Category: Music News

Upcoming Metal Releases for October 2026

The titles bolded in RED will eventually air on Shredding Metal Beasts, Sinister Death, and Hard Rock Madness, and Screaming Horror. All dates and music subject to change without notice. October 2, 2026 Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade) Asomvel – Set Your World On Fire (Self) Bela Fool – Fool Me Once EP (Self) Bobbie Dazzle…


Dungeon Serpent to Release ‘Lamentations of the Shadowkingdoms’ October 30th via Profound Lore Records

After five years of silence and meticulous work, Vancouver, British Columbia-based melodic death metal collective DUNGEON SERPENT returns with their second album Lamentations Of The Shadowkingdoms, their first record for Profound Lore Records. Having already constructed a standout style of death metal with their World Of Sorrows debut, sharply focused upon fusing morbid and romantic…


Dream Unending to Release ‘Certain Uncertainties’ October 30th via 20 Buck Spin

DREAM UNENDING, the eclectic duo uniting Derrick Vella of Tomb Mold and Justin DeTore of Innumerable Forms, Sumerlands, and Magic Circle, presents their expansive third album, Certain Uncertainties. With their first two albums, DREAM UNENDING transformed the familiar architecture of death doom into a place of their own making. A language where cavernous heaviness could…


Ensemble Tikoro to Release Tortoise October 23rd via Jangjang Records

West Java, Indonesia-based avant metal acapella choir ENSEMBLE TIKORO presents a haunting new video for “Throat,” premiered today through New Noise Magazine. The song is found on the group’s incoming Tortoise album, nearing release on Jangjang Records, the label spawned in the ashes of former label Public Guilt. ENSEMBLE TIKORO’s Tortoise is a performance which…


Lugubrious Garment to Release ‘In the Wide Vale of Uncreated Night’ October 16th via 20 Buck Spin

“Transient Wounds, Spiritual Wilt” is the latest preview of In The Wide Vale Of Uncreated Night, the debut album from LUGUBRIOUS GARMENT, the newest venture from Milan, Italy-based Gabriele Gramaglia Known for his work with Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis, and numerous other entities operating within the more adventurous reaches of extreme metal, Gramaglia established LUGUBRIOUS…


King Diamond Three Track Halloween Picture Disk to Release October 23rd via Metal Blade Records

KING DIAMOND’s Halloween, the three-track LP picture disc originally released in 1986, will be re-released worldwide with new art by Mario Lopez on October 23rd via Metal Blade Records, just in time for the season! The Halloween title track comes off KING DIAMOND‘s debut album, Fatal Portrait (1986), as does “The Candle,” which served as…


Upcoming Metal Releases for September 2026

The titles bolded in RED will eventually air on Shredding Metal Beasts, Sinister Death, and Hard Rock Madness, and Screaming Horror. All dates and music subject to change without notice. September 4, 2026 156/Silence – From A Distance (Pure Noise) Acausal Intrusion – Vomit Meditations (I, Voidhanger) Accept – Teutonic Titans 1976-2026 (Napalm) Airbourne – Airbourne (Spinefarm) Amyl And The Sniffers – Truth Or Consequence (Virgin) Ancient Malice – Worm…


Salvation to Release ‘The Haunted’ October 16th via Reptilian Records

The Sleeping Shaman is hosting the exclusive premiere of a new video from Chicago-based noise rock trio SALVATION. The video is for the new single “Depression,” found on the band’s fifth LP, The Haunted, nearing release on Reptilian Records. The Haunted delivers an expectedly slamming dose of groove-laden dirge that SALVATION’s diehard fanbase has come…


Fervence to Release ‘Constructs’ October 16th via Metal Blade Records

“Ascension” is the newest single from Texas-based progressive metalcore practitioners, FERVENCE. The track appears on the band’s impending new full-length, Constructs, set to drop on October 16th through Metal Blade Records. Comments founding guitarist Trent Odneal, “‘Ascension’ came about because I felt like the album really needed chaos – short, fast, and seemingly out of…


Mother of Graves to Release ‘The Light That Keeps Us’ October 16th via Profound Lore Records

After two years of meticulous crafting and the lasting impact left behind from their sophomore offering The Periapt Of Absence, which claimed a #11 spot on Decibel Magazine’s Top 40 AOTY and tore through countless year-end lists, Indianapolis death/doom titans MOTHER OF GRAVES return alongside Profound Lore Records with The Light That Keeps Us, set…