The 21 news items published in the morning and evening of Saturday, September 26, 2026, with the day's 2 features.
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East Of Eden play a one-night special, "ALL IN", at KAAT in Yokohama on December 5 — between their first anime theme single in November and a headline show in January 2027.
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HAGANE play a birthday one-man show for Sakura, "Ungai Souten", at Shibuya Ongakudo on December 28 — in the middle of the 15-date tour behind their album Through the Night.
The album comes out on the band’s own Weathermaker Music and was written and recorded at their Doom Saloon studio in Frederick, Maryland, with producer Gene "Machine" Freeman, who last worked with them on 2015’s Psychic Warfare.
Play MVIt is the Swedish band’s first album for Napalm Records. The lead single plays the riff of Deep Purple’s "Smoke On The Water" backwards and takes on the pressure female artists face to always look perfect on stage.
Play MV"Halo" is the first release under the deal and arrives days before the Scandinavian leg of the band’s Dirty Halo tour opens on October 2. The signing was announced by Aldo Lonobile, VP of global A&R at Frontiers Label Group.
Play MVThe CD is a six-panel digipak with a booklet of previously unreleased photographs and a 30 x 60 cm poster; the 2LP is a gatefold with printed colour innersleeves and a foldout poster. This is the album’s first vinyl issue, distributed everywhere except Japan and Brazil, with the white edition limited to 300 copies.
Kim Thayil, Matt Cameron and Ben Shepherd were joined by Taylor Momsen and Mike McCready at Lumen Field during halftime of the Seattle Seahawks’ 2026-2027 season opener — their first stage appearance since the band’s Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction in 2025 — with the Seahawks’ Blue Thunder drumline.
The footage is from their July 30 performance and features "Gutter Ballet", "Edge Of Thorns" and "Hall Of The Mountain King".
Play MVSpeaking on the September 24 episode of SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, the singer said the film is narrated and edited and that the band has started meeting platforms about releasing it. It is directed by Craig Hooper (Deep Purple, Saxon) for Coolhead Productions and covers the band from their formation to the present day.
The 2027 run is part two of the co-headlining US tour that begins this November, with One Machine supporting.
The Power Up tour date in East Rutherford, New Jersey had been set for September 25 and was called off by the venue and the band two and a half hours before the gates were due to open. Tickets will be honoured on the new date.
Conceived as a theatrical concept record in the vein of Welcome To My Nightmare and always intended for a younger singer, it was completed by Maryann Cotton, whom Wagner discovered and who moved from Copenhagen to Los Angeles to work on it. Written by Cooper, Wagner and Cotton, its twelve tracks follow a rock star’s descent into serial murder.
The posthumous record captures the late singer on his 2009 Happy In Galoshes tour and was first issued for this year’s Record Store Day before this wide release on digital and CD. The newly shared footage of the Stone Temple Pilots song "Unglued" is its second single.
Play MVThe 81-year-old guitarist joined his former bandmates at the Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York on August 12 for one song, Smoke on the Water — his first appearance with the band since 1993. In the first instalment of a 13-part interview series with Phil Aston of Now Spinning magazine, he says the idea came to him in bed and that his wife Candice Night emailed Ian Gillan, who welcomed him aboard.
The album is out now via Perception, powered by Reigning Phoenix Music. Guitarist and founder Edwin Premberg says the song paints a futuristic world drenched in neon light and falling rain, and the video was produced by Ted Lindén.
Play MVThe band formed by Tommy Henriksen of ALICE COOPER and HOLLYWOOD VAMPIRES will release the 14-track album via earMUSIC. The new single follows Thunder Love, which features DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen.
Play MVTom Naumann (guitar), Alex Beyrodt (guitar), Alex Jansen (bass) and Michael Ehré (drums), who left PRIMAL FEAR in 2024, are joined by Italian vocalist Gianbattista "Jan" Manenti of THE UNITY. The album arrives via Lucky Bob Records, and the self-titled single is the band's first release to the general public after festival appearances at Wacken Open Air 2026 and Metalacker in August and Nacht Der Kirchen in September.
Play MVThe Melbourne melodic metal band's first album in six years follows 2020's Dead Elysium. Guitarist Chris Porcianko says the single is about not letting other people's negative emotions and actions steer your direction in life, and that it carries a strong 80s AOR influence.
Play MVThe single is out via BLKIIBLK, the heavy metal imprint of Frontiers Label Group. The song first appeared on the band's fifth album, 2000's Blessed Be; this version was mixed by Matt Hyde, known for his work with SLAYER and DEFTONES, and the video was filmed at Suomenlinna, Helsinki and directed by Elias Ryynänen. An acoustic concert hall tour of Finland follows in February 2027.
Play MVThe live album and concert Blu-ray capture his performance of The Moth at De Oosterpoort in Groningen, the Netherlands on March 28, 2025. The studio album The Moth came out on May 29 via InsideOutMusic.
Play MVBaby Please Don't Go, from the band's January 26, 1983 appearance on the BBC programme, is licensed from BBC Studios Distribution. The Sun Goes Down, Cold Sweat and Jailbreak from the same show are also up on the band's official channel.
Play MVThe Belgian razorgrind band's two-song Hammered Into Collapse EP, which also includes Voided, arrives on digital platforms October 23 via Season Of Mist. It was recorded at Hearse Studio with Lander Cluyse, mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Play MVVarga, who played The Sexecutioner from 1985 to 2022, died after a battle with cancer. Bassist Casey Orr, also known as Beefcake The Mighty, announced it in a social media post on the night of September 25, saying Varga passed peacefully with his wife Bambi holding his hand. GWAR had set up a fundraiser in June to help cover his treatment and hospice costs.