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AUTOPSY: 'Mental Funeral' Special 35th-Anniversary Editions Due In August

"Mental Funeral" was AUTOPSY's second studio album, originally released back in 1991, and is rightly hailed as one of the greatest death metal albums of all time with its unhinged and uncompromising collection of odes to brutality and depravity, wrapped up in its highly distinctive raw, organic prod...

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KAMELOT Shares Music Video For 'Ashen World' Featuring 'Miss World Chile 2025' IGNACIA FERNÁNDEZ

International symphonic metal legends KAMELOT — renowned for their infectious melodies, cinematic storytelling, and electrifying live performances — return with their haunting new album, "Dark Asylum", arriving August 28, 2026 via Napalm Records. Today, they give fans their first peek into the twist...

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Night Is Calling

Despite releasing both of their albums to date in the commercially barren period of directionless limbo that occurs between Christmas and New Year, DOMINUM have made a significant impact on the world of high-concept power metal. It probably has something to do with their Olympic-standard goofiness a...

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KAMELOT Announces New Album 'Dark Asylum'

International symphonic metal legends KAMELOT — renowned for their infectious melodies, cinematic storytelling, and electrifying live performances — return with their haunting new album, "Dark Asylum", arriving August 28, 2026 via Napalm Records. Now 14 albums deep into a genre-defining career — inc...

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MAYHEM's ATTILA CSIHAR Confronts His Mortality On 'Liturgy Of Death'

By David E. Gehlke Recent chatter from founding MAYHEM bassist Jørn "Necrobutcher" Stubberud suggested there's an expectation that the long-running, infamous and highly influential Norwegian black metal outfit will survive long enough to celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2034. It's not an unrealis...

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Midnight Blitz

There has rarely been a shortage of bands playing traditional metal, but the mainstream rock and metal media remains curiously resistant to celebrating them. TAILGUNNER may be one rare exception to that rule. Demonstrably in love with the old school, but possessed of a raw, feral spirit, they releas...

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The Bereaved

As 2026 swiftly shapes up to be another depressing, atrocity-filled year, the healing power of crushing, melancholy metal becomes ever more vital to our sanity. MARIANAS REST have been asking questions about the futility of existence, and the bottomless chasm of loss and lost love, for the last deca...

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Ash Eclipses Flesh

As much as it brings metalheads of a certain disposition immense and lasting joy, the death metal scene's ongoing expansion does have its drawbacks. There are only so many hours in the day that can be reasonably spent exploring the thousands of bands currently out there making a horrible racket, and...

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K.K. DOWNING-Produced Second Album From British Heavy Metal Band TAILGUNNER, 'Midnight Blitz', To Arrive In February

Carrying the torch of NWOBHM is TAILGUNNER. Recently signed to Napalm Records, the young British band has announced its upcoming sophomore album, "Midnight Blitz", due out on February 6, 2026. Drawing heavily from classic heavy metal sounds, TAILGUNNER have found support in the very heroes they foll...

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Blackbraid III

A radical voice in the US black metal scene, BLACKBRAID founder Jon "Sgah'gahsowáh" Krieger sees everything from a different angle. Across the project's two studio albums to date, he has created a unique world of barren plains and desert suns, inspired by the unfathomable power of the natural world...

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ARCADEA, Featuring MASTODON's BRANN DAILOR, Shares 'The Exodus Of Gravity' Title Track

On August 22, ARCADEA will return with "The Exodus Of Gravity" (Relapse Records),a futuristic synth-rock odyssey unfolds in a world where gravity no longer holds us down and emotion rises in its place. With Brann Dailor (MASTODON) stepping into the lead vocalist role and João Nogueira joining Core...

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The Fine Line Between Heaven And Here

We are a quarter of a century away from the birth and blossoming of the post-metal movement, and the heavy music world is full of bands whose entire identity is wrapped in the works of NEUROSIS and ISIS, with perhaps some feral black metal thrown in for good measure. Many of these bands are great, s...

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LIFE OF AGONY's MINA CAPUTO On Decision To Detransition: 'I Went Back To A Very Clear Self'

Transgender singer Mina Caputo — once known as Keith Caputo, the front-person for the popular rock band LIFE OF AGONY — has opened up about her decision to "detransition" and change her name back to Keith Caputo. Detransitioning is the process of stopping or reversing gender transition, whether it b...

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JOHN COOPER: 'Without STRYPER, There'd Be No SKILLET'

In a new interview with Hudson and Aly from "The Hudson Show" on RadioU, John Cooper, the frontman and bassist for the Grammy-nominated Christian rock band SKILLET, was asked to name his favorite 1980s Christian metal band. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Oh, man. Well, I'm a hug...

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Fasornas Tid

Returning from self-imposed obscurity in 2016, Sweden's MÖRK GRYNING have taken a meticulous approach to honoring their legacy. Perennially underrated as they are, they have always been a respected presence in the underground, and 2020 comeback album "Hinsides vrede" did nothing to change that. It w...