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From Tony Iommi's new solo album and Geezer Butler's reflections on Heaven and Hell to Candlemass demoing doom, Kamelot's grandiose new single, and Megadeth's Savage Lands teaming with Brutal Assault, this week's metal news traces a direct line between the genre's founders and its next generation.
Alice in Chains' MTV Unplugged gets a 30th anniversary vinyl reissue, Dez Fafara sets the record straight on his health, and Tony Iommi, Megadeth, and Jimmy Eat World all make news in a busy week for the US metal scene.
From PeelingFlesh's stacked death metal tour to Anthrax's artwork teasers and Candlemass's doom metal update, this week's national headlines map directly onto Ohio's thriving death, doom, thrash, and heavy metal underground.
This week's national metal headlines — Iommi's solo album, Amon Amarth's Viking myth-busting, and a wave of lineup and health news — offer a perfect excuse to spotlight Florida's own Cold, Amon, and Eerie alongside the state's underserved NWOTHM, melodic black metal, and industrial scenes.
House of Blues Anaheim leads California's metal venues with 5 indexed shows, but the ranking flattens quickly — ten venues are tied at just 2 shows apiece, according to California Metal Index's own database.
Dez Fafara corrects the record on his health scare, Neurosis returns with Aaron Turner, and a stacked Decibel Metal and Beer Fest lineup has us asking why Texas doesn't have its own death metal festival to match its deep underground roster.
This week's global metal headlines — from Rush and Judas Priest concert footage to Machine Head's reissue and a stacked Decibel Fest lineup — reveal both the touring gap South America still faces and the depth of its own underserved underground scene.
Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston, Michigan leads all US venues in our index with 8 recorded metal shows, one ahead of Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, IL at 7.
From a MetalSucks review of Akron's If These Trees Could Talk to Ohio's underserved NWOTHM and death doom scenes, this week's national headlines all point back to what's brewing in the Buckeye State.
From Ozzy's new Orlando haunted house to a fresh reminder of Tampa's death metal birthright, this week's national headlines keep circling back to Florida's outsized role in heavy music history.
Judiciary's new EP and 'Wall of Skulls' single anchor a wide-ranging roundup of hardcore package tours, a crowded deathcore scene, 80s metal legacy news, and why Texas's black metal underground deserves its own spotlight.
As of 2026-07-29, South American Metal Index shows São Paulo alone accounts for 460 bands — more than Buenos Aires (227) and Santiago (165) combined — while 75.6% of all indexed bands in this dataset come from Brazilian cities.
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