From Roadrunner Deals to Death Metal Reissues: The Global Metal Scene's Busy Week

Some weeks in metal feel like a greatest-hits reel of the genre's entire ecosystem — major label signings, decades-old death metal getting the deluxe treatment, documentary premieres stacked with legends, and underground doom acts quietly dropping gold. This is one of those weeks. Whether you're chasing the best heavy metal songs of the moment or keeping tabs on which new metal bands 2026 will belong to, there's a lot to unpack across the global metal scene right now.