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GRADIENCE Book Six UK Dates in March With SURVIVALIST Alongside Them
Metalcore Nu Metal
The duo take Anomaly to Britain for the first time, with Survivalist co-headlining a run that starts in Huddersfield on 2 March.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 20, 2026
ODIOUS SANCTION Return With a Third Album Twenty Years After the Second
Death Metal Hardcore
The Shield of Mind opens Overwhelming Hatred for Humanity, out on 31 October through Unique Leader, with Immolation's drummer behind the kit.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
KILTHRASH Get Their Second Album Into Europe, Ten Months After Chile
Thrash Metal
Enjambre Asesino came out in Chile last December and now has a European edition through Selvajaria Records, sung entirely in Spanish.
Robin Aalto · Oct 20, 2026
LIGHTS TO REMAIN Open Their Second Album With a Song About a Rescue Dog
Death Metal
Into the Unknown was the first song the current line-up wrote, and the video was filmed with the animal shelter the band chose to work with.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 20, 2026
DESPISED ICON, CARNIFEX and SUFFOCATION Lose an Opener Ten Days Out
Deathcore
Gates To Hell have pulled out of the European and UK run citing unforeseen circumstances, and two bands have been found to cover it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
DELAIN Lose Their Singer and Decide Not to Replace One at All
Symphonic Metal
Diana Leah has left after years with the band, and the next album will be sung by a rotating cast of guests instead of a new vocalist.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
SOMN Put Four Songs on an Album About Obedience and Give One Away
Black Metal
Swarming Mass runs past eight minutes and is the second piece of Consecration, which AOP Records release on 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
WINGLESS Cut a Two Minute Song for the Room, Not the Record
Death Metal Doom Metal
The second preview of Vision Beyond Form was written for a stage, and it arrives with a singer who joined at the start of the year.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
DEVOURER Book Their First Concert for April, Twenty Five Years After Starting
Black Metal
Astral Attrition is also the first song John Falk did not write, and the band have a drummer and a second guitarist for the stage.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
GOATBURNER Join Napalm Death for Twenty Six Cities From 6 November
Death Metal Grindcore
The Finnish duo open the Campaign For Musical Destruction run in Nuremberg, with Master and Brat on the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
ARTIFICIAL BRAIN Send a Second Song Out From Antillia, Due 13 November
Death Metal
Planet: Carrion follows the first preview of a record Colin Marston mastered and Ian Jacyszyn put to tape for Profound Lore.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
A Dollar a Ticket: DIO Rules Book Three Halloween Nights for the Cancer Fund
Heavy Metal
Six shows this year have reached nearly two thousand people, and every ticket sold sends a dollar to the Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
CRUZADA Set Leyendas for 22 January, Forty Years After the Song It Looks Back At
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Fourteen tracks on Art Gates Records from a Catalan band that formed in 1984 and took thirty six years to make its first album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 19, 2026
HELGRIND Sign to Time To Kill for a Fifth Album, Twenty Six Years In
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Shadows of Souls has ten tracks and a label behind it, and nothing else yet: no release date, no first song and no artwork.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 19, 2026
SLEEP TOKEN Break a Year of Silence to Say a Name Is Not Theirs to Lend
Progressive Metal
A band built on anonymity has issued a rare public statement saying no outside project carries its blessing, and named nobody at all.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 19, 2026
CHAOS MOTION End a Seven Year Silence With Paroxysmal Entity
Death Metal Avant-garde Metal
The Mexican duo, now working out of France, open their self titled second album for Transcending Obscurity after seven years away.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
MOTORIK ROAD TRIP Set Their Second Album for 27 November, All of It Instrumental
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Perceptions from a Dark Earth runs eight tracks and forty four minutes, with no vocals on any of them, out through Octopus Rising and Argonauta.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
MACABRE DEMISE Break Three Years of Quiet With Smile While You Rot
Brutal Death Metal
The Bavarian brutal death metal band put out their first new song since the 2023 album, again through Slam Worldwide.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026