Breach release their first EP on 30 October and share “COLD”
Six tracks on Greyscale Records, from the Canadian band that has Stuart Ross, of Comeback Kid and Misery Signals, on one of the guitars.
Death From Above 1979 release “Private Lives” on 29 January, their first record since 2021
The Toronto duo’s fifth album lands on 29 January and the title track is out now. The North American tour starts in February.
Pete Sandoval leaves I Am Morbid and says he and David Vincent can no longer work together
The drummer will not play the European tour. He says he no longer connects with the material, and that by the time he reconsidered the band had already hired someone else.
Wolves In The Throne Room share the title track of “Estuary”, out 23 October
Six tracks cut at the band’s own Olympia studio, with the drums taped in a former church in Anacortes. The record is set a thousand years after the end of civilisation.
SikTh reissue “Death Of A Dead Day” for its twentieth anniversary, remixed by Nolly Getgood, on 4 December
“Death Of A Dead Day MMXXVI” arrives on 4 December through Cooking Vinyl. Periphery’s Adam “Nolly” Getgood remixed it; in 2006 he was posting covers of the album on YouTube.
Iggy Pop sings on “Underground”, the new track on Mogwai’s “Happy Tears” collection
“Underground” closes the double LP of “Happy Tears”, out on Rock Action on 8 January. Matt Sweeney arranged Iggy Pop’s vocal.
David Sylvian’s first record since “Manafon” is a single 46-minute instrumental piece, out 26 February
“The Distance Between The Killer And The Killing” arrives on 26 February via NANOQ. It’s a single 46-minute instrumental piece, built from sessions recorded between 2012 and 2025.
Aisles – Irrationally
Twenty-one years and six albums in, the Chileans have a new singer and a forbidden-love story told out of order. The beginning turns up at track eight and lasts half a minute.
Slow Tiger – Slow Tiger
Nine tracks and four composers on a quintet debut built around an organ and two horns. The flow is faultless, and at times you can’t tell whose piece you’re hearing.
Tomoki Sanders releases “Jazz Is Just a Game” with Nicholas Payton and Mélanie Charles
The second advance from the debut album Brownswood has lined up for this last quarter. Payton plays trumpet, keys and sings; Charles sings and plays flute.
Fake Names release “Punk Ruins” on 23 October, recorded in five days, and open a European tour in January 2027
Twelve songs on Epitaph, cut at Electrical Audio in Chicago with Matthew Barnhart. The ten-date tour starts on 26 January in Umeå and does not come to Spain.
The Flaming Lips reissue “At War With The Mystics” across six discs, with thirty-three tracks never released before
Nineteen unheard demos and fourteen unreleased studio recordings, forty-two non-album tracks and two concerts, one of them at the Hollywood Bowl and still unissued. Out on 13 November.
Sargent House reissues Emma Ruth Rundle’s “Marked for Death” and “On Dark Horses”, in shops on 4 December
“Marked for Death” is ten years old to the day, and the label has used the date to open pre-orders on both records, with two runs of five hundred copies and tour-only variants.
The score Popol Vuh wrote for a 1974 Herzog documentary is released on 13 November
Fifty-two years in which it could only be heard on home recordings taken off the film. Latency issues it with three reworks of “Steiner’s Ecstasy” by james K, ML Buch and Lorenzo Senni.
Cambridge gives Syd Barrett a week of events for his eightieth birthday year, with an exhibition, a record and a Corn Exchange concert
3 to 10 October: original paintings at the Openspace Gallery, the “Clowns and Jugglers” album on the 9th and a sold-out concert in the hall where Barrett played for the last time in 1972.
ArcTanGent opens a new site in 2027 with Blood Incantation and Neurosis headlining
19 to 21 August at Todenham Manor Farm, Gloucestershire. Neurosis arrive with Aaron Turner on vocals and neither headliner has ever played the festival before.
“Sad Wings Of Destiny” returns in two editions for its fiftieth, and both of them open with “Prelude”
One edition comes off the original analogue tapes and the other is a fresh mix of the multitracks by Tom Allom. Both restore the running order the band wanted in 1976.
Hatebreed share “The Carrion Choir” and close “Fatal Paradox”, out 6 November, with a Corrosion Of Conformity cover
Eleven tracks produced by Chris “Zeuss” Harris, with Obituary’s John Tardy guesting on one and Corrosion Of Conformity’s “Poison Planet” at the end. Six years after “Weight Of The False Self”.
Tony Iommi releases “Stormwatcher”, the second advance from “From The Dark”, out on 23 October
Eight tracks on BMG, with Jørn Lande singing and co-writing every one of them, Becky Baldwin on bass and Karl Brazil on drums. It’s Iommi’s first record of his own since 2005’s “Fused”.
Weave4 – La Gomma Di Dante
Fifteen pieces in forty-nine minutes: Benoît Delbecq’s French-Italian quartet returns with a record that sounds like the soundtrack to a film that doesn’t exist.
Daniel Carter / Sabir Mateen / William Parker / Lou Grassi – Keeping It In Context
A session from 20 May 1996 that drummer Lou Grassi forgot about and that resurfaced in 2023. Sixty-seven minutes with William Parker at the top of his game.
Chelsea Wolfe – The Dark
Ten songs that all fit between 3:17 and 4:31, with Robin Finck and Matt Chamberlain in the band. Chelsea Wolfe’s ninth album has the songs in place and the mix against it.
Kongh – Dissolved in Time
Three tracks and thirty-nine minutes, thirteen years after “Sole Creation”. Sweden’s David Johansson plays nearly all of it and signs the longest, slowest Kongh record yet.
Lynyrd Skynyrd play the BARTS Festival on 9 July 2027, the first international name confirmed for its second edition
The first name on the bill at the Poble Espanyol festival. Tickets go on sale on Friday 2 October at noon, and no original member has been left in the band since Gary Rossington died in 2023.
Gravity Fields
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Exxasens
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Ethic Labs
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Fusion Code
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Audiolepsia
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Otxque!
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Maat
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Pardals
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Vincent Black Shadow
Vincent Black Shadow, veterans of Barcelona hard rock and garage since 2001.
Regna
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Aran Prog Project
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White Chameleon
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Orella d’Ós
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Golconda
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Fireplace
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We Are Impala
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