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CROWBAR Will Start Writing in January, and Windstein Is Counting Drives
Sludge Metal
Nothing is recorded and nothing is dated, but there is a plan: three days a week from the first of the year, if the drummer can get there.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
MAWIZA Take the Mapuche Songs Acoustic on a First EP
Metalcore Groove Metal
Wuzapiwken is the lead single from IN MONGELETEW, out 6 November, the first record the Chilean band have made without the distortion.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 26, 2026
NEONFLY Film a Live More Than A Lifetime on a Norwegian Main Stage
Power Metal
The song was never a single and got into the set anyway, and the footage comes from Karmoygeddon, where they moved up a stage.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
MYRKUR Plays Everything on Broken Little Doll and Films It Herself
Black Metal Folk Metal
The new single has Kalandra's Katrine Stenbekk on vocals, two ballerinas in a church, and one person on every instrument.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
GATES OF ISHTAR Break Twenty Eight Years of Silence With Ghosts
Death Metal
The first song since At Dusk and Forever in 1998, off an album dated for 21 January, with three of the original members on it.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
BLACKENED Line Up a Third Album for Early 2027 With No Label Behind It
Thrash Metal Crossover
Pantheon Of The Fallen arrives early next year, self released, from a Paris crossover band who have never had a label on any of it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
WYRMS Are in the Studio for an Album They Say Is Their Last
Black Metal
The French band have started recording a record they describe as final, due sometime in 2027, and nothing else has been said yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 26, 2026
TRILLIUM's Amanda Somerville Is Two Weeks From the End of Proton Therapy
Symphonic Metal
Four of six weeks of proton beam radiation are behind her, she says the tiredness is unlike anything before, and her speech has come back.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
Gitta Lindemann, Mother of RAMMSTEIN's Singer, Has Died at Eighty Seven
Industrial Metal
She was a journalist, writer and poet who ran NDR's cultural desk in Mecklenburg, and she published a book of poems this year.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
Kai Hahto Found the WINTERSUN and ROTTEN SOUND Rehearsal Tapes in a Box
Death Metal
Sorting hundreds of cassettes for his thirty fifth anniversary shows turned up his own practice tapes for two albums he played on.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
SAXON Book Milan and Florence for March on the Gods of Thunder Tour
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The Alcatraz on 18 March and the Viper at Tenax on 19 March, with tickets from ten in the morning on 27 October.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
TRICK OR TREAT Send Out the First Song From the Re-Recorded Debut
Power Metal
Time For Us All comes off Evil Needs Candy Too: 20th Anniversary Edition, and the band present the record in Taneto on 31 October.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
ELYSION Pull Dead Loves Off Identity and Call It Their Most Romantic Song
Gothic Metal
The third single from the Athens band's fourth album, out since 16 October on Massacre Records, goes further into gothic than the first two.
Robin Aalto · Oct 26, 2026
Pest Records Sign ANOMIC for a Debut Album Three Years in the Making
Thrash Metal Death Metal
The Spider's Code lands on 13 November, on CD and on streaming the same day, after one EP and forty five shows booked across this year.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 26, 2026
ROTTING CHRIST and DEATH ANGEL Take the Friday at Eindhoven Metal Meeting
Black Metal Gothic Metal
The sixteenth edition runs on 11 and 12 December with thirty bands on two stages, and the warm up party is the night before.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 26, 2026
Chris Fehn Authenticates His Own SLIPKNOT Mask on Pawn Stars
Nu Metal
The former percussionist turned up on the History Channel show to verify a mask, a signed drumhead and a guitar priced at 35,000 dollars.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026
WINDS OF PLAGUE Have Nick Eash Writing Again After Fourteen Years
Deathcore
The guitarist left in 2015 and last wrote for the band in 2012, and the songs being worked on now are by the Decimate The Weak line-up.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 26, 2026
Nicko McBrain Says IRON MAIDEN Should Have Dropped the Keys for BLAZE BAYLEY
Heavy Metal NWOBHM
The drummer told Classic Album Review the band never transposed the songs and should have taken them down half a step or a whole one.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 26, 2026