New Music Friday is back with a packed October 9th, 2026 release slate, spanning Heavy Metal, Hardcore, Extreme Metal, Doom, Punk, Prog, and more. Browse the full list below, and support the artists through the official links to each release!
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New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced this week that individual artist grants through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs will double from $5,000 to $10,000, the first increase in nearly twenty years. If you make music, art, or film in New York City, applications are open now. Details below. Continue reading
Dieth signs with Fireflash Records, adds Swedish bassist Tobias Cristiansson of Grave, Necrophobic, and Dismember, and confirms their second album is coming. New single “Pound of Flesh” drops October 16. Details below. Continue reading
Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas dropped two major announcements at the band’s Silver Scream Con in Worcester, Massachusetts: a Christmas EP out November 9 and The Silver Scream 3: Every Flick in the Book coming in 2027. The band also announced the Unwrapped: An Acoustic Holiday tour for December with Smith and Myers, Zakk Wylde, The Funeral Portrait, The Warning, and more. Details below Continue reading
Seeing Fabio Frizzi a second time doesn’t hit any less hard. The Italian composer brought his Frizzi 2 Fulci concert to TV Eye in Ridgewood, Queens, on September 23 as part of his Fall 2026 North American tour, and walking back into that room felt like stepping into a very specific, very welcome kind of darkness.
