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AFTER INFINITY Collect the Singles Campaign Into Beyond Eternity
Power Metal
Nine tracks on Rockshots Records, out on 23 October, two years after a debut that the Finnish band put their own name on.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
DRAGONLAND Let Prophecies Out, Twenty Seven Years In
Power Metal
The seventh album arrives mixed by Fredrik Nordstrom at Studio Fredman, with a Pedro Sena cover and a new booking agency behind it.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
TESTAMENT Join Welcome To Rockville 2027, With The Prodigy Beside Them
Thrash Metal
The Amity Affliction come with them in the third instalment of a reveal that finishes with the full bill next week.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 25, 2026
INFANT ANNIHILATOR Name the December Album, Finally
Death Metal Deathcore
The Somnial Plunge Into Cyclic Ebullition arrives on 1 December, a week after the date went out with no title attached to it.
Sasha Kellerman · Oct 25, 2026
BLACK SABBATH's Tony Iommi Put a Riff on William Shatner's Metal Album
Heavy Metal Doom Metal
Rob Halford, Dave Lombardo, Brian May and John Moyer are on it too, and the man singing is ninety five years old.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
Queensrÿche Say the New Songs Sound Like Rage For Order
Heavy Metal Power Metal
Todd La Torre names the two eighties records the new material resembles, and Michael Wilton says the album closes the Century Media deal.
Robin Aalto · Oct 25, 2026
Marty Friedman Says Nick Menza Is Why MEGADETH Reached Stadiums
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The guitarist argues the drummer's unthrashy, musical playing is what carried the band out of the underground, ten years after his death.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
TWISTED SISTER Explain Why Dee Snider Stepped Away From the Stage
Heavy Metal
Jay Jay French says the singer is not seriously ill but can no longer perform the way he wants to, and that he resigned rather than risk it.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 25, 2026
HOUR OF PENANCE Are Tracking Guitars for a Tenth Album
Brutal Death Metal
Agonia put out a studio clip of the band setting a guitar tone, and called the record they are making album number ten.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
THE OBSESSED Finished an Album and Booked the Studio Again for December
Doom Metal
Wino says the record is mixed and mastered and with the label, held to March because a guitarist is having a baby.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
MOTHERTOMB Sign to Ripple Music Three Months After Their First Album
Doom Metal
The Michigan four piece released Dying To Live in July on Death Box and have moved to a label with a far longer reach in the style.
Ben Ashworth · Oct 24, 2026
ARONIOUS Put Out a Second Song From The Ever Living Ones
Progressive Metal Death Metal
Exalted Aon follows the first preview from an album that will be their fourth, out through The Artisan Era, with no release date named yet.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
OPHIS Take Ten Minutes Over The Astral Tomb
Death Metal Doom Metal
The first piece of Encased In Deathlike Layers runs ten minutes, which for this Hamburg band is a normal opening gambit.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
EVOCATION Restart With Four of the Five Who Began in 1991
Death Metal
The brothers Kenttakumpu are back on guitars and drums, and the band are writing again nine years after The Shadow Archetype.
Lars Hendriks · Oct 24, 2026
PESO666 Bring in Eric Forrest for Dark Sacrifice
Heavy Metal Black Metal
The second video from a debut album that also has Mantas of Venom on it, released independently at the start of the month.
Marie-Ève Tremblay · Oct 24, 2026
David Ellefson Watched MEGADETH From the Crowd and Felt Almost Nothing
Heavy Metal Thrash Metal
The two bands played the same stage five hours apart in Louisville, he stayed to watch, and he and Dave Mustaine never crossed paths.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 24, 2026
Jack Osbourne Takes the Blame for the OZZY OSBOURNE Avatar Backlash
Heavy Metal
He says the family is securing the digital rights to his father rather than licensing him out, and that he explained it badly the first time.
Tomas Berglund · Oct 24, 2026
WOLFSHEAD Reach a First Album From the Far End of the Map
Heavy Metal
Eight songs through Jawbreaker Records, on CD, vinyl and digital, from a country with almost no heavy metal infrastructure.
Robin Aalto · Oct 24, 2026