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AETHER REALM Bring Taj Jewett In for Broken Fist, the Second From Season of Bloodshed
Death Metal Folk Metal
The North Carolina band's second preview of the December album arrives with a guest vocal and a video from Napalm Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
CREMATORY Hand Ravens Calling to Rolf Munkes at Wacken, and the Tape Surfaces
Death Metal Gothic Metal
Wacken's own crew filmed the thirty fifth anniversary set, and the song that got out has the guitarist singing it rather than Felix Stass.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
BAT Open the Vault for Cronos and Release a VENOM Cover Taped in 2015
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Recorded during the Wings Of Chains sessions and left unreleased for over ten years, the cover surfaced after Conrad Lant's death.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
SARCATOR Take a Third Song Off The Ones We Follow Three Days Early
Thrash Metal
Ain't Fit to Live is the last preview before Friday, when the Swedish band's fourth album arrives through Reigning Phoenix Music.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
CARNAL GHOUL Make Lenny Osterhus Permanent and Lead With Back to Decay
Death Metal
The Endseeker singer who guested on the debut joins for good, and the second album lands on 15 January through Testimony Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
BULLET-PROOF End Five Quiet Years With Scorpion and Promise More Singles
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The first new song since Cell XIX in 2021 comes out on Friday, written and recorded by Richard Hupka at home and mixed in London.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
MACHUKHA Open a UK Run in Brighton on 7 November and Send Severing Ahead
Black Metal
The Berlin based Ukrainian band tour Britain from 7 November with a new song out and a second album set for early 2027 on Lay Bare.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
TELEPATHY Fill the Blank Side of Tempest With Two New Recordings
Sludge Metal Post-Metal
The 2017 album comes back in January with a remaster, and the side that once held only an etching now carries two re-recorded songs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
ORDEATHRAL Give Medea Eight Songs and Write the Whole Thing in Verse
Black Metal
Ten years after their debut, the French band put out a second album told entirely in verse, with orchestrations from Studio Henosis.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
FORBIDDEN Tune Single Point Failure Back to Twisted Into Form
Thrash Metal
The second video from the self titled album puts the guitars back in standard E and builds a thrash song around an electromagnetic pulse.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
TOWARDS HELLFIRE Finish a Third Album for Early 2027
Death Metal Black Metal
Four years old, two albums out, and the Poznan band have already tracked a third with nothing but a season attached to it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
VOIDHANGER Put a Live Dyskretny Urok Upadku Online
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Polish trio's live footage from this year arrives between records, with nothing announced behind it and nothing needed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
YOTH IRIA Film Dare to Rebel and Line Up a March Run With THULCANDRA
Black Metal
The Greek band put a video to the opening song from Gone With The Devil and announce European dates in March with Thulcandra and Vorga.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
FINAL GASP Keep Aftermath Off New Day Symptoms and Put It on Floppy Vinyl
Gothic Metal
The Boston band's leftover from this year's album session goes out as a flexi disc with the November issue of Decibel and nowhere else.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
VOYAGER Follow Seen Better Days With a Single Called Secret
Progressive Metal
The Perth band's second standalone song in two years arrives with a video, and still no album has been named behind it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
COAL CHAMBER Lose Mikey Cox to a Shattered Femur Before the Halloween Show
Nu Metal
The drummer broke the bone in a pickup basketball game, needed surgery and three pins, and will not walk for six weeks after a year of chemo.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
ARMORED SAINT Looked for a Singer After John Bush Left, Then Stopped Looking
Heavy Metal
Phil Sandoval tells Eonmusic the band thought about replacing Bush in 1992 and dropped the idea almost as soon as they had it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
DYNAZTY Sign to Napalm Records and Date Dark Arts for March
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Swedish band's tenth album arrives on 5 March with twelve songs, a new label behind it and a support tour with Accept already booked.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 27, 2026