Lustmord and Dave Lombardo release “The Pulse Of Atoms” today and share a third track
The album is out on Ipecac. “It’s the sound of planets dying or of stars being born,” they say of it. “It’s not rock and roll.”
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.
Dissimulator release “Artifice Dissolves” today, the Montreal trio’s second album
Out on 20 Buck Spin, two years and eight months after “Lower Form Resistance”. The band draws on Chthe’ilist, Atramentus and Beyond Creation.
TesseracT move The Descent tour to March and keep tickets already sold valid
The six UK and German dates set for November shift to March 2027. The band say some important elements of their plans have changed.
Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens
Thirteenth album from the Swedes, four years on from “The Great Heathen Army”: ten tracks, forty-six minutes and the first acoustic song they have ever released.
TEMIC – Ceiba
Second album from the international quintet built around Tejeida and Gillette: eleven tracks about loss, with the three longest of them stacked into the back half.
Endspace – First Contact
Debut from the Canadian duo who sign with two strings of digits: nine tracks called transmissions, black metal run through vocoders, and a centrepiece with no guitars at all.
Mawiza will open for Slipknot at Santiago’s Estadio Nacional in September 2027
The Chilean band, who sing in Mapudungun, are on the bill for 12 September 2027 with Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Hatebreed. Their album “Ül” came out in 2025 on Season of Mist.
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter sign to Napalm and have a thirteenth album due in summer 2027
The Germans have been working on the record for almost two years. It will be their thirteenth and arrives in summer 2027. In December they play the “Schrei!Nachten” tour with Robse and Disillusion.
Rebecca Vernon releases The Keening’s second album, “Devotion”, on 16 October, in memory of her father
“Devotion” is out on 16 October through Relapse, dedicated to Rebecca Vernon’s father, who died in May 2025. She recorded it in Portland in 2022, three years before that death.
Nightwish go over thirty years in a box set with a Blu-ray, out on 11 December
“The Greatest 30 Years On Earth” comes out on 11 December through Nuclear Blast in three formats. The band have shared the “Tribal” video, shot in Amsterdam in 2022.
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.
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.
Destruction Of Orion – States Of Horror
Avolition, catalepsy, lethargy, anhedonia: Bulgaria’s Tehina Spasova gives every track a clinical name and Aesthetic Death gives the record a body. Fifty-six minutes of funeral doom with no way out.
Noctule – Extinguish Thy Flame
With Svalbard finished, Serena Cherry is alone with Elden Ring: ten tracks, five bosses and thirty-nine minutes of melodeath and symphonic black metal. The journey it promises is really a list.
Subterranean Masquerade (Submasq)
Subterranean Masquerade, an Israeli band founded in 1997 by Tomer Pink, blend progressive metal with Oriental elements; in December 2025 they changed their name to Submasq.
Distorted Harmony
Distorted Harmony, a Tel Aviv band formed in 2009 by keyboardist Yoav Efron, combines progressive metal with harmonies close to jazz and modern classical music.
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land, a Petah Tikva band formed in 1991 by Kobi Farhi, blend progressive metal with traditional Jewish and Oriental music; pioneers of so-called “oriental metal”.
Wheel
Wheel, a Helsinki band formed in 2015 around guitarist and singer James Lascelles, has released three progressive metal albums between 2019 and 2024.
Spiritbox
Spiritbox, a Canadian group founded in 2017 by Courtney LaPlante and Mike Stringer (ex-iwrestledabearonce), fuses metalcore with electronic and progressive elements.
Jinjer
Jinjer, a Ukrainian band formed in 2008 in Donetsk, combines progressive metalcore with the vocals of Tatiana Shmayluk; five studio albums released between 2014 and 2025.
Oceans of Slumber
Oceans of Slumber, a Houston band formed in 2011, fuses progressive rock with death and doom metal; six studio albums released between 2013 and 2024.
Klone
Klone, a Poitiers group formed in 1999 (previously called Sowat), fuses progressive metal with psychedelic and electronic textures across eight studio albums.
Twelve Foot Ninja
Twelve Foot Ninja, a Melbourne group formed in 2007, blend metal, funk and reggae; they disbanded in 2024 and re-formed in 2025.
Soen
Soen, a Swedish progressive metal band founded in 2010 by drummer Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth), with seven studio albums released between 2012 and 2026.
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.
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.
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”.
Kongh – Dissolved in Time
Three tracks and thirty-nine minutes, thirteen years after “Sole Creation”. Sweden’s David Johansson plays nearly all of it and signs the longest, slowest Kongh record yet.
Vincent Black Shadow
Vincent Black Shadow, veterans of Barcelona hard rock and garage since 2001.
Face The Maybe
Face The Maybe, the Barcelona progressive metal band with fifteen years of career.
Onyric Joy
Onyric Joy, the Barcelona psychedelic and stoner rock trio rooted in Greek Stoic philosophy.
Time Lost
Time Lost, the Barcelona progressive metal band behind the concept series “Stages of Grief and Loss”.
Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains, the Seattle band with grunge’s darkest sound, marked by the death of Layne Staley.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden, the Seattle grunge pioneers, with Chris Cornell on vocals.
Code Orange
Code Orange, the Pittsburgh band that fuses hardcore, industrial metal and noise.