Weekly War: New Heavy Metal releases 9/10/2026

Friday, October 9, 2026, and today we’re taking a look at the week’s most significant releases!

Ram – “Against”
The Swedish heavy metallers release their 7th album through Metal Blade Records.

HateSphere – “Guillotine”
The Danish melodic death/thrash/groove metallers release their 12th album through Scarlet Records.

Tungsten – “Ashes”
The Swedish heavy/power metallers release their 5th album through Reigning Phoenix Music.

Werewolves – “You’re Weak and You Know You’re Weak”
The Australian technical death/black metallers release their 7th album through Back on Black.

Crimson Coven – “I – The Forge”
The Spanish epic doom/heavy metallers release their 1st album through Cruz del Sur Music.

Left To Suffer – “Unwelcome Guest”
The American nu metallers/deathcore band release their 4th album through Hopeless Records.

Smoulder – “Witch Wife in an Alien World”
The Canadian epic heavy/doom metallers release their 3rd album through Cruz del Sur Music.

Wage War – “Landfall”
The American metalcore band release their 6th album through Fearless Records.

Goblin Cock – “Traumanaut”
The American stoner metal/alternative rock band release their 5th album through Joyful Noise Recordings.

Gore. – “…Then You Cannot Love Me”
The American metalcore/pop metal band release their 1st album through Spinefarm Records.

Hell-Born – “VII”
The Polish thrash/death/black metallers release their 7th album through Deformeathing Production.

Ares – “Memento Mori, Memento Vivere”
The Japanese melodic death metallers release their 4th album through Repentless Records.

Diablerie – “The Catalyst Vol. II: Alternate”
The Finnish melodic death/industrial metallers release their 3rd album through Primitive Reaction.

Selenoplexia – “Beneath the Lunar Tyrant”
The American blackened death/black metal band release their 2nd album.

Callous Master – “Callous Master”
The Irish black metallers release their 1st album through Invictus Productions.

Leper Colony – “Back to Primal Sludge”
The German thrash/death metallers release their 3rd album through Testimony Records.

Signum Regis – “Beyond Spacetime”
The Slovak progressive/power metallers release their 8th album through Fireflash Records.

Humulus – “Smuggler’s Cave”
The Italian stoner metallers release their 5th album through Ripple Music.

Cardinals Folly – “Let the Posers Fall!”
The Finnish doom/heavy metallers release their 7th album through Cruz del Sur Music.

Witchthroat Serpent – “Demons Left to Roam”
The French stoner/doom metallers release their 5th album through Heavy Psych Sounds Records.

Cultus Sanguine – “Tears Painted Sky”
The Italian gothic/doom/black metallers release their 4th album through My Kingdom Music.

Thronehammer – “Slay | Kill | Erase”
The international doom metal band release their 4th album through Supreme Chaos Records.

Dawn of Demise – “Feed My Absurdity”
The Danish death metallers release their 6th album through Unique Leader Records.

Hexabrot – “Self-Similarity”
The Italian progressive/melodic death metallers release their 1st album.

Gallóglaigh – “Shadows Cast”
The American black metallers release their 5th album through Darkside Records.

Ominous Covenant – “Legacy of the Dead God”
The British black metallers release their 1st album through Wulfhere Productions.

In Obscurity Revealed – “Caustic Maelstrom”
The Mexican death metallers release their 2nd album through Personal Records.

Cordyceps Corpse – “Perverse Craving for Rotting Corpses”
The American slam/brutal death metallers release their 2nd album through Gore House Productions.

Marea – “A Caress of Autumn for All the Lost”
The Italian atmospheric black/doom metallers release their 2nd album through Hypnotic Dirge Records.

Orbita – “Farewell to All We’ve Lost”
The Italian stoner/doom metallers release their 1st album through Aural Music.

Mutation – “Esoteric Order of Debauchery”
The Swedish death/black metallers release their 1st album through Hells Headbangers Records.

Esoctrilihum – “Annochiül Xar Sorthïlazur”
The French avant-garde black/death metallers release their 16th album through I, Voidhanger Records.

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