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NARCOTIC WASTELAND Cross to Europe With I Am Morbid, Atheist and Cancer
Death Metal
Dallas Toler-Wade's band support I Am Morbid in November, on a bill with Atheist and Cancer, and the video for Fentanyl Zombie Apocalypse is out.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
HELLOWEEN Headline Mystic Festival 2027 With the Anniversary Show
Power Metal Speed Metal
The Polish festival names them its second headliner for 2027, with the 40 Years Anniversary production on another run of European stages.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
DUNGEON SERPENT Give Lamentations a Third Preview Before 30 October
Death Metal
Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms is out on 30 October through Profound Lore, six tracks from the Vancouver project.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
BLACK ROYAL Take Extremophiles Off Abyssian Before It Lands
Heavy Metal Death Metal
Abyssian arrives on 30 October through M-Theory Audio, and the Tampere band have put a video to the latest single off it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
OSKAAL Open Their Debut With Refused, and Now It Has a Video
Death Metal Black Metal
The Norwegian band's debut (A)live came out on 25 September through Wormholedeath, and its opening track now has a lyric video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
TEMIC Start Autumnal Offerings With Their First Italian Show
Progressive Metal
The progressive supergroup play Slaughter Club near Milan on 15 October, the official opening of the Autumnal Offerings tour.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
SIGNUM REGIS Reach Their Eighth Album With Beyond Spacetime
Power Metal Progressive Metal
The Slovak power metal band's eighth album is out today, with Johnny Gioeli guesting on a bonus track on the jewelcase CD.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
New Metal Releases: 13 to 19 October 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
76 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Heavy Metal across 39 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
ALGOR MORTIS Put The Art of Suffering Out Tomorrow, on a Hundred CDs
Death Metal Brutal Death Metal
Ten tracks of Melbourne brutal death and beatdown arrive on 14 October through Bereave in God Records, in a run of a hundred.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 13, 2026
SCARDUST Turn a Clean Bandit Pop Song Into Prog Metal With a Choir
Progressive Metal Symphonic Metal
The Israeli band's cover of Symphony brings in the violinist Mia Asano and the Hellscore Choir, out now through Frontiers.
Robin Aalto · Oct 13, 2026
SARLIC BLISS Need Six Songs for Forty Five Minutes on Album Two
Doom Metal Black Metal
Melodies of a Dying Dawn arrives on 27 November, three years after the German epic doom band's debut Braegn Haeft.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
LORD VICAR Finish Their Fifth Album, Due End of February
Doom Metal
Recorded, mixed and mastered with Joona Lukala in Turku, the record is dated for the end of February 2027 on CD, vinyl and digital.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
PAN-AMERIKAN NATIVE FRONT Have a New EP Out Today
Black Metal
Howling Piercing Darkness runs to four songs, mastered by Dan Lowndes, from the one man black metal project out of Chicago.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 13, 2026
BLOOD INCANTATION Headline ArcTanGent 2027, on a New Site
Death Metal
The British festival moves to Gloucestershire for 18 to 21 August 2027, with Neurosis taking the Saturday headline slot.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 13, 2026
BUTCHER BABIES' Singer on Losing a Friend of Twenty Years
Metalcore
Two years after Carla Harvey left, Heidi Shepherd tells SPIN the hardest part was losing a best friend of twenty-something years.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 13, 2026
VENOM Footage From 1997 Surfaces Eleven Days After Cronos Died
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Video of the Cronos, Mantas and Abaddon line up at Milwaukee Metal Fest in July 1997 has gone up on YouTube this week.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 12, 2026
EMBRACE OF SOULS Bring The Plague to the Stage on Film
Power Metal
The Italian power metal band put out a live video for the third track on The Battle Of The Dead, out since May through Rockshots.
Robin Aalto · Oct 12, 2026
MANNVEIRA Return With Bölvunin, Five Years After Their Debut
Black Metal
Vesöld follows Vítahringur by five years and arrives on 16 October through Dark Descent, seven tracks from the Reykjavík band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 12, 2026