Listen: Rwake stream Built From Stardust, a live run through The Return of Magik recorded in Little Rock
The Arkansas sludge band recorded the set at home the day after their latest studio album came out.
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Listen: Swedish black metal collective Det eviga leendet stream third album Vehemence on Debemur Morti
The Uppsala band’s first record for the French label is streaming in full, mixed and mastered by Magnus Lindberg.
Listen: Weedeater’s fifth album Goliathan is out now on Season of Mist
The North Carolina sludge band’s ten-track record is streaming in full on the label’s channel.
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.
Temple of Bones, with Ripping Corpse and Dim Mak veterans, release Walk The Winds on Relapse
Scott Ruth and Brandon Thomas are back together on a six-track debut that mixes black, thrash and hardcore.
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.
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.
Watch: Walls of Jericho release The Flame from System Error: Humanity
The Detroit band’s album System Error: Humanity came out on 13/11/2026 through Napalm Records.
Malhavoc’s Poe-inspired The Masquerade’s Death reunites the Toronto band’s original members
The industrial thrash veterans’ conceptual album came out on 13/11/2026, after a Decibel advance stream.