Mike Bloomfield’s last recorded concert, taped fifteen days before he died, is out on 9 October
“Dark Road Blues: Santa Cruz 1981” captures the 31 January night at The Catalyst: ten songs, alone with acoustic guitar and piano. Liberation Hall.
Elder postpone the rest of their American tour: bassist Jack Donovan is still in hospital with pneumonia
Donovan was admitted in Portland during the tour with Blackwater Holylight. The band had played as a trio and now halt Seattle, Denver, Chicago and New York.
Crossbone Skully release “Condemned To Rock N’ Roll” on 29 January, with Mutt Lange again as executive producer
Fourteen tracks on earMUSIC, the second album from Tommy Henriksen’s project. The new single is “Riding With Angels”, after “Thunder Love”.
Vanishing Point return with “Eremition” on 20 November, six years after “Dead Elysium”
Nine tracks produced by guitarist Chris Porcianko and drummer Damien Hall, with “Bring Me The Night” already out. No label has been announced.
Bullet For My Valentine release “Social Apocalypse” on 19 March 2027, two months after playing Barcelona
Ten tracks on Spinefarm, produced by Carl Bown, with Will Ramos and Chrissy Costanza guesting. It’s the eighth album, six years after the last.
Barcelona’s International Record Fair returns to Estació del Nord on 2-4 October, with 168 stalls
The 41st International Record Fair returns to Estació del Nord on 2-4 October, with 168 vinyl, CD and cassette stalls and tickets from €6.
Martín Iaies – People, Places
The Argentinian guitarist settled in Graz writes eight pieces for large ensemble and invites Klaus Gesing onto three. Challenge Records releases a record of rich harmony and constant temperature.
Hilary Geddes – Redleaf
The Australian guitarist’s second album arrives five years after Parkside with the same quartet: eight pieces and forty-six minutes where the line often gives way to atmosphere.
Espen Eriksen Trio – Almost There
The Norwegian trio records on its own for the first time since 2020, without Andy Sheppard’s saxophone: eight songs, thirty-five minutes and no track longer than 5:03.
Compassionizer – The Faithful of the Land
The fifth album by Ivan Rozmainsky’s project arrives with one large change: a lead voice, Slovenian singer Sabina Vostner, in a chamber avant-prog that has always lived on its instrumentation.
Tom Rice – Laws & Triangles
Four tracks and twenty-three minutes of instrumental prog metal written from behind the kit. The first solo EP by the drummer of Konom, who covered for Dave Lombardo in Empire State Bastard.
Justin K. Broadrick plays on “On Video”, the end-credits song from “Primetime”, and points out he is there as Jesu, not Godflesh
A24 Music released the soundtrack on 25 September. It is Broadrick’s third collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers in six weeks.
Leng Tch’e break nine years of silence with “Hammered Into Collapse”, a two-track EP out on Season of Mist on 23 October
It is the first material from the Ghent grindcore band since “Razorgrind” (2017). A video comes with it, and the other EP track is called “Voided”.
Butcher Babies release “Nightbloom” on 2 October, their first album without Carla Harvey
Ten tracks produced by Howard Benson, the band’s first record since co-vocalist Carla Harvey left in 2024. Heidi Shepherd explains its origin.
Temple Nightside release “Cenotaph Severance” on 30 October, six years after “Pillars Of Damnation”
Eight tracks for the Australians’ fifth album, on CD and vinyl through Iron Bonehead. The advance track is “Soul Defilement”.
Michael Moss gathers five decades of music across the four volumes of “Quantum Butterfly”, out on 1 November
More than four hours across four volumes: the ROOTS to SHOOTS combo, a nineteen-minute chamber piece and a twenty-five-minute electroacoustic run.
Zero Hour return on 16 October with the EP “No Man’s Land”, with Erik Rosvold singing for the first time since 2003
Two new songs running past thirteen minutes each, plus instrumental versions of both. Out on the band’s own label, CynNormal Lab.
Lesoir release “Tomorrow Is Now Today” on 23 October, their first record for V2 Records
Produced by John Cornfield and mastered by Steve Kitch of The Pineapple Thief. Third single “Hidden Fire” is about AI-made music.
The Calling return with “Before The World Turns To Dust”, twenty-two years after “Two”
Fifteen songs produced by John Fields between Nashville and Minneapolis. Alex Band arrives with a new line-up: Daniel Damico and Dom Liberati.
Robin Trower releases “Shine”, ten songs on which he plays guitar and bass and handles the production
Out on Friday through Provogue, with Richard Watts singing and Chris Taggart on drums, and a lyric video for “Faith”.
Paradise Lost reissue “Ascension” with a Dolby Atmos mix and the two songs only the sold-out digipak carried
The limited edition came out on Friday through Nuclear Blast with twelve tracks on CD and a Blu-ray Audio, alongside a “This Stark Town” lyric video.
Azarath release “Scorn Eternal” on 20 November, six years after “Saint Desecration”
Ten tracks cut between December 2025 and this May, with Behemoth’s Inferno on drums and first single “Herald of the Unseen” already out.
Be Prog! My Friend puts its 2027 pass on sale: 24 and 25 September at La Carpa, €115 and not a single name on the bill
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 September 2027 at La Carpa del Poble Espanyol, doors at three, pass €115. The line-up is still unknown.
Peter Gabriel releases “Face the Wall”, the tenth track from “o\i”, and the full album still has no date
It came out on Saturday’s full moon with Tchad Blake’s Dark-Side Mix. The Bright-Side follows on the new moon of 10 October.
Frédéric L’Epée – Contre Courant
Fifteen pieces for solo electric guitar, no drums and no voice, which L’Epée presents as a therapeutic act. Cuneiform releases the recital that follows “12 pieces for solo electric guitar”, from 2023.
Trion – Terra Tiempo
The Dutch trio with the Mellotron in its name returns thirteen years after Funfair Fantasy: twelve tracks, sixty minutes and only two songs with vocals, sung by the drummer.
Kevin Sun – Kevin Sun, I
Eight quartet tracks with a Coltrane “Countdown” taken apart in post-production and covers of Sakamoto and a Dark Souls soundtrack. The saxophonist releases two volumes on the same day.
Alberto N. A. Turra – The TAAN Trio walks the Major Arcana walk
Twenty-two pieces for the twenty-two Major Arcana of the tarot, in their order: the Milanese guitarist releases an hour and a half of music for trio and strings on Ropeadope SUR.
Mr.Bison – The Garden of Forgotten Dreams
Eight tracks of Tuscan heavy psych and prog, mixed in Berlin by Richard Behrens: a concept album about the garden as refuge that opens up fully at track three.
Kai Hansen – Born With a Hammer
Kai Hansen’s second solo studio album, ten years after the first, with players from Carcass and Heaven Shall Burn and an eight-minute piece at the centre.
Ronnie Scott’s takes over the Barbican on 28 January 2027, the day its founder would have turned a hundred
“Ronnie Scott’s 100th Birthday: A Celebration In Concert” brings the club’s All Stars together with Mica Paris, Curtis Stigers and Omar Puente.
The studio tracks from both “Keys to Ascension” albums reach vinyl for the first time on 29 January 2027
Spirit of Unicorn and Cherry Red gather the seven studio cuts from the 1996 and 1997 albums on double vinyl and CD, with new Roger Dean and Mike Inns artwork.
Devin Townsend releases the Groningen live recording of “The Moth” on CD and Blu-ray on 6 November, with a video for “Lexin”
“The Moth (The War – Live From Groningen)” captures the album’s live debut on 28 March 2025 at De Oosterpoort, and now gets its own release.
Abe Laboriel Jr. takes the drum stool with Pearl Jam at Ohana Festival, and Vedder tells the crowd he’s only filling in
It is Pearl Jam’s first show since Matt Cameron left in July 2025, and the band has announced no new member.
Blackmore says the idea of playing with Deep Purple again came to him in bed, and that he asked Ian Gillan by email
The guitarist explains how he came to walk on, in a thirteen-part interview with Now Spinning. It was his first with Deep Purple since 1993.
Chuck Varga, GWAR’s Sexecutioner, dies at 68, five months after the band made his cancer public
A founding member of the band, he played the Sexecutioner from 1985 to 2022 and co-founded Richmond’s Slave Pit collective. Bassist Casey Orr announced his death.
Danielle Nicole – Fireflies
A fourth album from the Kansas City bassist and singer, with Luther Dickinson guesting and a Tony Braunagel production that suggests rather than underlines.
Jason Kruk – Beyond the Veil
Twelve tracks with Wayne Krantz, Adam Rogers and Michael League parcelled out one guest per cut: drummer Jason Kruk’s second album in seventeen years, and twenty-three minutes too long.
Ulysses Owens Jr. and Generation Y – Kind of Grunge
Twelve Seattle grunge songs arranged for a hard bop sextet, with a closer that isn’t grunge at all: the Lead Belly tune Nirvana made famous on Unplugged.
Joanne Shaw Taylor releases “The Trouble With Love” on 23 October, with Joe Bonamassa and Orianthi guesting
Ten tracks produced by Kevin Shirley. The latest taster, “You And Me (Rachel’s Song)”, is a song written for her best friend.