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Metal Blade's Black Metal Imprint Signs a One Man Project and Dates the Album for Five Weeks Later
Black Metal
The Mosaic Window join Vesperian and put Answered Prayers out on 13 November, with an older song as the first single.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 8, 2026
MAGNETAR Put a Song Older Than Their Debut Album on the New EP
Heavy Metal Black Metal
Gates Of The North is out now, three tracks: the title song, a Merciless cover, and an outtake from before There Will Be No Peace In My Valley.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
Chad Gray Went Back On Stage With a Healing Blood Vessel on His Vocal Cord
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The Mudvayne singer resumed his solo tour in Las Vegas on 7 October after cancelling two Californian shows. A doctor cleared him to carry on with extreme caution.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
Three of the Four Said Yes to One More BLACK SABBATH Album, and That Was Not Enough
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Andrew Watt says he phoned each member on Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne's instruction. Iommi, Butler and Osbourne were in, on one condition each: that Bill Ward was there.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
FORGOTTEN TALES Date Other Times for February and Call It a Return to the Riffs
Power Metal
The album arrives on 12 February 2027 through Rockshots Records, with A Thousand Lies out now as the first single and video.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
DRAGONLAND Hand Their Seventh Album to Fredrik Nordstrom and Press Five Hundred Records of It
Power Metal
Rolling Waves is the third single from Prophecies, out 23 October on Scarlet Records. The vinyl run is 350 plus 150 copies.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
Die Sunde Call Their Frantic Song the Third Track and Let the Sea Win
Black Metal
The second preview of Effemeridi, the band's first album, out 13 November on Time To Kill Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
A Song Left Off the Album Becomes AS THE SUN FALLS' Single, With a Kantele on It
Death Metal
Viimeinen Aamunkoi was written during the Songs From The Veil sessions and did not make the record. It is out on its own, sung entirely in Finnish.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
SAOR Re-Record Five Old Songs and Say It Is Not Nostalgia
Black Metal Folk Metal
The Awakening MMXXVI is the second single from Caledonia, out 6 November on Season of Mist. Five songs from Roots, Aura and Guardians, all cut again.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
DEVASTATOR Mark Ten Years With Four Songs and a SLAYER Cover
Thrash Metal Black Metal
The Goathammer mini-album lands on 27 November. The title track is out and Show No Mercy closes the record.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
NIHILO Send the Last Song Out Before Abyss, Twenty Three Years In
Death Metal
Dishonored Death is the second and final single from Abyss, out 3 November on Xtreem Music.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
THE OCEAN Put a Milan Date on Solaris and Open the Sale the Same Morning
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
The Legend Club on 9 February 2027, with a support act still to be named. Tickets went up at ten this morning.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
Parkway Drive Return to Italy After Eight Years and Close the Ferrara Sunday
Symphonic Metal Deathcore
The Ferrara Summer Festival opens its 2027 announcements with Parkway Drive on Sunday 20 June, and Lorna Shore on the same bill.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
VAREGO Give a Homeless Man a Name and Build a Ballad Around What He Remembers
Sludge Metal
Sierra Nevada was premiered by Metal Hammer Italia. The band call it a dark rock ballad with tribal rhythms under it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
PERPETUAL WARFARE Press Three Hundred Copies of a Song About Colombia's Unnamed Dead
Thrash Metal
N.N. (6402) is the second single since the band signed to M-Theory Audio. It shares a double A-side seven inch with Nihil Sumus, on bone coloured vinyl.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
THE FORESHADOWING Take a Shelley Sonnet for a Title and Hand the Record to Dan Swano
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Ozymandias is the title track and second single from the album, out 20 November on Lifeforce Records. Nine songs, mixed and mastered by Dan Swano.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
GAMMACIDE Get a Vinyl Pressing Seven Weeks After the CD, Thirty Five Years After the Last Album
Thrash Metal
Toxic Mercenaries came out on CD on 11 September. The vinyl follows on 30 October through NoLifeTilMetal Records.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 8, 2026
SADIST Carry Thirty Years of Tribe to Eight Dates and Two of Them Leave Italy
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Five Italian dates in October, Moscow and Saint Petersburg in November, Rome on 5 December. More are promised.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026