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PANTERA Sign 666 Copies of a Book of Ross Halfin's Photographs
Heavy Metal Groove Metal
Three hundred pages, an A3 format, and every one of the 666 numbered copies signed by the four men currently touring.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
SILVERTOMB Take a Third Song Off The Interpretation Of Nightmares
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Brain Matter, No God is out with a lyric video, four weeks before the album itself arrives on 13 November through SPV.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
HEIMDALLS WACHT Put Another Song Out Two Weeks Before the Album
Black Metal
Runes To Heal, Weapons To Cure comes from the ninth album, which Talheim Records are putting out on 31 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
Shane Embury Writes ABSOLUTE POWER's New Song About a Village
Heavy Metal
The second song from an album due on 6 November, and the subject is a teenager in rural England before the internet.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
SVARTSOT Headline Europe in February With Two Support Bands
Folk Metal
The Danish band take Trold from home and Morgarten from Switzerland out with them across Europe in February next year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
ARCHON ANGEL Date a Third Album for 11 December
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Zak Stevens of Savatage and the guitarist Aldo Lonobile put the title track out ahead of an album due in December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
THE MONOLITH DEATHCULT Call Their Own Last Album a Failure
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
The announcement is written against the band, and the new song is a return to what they call pompous trainwrecks.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
A NIGHT IN TEXAS Take Twenty Four European Dates With Kanine
Deathcore
The run starts on 10 February in Luxembourg and the two bands split the headline slot across twenty four shows.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
CARNIFEX Hand Album Ten to Whitechapel's Guitarist
Deathcore
More Than Misery arrives on 6 November, their first record for Sumerian Records, with Zach Householder producing it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 16, 2026
BREAKDOWN OF SANITY Take One-Way Mirror Off a Ten Year Gap
Metalcore
Reveries lands on 6 November and it will be the first full length record the Swiss band have put out in a whole decade.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 16, 2026
VANISHING POINT Tie Sirens Back to Dead Elysium
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The second song from the album due on 20 November, and the guitarist says it carries on directly from the last record.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
SACRAL RAGE Date a Third Album and Write a Novella for It
Power Metal Speed Metal
Ark Of Cosmic Resonance arrives on 27 November through No Remorse, with a science fiction novella attached to it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Put Acquired Immunity on 4 December
Symphonic Metal
The second album arrives on 4 December through Massacre Records, five years after the self titled one came out.
Robin Aalto · Oct 16, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Close North America With Fifteen Shows and Four Words
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Toronto on 29 August to San Antonio on 29 September, fifteen shows in all, and then four words: we must do it again some time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine Enters the Times List at Number Four
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
In My Darkest Hour went in at number four on the hardcover nonfiction list, in the same year as the final album and the final tour.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
KING BUFFALO Film Vagabond Inside the Studio They Built
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The second song from Doomsayer was recorded in the new room the band built themselves, and it was filmed in that same room.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 16, 2026
ARCHITECTS' Sam Carter Says the Comments Took the Singing Away
Metalcore
Twenty years of screaming, and a year of online judgment which he says has taken away his ability to do it on a stage at all.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 16, 2026
EXTINCTION A.D. Take Feed My Frankenstein Off Wayne's World
Thrash Metal Hardcore
A 1991 Alice Cooper song, covered by a crossover thrash band that has put out something new nearly every month this year.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 16, 2026