The 23 news items published in the morning and evening of Friday, September 25, 2026, with the day's 1 feature.
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Iron Maiden's official documentary Burning Ambition reaches Japanese cinemas on December 4 for a two-week run ending December 17. Built on unprecedented access to the band's own archive, it lands days after the Yokohama shows that close their 50th-anniversary world tour.
The guitarist is in store from 14:00 to 16:00 only at PGS METAL, the FULL METAL JAPAN 2026 pop-up store running from September 25 to October 18 on the 7th floor of Yurakucho Marui in Tokyo. Admission is free and there is no performance; a PGS collaboration T-shirt along with Sally's CDs and goods are on sale.
The session was captured at the Seattle station's studio on July 29, 2026, and features "The Transfiguration Fear", "Satsui", "Kuroi Kage" and "The Soul Grave". The Japanese band released their latest studio album Goh-ka through Peaceville on September 4.
Trafalgar Releasing has put out the trailer for the Mercury Studios production, which opens as an event release in cinemas worldwide on October 28. Tickets went on sale at 3:00 p.m. BST on September 24 at backtothebeginning.com. The film captures the sold-out show at Birmingham's Villa Park on July 5, 2025, including Ozzy Osbourne's solo set and the original Black Sabbath lineup playing together for the first time in more than 20 years.
Play videoBMG releases the anniversary edition of the 1986 album on November 6. The original studio recordings have been remastered and cut at half speed from the original tapes, and longtime Motörhead producer Cameron Webb has made a brand-new remix and remaster from the original stems. The new mix of the title track was issued as a lyric video.
Play MVCraft Recordings issues the newly remastered and expanded edition on 2-LP, CD and digital. It adds the era's rarities "If You Don't Mind", "Together Again" and "The Last Song I'm Wasting On You" plus a previously unreleased demo of "Good Enough". The album, released on September 25, 2006, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
The album arrives on November 6 via Frontiers Music Srl, with a lineup of Geoff Downes (keyboards), Virgil Donati (drums), John Mitchell (guitar) and Harry Whitley (bass, vocals). Downes says "Arcadia" was originally considered as the title of the band's third album and has finally been written as a song 40 years later.
Play MVThe song developed out of the instrumental main theme the band wrote for the opening sequence of Remedy Entertainment's upcoming game. Eicca Toppinen says it reflects the uneasy emotions of the main character in transition to the unknown, and that he wanted to expand it into a full song with lyrics.
Play MVThe 11-track album is due on November 20 via Century Media. The clip for "Make Your Exit" was directed by Nathan Karma Cox.
Play MVThe 1991 self-titled album joins Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon, Bob Marley And The Wailers' Legend and Journey's Greatest Hits at the longevity mark. It also rose to No. 9 on Top Hard Rock Albums and No. 41 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums this week.
"System Of A Down x Beyond The Streets: Toxicity 25th Anniversary Exhibition" runs for a week at the Beyond The Streets gallery, with rare artifacts and ephemera from the Toxicity era, immersive installations and exclusive merch. It is free and open to the public for its entire run.
It is the band's first show in the state since 2013, scheduled on their way back from Australia. They are currently on the second leg of their North American headline run with Machine Head, Rivers Of Nihil and Judiciary, which wraps with an appearance at Aftershock in Sacramento on October 1.
The song is part of Cleopatra Records' reissue programme covering seven early Tank albums, of which Filth Hounds Of Hades and Power Of The Hunter are already out. Left off the album at the time, it appeared as the b-side of the single "Echoes Of A Distant Battle" and returns as a CD bonus track on the reissue alongside its demo.
The guitarist plays in band style on both nights of DUAL EDGE - January 23, 2027 at Bigtwin diner SHOVEL in Osaka and January 24 at RAD NINE in Nagoya - sharing the bill with Mardelas. Advance tickets are 6,000 yen, 7,000 yen on the door and 10,000 yen for the VIP ticket, on sale from October 3 through LivePocket.
The band call the song the second chapter of the journey their May maxi-single UNISØN began; it is a streaming and download release with no CD. Their current 16-city one-man tour finishes on November 22 at Daikanyama UNIT in Tokyo.
Promoter Creativeman Productions has brought the start time of both Japan Tour 2026 nights at EX THEATER ROPPONGI forward from 19:30 to 19:00. Doors remain at 18:00. The LIVE listings on this site have been updated.
Adrian Vandenberg speaks about playing DAY 1 of the festival at Pia Arena MM on October 24 - his first visit to Japan in more than ten years - and about the set he has prepared for it.
Play videoOriginal 1976 Masters is taken from the original analog master tapes and arrives on streaming on October 2, with CD and vinyl following on October 9. Remixed & Remastered, produced by Tom Allom, mixed by Luie Stylianou and mastered by Matt Colton, also streams from October 2 with physical formats on November 27. Both restore the running order the band originally intended, opening with Prelude, and add the 1976 recording of Diamonds And Rust.
Frontiers Music put out the visualizer for the album track on release day. The Japanese edition is out the same day through Ward Records.
Play MVThe concert film was shot over three sold-out nights at Foro Sol in Mexico City and reaches cinemas worldwide from November 4; the live album and its special editions follow on November 20. Pre-sales for both cinema tickets and album editions opened on September 23.
Play MVThe 22-date headline run opens on April 9 at the Bataclan in Paris and ends on May 8 at Manchester Academy. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. CET on September 30, with local pre-sales from 10 a.m. CET on September 28. Herman Li says the band will play new songs alongside a special Inhuman Rampage set.
The 20-track set captures the show the band played at Allianz Parque in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 15, 2024. The film, directed by the band DJ Joe Hahn, opens in theaters on September 30.
Play MVThe ninth instalment of the V/H/S franchise streams on Shudder from October 9. Forge directed a brand-new music video included in the film, which also features an appearance by Gwar.
The band appeared on the Grammy Museum Ray Charles Rooftop Terrace on Thursday, September 24, talking to MTV alum Matt Pinfield about their seventeenth studio album, their creative process and their long career before playing a set.