A quick collection of release announcements that landed in my inbox this week—a mix of new singles, new videos, reissues, tour announcements, and album news worth keeping an eye on. No hype, no rankings—just the core details and where to start.
MOONSPELL announce new album Far From God and release title track
Portuguese gothic metal veterans MOONSPELL announced Far From God, due July 3, 2026, via Napalm Records, and released the title track as its first single. Framed as a return to the band’s darker, more romantic instincts, the album leans into vampiric love, spiritual ruin, sacred imagery, and a deliberately unfashionable version of gothic metal that values atmosphere, weight, and identity over polish.
Stream: http://lnk.to/Moonspell-FarFromGod
THE TROOPS OF DOOM release KISS cover of “God Of Thunder” with Chuck Billy and more guests
Brazilian death metal band THE TROOPS OF DOOM released a studio version of KISS classic “God Of Thunder,” featuring guest contributions from Chuck Billy, Andria Busic, PJ, and Martin Furia. The track has long served as the band’s pre-intro onstage, and this version turns that ritual into a full release while also marking the final recorded appearance of guitarist Marcelo Vasco before his departure from the band.
Stream: https://ttod.bfan.link/god-of-thunder
UNVERKALT share live studio performance of “Oath Ov Prometheus”
German-Greek post-metal band UNVERKALT released a live studio performance of “Oath Ov Prometheus,” one of the defining songs from Héréditaire. The track was the first written for the album and the first to introduce the more extreme vocal approach that helped reshape the band’s sound, turning their mix of atmosphere and emotional weight toward something harsher and more blackened.
Watch: https://youtu.be/XuZpzqOTKcw
Order / stream Héréditaire: https://orcd.co/unverkalthereditaire
ONLY HUMAN release debut album Planned Obsolescence
Copenhagen progressive metal band ONLY HUMAN released their debut album Planned Obsolescence, a tightly focused record built around technocracy, digital dependence, surveillance, and the gradual reduction of people into replaceable units. Musically, the album threads djent, modern prog, electronics, and hard-rock melody into something compact and concept-driven without sounding overcrowded.
Listen: https://youtu.be/0r14mMa8YGE
Pre-order / pre-save: https://orcd.co/onlyhumanplannedobsolescence
SEVEN METAL SINS unveil first single “Wolves Of The Last Dawn”
French heavy metal band SEVEN METAL SINS released “Wolves Of The Last Dawn,” the first single from Legacy Of Chaos, due June 5, 2026, via Rockshots Records. Built from galloping rhythm, sharp riffing, and a power-metal charge, the track introduces a debut album centered on instability, collapse, and resistance without leaning too hard on nostalgia.
Listen: https://lnk.to/ybAMOx
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3y7GC60LXo
Pre-order: https://rockshots.eu/products/seven-metal-sins-legacy-of-chaos-cd
PRIME CREATION announce Souls Of The Fallen and release “Galactic Rebirth”
Swedish melodic metal band PRIME CREATION announced Souls Of The Fallen, due June 26, 2026, and released the lyric video for “Galactic Rebirth.” The song opens the record’s larger cosmic-war framework, pairing melodic lift with a darker, more progressive direction as the band continue to move beyond straightforward power metal into something broader and heavier.
Stream: https://primecreation.rpm.link/rebirthPR
Pre-order: https://primecreation.rpm.link/soulsPR
Another Demon sign to Ragebreed for re-release of As Above So Below
NYC thrash band Another Demon signed with Ragebreed Records for the April 18, 2026 re-release of their debut EP As Above So Below, with Earache handling global distribution. The EP already carried a strong underground profile, and the new push gives broader reach to a release driven by fast riffing, death-metal sharpness, and a guest solo from James Murphy on “Drawn and Quartered.”
Watch “Drawn and Quartered”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7m8elmZ2H8
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3kNaNyl0Lcp2NffXJUwjT6?si=SbY0-uwdTE6jlNyjTIRDJA
Bandcamp: https://anotherdemon.bandcamp.com/album/as-above-so-below
WITCH RIPPER announce first North American headlining tour
Seattle heavy rock band WITCH RIPPER announced their first North American headlining run for 2026 ahead of their new album Through the Hourglass, due April 10 via Magnetic Eye Records. The tour follows the release of “The Clock Queen,” a track that captures the band’s blend of progressive heaviness, sludge, melody, and sci-fi storytelling.
Pre-orders: https://spkr.store/collections/witch-ripper
Okkultist return with “Teeth of the Hydra” featuring Fernando Ribeiro
Portuguese blackened death metal band Okkultist returned with new single “Teeth of the Hydra,” featuring Moonspell’s Fernando Ribeiro. The track serves as the band’s first new material since O.M.E.N. and feels positioned less as a one-off than as the opening move in a more refined and more severe new phase.
Stream: https://okkultist.bfan.link/teeth-of-the-hydra
ARION begin next album cycle with “Hurricane”
Finnish melodic metal band ARION kicked off the next phase of their album cycle with “Hurricane,” a fast, hook-heavy single that points toward a full-length due in early 2027. The track keeps the band’s arena-sized melodic instincts intact while adding enough structural disruption to avoid sounding too cleanly predictable.
Stream: https://arion.rpm.link/hurricanePR
RAM-ZET return with new album Sapien
Norwegian progressive metal band RAM-ZET released Sapien, their first full-length in thirteen years. The new album continues the band’s long-running mix of progressive structure, avant-garde unease, and theatrical intensity, but with a more organic studio approach and a clearer sense of reactivated purpose than a simple comeback record.
Album: Sapien out now via ViciSolum Productions
IRON SAVIOR release Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy and unveil “Maniac” video
German power metal veterans IRON SAVIOR released Awesome Anthems Of The Galaxy, a full album of ‘80s covers reshaped into melodic metal. Alongside the release, the band unveiled a video for “Maniac,” one of several familiar tracks reworked through the group’s polished, high-energy power-metal lens.
Order: https://ironsavior.rpm.link/awesomeanthemsPR
ELDER unveil title track of upcoming album Through Zero
Progressive psych rock band ELDER released the title track of their upcoming album Through Zero, due May 29. Positioned near the center of the record’s overall mood, the song introduces an album concerned with impermanence, mortality, and the uneasy midpoint between endings and continuation, while continuing the band’s pull toward broader textures and a more self-shaped studio sound.
Stream: https://indigo.lnk.to/AoXUo1sF
GRAIN OF PAIN mark album release with “Ruins of the Heart” lyric video
Finnish doom metal band GRAIN OF PAIN celebrated the release of Behind Us All with a new lyric video for “Ruins of the Heart.” The album continues the band’s blend of doom, death metal, and mournful melody, with this particular track turning toward power, belief, control, and the question of whether people ever really stop repeating the same wreckage.
Written by Rob Joncas for DeadNoteMedia.
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