MÖTLEY CRÜE Celebrates 45 Years Of ‘Too Fast For Love’ With Definitive Deluxe Limited Edition
Due on October 30 via BMG, the box set includes remastered versions of the 1981 Leathür Records 10-track release and the 1982 Elektra 9-track release, live recordings from the 1982 Perkins Palace shows (2LP), a 1LP of demos from the band's first studio session in March 1981, a 100-page hardcover photo book, and replicas of the original demo cassette and 7-inch single. Standard editions will be available on CD and LP, and the Leathür Records version comes to streaming services for the first time. The previously unreleased March 1981 demo “Nobody Knows What It's Like To Be Lonely” is out now.
BRUCE DICKINSON Announces Newly Remixed Version Of His 1997 Solo Album ‘Accident Of Birth’
Remixed in stereo and Dolby Atmos by Brendan Duffey, who worked on “The Mandrake Project”, the new version of the 1997 album will be released by BMG in the U.K. on October 17 in conjunction with National Album Day UK, and in the rest of the world on October 23, as a tri-panel digisleeve CD and a double splatter-colour vinyl. A newly remixed “Omega” is streaming now. Dickinson's next solo album is tentatively due in early 2027 via BMG.
FIREWIND Announces New Studio Album ‘Gods, Myths & Titans’, Shares First Single ‘The Legend Of Achilles’
The Greek power metal band's new album arrives on February 19, 2027 via BLKIIBLK, the heavy metal imprint of Frontiers Label Group. Gus G says the Greek mythology concept album was two years in the making and adds cinematic and orchestral elements to the band's classic metal sound, with Felipe Machado creating artwork for every song. The first single “The Legend Of Achilles” is out now with a lyric video.
ROBERT PLANT And SAVING GRACE: ‘All That Glitters...’ EP To Receive Digital Release In October
Due digitally on October 9 via Nonesuch Records, the EP was first released on vinyl for Record Store Day on April 18, 2026. Its four tracks are the traditional songs “The Blackest Crow” and “Two Coats”, Gillian Welch's “Orphan Girl” and Bert Jansch's “Poison”. Plant has performed “Two Coats” with Saving Grace since 2019, and its official video is out now.
SHANE EMBURY's Heavy Metal Project ABSOLUTE POWER Shares ‘Needs Must When The Devil Drives’ Single Featuring TIM ‘RIPPER’ OWENS
The title track of ABSOLUTE POWER's second album, due November 6, 2026 via Time To Kill Records, features former JUDAS PRIEST and ICED EARTH vocalist Tim “Ripper” Owens. The project of vocalist/producer Simon Efemey and NAPALM DEATH bassist Shane Embury returns fifteen years after its self-titled debut, and Embury says the song looks back at growing up in the industrial West Midlands listening to 1980s heavy metal.
Ex-FEAR FACTORY Singer BURTON C. BELL Announces ‘Obsolete By Word Of Mouth’ October 2026 U.S. Spoken-Word Dates
The spoken-word experience celebrating the 30th anniversary of FEAR FACTORY's “Obsolete” comes to San Diego on October 6, Los Angeles on October 7 and Las Vegas on October 9. Each hour-long event is limited to 50 guests, who will be asked to put their phones away, while Bell shares stories from the album's creation and reads his original synopsis. The announcement states plainly that it is not a concert.
Coroner Launch Remastered Version Of “The Favorite Game” From Their Upcoming “Ex Nucleo” EP
The Swiss technical thrashers have issued a newly remastered version of their mid-'90s song “The Favorite Game”, remastered by Tony Lindgren, with a new music video. The track is part of the upcoming EP “Ex Nucleo: The Remastered Extraction”, which appears to be set for release on September 18.
KONVENT To Release Firesky Album In November; “Exorcise” Single And Music Video Out Now
The Danish band's third album “Firesky” arrives November 6 via Napalm Records. Its five songs are longer than anything the band has released before and expand on their death doom roots with black metal. The band says the opening track “Exorcise” is the sound of the suffocation they feel watching lawmakers around the world pass increasingly sexist and transphobic legislation.
Gore. Premiere “Crucified” Video, New EP “…Then You Cannot Love Me” Due In October
The Texas melodic metalcore band releases the seven-track EP “…Then You Cannot Love Me” on October 9 via Spinefarm. A companion to their October 2025 EP “If You Do Not Fear Me…”, it follows June's “Lead Me To The Slaughter” with second single “Crucified”, whose video was directed by Dylan Scott Hryciuk.
Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Reflects On Firing David Ellefson In New Excerpt From His ‘In My Darkest Hour’ Memoir
In an excerpt from his newly released memoir shared via Rolling Stone, Dave Mustaine recalls learning online, like everyone else, of the sexually explicit videos of David Ellefson that surfaced on May 10, 2021, and writes that he was already re-evaluating a relationship of nearly 40 years. Ellefson was eventually legally cleared of any wrongdoing but was let go, and his recorded parts on “The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!” were removed. Mustaine also writes that the two were never on equal footing when it came to Megadeth, and that this was always a source of friction.
ENUFF Z'NUFF Announce Live At The Whisky A Go-Go Album; “Magical Mystery Tour” Live Single Streaming
Recorded at Hollywood's Whisky A Go-Go on December 29, 2025, the live album mixes band favourites such as “New Thing” and “Fly High Michelle” from the 1989 debut with covers including “Eleanor Rigby”, “Jet” and “Live And Let Die”. It is available on CD, vinyl and digital, with some songs on the CD only. The band's cover of THE BEATLES' “Magical Mystery Tour” is streaming now. No release date was given.
[Japan] TMG To Release Third Album “TMG III SAYONARA” On October 14, With Ado On The Title Track
The six-track album includes “DOOM”, the instrumental theme written for the film “Yatsuhakamura” (in cinemas from September 18), and a cover of THE BEATLES' “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. It comes in four editions: a limited-quantity edition with a logo beanie, a first-press limited edition with a Blu-ray of the band's 2024 show at Zepp Haneda, a standard edition and a B'z PARTY fan-club edition. It arrives in the middle of TMG's October national tour, “TMG LIVE 2026 "SAYONARA"”.
[Japan] Zilqy Release Third “Birth of Riot” Track “RUN” On Their First Anniversary, September 16, And Reveal The Album's Track List
The music video, directed by KOH YAMADA, premieres on YouTube at 20:00 JST that day, followed at 20:30 by a YouTube Live with all four members. The album is out on October 7, and its track list is “From Zero to One”, “World's End”, “RUN”, “Psycho”, “CAVEAT”, “Caught in the Web”, “Other Side of the Moon”, “Misfit Toys”, “Grotesque Noblesse” and “Crimson”.
[Japan] HANABIE. Join Crystal Lake's TRUE NORTH FESTIVAL 2026 At Toyosu PIT On November 22
The festival returns for the first time since 2021. The first acts announced are Adept, C-GATE, NOISEMAKER, HANABIE. and Maximum The Hormone. Doors open at 12:00 and the show starts at 13:00. Ticket Pia is taking advance ticket applications until 23:59 JST on September 27.
STEVEN WILSON Announces New Album ‘Requiem For A Village’ And Shares Title Track
His ninth studio album is out on November 6 on CD, Blu-ray, two 12" vinyl in black or oxblood, and as a box set holding two CDs and a Blu-ray in a 96-page hardback book. Earlier this week Wilson trailed it with a website of the same name and a short video featuring the actor David Tennant. On October 28 and 29 he plays two sold-out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall with the Parallax Orchestra and the Sansara choir.
SUICIDE SILENCE Debut The Title Track To Their Newly Announced Album ‘Graceless’
The deathcore band's eighth studio album arrives on November 20. Produced by Austin Coupe and mixed by Hunter Young, it has 11 tracks and opens with the title track. From November 6 the band tour North America on the ‘Reminders Of Hell Tour’ with EMMURE, AngelMaker and Synestia.
CRADLE OF FILTH Celebrates 30th Anniversary Of ‘Dusk… And Her Embrace’ With Deluxe Reissue
Music For Nations releases the 30th anniversary edition on October 30 as a splattered vinyl LP and a numbered deluxe coffin-box CD, with the CD adding the bonus tracks “Hell Awaits” and “Carmilla's Masque”. Signed artwork prints are available from the band's store.
TEMPERANCE Release New Single/Video ‘The Tower: Lean Into Fear’
The Italian band's new album “Arcani” is due on October 16 via Napalm Records. Each of its 13 songs follows a different card of the Tarot's Major Arcana, though the band say it is not a direct concept album. Singer Kristin Starkey calls ‘The Tower’ one of the more feared cards to draw in a tarot reading.
GREEN LUNG Release New Studio Album ‘Necropolitan’ & Visualizer For ‘Dance To The Grave’
The band's fourth album is out now via Nuclear Blast. Its title comes from the seven Victorian garden cemeteries (necropoli) circling London. The visualiser for the opening track “Dance To The Grave” animates Richard Wells's artwork and was made by Joseph Brett at Jackdaw Films.
BLOODYWOOD Added To ELECTRIC CALLBOY's European/UK Tour, ‘Aaj’ Live Video Debuts
The Indian folk/nu-metal band open for Electric Callboy's early-2027 arena run, which begins at Dublin's 3Arena on January 21 and takes in Manchester's Co-op Live, Paris's Accor Arena and Prague's O2 Arena. They have also released a live video of “Aaj” from this year's Sonic Temple festival in Columbus, Ohio.
Jim Root Clarifies One Thing About New SLIPKNOT Song ‘Arsenal’
Replying to fans on Instagram, Root said “Arsenal” will not appear on the band's next album: it was a song they could finish sooner and get out while working on the rest of the record, and it is not really representative of the other songs. The exchanges spread after a fan posted screenshots to Reddit, and Root's Instagram has since been almost entirely wiped.
SONATA ARCTICA Vocalist TONY KAKKO Talks New Studio Album – “It's Half Way Finished”
In an interview with Finland's Chaoszine, Kakko said he does not know whether the album will be out by autumn next year, and that a shortage of vinyl pressing plants keeps pushing album releases back. He also discussed plans for a live album. The band are currently on their 30th anniversary tour of Latin America.
MEGADETH Frontman DAVE MUSTAINE Reveals The Damage Chemotherapy Caused While He Was Being Treated For Throat Cancer
Speaking to the California Post, Mustaine said radiation-related cognitive impairment left him struggling while working on 2022's “The Sick, the Dying... and the Dead!” after his throat cancer diagnosis in the summer of 2019, and that radiation damage has left his teeth breaking and needing to be replaced. His memoir “In My Darkest Hour”, written with Joe Layden, details his fight against stage-three squamous cell carcinoma and is released in the UK through Constable on September 24.
BON JOVI Wrap Up The 2026 Forever Tour At Wembley Stadium As Jon Bon Jovi Reveals Plans For A 2027 Tour
The band played the last date of the Forever Tour at London's Wembley Stadium on September 9. The run marked Jon Bon Jovi's full return to touring after major vocal cord surgery in 2022: nine shows at New York's Madison Square Garden from July 7, then Edinburgh and Dublin, and three sold-out nights at Wembley on September 4, 6 and 9. From the stage on the final night, Jon said he is already planning next year's tour and that bookings are under way.