Ascended Dead release Live Apocalypse on Carbonized Records
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Releases
New metal releases: albums, EPs and splits, with announcements, release days and pre-orders.
Bodyfarm’s The Last Crusade returns on vinyl and CD on 20/11 through Edged Circle
The Dutch death metal band’s 2015 album is reissued “due to high demand”, dedicated to late members Thomas Wouters and Quint Meerbeek.
Watch: Cutterred Flesh turn Maupassant’s Le Horla into a death metal video
The Czech band’s single comes from The Shapes of Hidden Malice, now streaming in full.
Cloak announce Above, Below, & Through, their Metal Blade debut, for 12/02/2027
The Atlanta black metal band’s fourth album is built around liminality, and ‘Nigredo – Initium’ is out now.
Listen: NΩX, a new Blut Aus Nord offshoot, share the first track from debut album Stases, out 11/12
Vindsval says the project goes to Blut Aus Nord’s most extreme and sinister edges, while Blut Aus Nord itself heads in another direction.
Watch: Philippine veterans Deiphago share Undeified from Hexessence Satan, produced by Andy LaRocque
The black and war metal band, formed in 1989, release their sixth album in spring 2027.
Listen: Leviathan return with The Blade Already Forgotten Your Name from Die To This, out 27/11
Wrest’s first Leviathan album in more than a decade is his seventh, following Scar Sighted.
Listen: Arckanum stream Beswærilsin in full on Darkness Shall Rise
Shamaatae’s Swedish black metal project returns with eleven tracks across an hour.
Watch: Serpent release Season of the Witch ahead of The Pit and the Pendulum
The Swedish occult melodic death metal band’s album The Pit and the Pendulum followed on 13/11/2026.
Enslaved release 17th album Mið, with a visualiser for I Am Ice featuring Sami musician Johan Sara Jr
The Norwegian progressive black metal band’s record explores the idea of a centre; Grutle Kjellson wrote the lyrics for I Am Ice in the style of Old Norse skaldic verse.
Watch: Crownshift announce The Shadows We Buried for 29/01/2027 with In The Dead Of Night
The Finnish band, with members known from Nightwish, Children Of Bodom, Wintersun and Finntroll, follow up their self-titled debut.
Watch: Azarath share Pyre Dominion and Herald of the Unseen from eighth album Scorn Eternal, out 20/11
The Polish black/death band’s lead video was filmed live at Summer Dying Loud festival; “Pyre Dominion” is the second single.