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Steven Wilson will release his ninth studio album, Requiem For A Village, through Fiction Records on 6 November 2026. The title track is available now alongside a live Village Session video. Where Wilson’s eighth album, The Overview, explored the scale and isolation of deep space, Requiem For A Village turns towards a tiny, unknown corner of the British Isles. Its story leaves the modern world behind for a village existing beyond a defined time and place.
Wilson adopted an equally unconventional recording process. Avoiding AI and corrective studio technology, he used organic instrumentation, analogue synthesisers and the unexpected results of imperfect performances.
The album was recorded with regular collaborator and multi-instrumentalist Randy McStine, drummer Russell Holzman and vocalist Katherine Priddy. It also features narration written by Andy Partridge of XTC and voiced by David Tennant.
“I wanted to get back to a kind of music where you can hear the metaphorical thumbprints,” Steven Wilson said. “Doubling down on the human gestures and flaws in the music, stuff that can’t be created using software.”
He added that the approach led him to play instruments he did not fully know. “For example, using only analogue synths with all their unpredictability, or not having instruments perfectly in tune. But it also led to me picking up the violin, the oboe, or trying my hand on the drums, playing things I don’t really know how to play but getting something out of them that inspired me in ways I didn’t expect.
“Approaching the music with a sense of innocence and seeing where it took me. And where it took me was to the village.”
The title track introduces this lost corner of Britain through flying drums, a driving bassline and scratchy guitars before opening into what the release describes as the soundtrack to an approaching apocalypse.
Requiem For A Village Track Listing
Swirl In A Lark’s Eye
Requiem For A Village
The Same River Twice
Now Departing
Hiraeth
On Chapel Slope
Murmuration
Curcus Fingerprint
A Basket Of Bees
Great Green Map
Wheel
The Old God Is Buried
Requiem For A Village will be available on CD, Blu-ray, 140g double black vinyl, double oxblood-coloured vinyl and as a box set containing two CDs and a Blu-ray disc in a 96-page hardback book. Limited signed CDs will be offered through Amazon, while HMV will carry a CD edition with exclusive packaging. Pre-order the album.
Wilson will preview the album’s influences with a DJ set titled Songs From The Village at The Social in London on 22 September. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to charity. He will also play two sold-out Royal Albert Hall concerts on 28 and 29 October with his band, the Parallax Orchestra and the Sansara choir.
Rammstein – Live In Mexico City will arrive in cinemas worldwide on 4 November 2026 for a limited time, capturing the German band’s monumental stadium production on the big screen.
The feature-length concert film documents Rammstein’s three-night stand at Mexico City’s 65,000-capacity Foro Sol stadium on 1, 2 and 4 October 2022. Nearly 200,000 fans attended the shows, which brought the band’s first North American stadium tour to a spectacular close.
Filmed in 4K, Rammstein – Live In Mexico City features stadium-sized performances of songs from across the band’s career, including Armee der Tristen, Deutschland, Du Riechst So Gut, Sonne, Du Hast and a rare performance of Te Quiero Puta!.
The film was directed by Paul Dugdale, whose previous credits include projects with The Rolling Stones, Taylor Swift, Elton John and Adele.
Rammstein Live In Mexico City Concert Film Heads To Cinemas
The Mexico City concerts formed part of Rammstein’s 2019-2024 global stadium tour. For the 2022 North American leg, seven Boeing 747 aircraft and almost 210 crew members transported the band’s vast pyro-theatrical production across the continent for 12 open-air dates.
Rammstein – Live In Mexico City will screen worldwide from 4 November, with the exception of France, where it opens on 6 November, and Japan, where screenings take place on 5 and 18 November. The film is distributed internationally by Trafalgar Releasing, with Filmwelt Distribution handling Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Alto Adige and Luxembourg.
A live album will follow on physical and digital formats on 20 November.
Tickets go on sale on 23 September, when full cinema listings will be published at rammsteinmexico.live.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ILLUSIONS PLAY AND CURSED IN ETERNITY UNITE FOR BLEAK TWO-TRACK SPLIT EP DOOMED
Istanbul and Ankara’s dark metal forces trade musical and vocal roles across a haunting collaboration of doom, death, black metal and DSBM
Streaming here: https://band.link/2026doomed
Two of Türkiye’s underground metal acts, Istanbul-based Illusions Play and Ankara-based Cursed in Eternity , have joined forces for Doomed , a two-track split EP that brings together atmospheric doom/death, black metal, melodic death metal and depressive suicidal black metal in a deliberately unconventional collaboration.
Released September 4, 2026, Doomed features two tracks, “Ashen Sky” and “Ash Beneath the Sun,” with each band contributing equally to the project. Rather than simply appearing alongside one another on a traditional split, Illusions Play and Cursed in Eternity created an intentional exchange of roles, with one band providing the music while the other takes on the lyrical and vocal performance. The roles are then reversed for the second track.
The result is a release where two distinct identities become intertwined, creating a bleak and immersive journey through despair, isolation, melancholy and inner decay.
ILLUSIONS PLAY
Formed in Istanbul in 2011, Illusions Play has developed a sound rooted in atmospheric doom/death metal while incorporating elements of black metal, haunting melodies and crushing heaviness. The band’s music shifts between deep growls, piercing screams and ethereal vocal passages, creating an atmosphere steeped in darkness and emotional weight.
Following their second full-length album, Empire of Desolation , released in 2024, Illusions Play continued to push toward an increasingly dark and atmospheric direction.
The band has shared stages with acts including Shape of Despair, October Tide and Psychonaut 4 , while also appearing at Portals Metal Fest and Doom Over Tbilisi .
For Doomed , Illusions Play enters into a creative exchange with Cursed in Eternity, contributing one half of a collaboration built around musical and vocal role reversal.
CURSED IN ETERNITY
Formed in Ankara in 2019 , Cursed in Eternity is a doom-based DSBM project blending bleak atmospheres and melancholic songwriting with lyrics performed in both Turkish and English.
After a period of silence, the band returned with their latest studio album, Rise of Silence , released in February 2026. The album marked a new chapter for Cursed in Eternity, leading directly into the band’s collaboration with Illusions Play on Doomed .
The split features “Ashen Sky” and “Ash Beneath the Sun,” continuing Cursed in Eternity’s exploration of darkness, despair and emotional isolation while introducing a new collaborative dimension to their sound.
The band is also scheduled to return to the stage on October 3, 2026 , alongside October Tide and Illusions Play .
A TRUE 50/50 COLLABORATION
At its core, Doomed is a genuine 50/50 collaboration between Illusions Play and Cursed in Eternity , not a conventional guest feature.
Each band contributed equally, with the project’s defining concept built around an exchange of creative roles. One band creates the music while the other handles the lyrics and vocals, before the process is reversed on the second track.
That exchange allows both groups to step outside their familiar boundaries while retaining the character of their respective sounds. The result is a two-song release that feels connected by atmosphere and intent while giving each band a distinct presence.
From the crushing weight of doom/death to the bleak atmosphere of black metal and DSBM, Doomed brings together two sides of Türkiye’s underground metal landscape for a release built around darkness, collaboration and creative reciprocity.
Tracklist:
Ashen Sky
Ash Beneath the Sun
Artists: Illusions Play × Cursed in Eternity Release: Doomed Format: Two-Track Split EP Release Date: September 4, 2026 Country: Türkiye Cities: Istanbul / Ankara Genres: Atmospheric Doom/Death • Black Metal • Melodic Death Metal • DSBM
For Fans Of: Swallow the Sun, Shining, Thy Light, Paradise Lost, Psychonaut 4
Doomed by Illusions Play, Cursed In Eternity
Connect:
https://linktr.ee/illusionsplay
Official Contact: Vitaliy Petrenko (Can Aydin) illusionsplayband@gmail.com
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