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EXHORDER Cancel Three Dates and End Their Year There
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Omaha, Iowa City and Evansville are off, no reason has been given for any of them, and the band say album five is what comes next.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 16, 2026
TARJA Keeps Two Tango Demos Off the Internet on Purpose
Symphonic Metal
The song with Apocalyptica on it gets a ten inch single in November, and the two demos on the B side will not be streamed anywhere.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
MASTER BOOT RECORD Ship a Playable Game With the Single
Industrial Metal
PLUG AND PLAY arrives with a video and a demo you can actually play, from the album he wrote entirely in MIDI.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 15, 2026
CRO-MAGS Name the Re-Recorded Age Of Quarrel and Date It
Thrash Metal Hardcore
The whole album comes back on 13 November as The Age Of Quarrel: 40 Years Of Quarrel, with Turnstile's guitarist on one of the songs.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 15, 2026
GWAR Make an Album With a Drive-In Movie Host
Heavy Metal
Joe Bob Briggs is on it, John Brennan wrote the songs for them, and Pit Records put it on vinyl on 13 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
ABHORIA Write a Black Metal Song About a Newspaper Owner
Black Metal
The first song from a third album due in 2027, about the man who sent an expedition to the North Pole to fix his reputation.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
SAPROBIONTIC Put Apex Predators Out Before a Third Album
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
The Dresden band have a third record coming on 23 October, and this is the second song they have let out of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
NIGHT HAG Add a Second Guitarist and Get Slower
Death Metal Doom Metal
Their second album is out tomorrow on Rotted Life, it is streaming now, and it is the first thing they have recorded as a four piece.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
FIR BOLG Take Thirteen Years to Reach a Second Album
Black Metal
Thirteen songs on it, thirteen years after the first one, and a bouzouki where most black metal bands keep a second guitar.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT Put the Whole Debut Up a Day Early
Death Metal Black Metal
Forty one minutes of it, all seven tracks, up on YouTube the day before 20 Buck Spin release the record itself.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
CATALYST CRIME Put Chris Harms on Polaris
Symphonic Metal
The second track on an album that came out two weeks ago gets a video, with the singer of Lord of the Lost on it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
BLOODSHOTEYE Stopped in 2011 and Have Come Back to Finish One Song
Death Metal Deathcore
Sixteen years after the song closed their last album, the Ontario band have made the film for it, about the farm in British Columbia.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
KK'S PRIEST Give Away a Never Satisfied With Ripper Owens on It
Heavy Metal
The opening song from the 1974 Judas Priest debut, recorded again with Tim Owens singing it, and handed out as a free download.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
OBBROBRIUS Hand the Second Song From Usurped to Yog Sothoth
Death Metal
The second song from an album due on 6 November, and the first record this band have made with a label behind them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
PROPHECY Reach the Fourth Video From a Five Song EP
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
Monster is the third track on an EP that came out in September, and it is the fourth of those five songs to get a video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
VOIVOD's Nuclear Warrior Becomes Playable on 19 October
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
Chaosmonger Studio put a free demo of the Voivod game into Steam Next Fest from 19 to 26 October, with two modes in it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 15, 2026
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE's Francesco Paoli Has Had His Hand Rebuilt
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
Five years after the climbing accident, tissue from his hip was transplanted into his left hand, and he published the photographs himself.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 15, 2026
HEATHEN Fill In the Missing Date for Lifetime in Hell
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
The album arrives on 19 February 2027 through Napalm Records, which is the one thing the pre order did not say two days ago.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026