Weekly War: New Metal releases 16/10/2026

Friday, October 16, 2026, and today we’re taking a look at the

week’s most important releases!

Master – “Among the Seeds of Death”
The American death/thrash metallers release their 16th album through Hammerheart Records.

Insomnium – “Netherworlds”
The Finnish melodic death metallers release their 10th album through Century Media Records.

Gloryhammer – “Space 1993: Wrath of Kor-Virliath”
The British symphonic power metallers release their 5th album through Napalm Records.

Carnation – “Symphony in Flesh”
The Belgian death metallers release their 4th album.

Stoned Jesus – “Songs to Moon”
The Ukrainian stoner/doom metallers release their 7th album through Season of Mist.

Temperance – “Arcani”
The Italian heavy/power metallers release their 8th album through Napalm Records.

Carnal Desecration – “Ancient Malediction”
The Belgian death/black metallers release their 2nd album through Thrash Records.

Warhammer – “Algos”
The Greek black/death metallers release their 4th album through Devil’s Milestone Productions.

Elysion – “Identity”
The Greek alternative/gothic metallers release their 3rd album through Massacre Records.

Ola Englund – “The Neverending Story”
The Swedish progressive metal guitarist releases his 6th album.

Shores of Null – “Homesick”
The Italian melodic death/doom metallers release their 5th album through Dusktone.

Joe Stump – “Lord of the Strings”
The American heavy metal guitarist releases his 14th album through Silver Lining Music.

Generation Steel – “Steelmachine”
The German heavy metallers release their 3rd album through Fireflash Records.

Streamer – “Into the Void”
The Spanish heavy metallers release their 3rd album through High Roller Records.

Fervence – “Constructs”
The American progressive metalcore band releases its 2nd album through Metal Blade Records.

Fate Unburied – “Neraspeme”
The Italian death/groove metallers release their 2nd album through Time to Kill Records.

Veilburner – “All That Glimmers Is Gloam”
The American death/black metallers release their 9th album through Transcending Obscurity Records.

Misery Spell – “Wormhole”
The Russian black metallers release their 3rd album through Naturmacht Productions.

The Number Twelve Looks Like You – “Howls From The Holographic Heart”
The American metalcore/mathcore band releases its 6th album through Equal Vision Records.

Worm Altar – “Pillars of Eternal Dusk”
The American death/doom metallers release their debut album through Gurgling Gore.

Hexicon – “This Might Be Hell”
The American progressive/groove metallers release their 2nd album.

Headless Hunter – “Heretical”
The Dutch thrash metallers release their 2nd album through Mosher Zero.

Warfaith – “Necronomicat”
The French thrash metallers release their 3rd album through M & O Music.

Nightscape – “The Great Beyond”
The Italian stoner/doom metallers release their 3rd album.

Imperial Slave – “Existential Threat”
The New Zealand melodic death/thrash metallers release their 3rd album.

Sépulcre – “Cryptic Temple of Otherworldly Abhorrations”
The French death metallers release their debut album through Invictus Productions.

Firebreather – “Blood That I Spill Turns to Fire”
The Swedish stoner/doom metallers release their 4th album through Heavy Psych Sounds Records.

Vredensdal – “Mystery & Power”
The American black metallers release their 5th album through Anti-Saint Records.

Iapetus – “The Mother Void”
The American melodic/progressive death metallers release their 3rd album through Willowtip Records.

Night Hag – “Great Dismal Darkness”
The American death/doom metallers release their 2nd album through Rotted Life Records.

Leadbelcher – “Heaven’s Bloated Corpse”
The Irish death metallers release their debut album through Apocalyptic Witchcraft Recordings.

Urarv – “Nychta Psychis”
The Norwegian avant-garde black metallers release their 3rd album through Darkness Shall Rise Productions.

Mother of Graves – “The Light That Keeps Us”
The American melodic death/doom metallers release their 3rd album through Profound Lore Records.

Urna – “The Great Jihad”
The Italian black/funeral doom metallers release their 5th album through Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum.

Soldiers of Rage – “At the Edge of Oblivion”
The Portuguese technical thrash/groove metallers release their 2nd album.

The Black Thunder – “Time Obliteration”
The Polish groove/stoner metallers release their 3rd album through Pagan Records.

Throneum – “Love Is the Law But Death Is the Frame”
The Polish death/black metallers release their 11th album through Godz ov War Productions.