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A VCTMS Guitarist Leaves After Five Years and Publishes His Reasons at Length
Metalcore
Mike Joseph Clampitt's statement, published by Lambgoat, makes allegations about how the band treated its crew and members. No response had been published.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
PARTY CANNON Withdraw From a Belgian Festival a Day Before It With a Member Unable to Travel
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Deathtober Fest in Liege goes ahead without them on 10 October. The North American run from 16 October is unaffected.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026
ALL THAT REMAINS Are in a Studio Again, With Ken Susi in the Guitar Chair This Time
Heavy Metal Death Metal
A post on 8 October puts the band back at work on the follow up to Antifragile. Nothing else has been confirmed.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 9, 2026
CANCER BATS Book Nine Australian Dates in 2027 With a New Drummer Behind Them
Hardcore
From Perth on 28 January to the Sunshine Coast on 7 February, with Heriot on every date but the first. Tickets on 14 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 9, 2026
DEAFHEAVEN Release Three Songs With No Warning and Call Them Their Closest Thing to Black Metal
Black Metal
At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb takes its title from Robert Del Tredici's photo book about the places where nuclear weapons are made.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
POWER TRIP Put Out Two Songs, Their First New Music Since Nightmare Logic
Thrash Metal Crossover
Precinct 3 and Scavenger were aired on SiriusXM first. Blake Ibanez co-produced them with Jacob Hansen, who mixed and mastered.
Robin Aalto · Oct 9, 2026
Charlie Benante Says It Was Vertigo That Took Him Off Two Stadium Shows With Iron Maiden
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The Anthrax drummer told Metal Rules he could not lift his head, and a doctor told him not to fly to Mexico City.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
KONVENT Give the Title Track of Firesky a Guest Singer and Say What the Song Is For
Death Metal Doom Metal
The second single from the Danish band's third album, out 6 November on Napalm Records, with Mai Soon Young Oevlisen of Meejah on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 9, 2026
More Than Fifty Musicians Write About Cronos and Napalm Death's Singer Calls Him the Caveman in Chief
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Metal Underground has collected statements from the extreme metal underground a week after Conrad Lant died at sixty three.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 9, 2026
ELEINE Put the German Line in the Chorus and Aim It at Liars
Symphonic Metal
Ich Sehe Dich is the new single from The Water Taste Of Blood, out 4 December on Algoth Records.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
NARCOTIC WASTELAND Name a Song After the Fentanyl Crisis and Decibel Premieres It
Death Metal
Fentanyl Zombie Apocalypse is out through a Decibel premiere. The band is Dallas Toler-Wade's, after twenty years in Nile.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
Kerry King and Tom Araya Will Host the Metal Station in Grand Theft Auto VI
Thrash Metal
The Chamber carries Slayer, Pantera and Black Sabbath so far. The game arrives on 19 November.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 8, 2026
MENTAL CRUELTY Put the Last Two Songs on the Album Out Before the Album
Deathcore
Ride Of The Valkyries and the intro Daemmerbruch close Echoes Of A Forlorn Land, which arrives on 23 October through Century Media.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 8, 2026
MORK Headline Europe for the First Time, Seventeen Nights in Seventeen Days
Black Metal
The run opens on 9 October in Drachten and closes on 25 October, with Soulburn as special guest and Monolitt at the centre of it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
ORBIT CULTURE Waited Nine Years to Get Tina Guo on a Song
Death Metal Groove Metal
The new version of The Path I Walk comes from the deluxe edition of Death Above Life, which carries three unreleased songs.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
Tony Iommi's Album Gets Played Front to Back in Metal Bars in Eighteen Cities the Night Before It Comes Out
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
From the Dark arrives on 23 October. On 22 October, bars from Birmingham to Brooklyn play it in full, free to anyone who turns up.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
TRIVIUM's Eleventh Album Is Called Crown in the Grave and It Starts From a Kurosawa Film
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
Out 20 November through Roadrunner, with the title track and its video out now. Paolo Gregoletto says they wanted the space between resting and reinventing.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
CELESTIAL SANCTUARY Put the Death Metal at a Quarter of Their Metal Blade Debut
Death Metal
Cradle Of The Rotten, Shrine To Those Most Foul is dated 22 January 2027. Forty seven minutes built out of the legends of one English town.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026