New Music Friday is back with a packed October 2nd 2026 release slate, spanning Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Extreme Metal, Doom, Punk, Progressive music, and more.
Browse the full list below, support the artists through the official links, and tell us what is hitting your speakers first in the comments!
Deathgrind veterans Brujeria head to Europe in January 2027 for the Gira Revolucion headline tour, presented by Napalm Events, with Criminal as a special guest across sixteen European cities. Dates below and tickets on sale now. Continue reading
Photo credit: Franz Schepers
Hamburg-based glam‘n’sleaze metal act, Night Laser, have unleashed their new full-length, Rats In The Cradle, via Steamhammer Records/Open. It follows two years after their fourth album, Call Me What You Want, and their European tours alongside Axel Rudi Pell. They also dropped the title track as a single. Check it out below and read more.
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Chris Elliott (Cell Arts Media / Black Angeles) caught up with Andre Cornejo of San Jose, California grind and metal outfit Deathgrave to discuss the band’s latest album “Hell Is Evil,” released August 21, 2026, through Tankcrimes. Andre breaks down the making of the band’s most ambitious record to date, what it means to operate for thirteen years in the underground while deliberately carving out a sound that shares influences with bands like Napalm Death, Godflesh, and Siege without sounding like any of them, and the story behind guest and backup vocals from Chris Reifert of Autopsy on the track “Hard to Swallow.” Continue reading
