Pi Recordings puts out the Marc Ribot Quartet album, with Chad Taylor on drums at both sessions. Two of the six pieces are by Frantz Casséus, whom Ribot recorded solo back in 1993.
The Norwegian says the first track he cut was “Beyond The Dead”, and that it was after the second that Iommi dropped the guest-singer plan. “From The Dark” is out this Friday.
GroundUP put out the live version of a track from “I Need To Roam”. Ninety-five per cent of it was captured in a single take, and the words came afterwards.
Taylor Momsen called the two Foo Fighters in for a new version of a “Dear God” track. Grohl had already stood in for her twice as AC/DC’s opener this year.
The band of Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly, both out of Type O Negative, put out the second single. Eight tracks, seven years after “Edge Of Existence”.
Mexico City, Monterrey and Durango lose their shows after five dates played. The band wants to return in 2027 with a different partner and asks fans to claim refunds at the point of purchase.
The quartet playing seventies rock with Cannibal Corpse’s drummer and Deicide’s guitarist put out the EP’s second single, the longer of the two released so far.
The album came out yesterday with ten tracks, and the “Og Mánin Græt” video landed the same day. The 2027 European tour takes in fifteen countries and has no Spanish date.
Three improvisations recorded in a single night in Sandstone, Minnesota: a sax-and-drums duo that refuses the combat the format is built on, gaining attention and losing contrast.
The British saxophonist’s fourth album was written in a windowless Amsterdam basement, and its best moment is the alto crossing paths with Bernard van Rossum’s tenor.
Ten tracks in Faroese and English for Eivør’s first album on Nuclear Blast: the newest gesture on it, the throat singing with her sister Elinborg, is on the shortest track of the record.
Seven tracks and forty-seven minutes of post-metal from Richmond: the only one where they switch the distortion off runs three and a half minutes, and the record uses it as a pause when it could have been a way forward.
Thirty-one tracks and the Australians’ first album in five years and ten months. Patton appears on “Total Recall”, “Superfun™ TV Spot” and “Paradise Island”.
Omaha, Iowa City and Evansville drop off the “Tour Of Unsound Minds: Act II”. The band says it has played its last shows of 2026 and is starting the fifth album.
“Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years (1974-1976)” comes out through Dark Horse with fifteen unreleased demos, twenty-one live recordings and a forty-eight-page book.
“The Fifth Force Of Nature” came out on 12 October with a video. The album arrives on 26 March 2027 through Frontiers, and Bonnet and Roger Glover meet again on it.
Eleven tracks through Frontiers, with Aldo Lonobile on guitars and bass. The title track is already out with a lyric video.
Live Nation announces a third and final leg of “Run For Your Lives” for spring 2027, with Bullet For My Valentine and The Raven Age. None of the dates is European.
Forty-one unbroken minutes recorded at OUT.FEST in Barreiro: David Maranha’s electric organ and Rodrigo Amado’s tenor, two years after “Wrecks”.
Six tracks and thirty-five minutes recorded between Amsterdam and Puerto Rico: bomba, plena and batá run through synthesizers and field recordings, two and a half years after “MESTIZX”.
Eight tracks and fifty-two minutes from Kamil Konieczniak’s project, who plays almost everything: Polish neo-prog seven years after “Travel Within”, with two guest voices and none of its own.
Thirty-eight minutes of darkjazz and black metal from Jason Köhnen, with Colin Webster’s saxophone and Lilian Tong’s soprano, built around the De Witt brothers painting in the Rijksmuseum.
Two discs and a hundred minutes telling the same childhood twice: once with lyrics and once as an instrumental suite, with The Nice’s “Five Bridges” as its starting point.
The June 2025 recording returns with new drums and new rhythm guitars. Many comments under the video criticise the artificial-intelligence recreation of the guitarist.
“No Human Tongue Can Tell” is nine traditional songs through Rough Trade. The idea of playing everything herself came from a documentary about “Tubular Bells”.
The B-side carries “Tää Tango” in a piano and a band version, and neither goes out digitally. The song comes from the singer’s tenth album, “Frisson Noir”.
Serhii Lykhotvor writes, plays, produces, mixes and masters the debut EP of his Ukrainian project. Yulia Lykhotvor of Sidus Atrum sings on two of the five tracks.
Andrew Brown leaves behind the progressive death-black hybrid of “Hemasanctum” and signs ten cold, fast tracks. Session drums are by Dmitry Kim of Jinjer.
The Kyiv trio put out seven songs through Season of Mist. Igor Sydorenko places them next to “Led Zeppelin III” and Opeth’s “Damnation”, and has already said how the series ends.
Six tracks and sixty-two minutes made entirely in one room in Cagliari: ÄTZ’s debut ends in a twenty-five-minute suite of three dances.
Ten originals from the Australian saxophonist based in New York, a quartet that widens to eight on four tracks, and a line from Wayne Shorter behind all of it.
Eight tracks from the Seattle trio, with a broken kick drum, a chain for a cymbal and the last vocals Peter Clement Lund of Kollapse recorded before he died.
Seven tracks and sixty-nine minutes to close a trilogy opened in 2017: the American duo return with Fabienne Erni’s voice and an eighteen-minute closing epic.
Twelve songs cut at Hobosound in Weehawken with James Frazee, again for New West as with “Ship To Shore” (2024). There is a horn section, arranged by him.
It came out of the licensing on the documentary “Wired for Chaos”: the songs had to be recorded again. The latest advance is “It’s The Limit”, with Turnstile’s Meg Mills on guitar.
The Fleshgod Apocalypse singer says surgeons transplanted tissue from his hip into the hand. Another operation is due next year, already written into the band’s schedule.
The 75-year-old singer and bassist posted the news after an eight-day stay at UCLA in Los Angeles. In August he announced he was retiring from the stage.
Thirteen songs for BMG, from sessions begun in New York in 2022. The single “Spectral Eyes” is written by Johnny Marr, who also plays guitar on it.
Both statements call it a mutual decision. The singer joined in 2012 and sang on three albums; the band says it continues and will record a new one next year.
A single thirty-one-minute track recorded on a Monday night at Celeste in Vienna: Raskin on alto, Thomas Lehn’s analogue synthesizer and Matija Schellander’s double bass.
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