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EPHEL DUATH Name a New Bass Player and a Year
Progressive Metal Black Metal
Kenji Tsunami takes over on bass, and Agonia Records say the first Ephel Duath album in thirteen years is coming in 2027.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 14, 2026
SANCTUS NOSFERATU Build a Cycle Out of a Chess Opening
Death Metal Black Metal
The Azorean band's second song of this phase goes back to the character from their 2012 debut, with the hunter and the victim swapping places.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
NÏSTI Build an EP About Grief Around a Roman Goddess
Doom Metal Post-Metal
Four tracks of synth doom from Germany, built around the Roman goddess attached to Saturn and what she was given.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
BLOOD STAIN CHILD Start a Twenty Fifth Year With Forge
Power Metal Death Metal
The Japanese band have been putting melodic death metal through a trance filter since before anyone else tried it, and there is a new single.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 14, 2026
ANGEL WITCH Get the Rockpalast Treatment for White Witch
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
A professionally filmed version of the song from Rock Hard Festival 2026, fifty years after the band started out as Lucifer.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
MIDNIGHT Put a Live Album Out on 6 November
Speed Metal Black Metal
Satanic Attack Live! arrives through Metal Blade, and the first thing off it is Violence On Violence recorded in Los Angeles.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
Antichrist Superstar Turns Thirty and MARILYN MANSON Reissues It
Industrial Metal
Waxwork put the remastered album out on 15 January on vinyl and cassette, with a book of unreleased photographs and handwritten lyrics.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 14, 2026
Jackson Reissue Four Guitars That Were Built for One Player Each
Heavy Metal
Randy Rhoads, Scott Ian, David Ellefson and Marty Friedman each get a limited run copied from the instrument made for them.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 14, 2026
BERIEDIR Name Rammstein and Machine Head and Mean It
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The Italian band's new single is the hardest thing they have done, and the chorus is two words about keeping your chin up.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
SEVENTH WONDER Introduce a New Singer on VII
Progressive Metal
Mattias Olofsson replaces Tommy Karevik, the album is dated for 29 January, and the first song off it was the last one written.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
MANNKVERN Took Six Years and Two Countries to Finish a Debut
Black Metal
Orkana V started the project alone in Norway and finished it in Poland, and Wormholedeath have it for early 2027.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
GRYMHEART Slow Down for the Demon That Sits on Sleepers
Death Metal Folk Metal
The second single from Wake Not The Beast is about the Alp, and it is the first time the Hungarian band have taken a mid tempo.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
NIDARE Spend Seven Minutes on What Silence Protects
Black Metal
The Berlin band's first song from a 2027 album is about institutions that choose their own reputation over the people they failed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
RESIN TOMB Put Eight Songs on a January Second Album
Death Metal Sludge Metal
The Brisbane five piece return on 15 January through Transcending Obscurity, with two of the eight tracks already streaming.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
CELESTIAL SCOURGE Hand the Breakdown to Devin Swank
Death Metal
The Norwegian band's second album lands on 20 November, and the new song gives its heaviest part to the Sanguisugabogg singer.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
THE MOSAIC WINDOW Strip the Progressive Half Out of Answered Prayers
Black Metal
Ten tracks on 13 November, and the second single shows a project that went back to the first two waves without going faster.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
CARNAL GHOUL Turn a Guest Singer Into a Permanent One
Death Metal
A multi album deal with Testimony Records, and the Endseeker singer who finished the debut as a favour is now in the band for good.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 14, 2026
VEILBURNER Reach a Ninth Album With Nothing Else on the Shelf
Death Metal Black Metal
Nine albums in twelve years and not one EP or single among them, and the latest is streaming in full before Friday.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026