The Knights of Unicron – The Transformers: The Movie: The Soundtrack: The Reformatted Edition
Forty years on, the “Transformers: The Movie” soundtrack is re-recorded as metal, with Stan Bush back to sing “The Touch” and “Dare”.
Metal
Les novetats, cròniques i concerts de metal que segueix Tótum Revolútum Press: del metal extrem als projectes que aposten per la producció més elaborada i ambiciosa, sense oblidar els clàssics que van fundar el gènere. Cobertura en català, amb crítica de discos i reportatge fotogràfic des de la primera fila.
Frozen Crown – The Legend of the Six Kings
Ten tracks, thirty-six minutes and not a single song that reaches five. The Milanese band’s sixth album is the most compact they’ve made and the one that least stops to tell the story in its title.
Girlschool’s 1982 Tokyo concert comes out on vinyl for the first time on 6 November
Sixteen songs from 21 January 1982, four of them CD-only. “We went on, and the screaming was so loud, we thought we were the Beatles.”
Fender put out three John 5 signature Telecasters, and he releases “The Phantom” the same day
Two from the Fender line and one from the Custom Shop, all with DiMarzio humbuckers and a Floyd Rose. “I don’t know if the Telecaster picked me or I picked it.”
Dieth bring in Tobias Cristiansson in place of David Ellefson and sign with Fireflash Records
The Swedish bassist comes from Grave, Necrophobic and Dismember. “Pound Of Flesh”, the first track off the band’s second album, lands on 16 October.
Alcest release “Live at Hellfest 2022” on 4 December, billed by Nuclear Blast as their first live album
Eight tracks recorded at Hellfest in June 2022, on digital and limited double vinyl. The preview is “Protection”, with video of the performance.
Faith No More and Judas Priest headline Copenhell 2027, from 23 to 26 June in Copenhagen
The third European date announced for the Faith No More return, after Mystic in Gdańsk and Rock For People. Tickets go on sale on 9 October at 10.00.
Wage War put out “God Complex” three days before releasing “Landfall”
The album is out on Friday through Fearless Records and on 25 October they start the “Emergency Broadcast” tour with We Came As Romans, Varials and Cane Hill.
Ice Nine Kills butcher eight Christmas carols on 9 November and announce “The Silver Scream 3” for 2027
The EP was born for Art the Clown’s Terror Tram at Universal Studios. The new album will be called “The Silver Scream 3: Every Flick In The Book”.
Gorod – The Ember Gone
The Bordeaux band leave technical death metal half behind and cross over into progressive rock across eight tracks and forty-three minutes. Their eighth album.
Thy Catafalque premiere “Tömbök”, the first video to show the band playing
It is the heaviest track on “XIII: Sárga erdő”, out on 20 November through Season of Mist. Gábor Veres sings on it and Dario Cei plays flute.
The Septicflesh guitarist breaks ribs and the band takes the stage as a trio
Christos Antoniou fell the day before the tour with Arch Enemy and The Black Dahlia Murder began. There is no stand-in and no return date.
Chuck Billy splits his memoir into an Old and a New Testament, out on 10 November
“Holding My Breath” comes out on Permuted Press, written with Dave Erickson. The first half is Bay Area thrash; the second, the cancer he got at 38.
The Scorpions film, “Wind of Change”, opens in German cinemas on 28 January
Alexander Dreymon plays Rudolf Schenker and Dominic West plays Doc McGhee. So far there is only a German date: no international release is announced.
Ogives Big Band / POHL – Split
Thirty-seven minutes shared two ways: four tracks from Ogives Big Band and a single seventeen-minute stoner epic from POHL, with a sax solo in the middle of it.
Twisted Sister’s five eighties albums come back together on 13 November, with a track that is only on the CD
“Totally Twisted” is out on BMG and Rhino as a five-colour-vinyl box and a five-CD box. It runs from “Under The Blade” (1982) to “Love Is For Suckers” (1987).
Zombi’s Steve Moore releases the metal record he had wanted to make for years on 6 November, with The Sword’s rhythm section
Autumn Tomb are Moore with Bryan Richie and Jimmy Vela III. Five tracks on Spaceflight Records, cut in Albany and Texas, and the “Crumbling Thrones” visualiser is already out.
Metallica bring back “Devil’s Dance” at the Sphere, eighteen years after the last time they played it
The second night of the residency came with an entirely different setlist from the first. “The Outlaw Torn” had not been played since 2019 either.
Hypno5e share “Trame Noire”, the title track of the album out on 6 November
It is the third advance track, after “Lost Fires” and “Molecular Angel”. Five tracks on Pelagic Records, produced by Emmanuel Jessua and mixed by Chris Edrich.
W.A.S.P. cancel the Carteret show on the night and KK’s Priest play the headline set
The New Jersey venue announced it on 3 October in a three-line statement. No reason has been given and the tour carries on in Montreal on the 5th.
A documentary follows Orbit Culture through Summer Breeze and Niklas Karlsson goes over the band’s thirteen years
“Offstage with Orbit Culture”, by Scream Dudes, covers line-up changes, burnout and the labels that never wrote back. The band plays Sant Jordi Club on 13 November.
Deafheaven play “Hunter” for the first time in Chicago, from the EP they call the heaviest thing they have done
It happened on 2 October, on the North American tour with Mastodon and Alcest. The EP has no title and no date, and physical copies were on sale at the show.
Devin Townsend explains he went back on stage after losing money on “The Moth” and splitting from his partner of thirty-six years
He said it on the “Sixty Scales And The Truth” podcast on 29 September. The acoustic Metamorphosis tour reaches Salamandra on 10 October.
Floor Jansen releases “Hytress” on 15 January and says she does not want to copy what Tuomas Holopainen writes
Twelve songs on REVAMP Music and Warner, her second solo album after “Paragon”. The European tour in January and February has no date in Spain.
Geezer Butler joins Jack Black’s band at Tom Morello’s festival to play “War Pigs”
Jack Sabbath opened with “Mr. Crowley” and “The Wizard”, with the sons of Tom Morello and Scott Ian on guitar and bass. Butler came out for the third.
Disillusion lose their guitarist and their keyboard player: Ben Haugg and Freddy Ruckert are out, and the announced dates stand
Haugg had been in since 2016 and Ruckert since 2018. The band say the decisions were a long time coming and that every announced show will go ahead.
Voivod cancel all ten US dates and say they can’t commit to new ones
The run was to open on 8 October in Youngstown with BAT supporting. The band cite a family health emergency and offer no timetable for a return.
Odd Logic – Mortal Heirloom
Ninth album from the Tacoma one-man band: six tracks, forty-three minutes of melodic progressive metal, seven years after “Last Watch Of The Nightingale”.
Induction re-cut “Gods Of Steel”, this time with Kai Hansen on vocals
Guitarist Tim Hansen puts his father, of Helloween and Gamma Ray, on a song from “Love Kills!”. The October tour takes Barcelona’s Kilmara along.
Fear Factory’s singer says he tried to sound like Burton C. Bell on “Roboticist”
Milo Silvestro talks about the first track with the current line-up. The album has ten songs, comes out through Nuclear Blast and still has no date.
Imminence release “Axis Mundi” and the January European tour skips Spain
Eleven tracks through Sumerian with Henrik Udd and Drew Fulk. The tour with August Burns Red covers nineteen announced cities between 8 January and 6 February, and not one is in Spain.
Bruce Dickinson says the new solo album is finished and that he will tour in 2027
Recorded at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in January and February, with his son Austin guesting and five videos shot in Nevada. On Iron Maiden he will only say there are surprises.
Metallica open their Sphere residency with “Battery” and close it with “Master Of Puppets”
“Life Burns Faster” began on Thursday in Las Vegas with sixteen tracks and runs to 13 March 2027, with different setlists on Thursdays and Saturdays.
London coroner puts Phil Campbell’s death down to multi-organ failure after two liver transplants
The inquest at St Pancras sat on Friday, six and a half months after the Motörhead guitarist died. The coroner says nothing suggests it could have been prevented.
Epica – Live at The Symphonic Synergy
Twenty tracks and two hours of the 2024 Amsterdam show with orchestra and choir, already issued on Blu-ray inside “Aspiral” and now arriving digitally without the video.
Butcher Babies – Nightbloom
Ten tracks of three and a half minutes and the first album without Carla Harvey: Heidi Shepherd out front alone, Howard Benson producing and half the record already out on video.
Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound, Live in Europe 2026
Seven of the ten tracks come from the Roadburn set and the other three from Glasgow, Milan and Cologne: a live record stitched together from four rooms, and it shows.
Electric Valley cut “Echo” live in the studio and release it on 6 November through Small Stone
The Madrid stoner-doom trio return five years after “Tapes From The Galactic Tavern” with seven tracks recorded live at Estudio Brazil.
Epica release the orchestra-and-choir concert they played in Amsterdam in September 2024
Twenty tracks recorded at AFAS Live on 20 September 2024. It is digital only and comes with a video of “Consign to Oblivion”.
Hippotraktor – Annihilist
Third album from the Mechelen five-piece, and the third with exactly seven tracks: thirty-eight minutes, the shortest of the three, with Loïc Rossetti guesting.