Italian groove/death metallers OBBROBRIUS have released a video for “Leviathan’s Cage,” the opening track from their forthcoming second album, Usurped. The nine-track record arrives on November 6, 2026, through Over The Border Records, following the Pescara band’s independently released 2024 debut, Daisy’s Creepy Tales. Built without a conventional chorus, “Leviathan’s Cage” moves through two sections […]

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Release Round Up – October 2nd 2026

Every week there is a tidal wave of new music released unto the world. Each Friday we’ll round up some of the best new music available, some we’ve reviewed, some we haven’t, but all worth checking out!

Theres a lot of new heavy music hitting the airwaves this week, everything from black metal, death metal, gothic metal, Stoner rock, doom, thrash metal and even some of your traditional heavy metal!

Here’s what we think you should check out today!

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

Viking metal horde Amon Amarth release ‘The Allfather Awakens’ via Metal Blade Records.
“soul stirring, epic and anthemic with plenty of death metal grit”
Read our full review here.

Belgian post-metallers Hippotraktor release ‘Annihilist’ via Pelagic Records.
“Though like flicking a light switch, the band can take a U-Turn and unleash unmitigated hell with crushing walls of distorted guitars”
Read our full review here.

Spirit Possession unleash their third full-length album “Cathedral Speech” on Sepulchral Voice Records.
“this record has more in line with Venom or Midnight, injecting blackened speed metal into their stabbing and razor-sharp soundscape”
Read our full review here.

Northern Irish death/doom stalwarts The Crawling release two track EP ‘What We Leave Behind’ via Grindscene Records.
“a blistering punch to the gut that leaves you nowhere to hide!”
Read our full review here.

German extreme metal force Firtan release ‘Helios’ on AOP Records.
“showcases a wholesome new twist on the genre”
Read our full review here.

Quebec-based death/thrash trio Dissimulator release ‘Artifice Dissolves’ via 20 Buck Spin.
“the guitar work comes alive all the while ripping our sinews asunder “
Read our full review here.

Progressive metal supergroup Temic release ‘Ceiba’ via Season of Mist.
“Either you’ll be moved by this, or you’re lying.”
Read our full review here.

High-octane metal force Asomvel release ‘Set Your World On Fire’
“sit down, grab a drink and play it loud.”
Read our full review here.

True pioneers of the Swedish death metal scene Sorcery release ‘The Immaculate Sin’ via Xtreem Music.
“a roaring and breathless ride from start to finish”
Read our full review here.

Colombian melodic death metal band Eshtadur release ‘In Darkness All Shadows Gone’ via Rockshots Records.
“a haunting classical guitar and terrifying ominous chants; enough to make a grown man cower.”
Read our full review here.

Frozen Crown head into their very own age of gold with ‘The Legend of the Six Kings’ released via Napalm Records.
“a fist-in-the-air, lean-back, scream-at-the-top-of-your-lungs kind of album”
Read our full review here.

Brymir release melodic death metal epic ‘What We Leave Behind’ via Napalm Records.
“A multilayered complex package and a fully guided tour around several sub genres of metal”
Read our full review here.

Swedish metalcore visionaries Imminence release ‘Axis Mundi’ via Sumerian Records.
“It’s beautiful. It’s heartbreaking. But contained within is grace, hope, and a very promising future.”
Read our full review here.

Heavy rock trio Valley of the Sun deliver ‘The Blacklight Sessions’ via Heavy Psych Sounds.
“Their collective intensity is audible as they deliver another monstrous album”
Read our full review here.

Rock

Black Water Redemption – Black Water Redemption (Independent)
Convulsif – Anatomy of Rag (Deszpot Records/Akari Records/Day Off Records/Ramble Records/Cheap Satanism Records)
Howling Bells – Howling Bells [Vinyl Reissue] (Nude Records)
Rebel Rose – In the Dark She Grows (Independent)
The Green Goblins – The Green Goblins (Metalville)
These Wicked Rivers – Fire and Folklore (Fat Earth Records)
Triggertone – Bombs Away [EP] (Independent)
Valley of the Sun – The Blacklight Sessions (Heavy Psych Sounds)

Heavy Metal

Asomvel – Set Your World On Fire (Independent)
Butcher Babies – Nightbloom (Judge & Jury Records)
Crimson Steel – Show No Fear (Heaven and Hell Records)
Dethonator – The Last Realm Of Magic (The Orchard)
Hopsydian – A Graceful Sin [EP – Physical Release] (Arising Empire)

Black Metal

Deathcult – Cult of the Dog (Soulseller Records)
Endspace – First Contact (Transcending Obscurity Records)
Enterré Vivant – Kurogoku (Trancendance)
Hardiesse – Tristesse Vespérale (Antiq)
MØrkgrim – Sǫgur frá Norðfirði (Soulseller Records)
Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP Records)
Speer – Blotters in Saline Water (Independent)
Thede – Whet The Keen Axes (Independent)
Urisk – Callous Master (Vendetta Records)

Death Metal / Death-Doom / Grindcore

Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade Records)
Brymir – What We Leave Behind [EP] (Napalm Records)
Deconsekrated – The Inexorable Transcendence of Death (Nuclear Winter Records)
Eshtadur – In Darkness All Shadows Gone (Rockshots Records)
Hektatoxen – Obsidian Majesty (Nuclear Winter Records)
Heretics – Of Poets and Prophets (Independent)
Morbid Stench – Doom Metástasis (Nuclear Winter Records)
Orbital Soul System – Nightwing (Independent)
Razorvoid – Into The Void (Jawbreaker Records)
Sorcery – The Immaculate (Xtreem Music)
Zornheym – Descending Into Madness (Noble Demon)

Doom / Stoner Rock / Sludge / Psych

Calus – The Evolution of Social Exclusion (Independent)
Cinder Well – Small Prophets OST (Bucks Records / Hen House Studios)
Doctor Nez – Nothing Short of Silver (Independent)
It’s All About Mary – Exploring The Brane (Independent)
Spider Kitten – God Don’t Sleep (APF Records)
The Machine – ANother Sun (Blues Funeral Recordings)
Travo – Wasteland (Fuzz CLUB)
Wizard Tattoo – When Gods Had Hands (Garage Fire Recordings)

Hardcore

Bombstrap – Big Enemy (Tartarus Records)
Inherited – All 4 One [EP] (Independent)

Metalcore

Electron – Is This Worth Living For? (Independent)
HRTLSS – The Devil On My Shoulder (Papercut Records)
Imminence – Axis Mundi (Sumerian Records)
Of Virtue – Death Of The Altar (Arising Empire)
The Light Superior – Dayspring (Rottweiler Records)

Progressive Rock / Metal

Datura Lodge – Datura Lodge (Arquen Records)
Crystal Throne – Chantry Of Sacrifice  (Independent)
POHL / Ogives Big Band – Split (Ripcord Records)

Thrash Metal

Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin)
Eternal – Conspiracy of Warheads (Floga Records)
Foreshadow – Here Down On Earth [EP] (Independent)
Methane – Demolate (Fireflash Records)

… and the rest!

Division:Dark – The Eternal Baptism (Metalville) [Industrial]
Frozen Crown – The Legend of the Six Kings (Napalm Records) [Power Metal]
Harker – All That Remains (Disconnect Disconnect) [Punk]
Helen – Linda’s Head (Kranky) [Shoegaze]
Lustmord Lombardo – The Pulse of Atoms (Ipecac Recordings) [Ambient/Electonic]
Rapidly Aging – You’re Not Yourself Lately (Fig on Wrist) [Post-Metal]
Ruled By Raptors – A Shadow That Never Moves (Independent) [Post-Hardcore]
To The Grave – Liberation Front (BLKIIBLK) [Deathcore]
Wes Hoffman – For The Better (SBÄM Records) [Pop-Punk]

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Ritchie Blackmore has opened up about his recent surprise reunion with Deep Purple.

The 81-year-old guitarist joined his former bandmates onstage at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York on August 12, where he played Purple classic Smoke On The Water. It was his first appearance with the band since 1993, and followed decades of often bitter estrangement.

Now the guitarist has addressed the reaction to his appearance, which was teased by his wife Candice Night the day before the show. Speaking in the first instalment of a new 13-part interview series with Phil Aston of Now Spinning magazine, Blackmore reveals when he decided to play – and his thoughts on the reaction to his appearance.

“I sat up in bed and thought, ‘What about if I got up on stage, as they’re in the area?’” Blackmore says. “They’re playing a great place called the Jones Beach Theater. And it’s outside, and the view is over the water. Magnificent place. And I’ve always wanted to play there. But I sat up in bed and I thought, ‘I wonder if…’

Blackmore adds that he asked Candice: “How do you feel about me just asking [Purple singer] Ian Gillan if it’s all right to play in Smoke On The Water, then just disappearing?’ And then she thought it was a good idea, so we sent him an e-mail via Candice.

“And so we sallied forth and infiltrated. Now Candice sent the e-mail and Ian said, ‘Yes, of course. Welcome aboard. All the band is up for it. Come on stage for Smoke.’ I just wanted to do one song, and I thought that would be the song. It’s big over here [in the US] – bigger here than it was in Europe. And so we kind of advertised it in a little way. Not much, just enough. And funnily enough, the ticket sales went up, which was nice. Anyway, they thought it was a good idea.”

Blackmore added that “everybody was so helpful… incredibly nice” when he arrived at the show. “And I played my three or four minutes of Smoke On The Water, which seemed to go down like I just invented the cure for cancer.

He continued: “And I felt very good about it because it was like playing with old friends… It’d been, like, 35 years since I’d actually played with the band, and nobody had changed. Everybody was great. And thank goodness it went off without a hitch, but it could have quite easily have fallen apart, and that would’ve been embarrassing.

“But it was well worth doing,” he concluded. “It was a good idea that I had, and it came to me very early one morning when I was in bed. I just thought, ‘Why not?’ Cos we never know when we’re going to meet again, which is like a sad note in a way.”

Speaking in the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Ian Gillan suggested the appearance had effectively been in the cards for some time.

“I wasn’t really surprised it happened,” the singer says. “I’ve been in touch with Ritchie for quite a long time now, and we’re on very good terms. All the nonsense from the past is now water under the bridge.”

Norwegian Balkan metal outfit TROLLFEST have released “Claiming the Walk of Fame,” the second and final single from their upcoming tenth studio album, Trollywood. The record arrives on November 6, 2026, through Reaper Entertainment. Following “Day Drinking,” the new single explores the album’s distorted entertainment industry, where ambitious trolls pursue stardom and encounter a world […]

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Greek black/death metal veterans EMBRACE OF THORNS and Chile’s INVOCATION will release a new split mini-album, Invoking the Noumenon / Crushing the Feeble Messianic Embrace, on October 30, 2026, through Iron Bonehead Productions. Available on CD and 12-inch vinyl, the release features three exclusive new tracks from each band, with a combined running time of […]

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Athens black/death metallers WARHAMMER have released “Hermitage,” the third and final single from their forthcoming fourth studio album, ALGOS. The track arrived on September 25, 2026, alongside an official music video. The band describe the song as a direct expression of their musical approach: “Hermitage is the third and final single before the official release […]

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Danish symphonic extreme metallers LAMENTARI have released “OCULI LAPIDIS,” the final single from their second album, ANTE AURORAM, due on November 13, 2026. The song explores a punishment intended to survive death, connecting its narrative to the album’s wider themes of transition and what the soul carries between lives. Vocalist Daniel Lønberg explains: “‘OCULI LAPIDIS’ […]

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Australian melodic metallers VANISHING POINT have announced their seventh studio album, Eremition, for worldwide release on November 20, 2026. Its first single, “Bring Me The Night,” is available now alongside a music video, introducing the Melbourne band’s first album since 2020’s Dead Elysium. Guitarist Chris Porcianko describes the song as a statement about retaining control […]

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American death metallers WHARFLURCH have released their second album, Mycodeath and Rebirth in the Outer Clusters, with a full stream available through the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Released on September 25, 2026, the record continues the science-fiction narrative introduced on 2021’s Psychedelic Realms ov Hell. The sequel follows the first album’s protagonist beyond Earth, […]

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