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TYPE O NEGATIVE's Live Album Goes to Their Original Mixer, and a Found Cassette Holds an October Rust Song
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Kenny Hickey told Loaded Radio the editing is nearly done and that Mike Marciano will mix it. He is aiming for the first quarter of next year.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
OBSCURA Put Out Their Shortest Song as a Video on the Way to Mexico
Progressive Metal Death Metal
The Prolonging gets a Mirko Witzki video days before the next leg of the A Sonication tour. Steffen Kummerer calls it one of the shortest and fastest things the band have done.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
IGORRR Take Secret Chiefs 3 and Fange Across Europe for Thirteen March Dates
Industrial Metal Avant-garde Metal
The run goes from 13 to 31 March 2027 behind Amen, which has Scott Ian, Trey Spruance and Mike Leon on it.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
CHANNEL ZERO End Thirty Six Years With an Arena and Three Sold Out Nights at the AB
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
The farewell run is called The End Of An Era. It opens at the Lotto Arena on 5 December and closes at the Ancienne Belgique, where all three dates are gone.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
CULT OF LUNA Open a Seventy One Minute Tenth Album With Its Fastest Song
Sludge Metal Post-Metal
The Rift is the third single from In the Shadow of Your Shadow, out 6 November on the band's own Red Creek, with Joe Duplantier of Gojira guesting elsewhere on the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
AMON AMARTH Headline Rockharz 2027 With Their New Album Fourth in the German Midweek Charts
Death Metal
The festival confirmed the booking the day after the band's release show in Essen. Thirty bands are now announced for 2027, with ten more due on Friday.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
ALCEST Reach Their First Live Album Twenty Seven Years In
Black Metal
Live At Hellfest 2022 is dated 4 December on Nuclear Blast, with Protection out from it now and eight songs spanning 2007 to 2019.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
DARKEST HOUR Send Out Warrior Three Weeks Before Suffer Divine
Death Metal Metalcore
The second single from the eleventh album arrives with a video. Suffer Divine is dated 30 October on MNRK Heavy.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 7, 2026
DOWN Put Out a Second Song From Their First Album in Nineteen Years
Sludge Metal
The Myth follows Blood Oath from Volume V, which arrives on 20 November through Nuclear Blast and ends a wait that began in 2007.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
BODY PRISON Sign to Greyscale and Date the EP for Five Weeks Later
Deathcore
A Waste Of Good Suffering arrives on 20 November. Jesus Wept, with Dane Evans of To The Grave, is out now.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 7, 2026
MAESTRICK Name Hans Zimmer and Gustav Holst in the Same Breath as Spiritbox
Power Metal
Zion comes through Frontiers Music with a new line-up behind it, and the band call it the start of a new chapter.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
VARANG NORD Headline the Baltics Next Month With a Bagpipe and a Talharpa
Folk Metal Viking Metal
The Latvian band take a run of headline shows across the Baltic countries in November, a year after the album Mygla.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 7, 2026
HYPERION Send Out a Second Song Ten Years After Their Only Album
Death Metal Black Metal
Fides Novem is the second preview of Elysia, which follows Seraphical Euphony by a decade.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
DÉTRESSE Hand Their Harshest Song to a Guest and Let Him Write the Words Too
Black Metal
Les Nuits Jaunes is the second single from Misères, out 9 October on Vendetta Records, with Vestal of Merrimack singing and writing the lyrics.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
NIGHT COBRA Name Their Second Album and Put Helstar's Singer On It
Heavy Metal
Beware The Dark Future comes through Nameless Graves Records, with James Rivera guesting, four years after the debut on High Roller.
Robin Aalto · Oct 7, 2026
The First Song TRAUMATOMY Wrote for the Album Is the One That Opens It
Brutal Death Metal Slam
Entropic Obliteration is the second preview of Ascension Of The Ineffable, which Gore House Productions releases on 30 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 7, 2026
Brendan Yates Stopped a TURNSTILE Show Until One Security Guard Was Gone
Hardcore
Yates alleged the guard punched a fan coming over the barricade in Oklahoma City, and told the room the band would not play while he was still there.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 7, 2026
Dennis Pepa Lost a Job of Twenty Years and Then Got the Diagnosis
Thrash Metal
The Death Angel founder was told in February that he has stage four duodenal cancer. A fundraiser is seeking 150,000 dollars for treatment in Mexico.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 7, 2026