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BLACK TRIP Play Revolucion Live in the Studio, Twenty Nine Years In
Death Metal
The Mexico City band filmed a session take of a song from Balas de Honor, their second album in twenty nine years of work.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
MANIFESTATIONS Put a Beatdown Single Out Through Slam Worldwide
Deathcore
The Gary five piece follow the Welcome 2 Gary EP with a video for Now You're Dead, carried as an exclusive by Slam Worldwide.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 19, 2026
ORPHANED LAND Take Their Orchestra Show Out of the Middle East for the First Time
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Israeli band will play their Exclusive Orchestra Show on the January cruise, with Starkill and Vintersorg added to the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
Rock Hard Festival Open 2027 With TRIPTYKON Playing Monotheist
Death Metal Doom Metal
Seven names for the Pentecost weekend in Gelsenkirchen, including two separate Aaron Stainthorpe projects on the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 19, 2026
APOCALYPTICA Collect American Certifications Nineteen Years Late
Heavy Metal Symphonic Metal
Worlds Collide is gold in the United States and I Don't Care is double platinum, for a record that came out in 2007.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 19, 2026
OZZY OSBOURNE Left Unreleased Songs, and Andrew Watt Cannot Listen to Them
Heavy Metal
The producer says recordings exist and that a release has been discussed, and describes the last night he spent with the singer.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 19, 2026
SLIPKNOT's Wembley Support Slot for MARILYN MANSON Draws a Councillor's Objection
Nu Metal
Anton Georgiou of Brent Council has asked the stadium to reconsider, and the council says it has no control over who is booked.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 19, 2026
MINISTRY End With an Album on 30 October and a Farewell Tour in 2027
Industrial Metal
Al Jourgensen says the band have gone as far as the genre allows, and that another record would only repeat this one.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 19, 2026
SAARKOTH Date Terra Mortua for 4 December and Put It Out Themselves
Black Metal
Seven songs from an English melodic black metal band working without a label, with Scribes Of Death already up as a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
IAPETUS Build a Third Album Out of Two Songs and Five Others
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Mother Void is out on Willowtip and runs past sixty minutes, with Aniara and TON taking up more than half of it between them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 19, 2026
SALIVA Put Out Rivers a Year to the Day After Sam Rivers Died
Nu Metal
The song for the late Limp Bizkit bassist was already on the August album; the video arrived on the anniversary of his death.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 19, 2026
VIRGIN STEELE Have a Next Record on Tape Already, Says David DeFeis
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The follow-up to The Passion Of Dionysus is being assembled, and the guitarist missing from recent shows turns out to have chosen to stay home.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 18, 2026
KAMELOT's Roy Khan Transposes The Black Halo Down a Step or Two
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The singer says some songs come down one or two half steps on the Latin American tour, and that his first solo album is due in 2027.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 18, 2026
METALLICA Give Harvester of Sorrow Its First Sphere Airing
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The sixth Las Vegas residency show added another live debut, and three songs from And Justice for All ended up in the set.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 18, 2026
SUFFOCATION Play Five Iberian Dates From 21 October With Ingested
Death Metal
Bilbao, Madrid, Lisbon, Alicante and Barcelona in five days, with Ingested, Undeath and Eternal on every night.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 18, 2026
STORMBRINGER Follow the Fifth Album With a Video for Grow
Heavy Metal Stoner Metal
Transcendence is out on Attic Records, and the band who reached the Bloodstock main stage have put a second song from it on screen.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
BOOK OF WYRMS Date Megacelestial for 11 December
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The fourth album arrives in December and the second song from it, Proficient Dreamer, came with the announcement.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
FADING LIGHT Send Poltergeist Ahead of a First Album in November
Black Metal Symphonic Metal
The second single from The Spell of a New Dawn, which Apostasy Records release on 13 November as the band's debut.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026