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NERUMIA Have Buried Two Members and Kept Going
Death Metal Black Metal
The Swiss project lost its co-founder in 2009 and a guitarist in 2022, finished that album with his solos, and has a new one now.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
HARPYIE Announce a Farewell Album and Call It the Flood
Folk Metal Metalcore
Nach uns die Sintflut arrives on 11 December and the band have said it is the last one, with the first song out now.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
VLAD IN TEARS Build a Double Album Called Undead
Gothic Metal
The new song arrives ahead of a double record due on 4 December through Metalville, and the band insist it is not a love song.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
SKANNERS Give Midnight Call Two Different Release Dates
Heavy Metal
Digital on 30 October and physical on 27 November, from an Italian band that has been going for more than forty years.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
EXTOL Aim Merciless Hunger at People Who Borrow Other People's Beliefs
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Norwegian band's new album arrives on 6 November, and this song is about ideology turned into a tool for control.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
NIGHTWISH and Floor Jansen Part Ways After Fourteen Years
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The band call it a mutual decision, say they will enter the studio in 2027, and have not named a replacement singer.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 15, 2026
STONED JESUS Answer Songs to Sun Sixteen Years Later
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Seven tracks on Season of Mist, and the title is a direct reply to the debut the band made as teenagers in Kyiv.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
MASTER Have Another Album Out on Friday
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Nine songs on Hammerheart, and the title track is the shortest thing on a record made by a man who started this in 1983.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
SHORES OF NULL Bring Homesick Out on Friday
Death Metal Doom Metal
Ten songs on Dusktone, three of them already filmed, from the band who once wrote a single lasting thirty eight minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
INSOMNIUM Put Netherworlds Out on Friday
Death Metal
Ten tracks through Century Media, two of them already out as singles, and the longest one on the record runs past eight minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
MOTUS TENEBRAE Reach Twenty Five Years With In Sorrow's Requiem
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
The Tuscan band put a film to one song off the new album, their sixth, a quarter of a century after they started.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
TORTURED DEMON Sign to BLKIIBLK a Week Before They Tour
Thrash Metal Metalcore
The English band announce a label, a single and a headline run in the same week, which is the order you want them in.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 15, 2026
UNDERDARK Write Their Heaviest Song About a Man of the People
Black Metal
The third album arrives on 6 November through Church Road, and the band say this is the most unforgiving thing they have recorded.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 15, 2026
Seven Death Metal Bands Take KING DIAMOND Apart
Heavy Metal
Death Metal Promotion put out a seven track homage on 18 December, with each band taking one song from the solo catalogue.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
CROWBAR Join Primus and Clutch at Sonic Temple 2027
Sludge Metal
The festival runs from 13 to 16 May at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, and the full bill is promised for next week.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 15, 2026
HATESPHERE Take a Third Song Off Guillotine
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The twelfth album came out last Friday, and the band are still releasing from it, this time with Tue Madsen's mix doing the work.
Robin Aalto · Oct 15, 2026
FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE's Francesco Paoli Has a New Hand
Death Metal Symphonic Metal
The Fleshgod Apocalypse singer has had reconstructive surgery, and the band built the possibility of a second one into the touring schedule.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 15, 2026
EXTERMINATION DISMEMBERMENT Put a Single Out on Thursday
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
Unique Leader have the Belarusian slam band down for 15 October, and the film for the song went up a full day ahead of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026