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ARCKANUM Come Back After Eight Years and Write the Lyrics in Old Swedish Again
Black Metal
Mz Fianda Rathi is the first song from Beswaerilsin, the tenth album, out 31 October through Darkness Shall Rise Productions.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
THY CATAFALQUE Film Tombok From the Album With Real Drums on It
Avant-garde Metal
Season of Mist have a video for the song, from the thirteenth Thy Catafalque record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
ABORYM Give Metachaos One Stage, in January, Outside Milan
Black Metal Industrial Metal
The album presentation is set for 23 January 2027 at the Slaughter Club in Paderno Dugnano.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 5, 2026
ICE NINE KILLS Wrote a Christmas EP for a Theme Park Ride
Metalcore
A Very Vicious Christmas arrives on 9 November, made for the Terrifier Terror Tram, and The Silver Scream 3 follows in 2027.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 5, 2026
Anette Olzon Sings Fourteen NIGHTWISH Songs in Sao Paulo and Says the Bitterness Had to Go First
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Footage of the 26 September concert at Teatro APCD is online, with a band, an orchestra and a choir behind her.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
The SCORPIONS Film Opens in Germany on 28 January and Nowhere Else Yet
Heavy Metal
Wind Of Change was shot at Leavesden from early 2025, with Alexander Dreymon as Rudolf Schenker and Ludwig Trepte as Klaus Meine.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
RAMMSTEIN Take Sonne Out of the Foro Sol Film, Four Weeks Before the Cinemas
Industrial Metal
The second performance video from Live In Mexico City, which opens worldwide on 4 November with the live album on the 20th.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
Chad Gray Calls Off San Diego and Santa Ana to Save His Voice
Nu Metal Groove Metal
The Mudvayne singer cancelled two California dates after falling ill at Aftershock, and expects to resume in Las Vegas on 7 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 5, 2026
MOONSPELL Book Thirty One European Nights for Their Thirty Fifth Year
Gothic Metal
The God Is A Vampire Tour opens on 4 March 2027 in Langen and runs into April, with Iotunn and TodoMal on every date.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 5, 2026
KILMARA Surface on Another Label's Channel With Alliance Of The Free
Heavy Metal
A visualizer for a new song from the Barcelona band, a year after their fifth album and on a channel that is not their label's.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
METALITE Reach the Third Video From Discovery Ten Days After the Album
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Neon Rain is the fourth track on the Stockholm band's fifth record, which Reigning Phoenix released on 25 September.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
MESSA Send a Second Song Out of the Same Freak Valley Set
Doom Metal
Thicker Blood, filmed at the German festival, follows Reveal from the same performance, with the band on the road from 27 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
GODTHRYMM Open Projections in Full, Four Months After Anyone Could Buy It
Doom Metal
Profound Lore have streamed the whole album, seven tracks and forty nine minutes, five of them past six.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
BLIND CHANNEL Build a Single Out of the Fermi Paradox and a 1977 Radio Signal
Metalcore Nu Metal
Into The Void, with Aaron Pauley of Of Mice & Men, is the last piece before Painstream, which Century Media release on 30 October.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 5, 2026
I AM YOUR GOD Put Out a Sentenced Cover on the Day Sentenced Ended, Twenty One Years On
Power Metal Death Metal
Farewell went out on 1 October, the anniversary of the last Sentenced show at Club Teatria in Oulu, as the fourth single from an EP of five covers.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
IN VAIN Open Architects of Mayhem With Its Shortest Song
Heavy Metal Power Metal
The Madrid band's seventh album arrives on 5 November through Fighter Records, and Spit on the Dead is out ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
DARK AGES Drop the Concept After Forty Four Years and Let the Songs Separate
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Blind Faith arrives on 6 November through Andromeda Relix, the Verona band's sixth album and the first they have not built around one story.
Robin Aalto · Oct 5, 2026
GOBLIN COCK End Seven Years of Quiet Tomorrow, and Close With a Ska Cover
Stoner Metal
Traumanaut lands on 6 October through Joyful Noise Recordings, the fifth Goblin Cock album and the first since 2019.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026