James Brandon Lewis devotes Red Lily’s third album, “Calling Antonín”, to Antonín Dvořák
The New York saxophonist releases nine original pieces built on the music the Czech composer wrote in the United States, played by a sextet with strings.
Notícies Fresques
Laura Guldemond leaves Burning Witches after seven years, with Fireborn’s Jennifer Gruber filling in for the year-end shows
The singer made four albums with the band, who say every announced show goes ahead and that auditions for a permanent frontwoman are already under way.
Klone release “The Moon Is Witness” on 12 March via V2 Records, with Coroner’s Tommy Vetterli as a guest
The French progressive metal band have gone back to Francis Caste, who produced “Le Grand Voyage”. The first single, “Unchained”, came out on 23 October.
Robert Cray releases “All Over Again” on 12 February, seven years after his last album
Nine tracks cut at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals and produced by Steve Jordan. The advance single, “Push Through”, is about the right to vote.
W. H. Lung go on indefinite hiatus and say goodbye on 20 November at Manchester’s Albert Hall
The Manchester band release “Where Will You Go?” on Melodic and say they do not know “when or whether” they will be back. Their tenth-anniversary show is the last one booked.
Causa Sui and Earthless’ Isaiah Mitchell release the first Terramar album on 27 November
The quintet recorded during a week-long immersion at the label’s studio in Odense. “Ritual De Fantasmas” is out, built on 12-string guitar and bongos.
Ignea release “Monumental” and premiere the video for “Harmony Manufactured”, with Hiraes’ Britta Görtz
Napalm puts out the Kyiv band’s album today, nine tracks with Combichrist and Hiraes guesting. The video for the eighth was shot in Hannover.
Gianluca Petrella returns to Schema with “Love’s Gravity”, out on 13 November with Jack Bloom on vocals
The Cosmic Renaissance single was recorded by a sextet at Blue Spirit in Milan and opens “Echoes of Time”, the album the label has pencilled in for 2027.
Cloud Nothings release “What Kind of Hell Did You Survive?” on 29 January, nine tracks recorded with Seth Manchester
Dylan Baldi says the band felt pigeonholed in indie rock and that the record came out of listening to funeral doom on a European tour. The first preview is “Death Keeps Me Alive”.
Reece Scruggs leaves Machine Head, the guitarist who joined in 2022 and recorded “UNATØNED”
He announced it himself on Instagram and describes the split as amicable. He had cut back on touring to care for his father, who was ill, and the band ended up playing as a three-piece.
Obituary remaster “Xecutioner’s Return” and “Darkest Day” and press them again on 11 December
Relapse brings both back on vinyl, CD and cassette, and both albums reach streaming for the first time. The “Darkest Day” remaster adds two tracks from the “Left To Die” EP.
Mar de Grises re-sign with Season of Mist, who will release their fourth album next year
The label announced on 22 October that it had brought the Chilean death-doom band back. Their last record, “Streams Inwards”, is from 2010; the new one has neither a title nor a date.
Pink Floyd top the Tótum Prog Ranking, with voting open until 15 December
Genesis and King Crimson complete the podium, both on 92% and split only by their exact average. The poll closes on 15 December.
CHVRCHES set “All The King’s Men” for 22 January, their first album since August 2021
Eleven songs on Futures Music Group, with “Roses” as the preview. The 2027 tour takes in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, with no Spanish date.
Pulled Apart By Horses set up their own label to release “Dopamine Hits” in February
The Leeds trio put out their first album on Damage Limited Records, their own imprint, on 12 February. “Great White Lies” is the preview.
Evil Invaders are back with a new album on 19 February, their first since “Shattering Reflection”
“Weaponized Chaos” is out on Napalm Records and produced with Francesco Paoli, of Fleshgod Apocalypse. The Belgians have previewed “D.S.S. (Death Strikes Suddenly)” with a video.
Matt Carmichael brings two guitarists and a fiddle player to his fourth album, “Held In The Dark”
It came out on 16 October on Porthole Music, with Fergus McCreadie on piano. On 17 November he plays it as a septet at Cecil Sharp House, in the EFG London Jazz Festival.
Cathedral get the rights to “The Guessing Game” back and put out a complete remix on 30 October
Rise Above releases “The Guessing Game (Rethink)”, remixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano from the original masters and spread across five sides of vinyl with alternate takes.
Boulder trio Source set “Resurgence” for 15 January and put out “What Remains” ahead of it
Twelve tracks opened and closed by one piece split in two parts. It is the fifth album by the Colorado trio and the third they release themselves.
Wendy Eisenberg stretches two songs from her self-titled album to forty-six minutes and releases them separately
“Wweennddyy Eeiisseennbbeerrgg” has two tracks and runs 46:09, against the 43:57 of the ten-song album it came from. Trevor Dunn, Mari Rubio and Ryan Sawyer play on it.
Howard Jones and Adam Dutkiewicz sign Burn Eternal to Metal Blade with the album mixed since December 2024
The singer and the guitarist who overlapped in Killswitch Engage between 2002 and 2012 are working together again. The album is recorded and has neither a title nor a date.
Northlane move “Anemoia” to 27 November and postpone the Oceania tour to May over their guitarist’s health
The album was due on 30 October and is held back by production delays. Josh Smith cannot travel and the Australian and New Zealand dates go to May 2027.
Soilwork pull “Night Whispers & Shining Lights” out of the vaults for their 30th anniversary, and play Sant Jordi Club on 13 November
The track had been sitting in the vaults for a couple of years and arrives mid-tour with Amon Amarth and Orbit Culture, which stops at Sant Jordi Club on 13 November.
Bright Curse return eight years on with “Fatum”, which Ripple Music releases on 15 January
The Bordeaux trio have previewed “The Fates”. It is their third album and the first since “Time Of The Healer”, from 2019.
Circle Jerks record four songs from Keith Morris’s Black Flag years and release their first standalone record in more than thirty years
“Revenge Of Nervous Breakdown” is out on 20 November with “Depression”, “Fix Me”, “Revenge” and “Nervous Breakdown”, and a new Raymond Pettibon cover.
Josh Johnson releases “Animative” on Friday, ten tracks that try to keep the saxophone out of the soloist’s chair
It is his third album under his own name and the first for International Anthem and Nonesuch. Meshell Ndegeocello, Marquis Hill and Macie Stewart play on it, and Paul Bryan co-produces.
Forbidden release their first album in sixteen years on Friday and preview “Single Point Failure”
The self-titled album is out on 23 October on BLKIIBLK and is their first since “Omega Wave” (2010). Norman Skinner sings, having joined when the band reformed in 2023.
Geordie Greep will not play Barcelona: Estrella Galicia cancels the three Spanish dates of the tour
He was due at Sala Upload on 23 November, as part of the SON Estrella Galicia series. The promoter has emailed ticket holders and refunds are being issued.
Enslaved release “Mið” on 30 October: eight tracks and the Norwegian band’s seventeenth album
Nuclear Blast put it out with eight tracks. “Mið” is Old Norse for “the centre”. The band present it in Bergen and Oslo at the end of the month, and play Barcelona on 14 February.
Jez Williams, guitarist of Doves, releases his first solo album on 26 February
“Life Of Me And You” is ten songs and comes out on Earth To Echo Records. The first shows are in Manchester in November. Doves, meanwhile, are three or four songs into album seven.
Chaosbay sign to Metal Blade and put out “Egosystem”, the third advance from an album due in March
The Berlin quartet sign to the American label. The track crosses a reggaeton feel with metalcore hooks, and the band have also released a soft version with a prog-rock bent.
Machine Head release “Sutures” ten days after Robb Flynn called the “UNATØNED” cycle finished
On 10 October the frontman wrote on the band’s site that they were closing the chapter and going home. On the 20th a new track appeared, with no warning. Seven guitarists had passed through along the way.
Delain release “We Are Fire”, the first track of the chapter without a fixed singer: Fabienne Erni, Paolo Ribaldini and Noa Gruman sing it
Napalm put it out on 20 October. The named guests for the new chapter have gone from two to nine, and only three of them sing on this track. The album still has no title and no date.
Hasse Fröberg’s HFMC are calling it a day: live album out 27 November, farewell shows in April 2027
Recorded in Uppsala in November 2024, the live album is out on FREIA Music on 27 November, followed by two farewell shows in 2027, in Germany and Sweden.
Prize Horse sign to Closed Casket Activities and release “The Big Picture”, the first song they wrote for the new album
The Minneapolis trio swap New Morality Zine for the Troy hardcore label. The song has demos going back to 2023 and, they say, ends with the heaviest section they have ever written.
Sweden’s Domkraft close the run of advances from “Night Songs” with “Aurora”, the album they wrote while the guitarist recovered from surgery
“Aurora” is the last of three advances from the trio’s fifth album, out on Magnetic Eye on 20 November. Seven tracks cut at Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm with David Castillo.
Caleb Wheeler Curtis and Jason Moran release “Incantation” on Friday, twelve tracks cut in a single December afternoon in Brooklyn
Imani Records release the saxophone-and-piano duo album on 23 October. Curtis plays the stritch, the straight alto Rahsaan Roland Kirk made his own, and the set makes room for tunes by Arthur Blythe and Orrin Evans.
Ian Anderson plays flute on “A Brighter Day”, the third advance from the Romanians Dirty Shirt’s album, out in January
Jethro Tull’s singer and flautist picked which song suited him from five demos he was sent. “Balkansylvania Vol. 1: Roots” arrives digitally in January 2027, with no physical edition until 2028.
Diana Leah leaves Delain and the band decides against a replacement: guests will sing the new album, Marko Hietala and Sharon den Adel among them
She joined in 2022 and cut a single album, “Dark Waters”. Delain are not replacing her: several artists will sing the record they are preparing, and many of them will play live too.
Apocalyptica took their first United States certifications last December: gold for “Worlds Collide” and double platinum for “I Don’t Care”
The Finnish band also hold gold for the single “Not Strong Enough” with Brent Smith. “It took us a while to reach this,” the band said, now midway through a Latin American tour.