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TORII Date an Eighth Album for 18 December and Release It Alone
Death Metal Doom Metal
Ten songs, self-released, from a one-man band in Arkansas who have put out seven albums in fourteen years without a label.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
MINENFELD Name Nine Songs After Wars and Close With Hellhammer
Death Metal
The second album is out on two labels at once, with a Hellhammer cover where a band would normally put its own closer.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
MORBID INTENT Put Out Marionettes and Two Videos With It
Death Metal
Five songs on Inverse Records from an Oulu band still without a full album, and the label has streamed the whole thing.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
FORBIDDEN Warn That the New Album Is Not Only Thrash Metal
Thrash Metal
Craig Locicero says the first record in sixteen years is as much heavy metal and prog as it is thrash, and that this was always the band's lane.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 18, 2026
NERVOSA Pull Off the Xentrix Tour Over Prika Amaral's Health
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The band withdraw from the UK and Ireland run behind Xentrix, and say the 2027 North American dates with Castrator are not affected.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 18, 2026
THE HEATHEN SCŸTHE Sign to Combat Records and Spend Three Days Filming It
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Carmina Pagani is their first release for the label and the next chapter of a story set six hundred years after the end of the world.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
AETHERIAN Build a Third Album Out of Four Empires Falling
Death Metal
Fall of Civilization arrives on 21 January with no label behind it, and the first song follows an empire into somebody else's forest.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
DEFECTS Put Out Artificial Icons and a Song Aimed at One Commenter
Metalcore
The second album is out through Mascot, and the lyric video that marks it came from somebody telling people online not to listen to the band.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 18, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Headline Sonic Temple on 14 May, the First Name on the 2027 Bill
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The festival runs 13 to 16 May at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, and the band play the Friday as one of nearly 150 acts.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 18, 2026
OSYRON Open a Self-Titled Album With a Song About Getting Out
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Telos arrives ahead of the album of the same name as the band, which Distortion Music Group release on 27 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
UHRITULET Release Ruumissavotta Tomorrow, Seven Songs and One in English
Black Metal
The second album arrives on Monday through Purity Through Fire as a CD digipak, and the last song on it breaks the Finnish.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
APES OF GOD Date Another EP and Put It Out Themselves
Thrash Metal Death Metal
God's Death and the Void arrives on 2 December with no label behind it, and Nihilistic Ecstasy is already up with a lyric video.
Robin Aalto · Oct 18, 2026
MOTÖRHEAD Remix Built For Speed and Reopen the Orgasmatron Argument
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
The fortieth anniversary reissue arrives on 6 November with a Cameron Webb remix, and the reason for it is stated plainly.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 18, 2026
DAY OF DOOM Break Four Years of Silence With a Five Song EP
Death Metal
The Quiet Design is the first thing the Long Island band have released since Doomed in 2022, and Unseen Among has a video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
BURNING CREATION Drop the Melody and Send the Undead Nation Back Out
Death Metal
The second album arrives on 13 November through Via Nocturna, with the band moving away from the melodic side they started on.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
SINISTER Open the Fifteenth Album With The Strangulation
Death Metal
Lucid Nightmares arrives on 13 November through Massacre Records with ten songs, and the first of them is out now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 18, 2026
ASH OF ASHES Send The River Ahead of a Seven Song Third Album
Folk Metal Viking Metal
All Must Wither arrives on 30 October with seven songs, the last of them over seventeen minutes long, longer than the four before it together.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
AEGROR Meant Reign Of Disease to Be the Last One, Then Got a Deal
Death Metal Black Metal
Wormholedeath reissue the 2025 album on 8 January with a bonus track, after the response to it talked the band out of stopping.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 17, 2026