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VOIVOD Cancel Ten American Dates and Will Not Name a New Time
Progressive Metal Thrash Metal
A family health emergency, the fourth illness the band have announced this year, and no rescheduled dates offered.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 4, 2026
KITA Recorded Their Second Album With Their Own Guitarist Behind the Desk
Death Metal Sludge Metal
Ikuinen arrives on 20 November, recorded and mixed by Jonne Hirvonen across two studios, with two songs already up.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
Jesse Leach Wants the Next One Faster and Says He Cannot Make That Happen
Metalcore
Aftershock was the band's last American show for a long time, and the conversation about writing has only just started.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
RISE ABOVE DEAD Have a Singer Again After Twelve Years Without One
Progressive Metal Sludge Metal
Andrea Rondanini is back on Voidmass, out 27 November through Argonauta Records, with Drowning Slowly the first thing out.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
A FOREST OF STARS Get Four Continental Dates Out of a Year They Wanted More From
Progressive Metal Black Metal
Utrecht, Berlin, Munster and Ghent in the first week of December, with Nemorous in support, after four UK shows in late November.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
ANTHRAX Play a Second Maiden Date Without Charlie Benante, This Time With Derek Roddy
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Roddy drummed at the Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City on 2 October, four days after Mike Heller filled in at the Alamodome.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
ABSOLVA Mark Fifteen Years Early With a Live Album From One German Club
Heavy Metal
One Night in Mannheim is out on their own Rocksector Records, a year ahead of the anniversary it is pointed at.
Robin Aalto · Oct 3, 2026
ESHTADUR Spend Four Years on Twelve Songs and Hire an Orchestra for Them
Death Metal Black Metal
In Darkness All Shadows Gone is out on Rockshots Records, and Soy Real, the closing track, arrives with it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
EREBOROS Reach a First Album With Four of Its Ten Songs Already Out
Death Metal
From Oblivion to the Grave arrives on 30 October with no label behind it, four years after the Rio de Janeiro band started.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
Milo Silvestro Says Sounding Like Burton C. Bell Is Why He Got the Job
Death Metal Industrial Metal
The Fear Factory singer says the new album runs to ten songs and arrives next year, and that the resemblance was never an act.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
Bruce Dickinson Says There Are IRON MAIDEN Surprises He Will Not Name Yet
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
He rates the new solo album above The Mandrake Project, says five videos are shot, and says the band's news is coming soon.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
CIRITH UNGOL Give Away the Last Track on All the Shadows
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Venus in Thirds is the second extract from the album due 30 October on No Remorse Records, and it closes the record.
Robin Aalto · Oct 3, 2026
OF VIRTUE Open Death Of The Altar the Same Day They Open a Tour in Paris
Metalcore
The fourth album arrives through Arising Empire with a video for Too Late, and the band play eight European dates in eight days.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 3, 2026
Wolf Hoffmann Says Fast As A Shark Was Meant to Annoy Parents, Not Start a Genre
Heavy Metal
Forty four years after Restless And Wild, the Accept guitarist told BraveWords the band had no idea what the song would turn into.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 3, 2026
INTEGRITY Will Play Humanity Is The Devil in Full at Disturbin' The Peace
Metalcore Hardcore
Fifteen bands on one day, 30 January, at Baltimore Soundstage, with Cold World and Madball also booked.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 3, 2026
MASTER Put Dust's Arrival Out Two Weeks Before the Album
Thrash Metal Death Metal
Among The Seeds Of Death arrives on 16 October through Hammerheart Records, nine tracks, and this is the eighth of them.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
AGALLOCH Hand Marrow Of The Spirit to a New Mix and Two Sources Give Two Dates
Doom Metal Black Metal
Markus Stock remixed it, Gus Elg remastered it, and the reissue adds a 2015 live recording and a piano piece written for The Watcher's Monolith.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026
DEVOUR Drop Half Their Name and Put Ravenous Out in January
Brutal Death Metal Slam
The Paris band spent fifteen years as Devour the Fetus and announce the first album under the shorter name for 4 January.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 3, 2026