🔻 Italian Dark Power Metal force DRACONICON officially unveil their new five-piece line-up and announce the release of their new album, "Empire", scheduled for early 2027.
Further details about "Empire", including its first singles and release date, will be revealed in the coming months, alongside new live announcements.
🔴 Album • tba • FFO:
Kamelot, Powerwolf, Sabaton
🔻 The RETURN of the legendary cult label COMBAT RECORDS (Agent Steel, Abattoir, Dark Angel, Death, Heathen, Megadeth, etc.) is in itself a source of immense joy for long-standing fans of the label – and now the company, founded in 1982, has added this sensationally intense, brutally raw, fantastically nasty, hard-hitting sonic BOMB to its catalogue!
On 2 October, the super-fit madmen from Cologne CHILD OF CAESAR unleashed the inhuman ear-splitting blast "Alive", the first killer single from their upcoming new album. Explosive musical magic:
this incredibly intense five-piece bunch thrashes away with such animalistic, unbridled fury that it makes your skull vibrate as if it were on an industrial vibrator set to level 10.
🔴 Album • tba • FFO:
Wolfbrigade, Nails, Satyricon
🔻 FERNDAL, passionate philosophical wanderers through different worlds, weave Black Metal with classical music, aggression with baroque grace, and frenzy with romantic melancholy.
This extraordinary five-pack from North Rhine-Westphalia has forged a unique and incredibly exciting style in which guitars, cello, screams, and clean vocals coexist on equal footing.
🔴 tba • tba • FFO:
Windir, Cor Scorpii, Vreid
🔻 The music is the image: ASH OF ASHES exude a majestic sense of vastness with "All Must Wither". Following their magnificent debut, "Down The White Waters", in 2018, the duo – Skaldir and Morten – effortlessly managed to maintain that high standard of quality four years later with "Traces".
With "All Must Wither", the musicians are now consistently pursuing their chosen path. Epic melodies meet sublime grandeur, cool fragility and deliberately employed roughness.
🔴 Album • 30 Oct. 2026 • FFO:
While Heaven Wept, Moonsorrow, Ereb Altor
🔻 OLD RUINS can rightly be classified as BLACK METAL, though this resourceful German band has developed its own highly distinctive style, drawing heavily on influences from Heavy, Doom, and Melodic Metal.
The triumphant return comes in the form of an absolutely majestic, uplifting atmospheric masterpiece that reveals grand visions …
🔴 Album • Sept. 18, 2026 • FFO:
In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, Dissection
🔻 RHINO PROOF are finally back. Their previous album got great reviews from all over Europe and it ended up in fourth place in 2018 Hard Rock Highlights-lists in Italy and Portugal.
After numerous line-up changes, the second album "Light, Dark, The End" is finally complete - and Astral Haven Records is proud to announce the release of the Finnish hard-and-heavy giants' longplayer on November 6!
🔴 Single • Sept. 22, 2026 • FFO:
Saxon, Judas Priest, Diamond Head
🔻 When they took to the stage at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheatre on 24 May, a long-cherished dream came true for SMORRAH: to be part of the line-up for once, in their home town, and to perform live there in front of a large audience.
And the quartet, complete with their new recruit, former Kreator bassist Christian "Speesy" Giesler, gave it their all – it was a matter of honour for the lads to have this performance recorded. So "Age Of Decay – Live At Rock Hard Festival" is now blasting out with immense energy on all the usual music streaming platforms and, as a live music video on YouTube, really hits the spot.
🔴 Single • Sept. 04, 2026 • FFO:
Pantera, Sepultura, Exhorder
🔻 WALLFAHRER released their highly acclaimed debut album, "Anthologie der Abkehr", independently in late April 2018, with the creators remaining completely anonymous even when it came to the band's biography.
A symbolic, archetypal BLACK METAL solidarity in complete isolation? Exactly that. On June 7, the first single, "Wanderer in den Schatten", from the new album "Knochenkabinett" was released.
🔴 Album • Aug. 07, 2026 • FFO:
Nagelfar, Lunar Aurora, Helrunar
🔻 CRUSADER, the current grand masters of this style, are finally back after leaving everyone speechless in 2025 with their magnificent EP "In For The Kill"!
The fantastic new single "Breaking Out" comes from the IFTK recording sessions and is the first of two top-class bonus tracks to be included on the upcoming vinyl release of the EP.
🔴 Single • Aug. 14, 2026 • FFO:
Def Leppard, Dokken, Ratt
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