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From Blue Medusa's unsettling third single to Behemoth and Shagrath's Venom cover, Polaris emerging from grief, and Metallica's foundation putting Labor Day to work, this week's metal news spans grief, legacy, and the machinery keeping the touring scene alive.
From Umbilicus's death metal pedigree and A Night In Texas' new album to Rikki Rockett and Tony Iommi's health updates and 2027 festival announcements, here's everything shaping the US metal scene this week.
This week's national metal headlines — from All Shall Perish's comeback single to Rikki Rockett's cancer-free milestone and Forced Entry's thrash reunion — trace a map straight back to Ohio's death metal, metalcore, and NWOTHM underground.
Oxnard grindcore unit NAILS signs to Closed Casket Activities as Godflesh's final album, System of a Down's Toxicity reissue, and Exodus's 70000 Tons booking all point to a California metal scene refusing to sit still heading into 2026.
From Bad Wolves' Dolly Parton meltdown to Metal Church's smarter touring philosophy and legacy acts postponing worldwide, this week's metal news carries real lessons for Ohio's death metal, deathcore, and black metal underground.
New York Metal Index's venue data currently tracks just 9 venues statewide, with Darien Lake Amphitheater topping the list at only 2 recorded shows — highlighting how early-stage and geographically spread this dataset still is.
From a haunted police officer's PTSD confession to John Christ's health scare and REV3RENT's deathcore resurgence, this week's metal news is a study in resilience — and California's underground speed metal, heavy metal, and deathcore scenes have plenty to say about it.
From Armored Saint's decades-long lineup loyalty to Kai Hansen's speed metal comeback and the new wave of global deathcore, this week's headlines reveal exactly why South America's death, black, thrash, and doom underground keeps mutating on its own terms.
From Nails' surprise EP to Rush's ongoing legacy machine and deathcore's festival resurgence, this week's national metal headlines connect directly to Ohio's grind, deathcore, and heavy metal underground.
Saxon's mythological new album and Kai Hansen's speed metal solo single make for a week of heavy metal news that has real echoes in Pennsylvania's own NWOTHM and speed metal underground.
The Pretty Reckless opened for AC/DC in Atlanta this week, Alex Van Halen received a knighthood from the Netherlands, and a wave of industry news — from Atlantic Records signing a heavy new act to metal songs landing in Fortnite — shows just how far heavy music's reach now extends beyond the club circuit.
From Blind Illusion's David White reunion and Andrew W.K.'s jazz-noir left turn to a doom-and-sludge touring wave led by Uncle Acid and Sleep, this week's metal news proves the global scene is as unpredictable as ever.
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