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SEVEN KINGDOMS Tune Down and Sabrina Cruz Sings Lower
Power Metal Thrash Metal
Sono Sola is the lead single and the title track of an album due on 29 January 2027.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
Napalm Sign DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER Thirty One Years In
Heavy Metal Death Metal
A thirteenth album has been two years in the making and is promised for the summer of 2027. The tour between Christmas and New Year comes first.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 1, 2026
CRITICAL FEAR Put Age of Darkness Out Through Hammerheart
Thrash Metal
The first song from Dark Fate, the Brazilian band's third album, which Metal Storm dates to 11 December.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
DAWN OF DESTINY Hand Chasing Dreams to Fabio Lione
Power Metal
Ashes Over Tomorrow is the tenth album, out 30 October, fourteen tracks, with Ralf Scheepers on a second one.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
CRESCENDIUM Burn Their Heroine Alive and Let Her Come Back Worse
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Chandra is out with a video shot in Finnish forests. DRAC, a six track concept album, follows on 11 November.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
Pensees Nocturnes Date an Eighth Album for 4 December
Black Metal
Alignement Desastre runs seven songs on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre, four years after Douce fange.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
NIGHTWISH Mark Thirty Years With a Box Set and a Live Tribal From Amsterdam
Power Metal Symphonic Metal
The Greatest 30 Years On Earth is out on 11 December through Nuclear Blast, as a 4LP box and a 3CD earbook, with an interview going back to Kitee.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
ONSLAUGHT Give Italy One Date for the Fortieth Birthday of The Force
Thrash Metal Hardcore
14 October at the Damage Inc Live Club in San Giovanni Lupatoto, the only Italian stop of the The Force From Hell European Tour 2026.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 1, 2026
ArcTanGent Books NEUROSIS and BLOOD INCANTATION to Open Its New Site
Sludge Metal Hardcore
Both headline the festival for the first time, from 19 to 21 August 2027, at a new ground in the Cotswolds.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 1, 2026
STORMRULER Open Their Third Album at Chapter Two and Date It for 4 December
Black Metal
The St. Louis duo's third album, their first for Distortion Music Group, and the first single is In The Eye Of Umbria.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
PAARA Break Eight Years of Silence With Laulut tulen ja jään
Black Metal
Nine tracks on Dusktone from 30 October, and a visualizer for Kylmään kylään.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
MAREA Finish a Second Album Alone and Date It for 9 October
Doom Metal Black Metal
Eight tracks, fifty two minutes, two labels, and one person playing all of it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
CRIMSON COVEN Go From One Demo to a Cruz Del Sur Album in a Year
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
I - The Forge arrives on 9 October with nine tracks, and Children of the Same Sun is out ahead of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
CARDINALS FOLLY Put Let the Posers Fall! Out on 9 October
Doom Metal
Ten tracks on Cruz Del Sur Music, the seventh album, and a video for the title track.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
METHEDRINE Call the New One Death Punk and Mean It Fairly Literally
Thrash Metal Crossover
Five tracks, out independently on 10 October, with a video for Time To Wake Up.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
COMEBACK KID Bring in INCENDIARY's Brendan Garrone for Yesterday's Gone
Hardcore
The second guest spot off Chosen Hell, which arrives on 6 November with Will Putney behind it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 1, 2026
ATHEIST Will Play Unquestionable Presence in Full on the 2027 Metal Cruise
Death Metal
70000 Tons Of Metal has added Atheist, Firtan and Fires In The Distance. Atheist get two sets and will give one of them to the 1991 album in its entirety.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 1, 2026
Pete Sandoval Quit Two Bands in One Afternoon, and Only One of Them Is Over
Death Metal Grindcore
He left I Am Morbid and the autumn tour, then said Terrorizer continues without David Vincent.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 1, 2026