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ORBITAL GATE Put Out Neurotic Biomechanical Abomination
Brutal Death Metal Slam
A lyric video for the next song from Engineering His Planetary Dominion, which the slam band release on 6 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
INSOMNIUM Put Three of Amorphis on The Hour Grows Late
Death Metal
Tomi Joutsen, Tomi Koivusaari and Santeri Kallio all appear on the song, and the video is built on a Finnish burial custom.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
SEPTICFLESH and DECAPITATED Take The Final Assault Tour Through Poland in March
Death Metal Black Metal
The two bands share the top of the bill for a Polish run next March, with Frontside and Damnation opening every night.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 17, 2026
SOMNENT Give Away King of Ruin, the Last Piece Before Heirloom
Death Metal Doom Metal
The final advance single from the third album is out as a lyric video, two weeks before the record itself arrives.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 17, 2026
APOTHEUS Send Key Keeper Ahead of a Science Fiction Concept Album
Progressive Metal
The fourth album arrives on 20 November and carries a story the band wrote themselves, published separately in text and in audio.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
KAT Close the Singles for Death Is Not Enough With Dark River
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The video premiered on Friday and the band say it is the last song they will give away before the album lands on 23 October.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
NEVERMORE's Bloodstock Set Comes Out as the Tour Fills Up
Progressive Metal Groove Metal
The River Dragon Has Come, filmed at Catton Park in August, is the first proper footage of this version of the band.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
INFANT ANNIHILATOR Date the First Album in Seven Years
Death Metal Deathcore
The record arrives on 1 December, announced with a teaser on Instagram and nothing else, seven years after the last one.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 17, 2026
SECRET RULE Date the Eleventh Album and Put a Breakdown In It
Symphonic Metal
The title track is out and the album arrives on 5 February through Rockshots, with more metalcore in it than before.
Robin Aalto · Oct 17, 2026
K.K. Downing on Ian Hill Leaving JUDAS PRIEST: I Would Be There Now
Heavy Metal
The guitarist who was turned down when Glenn Tipton stopped touring was asked about the bassist who has just retired.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 17, 2026
OBSCURA Cancel Three Mexican Shows and Name the Promoter as the Reason
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Mexico City, Monterrey and Durango are off after five shows, and the band say they will come back in 2027 with a different partner.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
IRON MAIDEN's Bruce Dickinson Sang The Trooper From Out of Sight in Quito
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The flares in the crowd were venting straight at the stage, so he finished the song where the smoke could not reach him.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
DORO Writes a Ballad for the Winter Tour and Calls It a Second Forever
Heavy Metal
The second new song from Wild At Heart, out ahead of the Winter Magic tour, which starts on the 11th of December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
SINISTER Open Lucid Nightmares With The Strangulation
Death Metal
The first song from the next album by a Dutch band that has been making death metal since the late nineteen eighties.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
INSOMNIUM Put Three Men From Amorphis on One Song
Death Metal
Tomi Joutsen, Tomi Koivusaari and Santeri Kallio all guest on the song, which arrived on the same day as the album.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
DISMA Sign to Hells Headbangers and Hand Over the Back Catalogue
Death Metal
A second album in the first half of 2027, fifteen years after the first, and the label takes the old records too.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 16, 2026
MEGADETH Take Anthrax and Kerry King Out on the Next Run
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Then Black Label Society and Testament in Europe, and before any of it New Zealand, Australia and Korea again.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Cancel Their Break and Add Sixteen More American Shows
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Spring 2027, sixteen shows, the regions the last leg missed, and two festival headline slots at the end of it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026