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ANGUISH FORCE Keep Filming the Valley Their Own Town Used to Be Called
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Stairs in the Dark is the second video from Atzwang II, the album named after the old name of the band's own village.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
ULTHIMA Cross From Monterrey to Helsinki and Count Five Years to Album Two
Death Metal
Midnight's Call arrives on 27 November through Inverse Records, ten tracks and the first Ulthima album since 2021.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
HOULE Book Their First Headline Run at Home With Cân Bardd and Galibot
Black Metal
The Paris black metal band have confirmed a set of French shows to carry new material, with the same two support acts on every night.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
PANTHEÏST Let a Second Piece of Uncanny Times Out Before the Month Ends
Doom Metal
Ithaca Out of Sight is the second single from the album arriving on 30 October, a record of six tracks that opens with one running past thirteen minutes.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
RUADH Give Rising Five Songs and the Order of the Forty Five
Black Metal Folk Metal
The fifth Ruadh album arrives on 4 December through Northern Silence Productions, and its track titles run from Prestonpans to exile.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
Floor Jansen Says the Brief for Hytress Was Heavier, and Not Her Band
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The second solo album arrives on 15 January 2027 through REVAMP Music and Warner Music, and she told Imperiumi what she was looking for and why.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
Devil's Dance Returns to a METALLICA Stage After Eighteen Years and Four Months
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The second night of the Sphere residency, Saturday 3 October, carried the Load track for the first time since June 2008, plus The Outlaw Torn for the first time since 2019.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
KORPITULI Press Fifty Copies of a Record They Will Play on the Day It Appears
Black Metal
Seven tracks, five of them instrumental, out on 24 October as a CD-R limited to fifty, and the concert it is named after happens the same day.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
ENDSPACE Number Their Nine Songs and Will Not Give You a Name
Black Metal
First Contact, out on 2 October through Transcending Obscurity, is nine numbered transmissions by two members credited as strings of digits.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
ARMORED SAINT Film Not On Your Life Four Months After the Album It Sits On
Heavy Metal
A video for the Emotion Factory Reset track, from the record Metal Blade issued on 22 May.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
CATHEDRAL Go Back Into The Guessing Game and Come Out With a Rethink
Doom Metal Stoner Metal
The 2010 double album returns on 30 October through Rise Above Records, remixed and retitled The Guessing Game (Rethink).
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
Tony Iommi Breaks Twenty One Years of Solo Silence With From the Dark
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
From the Dark arrives on 23 October through BMG, eight tracks with Jorn Lande singing all of them, and it is his first record under his own name since Fused in 2005.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
BALANCE OF TERROR Take Nine Years Over a Second Album and Name It After Track Five
Grindcore Brutal Death Metal
Addicted to Any Kind of Rot lands on 11 December through Transcending Obscurity, with Par Olofsson artwork.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
NIHILUS Reach a First Album Ten Years After Their Only EP, With One Song Written Both Ways
Death Metal
Borealis is a concept record about Earth coming apart, out independently from the Bangalore band.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 4, 2026
NIGHT COBRA Leave High Roller and Bring Mike Exeter in to Mix
Heavy Metal
Beware the Dark Future arrives on 6 November through Nameless Graves Records, with James Rivera guesting on two tracks.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
DRACONICON Rebuild as a Five Piece With a Violinist and Date Empire for 2027
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
Grym Hunter takes lead vocals as well as rhythm guitar, and the band say the restructuring was deliberate rather than a gap.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026
CRYSTAL THRONE Send the Last Human in the Universe Back Through Time
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Chantry Of Sacrifice is out with a video for Tides Of Ages, nine tracks set in the year 5150.
Robin Aalto · Oct 4, 2026
W.A.S.P. Miss Carteret and KK'S PRIEST Take the Headline Slot
Heavy Metal
The venue announced the change on the night of 3 October, with refund information promised from Monday.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 4, 2026