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SPARTAN Give Alcibiades the Last Word on His Own Betrayals
Power Metal Death Metal
The second of five singles that will add up to a concept EP, each one a portrait of a figure from the Peloponnesian War.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
FRAUGHT Cut Their Next Album Into Three and Release the First Piece
Death Metal Black Metal
Two songs on 7 November through Apocalyptic Witchcraft, the opening instalment of a record the Dublin band are putting out in thirds.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
WARHAMMER Name the Fourth Album After the Greek Word for Pain
Thrash Metal Death Metal
ALGOS runs eleven songs, took three years, and puts a saxophone where a black death record does not usually have one.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
JEWEL THRONE Sign to Wormholedeath and Date a Five Track EP
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Obsidian Sculptor arrives on 27 November, two years after a debut album the band put out without a label behind them.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 17, 2026
TROLLFEST Answer the AI Complaints by Making the Same Clip Again
Folk Metal
After the first version drew criticism for its generated imagery, the band made a second one and said it contains no Super Intelligence.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
URARV Put the Whole of Nychta Psychis Up to Stream
Black Metal
Thirty two minutes, five songs, three of them past the seven minute mark, streaming through the label's own channel.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
ENTOMBED's Nicke Andersson Signs a Solo Album to Sound Pollution
Death Metal Death 'n' Roll
Nearly forty years in, the man who drummed on Left Hand Path is making a record on which he plays everything and draws the sleeve.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 17, 2026
MEGADETH's Tornado of Souls Solo Is Not Marty Friedman's Favourite
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The guitarist says the most quoted solo he ever played is no better than anything else he has done, and offers a theory about why it stuck.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
SLIPKNOT Are Recording Many, Many Songs, Eloy Casagrande Says
Nu Metal
The drummer told a Colombian station the sessions are producing a lot of material and that nobody in the room is thinking about how it will land.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
DECISION Set Chaos for 6 November and Play It the Same Night
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The Belgian band put out The New World Order ahead of a first album on Gio Smet Records, with the release show booked for the day it lands.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
PLAGUE OF ANGELS Release the Huddersfield Concert With the Organ In It
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
The December concert with organist David Pipe is out as a live album and as a full video, with the town hall organ written into the arrangements.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
BLACK ALTAR Mark Thirty Years With Qliphotic Death Acolyte
Black Metal
The second video from a thirty year retrospective that Odium Records put out on 30 November, with new songs alongside remastered old ones.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Release Steelmachine and Go Straight Out on Tour
Heavy Metal
The third album is out on CD, coloured vinyl and digitally, and the band open for Mystic Prophecy and Iron Savior from 13 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
SHORES OF NULL Put the Heaviest Song on Homesick Out as a Video
Death Metal Doom Metal
The Numbing Void arrives with the album, with Natalie Koskinen singing on it and Shaun MacGowan playing violin.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
FUSION BOMB Break Three Years of Silence With Unison
Thrash Metal
A three and a half minute single put out with no label behind it, the first new music from the Luxembourg band since 2023.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
DEMON BITCH Play Their First Finnish Shows in November
Heavy Metal
Three club dates in Lahti, Joensuu and Jyväskylä, the Detroit band's first in the Nordics and their only European shows this year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 17, 2026
GOMORRA Date a Third Album and Open It With Supreme Hate
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Blood of the Innocent arrives on 13 November through Noble Demon, and the first song from it is out with a video.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
SURVIVALIST Date Four Nails and Open It With a Song About Cancer
Metalcore Deathcore
The Belfast band release a four track EP on 13 November through Seek and Strike, led by a single written out of two family illnesses.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 17, 2026