception Station
Avant-garde Metal
Jeff Arwadi recorded, mixed and mastered the song himself, and the album it belongs to has neither a date nor a label yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
NORDJEVEL Set Damnous for 11 December With Fredrik Nordstrom Mixing
Black Metal
The fourth Nordjevel album arrives through Season Of Mist, recorded across two studios and finished at Studio Fredman.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
FUSION BOMB Name Serhii Bondar as Their Full Time Bass Player
Thrash Metal
The Luxembourg thrash band have filled the bass seat permanently, days after putting out the single Unison that Billy Kauffmann mixed.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
CHILDREN OF BODOM Take the Laiho Tribute Tour to Mystic Festival
Power Metal Death Metal
The surviving members reassembled this year with Samy Elbanna of Lost Society singing, and Gdansk has them for the anniversary run.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
DELAIN Answer the Empty Microphone With Three Singers on One Song
Symphonic Metal
We Are Fire has Fabienne Erni, Noa Gruman and Paolo Ribaldini on it, and the wider cast runs to Marko Hietala and Sharon den Adel.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
ANCIIENTS Make Their Keyboard Player a Member After Fifteen Tracks of Synths
Progressive Metal
Justin Hagberg came in to play on an Alan Parsons cover, stayed for the album, and has now joined the band outright.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
WAYFARER Bring Munly J Munly Onto the Third Song From Riders of the Setting Sun
Black Metal Folk Metal
The Colorado band hand a verse to a Denver songwriter from well outside metal, on a record Ben Chisholm produced.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
GRAND HARVEST Send Dawnwaster Out Ahead of an Album Called Home
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Swedish death doom band have a third album on the way and a video for its newest song, directed and cut by David Elg.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
KING'S HAMMER Put Out a Second Record in a Year, All of It One Man
Death Metal
Chuck Weatherman wrote, played, recorded, mixed and mastered Breathing New Life himself, eight months after the debut album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
UPON SHADOWS Open an Eighth Album From Uruguay With a Luciferian Song
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The Great Shadow is the first piece of Golden Flame, which the duo plan for 2027, and Tony Lindgren mastered it in Sweden.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
VETTEN ÄPÄRÄT Break Ten Years of Silence With a Song Called Mother
Folk Metal
The Helsinki band follow a 2016 debut with a second album next year, and open it with a song about a child escaping a violent home.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
New Metal Releases: 20 to 26 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
87 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Thrash Metal across 38 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
MESHUGGAH Go to Sonic Temple in the Year They Turn Forty
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
The Swedish band join Testament and Sylosis on a bill that already has Iron Maiden headlining, with the full line-up due later this week.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
ABYTHIC Sign to Memento Mori for a Fourth Album
Death Metal
The German death metal band move to the Spanish label for their next full length, after three albums and an EP through Iron Bonehead.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 20, 2026