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CLEGANE Take Six Tracks Out Themselves on 2 October
Doom Metal Sludge Metal
Ocean of Black Thoughts is the Paris band's fourth album, out independently. Sun Decay came first.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
SPIRIT POSSESSION Close Cathedral Speech With a Three-Part Suite
Black Metal
Seven tracks on Profound Lore Records on 2 October, the last three numbered and bracketed.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
HAUNT Put Out Another Album Themselves Tomorrow
Heavy Metal
Setting Course runs eight tracks and goes out independently on 2 October. It is their twelfth album in nine years.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
FROZEN CROWN Put a Goo Goo Dolls Song in the Middle of Their New Album
Power Metal
The Legend of the Six Kings arrives on 2 October through Napalm. Iris sits fifth of ten.
Robin Aalto · Oct 1, 2026
AMON AMARTH Open Their New Album With Gjallarhorn, Which Is the Point
Death Metal
The Allfather Awakens arrives on 2 October through Metal Blade. Ten tracks, three of them already out.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 1, 2026
IRON MAIDEN Now Have More Than 110 Licensing Partners, and Eddie Is in Primark
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
Global Merchandising Services says the programme has passed the number, across apparel, collectibles, publishing and fan attractions.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 30, 2026
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Put the Wilderness Back Over the Cities on Estuary
Black Metal
The title track and second single from the album Century Media release on 23 October, with a video the band made themselves.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 30, 2026
John Bush Explains Where Not On Your Life's Words Came From, and They Came From Two Phrases
Heavy Metal
A visualizer from Emotion Factory Reset, made by Costin Chioreanu, ahead of a North American run with Metal Church.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
Iommi Collected an MBE in the Morning and Put Out a Single in the Afternoon
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Stormwatcher comes from the solo album From the Dark, with Jorn Lande writing and singing throughout.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
DISSIMULATOR Put the Whole of Artifice Dissolves Up Before Friday
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Quebec band's album streams in full ahead of its 20 Buck Spin release.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Sep 30, 2026
ANTHRAX Found a Drummer at Two in the Afternoon and Played the Alamodome at Half Past Six
Thrash Metal Groove Metal
Mike Heller of Raven filled in for Charlie Benante in San Antonio, supporting Iron Maiden and Megadeth, having never played an Anthrax song.
Lars Hendriks · Sep 30, 2026
XENTRIX Lost This Song on the Last Album and Found It Again by Accident
Thrash Metal
Nil By Mouth was demoed for Seven Words, buried, then dug up during the new sessions. Allied With The Enemy arrives on 30 October.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
HATEBREED Send Out a Fourth Song Before Fatal Paradox and Take Europe in November
Hardcore
The Carrion Choir is out now. The album lands on 6 November, and the tour opens the same day in Warsaw.
Sasha Kellerman · Sep 30, 2026
Tony Iommi Thought His MBE Letter Was a Speeding Fine
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
The Princess Royal handed it to him at Windsor Castle today, one of sixty seven honoured at the ceremony.
Tomas Berglund · Sep 30, 2026
HAGANE Sign Worldwide to Napalm, Everywhere Except Home
Power Metal
The Tokyo band's Through the Night goes out abroad on 15 January 2027. Japan is carved out of the deal.
Ben Ashworth · Sep 30, 2026
NUMENTO Put a Kantele at the Centre of a True Crime Song
Heavy Metal Progressive Metal
Folie a Deux is the fourth single from an EP due later this year, and it ends in black metal.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
THEATRE OF TRAGEDY's 1994 Demos Get a CD for the First Time, Five Hundred Copies Only
Death Metal Doom Metal
Fifteen remastered tracks on Cosmic Key Creations on 9 October, eight never on CD before and one never released at all.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026
SECRET RULE Reach an Eleventh Album and Angela Di Vincenzo Explains the Title
Symphonic Metal
Someone Killed the Pope is the title track, out now as a video. Rockshots Records release the album on 5 February 2027.
Robin Aalto · Sep 30, 2026