Wraith release sixth album Descent Into Darkness, a First World War record, on Prosthetic
The Indiana blackened thrash band’s frontman teaches history by day, and the new album is built around the Great War.
Dismember in December: Corpse Fortress, MØRN and two more at Trenchtown on 04/12
Death metal, blackened death, hardcore and metalcore share one Observatory stage to close Cape Town’s year.
Assumption release third album Paradox Of The Arrow on 20 Buck Spin
The Italian death doom band named the album after Zeno’s paradox of motion; the full record is streaming now.
Necropanther self-release fifth album The Book Of Change, mixed by Kurt Ballou
The Denver band went without a label for a 13-track concept album about transformation, from The Tempest to The Fly.
Listen: Panzerfaust share All Grounds Zeroed, a new epilogue on The Lucifer Principle Redux
The Canadian black metal band’s 2016 album gets a tenth-anniversary remix, re-recorded drums and one new song.
Neurosis top Decibel’s Top 40 albums of 2026, with Relapse taking three of the top eight
Disfear and Hulder complete the top three in the magazine’s 23rd annual list, revealed early online.
Listen: Entrails open Memorial Garden pre-orders with Apocalyptic Trauma
The Swedish death metal band’s eight-track album is billed as traditional, 90s-style Swedish death metal.
Metal Breakdown Vol. 1 brings Megalodon, TerroRaze and MØRN to Springbok Arms on 28/11
A new Cape Town underground series starts in Observatory with three local bands and R100 tickets.
Boiling Point bring Raise Your Awehness 2 to the German Club in Edenvale on 12/12
Diverted Disorder, Black Nature and Walk These Skies join the Raise Your Awehness tour’s heaviest Gauteng stop.
Swedish death metal legends Nominon sign to Soulseller, with their first album since 2012 due in summer 2027
The band will record this winter; their sixth album will be their first since The Cleansing.
Defeated Sanity to play Psalms of the Moribund in full on 2027 tour with Revocation and Gorod
The 20 Years of Torment tour puts four technical death metal bands across 26 European and UK dates next spring.
Bodysnatcher return with No Funeral, first new music since Hell Is Here, Hell Is Home
The South Florida deathcore band drop a standalone track ahead of a US headline run that closes out their 2026.