The 16 news items published in the morning and evening of Thursday, August 20, 2026.
The New Orleans sludge supergroup have returned with the new song “Blood Oath” and will release “Volume V”, their first new album in over a decade, on November 20 via Nuclear Blast.
Play MVThe Swedish post-metal band have shared “A Way Back” from their tenth studio album “In The Shadow Of Your Shadow”. It follows the album’s title track, which was the lead single, and the album arrives November 6 via RED CRK Recordings.
Play MV“Nothin’ To Lose In Reading 1981” arrives September 25 on CD and red-and-white spatter vinyl. It is the first of five archival GIRLSCHOOL live albums scheduled over the coming months, and documents the first female rock band ever to headline the festival — still the only one.
Play MVHELLRIPPER, SLACKJAW and XOTH join the run, which opens October 21 at Metro Music Hall in Salt Lake City and closes November 20 at Denver’s Gothic Theatre. Tickets go on sale August 21 at 10:00 a.m. local time.
Play MVThe former HANOI ROCKS frontman will play five shows between April 29 in Hamden, Connecticut and May 5 at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, followed by the Monsters Of Rock Cruise on May 6-11. Tickets go on sale August 21.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s Page Six Radio on August 19, Jack Osbourne said the 2027 edition at Villa Park in Birmingham will not be a multi-day festival but a single day, and that the main headliner will be announced in the next couple of weeks.
The Grammy-winning producer behind albums by FOO FIGHTERS, DEFTONES, KORN and EVANESCENCE has started a label that introduces new artists two songs at a time. Its first release is the Nashville duo DOOM MUTUAL’s digital single “Static Planet” / “Crowbar”.
Play MVThe BLACK STAR RIDERS, THIN LIZZY and THE ALMIGHTY frontman has released “Last Chance To Dance”, which the press release casts as a THIN LIZZY-style anthem written and sung in the spirit of Phil Lynott. His solo album “Fire & Vengeance” arrives September 4 via Earache Records.
Play MVFrontiers Music has premiered the music video for the title track of GIRISH AND THE CHRONICLES’ album “Disintegrate”, which the channel says is due on November 20, 2026 and is now available to pre-order.
Play MVIn an interview with El Salvador’s Radio YSKL, the guitarist — diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2013 — said a donor transplant “didn’t stick” and that his cancer has returned, adding that he is “continuing treatments to manage it”.
The Norwegian extreme metal band will release their sixth full-length album, “Aura Of Decay”, on November 6 via Solid State Records — their first since the 2013 self-titled record.
Play MVSensory Records will release the self-titled debut of THOMAS MILLER’S LAZARUS EFFECT on CD, LP and digital on October 30. SYMPHONY X’s Michael Romeo and Michael Pinnella guest on it, Eric Rachel mixed and mastered it, and the lead single is the sixth track, “When Darkness Falls”.
Play MVDIRKSCHNEIDER, the ACCEPT-songbook band led by U.D.O. frontman Udo Dirkschneider, will play the two-day festival at Starmoen Airfield in Elverum, Norway on May 21-22, 2027. The official announcement bills the performance as a “SPECIAL BEST OF ACCEPT SET”.
ASTERISM, BRIDEAR and opening act Monochrome Cinderella share the bill. Doors 18:00, start 18:20; advance tickets are ¥4,500 and ¥5,000 on the door, both plus a ¥600 drink charge, and went on sale through LivePocket at 21:00 on August 20.
The talk-and-signing events support the regular edition of the EP “Hakoniwa” (VICL-66162), released on August 26. The two new dates are HMV Sakae in Aichi on September 5 and Tower Records Shinjuku in Tokyo on September 27, and attendees at all six venues receive a “Making of Hakoniwa” DVD-R.
The 2011 album returns with new 2026 remastered audio and nine bonus tracks, issued by earMUSIC as a limited 2CD digipak with an exclusive poster booklet and a limited heavyweight 180g 3LP gatefold.