Tony Iommi collects his MBE at Windsor Castle
The Black Sabbath guitarist received the honour on 30 September at an investiture at Windsor Castle, for services to music and to charity.
Notícies Fresques
“o\i” has a date: Peter Gabriel releases it on 27 November, with thirteen songs
Real World releases “o\i” on 27 November. Thirteen songs that complete a twenty-five-track set with “i/o”, and Gabriel calls it the longest album he has put out.
Enter Shikari stop on 31 December 2027, twenty years after “Take To The Skies”
The St Albans band will stop recording and playing from 31 December 2027. “It may end with an eruption back into activity, or may end with extinction.”
Conrad “Cronos” Lant, Venom’s singer and bassist, has died at 63
Venom announced Conrad Lant’s death at 63 on Thursday. No cause has been given. In May he had released “Into Oblivion”, the band’s sixteenth album.
Brian May walks on at Roger Taylor’s Roundhouse show and they close with “We Will Rock You” and “Radio Ga Ga”
Taylor, 77, sang the whole concert and sat behind the kit for one track only. May came up for the final two songs, in versions The Times describes as afropop.
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.
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”.
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.
A book on thrash metal’s big four comes out on 10 November and starts the story in 1981
“Heavy Metal’s Big Four” is by Daniel Bukszpan, author of “Rush At 50” and “Iron Maiden At 50”, and works through Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer year by year.
Myrath cover Sting’s “Shape of My Heart” halfway through the tour that brings them to Barcelona on 25 October
Myrath have put the version out midway through the “Wilderness of Mirrors” tour, which has five Spanish dates and closes its European leg on 28 October in Villeurbanne.
Avaland preview “Face The Eternal” and release “Chemical Poetry” on 30 October
The third chapter of the French band’s metal opera, produced by Joost van den Broek. The track they’ve put out was the weakest on the demos until the riffs went in.
Archive release “Not In My Name” on 19 March, with an eighteen-minute title track sung by all five voices
The Croydon collective’s fourteenth album, just over a year on from “Glass Minds”. Eleven tracks on Dangervisit and [PIAS], with a 2027 tour taking in four German cities.
Agriculture release a European live album on Friday, most of it taped at Roadburn
“The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026” arrives digitally on 2 October and on vinyl and CD on 27 November. Seven of the ten tracks come from the Tilburg festival.
Ian Gillan will do twenty-four spoken-word nights across the UK in April and May 2027
Twenty-four nights from Bournemouth to Cadogan Hall, between 28 April and 29 May 2027. The name comes from the nonsense words he uses to fix a melody’s metre before writing the real lyric.
Faith No More return to Europe in June 2027 as headliners of Gdańsk’s Mystic Festival
It’s the first European date of the comeback, announced with a “Surprise! We’re alive!”. Faith No More have not played since August 2016, and in January and February they play four shows in Australia and New Zealand.
Nirvana collect MTV’s Video Vanguard Award, the first band to take it since Duran Duran in 2003
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear picked it up on 27 September at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, handed over by Chuck D. The band shot seven videos before 1994.
Disfear release “The Last Nail” on 20 November, eighteen years on and carrying the last recordings Tomas Lindberg and Marcus Andersson made
Eight tracks on Relapse, written across fourteen years and recorded in three. It’s the first record since 2008’s “Live the Storm” and the last to carry Tomas Lindberg’s voice and Marcus Andersson’s drums.
Spanish Love Songs preview “Doom Tripping” and release “Future Nausea” on 6 November
The album is produced by Chris Walla, formerly of Death Cab for Cutie, and Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties. Dylan Slocum wrote the song while tapering off antidepressants.
Ryley Walker signs to AD 93 and returns with “Carrier”, built from digital distortion and a discarded guitar demo
The guitarist’s first new music since “Course in Fable” (2021). He made it at home in New York after closing shifts at a service job.
Maiah Wynne releases “Into The Waves” with Alex Lifeson guesting and puts out the video for “Girl Dinner”
The Envy of None singer plays more than a dozen instruments on a record cut in hotel rooms on a laptop. It is out on Kscope and she presents it in London on 14 October.
Father John Misty plays his first solo tour since 2013 and releases “The X-panded Universe”
Josh Tillman’s third standalone release of the year, arranged by Drew Erickson. Eight December dates with Damien Jurado, the last two benefiting a Big Sur school.
Three musicians who met in Obscura form Void Sector Zero and release “Dead Space Enigma” on 11 December
Christian Muenzner, Alex Weber and Gabe Seeber overlapped on the “A Valediction” tour in 2022. Eight tracks of tech-thrash on Season of Mist, led by “Vortex Divinium”.
Melissa Aldana and Gonzalo Rubalcaba take Cuban filin to NPR’s Tiny Desk
Four pieces with Pablo Menares on bass and Kush Abadey on drums, three from “Filin” and one from “Echoes of the Inner Prophet”. The session is part of “El Tiny”.
Uncle Acid put themselves out again: “Shapes of Midnight” is on their own label and was cut at Abbey Road in three days
Kevin Starrs’s seventh album, out on 18 September through Killer Candy Records after years on Rise Above. The plot comes from Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”.
Roger Waters directs “Legacy”, a Pink Floyd show led by his son Harry that will play more than a hundred cities
A ten-piece band with Harry Waters on Hammond organ and as musical director. It opens on 15 February 2027 and covers four albums from the classic catalogue. European dates have not been announced.