Guitar Hero III hid a DragonForce song behind its final boss, and for one winter power metal reached American teenagers through five plastic buttons. What that crossing changed for the genre in America, and what it left untouched.
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Pushed off the big stages for a decade, Mexican heavy metal came up in the eighties all at once: a rock opera in a theatre, Luzbel's fallen angel in Spanish, a union of bands with its own la...
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Grindcore
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The Doom Metal Fonts
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| Date | Band | Album | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2026 | Eternal | Conspiracy of Warheads | Full-length |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Zornheym | Descending into Madness | Full-length |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Methane | Demolate | Full-length |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Mana Diagram | Aether Cross | Full-length |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Asomvel | Set Your World on Fire | Full-length |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Tombstalker | Chaos Monolith | Full-length |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Stryga | Upon Stygian Wings | Full-length |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Hate Beast | Humanity Redacted | Full-length |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Sorcery | The Immaculate Sin | Full-length |
