Black Nature launch Infernal Séance EP at Rumours Lounge on Friday 20/11
Among The Absence, Walk These Skies and Ozias join the Gauteng band for an R80 night in Strydompark.
Tours & Festivals
Metal tours and festivals: international tours, festival line-ups and every confirmed African date.
Fire in the Mountains 2027 adds Cavalera playing Roots, Bell Witch’s Mirror Reaper and Cynic
The Montana festival on the Blackfeet Nation also adds Thou, Mortiferum, Yellow Eyes and Falls of Rauros.
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.
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.
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.
Agalloch, Nevermore and Immolation lead Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Philly’s 10th edition
Nevermore play their first US show in 17 years, and Solitude Aeturnus perform Beyond the Crimson Horizon in full.
Roadburn 2027 adds UK blackened sludge band Believe In Nothing after fan recommendations
The Tilburg festival says the band kept surfacing in readers’ suggestions during its search of the UK underground.
Anagnorisis take Caregriever on a December US tour, ending with their first hometown show in ten years
The Louisville black metal band also play Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest in April and Northwest Terror Fest in 2027.
Saor announce their first Latin American tour, with a Roots and Aura set, ahead of Caledonia
Andy Marshall’s Caledonian black metal project will play Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.
Watch: Yoth Iria release Dare To Rebel and book a March 2027 European tour with Thulcandra
The Greek black metal band’s third album Gone With The Devil is out now; the In The Light Of Darkness tour with Thulcandra and Vorga runs 12 to 27 March.
Watch: Castle release Evil Nun and book their first proper UK tour for 2027
The heavy doom trio’s video is a mock opening sequence for an imagined Italian horror film; the Carrie Chains tour runs from February to March.