Clive Nolan previews ‘The Woman from Varteig’, featuring Christina Booth, from his forthcoming concept album about King Håkon Håkonsson, out 2 October.
Nevermore announce twenty-one European dates for spring 2027 under the ‘Liminal Spaces’ banner, playing Barcelona on 20 May.
TEMIC preview ‘Ashes’, the third track from ‘Ceiba’, their concept album about loss, out 2 October through Season of Mist.
Abbath’s drummer Ukri Suvilehto leaves the band with no explanation given, five days after all remaining 2026 shows were cancelled.
Wadada Leo Smith releases ‘Constellations And Hemispheres’ on 25 September, five pieces recorded across five years with four different line-ups.
Warren Haynes releases the orchestral video for ‘Dreams’, from ‘Dreams & Songs: A Symphonic Journey’, recorded live in his hometown of Asheville.
Angelus Apatrida join the 70000 Tons Of Metal 2027 cruise bill, two months after ‘The Reckoning’, their first EP for new label Napalm Records.
Duncan Attwood of Blueneck explains the decade-long delay behind ‘Moonlighting’: a producer’s illness, the pandemic, and his own stroke mid-recording.
Chad Gilbert, guitarist and songwriter of New Found Glory, has died at 45 after nearly five years battling illness.
Maika Makovski releases ‘Live-Palau!’, the recording of her twentieth-anniversary concert at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
Boy Harsher release ‘GET MEAN’, their first album for Atlantic, closing it out with a 35mm video for ‘Faulty’.
A hand injury keeps John Norum off Swedish TV’s ‘På Spåret’ with Europe, a week before the band release ‘Come This Madness’.
Moonspell drop out of Cradle of Filth’s North American tour over visa delays; Blackbraid takes their place on the bill.
Megadeth mark the fortieth anniversary of ‘Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?’ with a limited box set out 25 September, forty years to the day after the US release.
Amon Amarth release ‘The Allfather Awakens’ on 2 October, recorded song by song rather than instrument by instrument, and tour Barcelona on 13 November.
Brad Mehldau releases ‘Fantasy & Reveries’ on 13 November, two solo-piano works recorded at the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
Sari Schorr previews ‘Running Wild’, the title track and first song she wrote for her new album, out 9 October in Europe.
Beck releases ‘Ride Lonesome’, his first full-length album since 2019’s ‘Hyperspace’, produced by himself and mixed by Nigel Godrich.
Bjørn Riis closes the ‘Fimbulvinter’ trilogy with ‘Divergence’, four new songs out 13 November on Karisma Records.
Marc Hudson steps back from DragonForce over a tinnitus problem; Alessio Garavello, his former singing teacher, takes his place alongside Alissa White-Gluz.
U.D.O. announce ‘Voodoo Ranger’, their twentieth album, out 8 January, and open their Spanish anniversary tour at Barcelona’s Sala Apolo.
Amanda Somerville has been diagnosed with a malignant, aggressive brain tumour, her husband Sander Gommans announced on social media.
Big Crown Records marks its tenth anniversary with ‘BCR10’, a double LP featuring Lady Wray, El Michels Affair, Brainstory and more, out 30 October.
Matters Unknown, the project of Jonathan Enser, debuts on Tru Thoughts with ‘The Wind and the Forest’, blending spiritual jazz and psychedelic soul.
Kiko Mizuhara debuts as a singer on Stones Throw with ‘Feelin’ Wee’, produced by John Carroll Kirby.
Decibel Books publishes ‘Deconstructing Towers: The Story Of Hydra Head Records’ in December, a 500-plus-page history of the label behind Isis, Botch and Cave In.
Kingdom Of Giants announce ‘Usurper’, out 13 November through SharpTone Records, six years after ‘Passenger’.
Forbidden’s American autumn tour goes ahead without bassist Matt Camacho and drummer Chris Kontos, who sit out for personal reasons and are expected back in 2027.
Rival Sons will start recording their new album in January, guitarist Scott Holiday says, with no release expected before late 2027.
Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich release ‘Dragonflies’, their debut album as a duo, built from tape loops at Godrich’s Brixton studio.
Rhiannon Giddens releases ‘Hope Is The Thing With Feathers’, recorded live at a Louisiana house between tour dates, out now on Nonesuch.
Bad Company release ‘Live In London’, recorded at the O2 Arena in 2016 — the last show Mick Ralphs played before the stroke that ended his touring career.
‘B.B. King: The Montreux Years’ collects nine performances from the Montreux Jazz Festival between 1982 and 2000, nearly all previously unreleased.
Meshell Ndegeocello previews ‘Synonym’ with a Bob Dylan cover sung with Bill Callahan and Chris Thile, ahead of its 2 October release on Blue Note.
Ministry announce ‘Hate To Go (Take Out Or Delivery)’, their farewell album, and preview ‘Singularity’, its third single.
N8NOFACE debuts on Stones Throw with ‘Tomorrow’s World’, produced by Dave Sitek, featuring Hudson Mohawke, Angélica Garcia and Nick Zinner.
Brainstory announce ‘Shoebox Days’, a seven-song EP marking the closure of their Long Beach studio, out 13 November on Big Crown Records.
Graveyard premiere the ‘Tongue Tied’ video, second preview of ‘Fever’, their seventh album, out 9 October through Nuclear Blast.
Emma Ruth Rundle releases ‘These Killing Times’, her sixth album, recorded with a full band on Errant Child, the label she runs herself.
Columbia reissues ‘The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961’, the Miles Davis/John Coltrane box set, on 6 November, in the centenary year for both musicians.
