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MACERATION Leave Dan Swano After Two Records and Put Out the First Song Without Him
Death Metal
The Fall of Virtue opens Mercy to the Miserable, the Danish band's fourth album, mixed by Lawrence Mackrory for 20 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
GAMMACIDE's 1987 Demo Is Back on Cassette, Made by the Last Big Tape Plant in America
Thrash Metal
Old Guarde Records has reissued the five song demo from the original tapes, with the J card copied from the 1987 packaging.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026
ATAVISTIA Finish a Song They Abandoned in 2022 and Put It on the Deluxe Edition
Death Metal
Beneath The Elder Stone was cut from Old Gods Awaken, rewritten almost completely and released four years later.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
XENOS A.D. Add a London Date in the Pub Where Iron Maiden Started
Thrash Metal
The Sicilian band play the Cart & Horses on 15 November, the fifth date of their European run's second leg.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 10, 2026
CASTLE RAT's Entire Bloodstock Set Is Online, Filmed Properly
Doom Metal
The Brooklyn band's Dio Stage performance at Catton Park has been released in full as a pro-shot video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
SEID Name Their Sixth Album After the City That Processes People
Black Metal
Dystopolis arrives on 11 December through ATMF, asking what is left of a person once everything runs through a system.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
HOSTILIA Finish Their Album Campaign by Refusing to Fix the Playing
Thrash Metal
No Mercy For The Weak is the last single before The Curse of Khamun, recorded with no click tracks and no digital correction.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
LEPER COLONY Reach a Third Album Looking for the Point Where Florida Meets Stockholm
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Back to Primal Sludge came out on 9 October through Testimony Records and is streaming in full.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
CANTICUM DIABOLI Build an Album Out of Eight Italian Horrors, One of Them a Burning
Black Metal
Compendium Horribilis arrives on 11 November through Ad Noctem Records, with Giordano Bruno and the Monster of Ravenna on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
MORTEMIA Reach the Thirteenth Guest Singer, and This One Sings the Pet Shop Boys
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
Jane Odintsova of Imperial Age takes It's a Sin, the latest in Morten Veland's one song at a time covers project.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
DOMINION Put Their Whole Debut Album Online Before It Is Released
Death Metal
Mortification of Thy Flesh is streaming in full on Sinistrari Records, after a line-up change and a winter in a Massachusetts studio.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
A REPUGNANT Song From 2003 Turns Up Inside a Horror Film With Watain's Singer on It
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Tobias Forge supervised a new video for Premature Burial for V/H/S/Mixtape, and the performance credits name Erik Danielsson.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 10, 2026
DIETH Sign to Fireflash and Put the New Line-Up on a Song the Same Day
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Pound of Flesh is the first music with Tobias Cristiansson on bass, and the first under the new deal.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 10, 2026
MEMORIES OF A LOST SOUL Mark Thirty Years by Putting a Live Album Inside the New One
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Shrine Of The Useless Gods comes with a video by their own drummer, and the first edition of Lost Memories carries ten live songs from Palermo.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
FATUM AETERNUM Come Back After Three Years With Six Members and a String Section
Symphonic Metal Gothic Metal
As Above So Below is self produced, built on electric violin and cello, and takes its title from the hermetic axiom.
Robin Aalto · Oct 10, 2026
One Funeral Doom Song, Split Into Two Videos Because It Would Not Fit in One
Doom Metal
Growth comes from Torn, the album where Hangsvart put brass at the front of the melodies instead of guitar leads.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
CORDYCEPS CORPSE Put Out a Second Album Three Years After the Project Started
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses arrived on 9 October through Gore House Productions, with two songs out at once.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026
GRAVE HEX Build an EP Out of Five Different Ways to Be Reborn Badly
Death Metal
Domain of Foul Rebirths arrives on 30 October. Sewer Embalmment is the first song and the band call it a concentrate of the rest.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 10, 2026