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ABSOLUTE DARKNESS Put Out a Third Single Two Weeks Before Their Second Album
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Above The Law follows Attritional Warfare and Snake Oil. Witness To A Dying World is dated 23 October.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
Rob Halford Writes the Foreword to Chuck Billy's Memoir and Randy Blythe Writes the Afterword
Thrash Metal
Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments Of Chuck Billy is out 10 November through Permuted Press, with three events around it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
DEICIDE Set Five Australian Dates for the Turn of January
Death Metal
The run opens at the Froth and Fury Festival in Adelaide on 30 January and closes at the Manning Bar in Sydney on 5 February.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 8, 2026
AFTER FOREVER Put Out the Tilburg Footage a Year After the Two Nights
Symphonic Metal
The Dutch band played two 25th anniversary shows at 013 Poppodium in October 2025. The pro-shot video of Follow In The Cry is out now.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 8, 2026
RAM Arrive at Against Tomorrow With Three Videos Already Out and a New Bass Player
Heavy Metal
Eleven tracks on Metal Blade, out 9 October. Abattoir, Ghost Emperor and Night Blade are already up as videos.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
WEREWOLVES Put Out a Seventh Album in Seven Years and the Title Is an Accusation
Death Metal Black Metal
You're Weak and You Know You're Weak arrives on 9 October through Back on Black. Nine tracks, and Tank Habit is already out as a video.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
HELLUCINATION Put Out Their Third Album Tomorrow With No Label Behind It
Death Metal Groove Metal
Penumbral is ten tracks, digital only and independent, eight years after Multiverse.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 8, 2026
TUNGSTEN Reach Their Fifth Album in Seven Years, With Three of Its Songs Already Out
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Ashes arrives on 9 October through Reigning Phoenix Music. Bite My Tongue, The North Will Rise and Sunshine of Fall came out ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 8, 2026
YOB Come Back in December After Surgery on the Nerve Damage in Mike Scheidt's Left Hand
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
Three Pacific Northwest dates close the year: Portland and Eugene with Wayfarer, then Rain City Doom Fest in Seattle.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 7, 2026
EMBRACE OF SOULS Film the Plague Chapter of Their Medieval Concept Album Live
Power Metal
The clip comes from The Battle Of The Dead, out since 22 May on Rockshots, with three Italian dates between late October and the end of November.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
SARCOSUCHUS Date Their Debut for 13 November, Five Years After Forming
Death Metal Hardcore
De-Extinction is nine tracks on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. Dissection By Design is the first one out.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
A One Man Project From Finland Brings In a Guest Singer for Blackened Roses Fall
Black Metal
The second preview of Silverlake, out 19 November on Inverse Records, puts Jaana Juntunen beside Jeremia Ponto, who otherwise plays and sings everything.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
WALLS OF JERICHO Call the Third Single True Til Death, Ten Years After the Last Album
Metalcore Hardcore
System Error: Humanity arrives on 13 November through Napalm Records, the band's first in a decade, with a video by Mateo Torres.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 7, 2026
RWAKE Played Their New Album Live the Day After It Came Out and Kept the Tape
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Built From Stardust is out on 13 November. It is The Return of Magik start to finish, recorded in Little Rock the day after the record arrived.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
Half of Every Ticket to the Back to the Beginning Premiere Goes to Homeless Charities in Los Angeles
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The Osbourne family host the world premiere at the Orpheum on 14 October, two weeks before the film opens in cinemas worldwide.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 7, 2026
Twenty Nine Minutes of Reign In Blood Now Comes in a Record Filled With Red Liquid
Thrash Metal
The Blood Filled Zoetrope pressing arrives on 20 November through Sound Of Vinyl, forty years and six weeks after the album itself.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 7, 2026
TESSERACT Book North America for January After Postponing Their Autumn Dates in Europe
Progressive Metal
Eighteen dates open on 7 January at Irving Plaza with Entheos and Sunborn along. Tickets go on general sale on 9 October at ten in the morning local time.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
A Support Act's Drummer Learned ARCH ENEMY's Set in Under Three Hours and Played It Without a Soundcheck
Death Metal
Daniel Erlandsson was too ill to play Tempe on 6 October. Hank Lin of Thrown Into Exile took the kit instead and the band say Erlandsson is back on Thursday.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026