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French death metal band PROFANATION are streaming their debut full-length, Ultra-Noise Warfare, through the Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel. The nine-track album will be released internationally on September 25, 2026, via Iron Bonehead Productions. Following the mini-album Skull Crushing Violence, the record develops the band’s combination of raw death metal, grind and punk influences across […]

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To promote their upcoming album release In Metal, power metal entity Mystic Prophecy has launched the latest new single “March Or Die”.
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English black/speed metal band DEVASTATOR have announced Goathammer, a five-track mini-album arriving on November 27, 2026, to launch their tenth-anniversary celebrations. The release contains four new original songs and a cover of SLAYER’s “Show No Mercy.” Musically, the band describe it as a return to the rougher speed metal approach of their debut album. The […]

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Mexicans Brujeria are pleased to announce that they will be hitting the road for their ‘Gira Revolucion Headline Tour’ over the European lands in March, 2027. Special guests on the road will be Chilean death thrashers Criminal.
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Slovakian black metal band KROLOK are streaming their third album, Hričov-Súľov-Lietava, in full through the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. The record will be released internationally on September 25, 2026, via Osmose Productions. For the first time, KROLOK have incorporated lyrics sung in their native language, drawing listeners into the history and legends of Slovakia. […]

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The big dogs are back! It has been nearly nine years since U2 released Songs Of Experience, their last proper studio album of new music. This fall, right around the band’s 50th anniversary, they will return with a new LP called Carnaval de Luz. The first thing that you need to know about it is that Bono wears a fucking top hat on the cover.

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Forty years after its original release, KING DIAMOND’s three-track Halloween picture disc will return on October 23, 2026, through Metal Blade Records. The worldwide reissue features new artwork by Mario Lopez, with pre-orders available now. Originally issued in 1986, Halloween brings together two songs from the band’s debut album, Fatal Portrait, and another recording from […]

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Posted on September 24th 2026, 5:33pm

Few bands in progressive rock history earned a live reputation quite like Gentle Giant. Renowned for translating their astonishingly intricate studio recordings to the stage with remarkable precision, imagination and musicianship, they delivered performances that remain among the most celebrated of the era.

Front Row Center (US Dates 1975–1980) presents an extensive document of that legacy, bringing together eight CDs of rare American performances spanning the band’s classic years. From the celebrated Live At The Bicentennial concert recorded at New York’s Calderone Concert Hall in July 1976, through the acclaimed Playing The Fool touring period of 1977, to a powerful 1980 performance from Atlanta and the superb Capitol Studios recordings from 1975, this collection captures Gentle Giant at every stage of their evolution as a live band.

Across these recordings, the group’s extraordinary interplay, multi-instrumental virtuosity and fearless arrangements are showcased in full, featuring definitive performances of classics including “Free Hand”, “Proclamation”, “On Reflection”, “The Advent Of Panurge”, “Just The Same”, “Playing The Game”, “The Face”, “Funny Ways”, “Knots”, “Memories Of Old Days”, extensive Octopus excerpts and many more.

Front Row Center also includes a 60-page hardback book featuring a substantial new essay by Alan Kinsman, drawing on extensive interviews with the band to explore Gentle Giant‘s unique approach to live performance, touring, musicianship and stagecraft, alongside rare photographs and memorabilia.

Expertly mastered by Peter J. Reynolds from the best available sources, Front Row Center is the most comprehensive collection yet of Gentle Giant‘s remarkable US live recordings – an essential archive celebrating one of progressive rock’s most original, adventurous and accomplished live bands.

Front Row Center U.S. Dates 1975-1980 is available to be pre-ordered here.

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Finnish melodic black metal project AUTUMNFALL are streaming The Archaic Sins in full through Invisible Oranges, ahead of its September 25, 2026 release via Ardua Music. Built primarily from songs written between 1998 and 2001, the album revisits that material through new arrangements and performances, alongside one entirely new composition. Stream The Archaic Sins at […]

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