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TYPE O NEGATIVE Have a Gold Single Sixteen Years After They Stopped Being a Band
Doom Metal Gothic Metal
Kenny Hickey says I Don't Wanna Be Me has passed 250 million streams, and credits TikTok for it and for Crowbar's 1.9 million Spotify listeners.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 5, 2026
Hunter Young Spends Twenty Three Hours a Day in the Dark and Has No Insurance
Metalcore Nu Metal
A fundraiser has been opened for the Moodring guitarist and singer, whose treatment is costed at about 100,000 dollars a year.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 5, 2026
FORGOTTEN TALES Sign to Rockshots Sixteen Years After Their Last Album
Power Metal
The Quebec City band are active again with their original singer, a new rhythm section and a record called Other Times promised for 2027.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 5, 2026
CURSEBINDER Put Prayers and Flowers on Opposite Sides of One Title
Black Metal
The second single from Psychohazard, the Krakow band's second album, which Avantgarde Music release on 23 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
LOVE SEX MACHINE Picture a Slaughterhouse Run by Cows on The Herd
Sludge Metal
Thriving arrives on 13 November through Pelagic Records, and the first single comes with the bleakest joke on the record.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
TO THE GRAVE Slow Down for Limb From Lamb, Which Nearly Missed the Album
Death Metal Deathcore
The Sydney band's fifth record, Liberation Front, came out on 2 October through BLKIIBLK, and the new video is for the song that changed most in the studio.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 5, 2026
CARNATION Film the Quietest Thing on Symphony in Flesh
Death Metal
Labyrinth of Silence has a video, and the band describe it as the piece that takes the listener out of the room.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
MASTER Reach the Eighth Track of Among The Seeds Of Death Eleven Days Early
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Dust's Arrival is the third piece out ahead of the album Hammerheart release on 16 October.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 5, 2026
Cronos Explained His Own Songs, and Only One of Them Was About the Devil
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
BraveWords has published part of a 2015 interview in which he walked through Black Metal, Witching Hour, Die Hard, Manitou and At War With Satan.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
Geezer Butler Walks On for War Pigs With Jack Black's Tribute Band in Maryland
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
At Tom Morello's Power To The People festival on 3 October, the Black Sabbath bassist joined Jack Sabbath for the third song of their set.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
Brandon Saller Cried After the Last ATREYU Show and Thought That Was the End
Metalcore
At Aftershock the singer said he did not believe the 2011 break was a hiatus, and explained why he thinks bands should take them anyway.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
AMON AMARTH Quit Their Jobs Before There Was Any Money In It, Ted Lundstrom Says
Death Metal
The bassist told KillerTube that the band worked day by day for years, and that an acoustic song would have been unthinkable in the scene they came from.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
TURNSTILE Play Saturday Night Live Eight Months After Two Grammys
Hardcore
The Baltimore band were the musical guest on the 3 October episode, playing BIRDS and a medley of I CARE and DULL.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
DEVIN TOWNSEND Says He Is Back on Stage Because The Moth Lost Him a Year of Income
Progressive Metal
On the Sixty Scales And The Truth podcast he described the finances behind the Metamorphosis tour, and the year that came with them.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
SEPTICFLESH Open in Riverside Tomorrow Without Their Lead Guitarist
Death Metal Black Metal
Christos Antoniou fractured and broke ribs in a fall, and the band will play the first leg of the North American tour as a three-piece.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
AVRAK Reach Their Debut Five Days Out With a Lyric Video for Unborn
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Peaceville issue the self-titled album on 9 October, written by Anders Hegna and Ted Skjellum in a band whose first songs took five days.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
SERPENT Took Twenty Six Years to Reach a First Album and Filled It With Poe
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Lightbringer is the new video, and The Pit and the Pendulum follows on 13 November, the Stockholm band's debut after five demos and an EP.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
RUNEMAGICK Open Eighty Six Minutes of After Chaos and Ask You to Sit Still
Death Metal Doom Metal
Hammerheart have streamed the whole album, eight tracks arranged in four movements, all of it played by one man.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026