Metal News
Signings, tours, records announced and bands ending, from the underground to the arenas, every day.
CARNAL DESECRATION Press Ancient Malediction to Three Hundred CDs
Death Metal Black Metal
The Belgian band's second album arrives on Thursday through Thrash Records, on a compact disc run of three hundred and nothing else.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
FELINE MELINDA Mark Forty Years With the Duets II EP
Heavy Metal
Two songs are out from the Italian band's anniversary EP, one written for a bandmate's newborn and one rebuilt from a 2008 album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
SHADOWMARE Finish Transfiguration as a Quartet
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Portuguese band's third album is out after the line up shrank, and the songs came out shorter than anything they have done before.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 14, 2026
VIOLET ETERNAL Put Azure Explosion Ahead of a January Album
Power Metal
The Italian and Japanese band's second album arrives worldwide on 22 January through Rockshots, three years after they formed.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
THE NUMBER TWELVE LOOKS LIKE YOU Line Up Two Records for Friday
Metalcore
Howls From The Holographic Heart and a remastered Mongrel both arrive on Friday, and the last single off the new one is up now.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 14, 2026
Sharon Osbourne Wanted MEGADETH at the Last Sabbath Show
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
She tells Rolling Stone that the bill for Back To The Beginning was missing one band, as the film of the show gets its premiere on Wednesday.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 14, 2026
DREAM THEATER Start Album Seventeen at Ytse Jam Studios
Progressive Metal
The follow up to Parasomnia is under way, with all five members photographed in their own studio and no date attached to it yet.
Robin Aalto · Oct 14, 2026
CARNATION Take a Third Video Off Symphony In Flesh, Three Days Out
Death Metal
Boundless Pathways arrives with the album due on Friday, after the opening track and the quiet one the band filmed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
RAM Put a Video to the Title Track of Against
Heavy Metal
The Swedish band say the song came in one burst, out of a David and Goliath feeling, and the album is already out on Metal Blade.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
DEATH ANGEL Play Act III in Full in Australia, First Visit in a Decade
Thrash Metal
Hardline Media bring the Bay Area band back in January and February 2027, with the 1990 album start to finish and an older set beside it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
Tony Iommi on What BLACK SABBATH Leaves Behind, and on Dying
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
At seventy eight, the guitarist tells The Telegraph that Ozzy Osbourne's death in July changed how he thinks about both.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 13, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST's Ian Hill Names the Snap That Ended It
Heavy Metal
The Judas Priest bassist tells Metal Pilgrim what decided his retirement, four days after the statement that announced it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 13, 2026
HEATHEN Open Lifetime In Hell With Escapegoat and Jason Bittner on Drums
Thrash Metal Speed Metal
The first song from the new Heathen album is out with a video, produced by Zeuss, and the band take it on the road with Forbidden and Void.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
CROM Lose a Drummer Two Months After Finding One
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Xavier joined in August and has left because he is moving away from the Bavarian band's hometown, who are looking for a replacement.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 13, 2026
AS THE SUN FALLS Call Their New Single The Last Dawn
Death Metal
Viimeinen Aamunkoi is streaming now, mixed and mastered by Juuso Laitinen, the third song the Finnish band have put out this cycle.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
MONOLITHE Take the First Song Off Agalma Three Months Early
Death Metal Doom Metal
Unknown Stellar Samples is the first advance single from the French band's eleventh album, which is dated for 22 January.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
GLORYHAMMER Give Angus McFife V a Squadron on Starfighters of Leuchars
Power Metal
The last single before Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath lands on Friday, and it brings the hero some pilots off the album sleeve.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
MORK Move Their Milan Date to the Legend Club, Same Night
Black Metal
The 20 October show leaves the Slaughter Club for the Legend Club, with the date, the doors and the ticket link unchanged otherwise.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026