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Miss May I announces their new album 'No Place For Me' and single 'Hand Me A Halo,' while Accept's 50th anniversary collaboration, Belphegor's 13th album, and a wave of death metal and deathcore news show the US scene moving on multiple fronts at once.
From Melvins' Buzz Osborne launching Gatta Morta to Belphegor's 13th album, this week's national metal headlines share a restless creative energy that mirrors Ohio's own heavy metal and death metal underground — led by NWOTHM torchbearers Animal and death metal mainstays Ton.
Bodysnatcher's newly announced headlining fall tour puts South Florida deathcore back in the national spotlight, while Possessed's slow-building new album, a loaded hardcore touring calendar, and a handful of oddball national releases round out a busy week for heavy music with real implications for Florida's scene.
Madball joins Pain of Truth's fall tour, Prong drop the first single from their self-titled comeback album, and Car Bomb's Sun Guts project keeps New York's experimental fringe weird — a snapshot of the state's hardcore and metal scene heading into 2026.
From Slipknot's Sid Wilson fallout to Fear Factory's Terminator-timed single and John Carpenter's new horror-metal release, we connect this week's national headlines back to Texas's industrial, death metal, and hardcore scenes.
From Gatta Morta's surprise supergroup EP to Prong's fourteenth-album statement and John Bush taking his Anthrax era to Europe, this week's metal news is all about veterans refusing to stand still.
From Inkcarceration 2026's return to the Ohio State Reformatory to John Bush's European Anthrax victory lap and Possessed's slow-cooking new album, this week's headlines circle back to Ohio's thrash, death metal, and long-overlooked NWOTHM underground.
Shinedown bassist Eric Bass stepping back for his mental health, Kataklysm's 35-year 'outside the box' philosophy, and a wave of national metal news give us a reason to check in on Florida's thrash, metalcore, noise rock, and post-metal underground.
Pepper Keenan's tribute to Reed Mullin, Rick Rozz's death metal origin story, and a wave of touring headaches this week connect back to Texas's own hardcore, death metal, and NWOTHM revival scenes.
Megadeth's newly announced European farewell tour with Testament and Black Label Society leads a week dominated by legacy thrash and gothic metal news, while Europe's black metal, post-metal and power metal underground keeps building quietly beneath the headlines.
Ohio heavy metal act Spike lands a European tour slot with Portrayal Of Guilt, while Slipknot's Sid Wilson fallout, Shinedown's lineup shakeup, and a wave of legacy tributes dominate this week's national metal headlines.
Rick Rozz's no-regrets take on Death's Scream Bloody Gore and his new band with Terry Butler reopen Florida's death metal family tree, while Bruce Dickinson's Florida mixing sessions and Hypocrisy's cancelled tour round out a week of national news with local implications.
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