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Amanda Somerville Names the Tumour Herself and Says It Cannot Be Operated On
Symphonic Metal
She was diagnosed on 8 September with diffuse midline glioma and is undergoing radiation and chemotherapy in Germany.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
BLOOD OF ANGELS Sign With a Booking Agency Instead of Another Label
Death Metal
SoundsRock takes the Tampa band onto its international roster, a year after they headlined across Europe.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 11, 2026
HORIZON OF AEONS Cover a Song Older Than the Band That Made It Famous
Gothic Metal
Yksi Ainoa Ikkuna is their tribute to Agents, and the composition itself is credited as traditional.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
Eternal Sign to Frontiers' Death Metal Imprint After Five Years of Doing It Themselves
Death Metal
BLKIIBLK takes the Phoenix four piece, whose second album is due in 2027, ahead of a first European tour with Suffocation.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 11, 2026
A Melodic Death Metal Project Started in Occupied Kherson Reaches a Berlin Screening
Death Metal
Anger Outburst's video for Feel the Fear was selected for the Silver Screening at the Berlin Music Video Awards.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Turn Shelley's Ruined Statue on the People Who Make Things
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Ozymandias is the title track and second single from the album Lifeforce Records puts out on 20 November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
SAOR Rebuild a Song From 2014 and Keep the Gaelic Word for Rise at the Centre of It
Black Metal Folk Metal
The Awakening MMXXVI is the second song from Caledonia, out on 6 November through Season of Mist.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 11, 2026
DARKEST HOUR Book Thirteen December Dates With Judiciary, Starting the Day the Fear Factory Run Ends
Death Metal Metalcore
The headlining tour opens on 1 December in Austin and closes on 13 December at home in Washington.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 11, 2026
BATTLESNAKE Date a Fourth Album for February and Call It a Goosebumps Novel With Guns
Heavy Metal
Bog Bringer is the third single from Bogpocalypse and the Annihilation of Lucifer, out on 19 February.
Robin Aalto · Oct 11, 2026
VCTMS Will Play Out Their Commitments and Then Decide Whether There Is a Band
Metalcore
John Matalone answers the allegations against Meredith Henderson at length, accepts part of the blame for how he handled them, and puts the band's future after the current dates.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 11, 2026
FILTH Book Eight December Dates With NARCOTIC WASTELAND and Killcrown
Death Metal
A Very Filthy Christmas Tour runs from 11 December in Portage, Indiana to 20 December in Albany, New York.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026
ELDER's Jack Donovan Is Home, and the Pneumonia Turned Out to Be a Heart Condition
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The bassist spent about two weeks in hospital and had open heart surgery after collapsing on the American tour.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 10, 2026
DOPELORD Put Back in Print the Album They Recorded Mainly to Get Gigs
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Season of Mist reissues Magick Rites on 11 December, fourteen years after the band made it in a friend's studio.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
The Night GIRLSCHOOL Were the First British All Female Band to Play Japan Reaches Vinyl
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Cleopatra puts the 21 January 1982 Tokyo show out on 6 November, on CD and on vinyl for the first time.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026
Silicium Have Become SICKMIND, and the First Album Under the New Name Is Out Now
Death Metal Groove Metal
Babel Tower runs ten tracks, is self released, and has two members of Gorod on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
GRAVITON Date Their Second Album for 13 November, Eleven Years After Forming
Thrash Metal
Dissent Into Madness is the first song from the self titled record, the band's first for Skepsis Recordings.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
WITHERED LAND Open a Concept Album About Leaving Home With a Song Called Vale of Sorrow
Black Metal
Judol Smutku is the first single from Piesni Vietru, six tracks due on 27 November through Immortal Frost Productions.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
ONLY HUMAN Film Their First Headline Show and Put One Song From It Online
Progressive Metal
Breach was recorded at the Copenhagen release party for Planned Obsolescence, the Danish band's debut album.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026