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THE CRAWLING Give Two Songs Eleven Minutes and Call It an EP
Death Metal Doom Metal
What We Leave Behind is out today on GrindScene Records, and one of the two is a requiem.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
SOULS OF DIOTIMA Put Arcade Out Today With Three Videos Already Spent
Power Metal Progressive Metal
Eleven tracks from the Sardinian band, one of them in Italian.
Robin Aalto · Oct 2, 2026
TRICK OR TREAT Play Their Debut Again Instead of Reissuing It
Power Metal
Evil Needs Candy Too turns twenty and comes back as a complete re-recording by the current line-up, with a new cover.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 2, 2026
ALA Name Their Debut After a Serbian Dragon and Mean the Krautrock Too
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The title track of The Dragon's Return is out. The project came out of Kolac and does not intend to stay inside black metal.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 2, 2026
WHORES. Book Ten December Dates and Keep One of Them Secret
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
From Nashville on 1 December to Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on 13 December. The 11th is listed as TBA on purpose.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 2, 2026
Mantas Speaks for Abaddon Too, and Says They Knew Two Days Early
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Jeff Dunn's tribute to Cronos sets the turbulent history aside and comes back to the three of them. Tony Dolan posted his own.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 2, 2026
FIRTAN Spend a Fourth Single the Day Before Helios Lands
Black Metal Pagan Metal
Shadows of a Dawn Unborn has Christian of Vinsta on it. The album is out on 2 October through AOP Records.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
PATRIARCHS IN BLACK Hand Almost Every Track to a Different Singer
Doom Metal
To Serve Man arrives 8 January on Metalville, and No More Blood came out of a book about Patton.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
IMMORTAL's Whole Studio Catalogue Goes in One Box for 29 January
Black Metal
Thirty one years of albums plus the live record, from Mystic Production, with pre-orders open through a site of its own.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 1, 2026
SPLENDIDULA Finished a Song Their Bassist Left Behind and Kept His Title
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Peter Chromiak wrote the riffs of Donkerte and named it before he died in 2022. The lyric video is out now.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 1, 2026
STREAMER Reach High Roller on Their Third Album
Heavy Metal
Into the Void arrives 16 October with ten tracks, recorded in Terrassa with Javier Felez.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
SOULFALLEN Took Fourteen Years and Came Back With Seven Long Songs
Death Metal Black Metal
Uncharted Plains arrives on 20 November through Inverse Records, and A Promise of Storm is the last single before it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
SHORES OF NULL Found Homesick at a Soundcheck With SWALLOW THE SUN
Death Metal Doom Metal
The title track is out. The album, their fifth, arrives on 16 October through Dusktone with ten tracks.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
Cronos Has Died at Sixty Three, and Black Metal Had Its Name From Him
Heavy Metal Speed Metal
Venom announced on 1 October that Conrad Lant, their founder, singer and bassist for more than four decades, has died. No cause was given.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 1, 2026
WAYLANDER Reach a Hidden Island on the Second Single From Mac Tire
Black Metal Folk Metal
Hy Brasil (Isle Of Mists) is out with a video. The album lands on 6 November through Rockshots, nine tracks and fifty one minutes.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
DRAGONFLY End Their New EP on a Nino Bravo Song
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Five tracks out tomorrow on Art Gates Records, from the Buenos Aires band that has been at this since 2000.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
LEPOKA Close Rebelion Animal With Orwell Set to Music
Folk Metal
Twelve tracks out tomorrow on Calaverita Records, two of them already released, and the last one is Bestias de Inglaterra.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
THE KEENING Open the Third Door of Devotion
Doom Metal
Devotion III - The King is out as a visualizer. The album lands on 16 October through Relapse.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026