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SAXON Give Medusa a Greek Myth and Hand the UK Leg to ARMORED SAINT
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The second song off Gods Of Thunder arrives with a Peter Sallai sleeve, and the album's British dates now have a Los Angeles support act.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
JUDAS PRIEST Take the Saturday as Tuska 2027 Splits Its Days
Heavy Metal
Fourteen names were added and the three days now have headliners: Children Of Bodom, Judas Priest and Lorna Shore, one each.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
URISK Lead Call With The Hauled and the Waif
Black Metal
The first song from the second album, out since 2 October on Vendetta, from a Bonn duo writing about Scotland losing its wild.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
GENERATION STEEL Film Fields of Pain and Call It a Metaphor
Heavy Metal
The song comes off Steelmachine, and Jack the Riffer explains that the war imagery is about something closer to home.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
FORESHADOW Lead With a Song Written in the Late Eighties
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
This Harvest That You've Sown comes off Here Down On Earth, the 1991 demo recorded properly at last, and the words have not dated.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
ISKALD Put the Whole of Curse of the Mind Up in One Piece
Thrash Metal Black Metal
The sixth album and first concept record is streaming complete, four chapters of a descent into Helheim, out since 25 September.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
HAXPROCESS Put Condemnation of Eternal Misery Out Through Transcending Obscurity
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The song comes off Endlessly Flowing Cascades of Grief, the third album from a band six years old and already on its third label home.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
EXTERMINATION DAY Date Forty Miles of Bad Road and Send Out Fill the Swamp
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The album lands on 27 November through Argonauta, and the second song off it is aimed squarely at a sitting cabinet member.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
SAFFIRE Date a Fifth Album for February and Change Label
Heavy Metal
Last Man Down arrives on 19 February through Pride and Joy Music, recorded and mixed by the band's own guitarist.
Robin Aalto · Oct 27, 2026
OVERKILL Take Burning Up Latin America Out in Late February
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The run goes from late February to mid March 2027, with the follow up to Scorched expected at some point in the same year.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
RATA BLANCA's First Singer Saul Blanch Has Died at Seventy Five
Heavy Metal Power Metal
He sang on the self titled debut in 1988, the record that opened the door for heavy metal in Argentina, and died on 20 October.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
MALEVOLENT CREATION Cut Two From the Touring Line-Up and Go Back to Four
Death Metal
Bassist Jesse Jolly and guitarist Chris Cannella are out, the fourteenth album is still on schedule, and a new bassist is coming.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026
BRUCE DICKINSON Books a Solo Year for 2027 and Calls It PsychoGod
Heavy Metal
Europe from June to December, with Evergrey on the November leg, and new solo material recorded between Iron Maiden commitments.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
New Metal Releases: 27 October to 2 November 2026
Heavy Metal Power Metal
122 records scheduled this week, led by Black Metal, Death Metal and Doom Metal across 44 labels, with covers, labels and full tracklists.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 27, 2026
BRAT Film the Song They Like Playing Most and Head Out With Napalm Death
Death Metal Grindcore
Spit On His Grave comes off Manslayer and gets a video from Jeff Van Gerwen, days before a European run supporting Napalm Death.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 27, 2026
HAKEN Take Thank You Scientist and Einar Solberg Across North America in March
Progressive Metal
The run opens in Austin on 4 March and crosses the continent and back, ending in Carrboro, with tickets on sale on Friday 30 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Add a Fourth Rose Bowl Night for June
Nu Metal
The Pasadena run is now four nights, on 5, 6, 10 and 12 June, two of them with Pierce The Veil and two of them with Gojira.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 27, 2026
WITCH CLUB SATAN Lose Johanna Kleive After Friday's Show in Oslo
Black Metal
The drummer leaves the Norwegian trio after the Rockefeller show on 30 October, and both sides have put it in writing already.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 27, 2026