Steve Reich turns ninety on 3 October and Carnegie Hall and the Philharmonie de Paris mark it
“Music For 18 Musicians” came out on ECM in 1978 and its launch concert was held in a New York rock club. Reich turns ninety on Saturday.
Dave Holland turns eighty with a catalogue that starts at ECM number 1009
The label looks back over fifty-five years of shared catalogue, from the 1971 debut to the 2025 duo with John Scofield. Holland is still recording and touring.
TesseracT move The Descent tour to March and keep tickets already sold valid
The six UK and German dates set for November shift to March 2027. The band say some important elements of their plans have changed.
Fontaines D.C. release the video for “Tongue” and reach a sold-out Sant Jordi Club
It’s the second single from “Dopamine Chamber”, out 16 October on XL. Eight days later they play Barcelona, one of four sold-out European dates.
Enter Shikari go dormant on 31 December 2027 and say they don’t know whether they’ll come back
The statement talks about dormancy rather than a split, but admits the band have no diary beyond 2027. A UK tour and new music come first.
Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens
Thirteenth album from the Swedes, four years on from “The Great Heathen Army”: ten tracks, forty-six minutes and the first acoustic song they have ever released.
TEMIC – Ceiba
Second album from the international quintet built around Tejeida and Gillette: eleven tracks about loss, with the three longest of them stacked into the back half.
Michał Skwierczyński – Consistency
Debut from the Polish guitarist based in Basel: ten of his own compositions in a quartet, produced by Wolfgang Muthspiel, with the prologue parked at track five.
Travo – Wasteland
The Braga four-piece booked the studio with nothing written and came out with seven tracks, cut in Porto with Jaime Gomez Arellano at the desk.
Endspace – First Contact
Debut from the Canadian duo who sign with two strings of digits: nine tracks called transmissions, black metal run through vocoders, and a centrepiece with no guitars at all.
The Spacelords – Uranus Omnibus Sanctus
Ninth album from the Reutlingen trio: four tracks, forty-four minutes, and a guest organ doing most of what is new about their instrumental space rock.
Pendragon: A Conversation with Nick Barrett on Identity, Time, Independence and Almost Fifty Years of Music
Nick Barrett talks identity, financial risk and creative freedom ahead of Pendragon’s return to Barcelona, playing Apolo 2 on 3 November as part of a short tour.
Paul McCartney adds three songs to “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” and flips the duet with Ringo Starr
The expanded edition is out on 7 October digitally and 9 December physically, with “City Fox”, “One Night Stand” and “Chelsea Boots” and a flip mix of “Home to Us”.
Tom Morello’s festival with Springsteen and Joan Baez streams free on YouTube on Saturday
The Power to the People Festival takes place on Saturday in Maryland and will be streamed in full and for free on YouTube from one in the afternoon, Eastern time.
Mawiza will open for Slipknot at Santiago’s Estadio Nacional in September 2027
The Chilean band, who sing in Mapudungun, are on the bill for 12 September 2027 with Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Hatebreed. Their album “Ül” came out in 2025 on Season of Mist.
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter sign to Napalm and have a thirteenth album due in summer 2027
The Germans have been working on the record for almost two years. It will be their thirteenth and arrives in summer 2027. In December they play the “Schrei!Nachten” tour with Robse and Disillusion.
Rebecca Vernon releases The Keening’s second album, “Devotion”, on 16 October, in memory of her father
“Devotion” is out on 16 October through Relapse, dedicated to Rebecca Vernon’s father, who died in May 2025. She recorded it in Portland in 2022, three years before that death.
Nightwish go over thirty years in a box set with a Blu-ray, out on 11 December
“The Greatest 30 Years On Earth” comes out on 11 December through Nuclear Blast in three formats. The band have shared the “Tribal” video, shot in Amsterdam in 2022.
Tony Iommi collects his MBE at Windsor Castle
The Black Sabbath guitarist received the honour on 30 September at an investiture at Windsor Castle, for services to music and to charity.
“o\i” has a date: Peter Gabriel releases it on 27 November, with thirteen songs
Real World releases “o\i” on 27 November. Thirteen songs that complete a twenty-five-track set with “i/o”, and Gabriel calls it the longest album he has put out.
Enter Shikari stop on 31 December 2027, twenty years after “Take To The Skies”
The St Albans band will stop recording and playing from 31 December 2027. “It may end with an eruption back into activity, or may end with extinction.”
Conrad “Cronos” Lant, Venom’s singer and bassist, has died at 63
Venom announced Conrad Lant’s death at 63 on Thursday. No cause has been given. In May he had released “Into Oblivion”, the band’s sixteenth album.
Christian Finger – Zeit Zirkel
The German drummer based in New York cuts a record in a single day, with Alessi and Monder, about the way grief bends time. It ends twice and turns to look back before it stops.
Destruction Of Orion – States Of Horror
Avolition, catalepsy, lethargy, anhedonia: Bulgaria’s Tehina Spasova gives every track a clinical name and Aesthetic Death gives the record a body. Fifty-six minutes of funeral doom with no way out.
Noctule – Extinguish Thy Flame
With Svalbard finished, Serena Cherry is alone with Elden Ring: ten tracks, five bosses and thirty-nine minutes of melodeath and symphonic black metal. The journey it promises is really a list.
Association P.C.
Association P.C., a Dutch group formed in 1969 by drummer Pierre Courbois, Jasper van ’t Hof and the German Toto Blanke, one of the first jazz-rock groups in Europe.
Embryo
Embryo, a Munich group formed in 1969 by Christian Burchard, one of the most eclectic in krautrock, which moved towards jazz-rock and fusion with the music of Africa and the Middle East.
Nova
Nova, an Italian group born in 1975 from Osanna and Cervello, based in London and influenced by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Return to Forever.
Arti e Mestieri
Arti e Mestieri, a Turin group formed in 1973, a reference of Italian jazz-rock with the debut Tilt (1974), are still active with founding drummer Furio Chirico.
Perigeo
Perigeo, a Rome quintet that opened up a path of its own in Italian jazz-rock between 1972 and 1976, with five albums on RCA Italiana.
Dzyan
Dzyan, a German group from Mannheim that fused jazz-rock, krautrock and Asian music between 1971 and 1974, in the orbit of the krautrock scene of the time.
Isotope
Isotope, a British jazz-rock quartet formed in London in 1973 by guitarist Gary Boyle, with Hugh Hopper (ex-Soft Machine) on bass from 1974.
Subterranean Masquerade (Submasq)
Subterranean Masquerade, an Israeli band founded in 1997 by Tomer Pink, blend progressive metal with Oriental elements; in December 2025 they changed their name to Submasq.
Distorted Harmony
Distorted Harmony, a Tel Aviv band formed in 2009 by keyboardist Yoav Efron, combines progressive metal with harmonies close to jazz and modern classical music.
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land, a Petah Tikva band formed in 1991 by Kobi Farhi, blend progressive metal with traditional Jewish and Oriental music; pioneers of so-called “oriental metal”.
Ars Nova
Ars Nova, a Japanese instrumental symphonic progressive rock band formed in 1983, was for years an all-female group led by keyboardist Keiko Kumagai.
Vermilion Sands
Vermilion Sands, a Japanese symphonic rock band formed in 1986 by singer and flautist Yoko Royama, who died in 2004; the group reactivated in 2013 with “Spirits of the Sun”.
Novela
Novela, an Osaka band active between 1979 and 1986, born from the merger of Schéhérazade and Sansuikan, with keyboardist Toshio Egawa as a key figure of Japanese symphonic progressive rock.
Methexis
Methexis, the solo project of Greek musician Nikitas Kissonas (a former member of Verbal Delirium), has four albums released since 2011 and collaborations with musicians from The Enid and Änglagård.
Ciccada
Ciccada, an Athens sextet formed in 2005, combines flute, keyboards and female vocals in folk-rooted progressive rock inspired by Gentle Giant, Gryphon and Renaissance.