Speakers, earbuds, or cans? New Music Friday is back with a packed October 23rd, 2026 release slate, spanning Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Extreme Metal, Doom, Punk, Progressive Metal, and more. Browse the full list below, and please try to support the artists through the verified links.
Abyssus – The Reign (Fireflash Records) (Buy)
After Infinity – Beyond Eternity (Rockshots Records) (Buy)
Alex Henry Foster – The Fragile Beauty (Self-Released) (Buy)
Armory – Echoes Of The Astrolith (Dying Victims Productions) (Buy)
Beaten To Death – Vntrve (Mas-Kina Recordings) (Buy)
Bokkerijdeers – Crush Kill Destroy (Personal Records) (Buy)
Boss Keloid – Float & Aperture (Church Road Records) (Buy)
Casket Dweller – River Of Slumber (Nuclear Winter Records) (Buy)
Ceremonial Oath – Carpet Re-Release (Dissonance Records) (Buy)
City Of Lights – City Of Lights (Pride & Joy Records) (Buy)
Could Seed – Terminal (Klonosphere Records) (Buy)
Cursebinder – Psychohazard (Avantgarde Music) (Buy)
DET/Critical Alliance – Bloodsurge Split EP (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Diamond Rain – Chapter One (Pride & Joy Records) (Buy)
Dragonland – Prophecies (Scarlet Records) (Buy)
Earthbong – Salutations To The Cultivators (The Lasting Dose Records) (Buy)
Embryectomy – Vitriolic Baptism (Unique Leader Records) (Buy)
Entheos – Empty On The Inside (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Fake Names – Punk Ruins (Epitaph Records) (Buy)
The Flower Kings – Hope (InsideOut Music) (Buy)
Forbidden – Forbidden (BLKIIBLK) (Buy)
Fvneral Fvkk – Indecent Idols (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Glasswaves – (while) True (SharpTone Records) (Buy)
Goat Major – Death Comes Twice (Ripple Music) (Buy)
Godzilla In The Kitchen – Termination Sequence (Tonzonen Records) (Buy)
Go Forward In Flames – Liminal Spaces (Self-Released) (Buy)
Half Me – Dogma (Arising Empire Records) (Buy)
Ignea – Monumental (Napalm Records) (Buy)
Janvs – Fatum Est (Avantgarde Music) (Buy)
Killed By Sorrow – Empire Of Excess (Self-Released) (Buy)
Leadfeather – Catch The Silvertrain EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Madame Orange – Parallax (Amalgam Records) (Buy)
Mason Hill – World So Wonderful (7Hz Records) (Buy)
Mental Cruelty – Echoes Of A Forlorn Land (Century Media Records) (Buy)
Messier 16 – Shouts From The Cliffs Of Heterodoxy (Time To Kill Records) (Buy)
Moni Jitchell – Aware (Self-Released) (Buy)
Mortualia – Cold In The Earth (Moribund Recordings) (Buy)
Neon Rider – Keepers Of The Flame (Pride & Joy Records) (Buy)
Obscura Qalma – Immortality Through Ashes (Dusktone Records) (Buy)
Paul Di’Anno’s Battlezone – Children Of Madness Re-Release (Deko Entertainment) (Buy)
Porcelain – Today’s Minor Victories (Todo Records) (Buy)
Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol – Ca$h Grab (Permanent Teeth Records) (Buy)
Satan – Out Of The Fire 81-85 (HNE Records) (Buy)
Sathanas – Black Earth (Original Unreleased Version) (Moribund Recordings) (Buy)
Savage Grace – Underworld (Back On Black) (Buy)
Sigilo – Gloria ad Inferi (Alma Mater Records) (Buy)
Strange Pink – Guest Room EP (Desert Mine Records) (Buy)
Street Justice – Rules Are For Suckers (Dying Victims Records) (Buy)
Sweet – Live 25 (Metalville Records) (Buy)
Swervedriver – Raise: Demos (Outer Battery Records) (Buy)
Turmion Kätilöt – Resodance (Nuclear Blast Records) (Buy)
Viper Queen – Munich City Nights (Pride & Joy Records) (Buy)
Vrsty – Icon (Spinefarm Records) (Buy)
Windwaker – Smile, You’re On Camera (Fearless Records) (Buy)
Wolfshead – Wolfshead (Jawbreaker Records) (Buy)
AND
Wolves In The Throne Room – Estuary (Relapse Records) (Buy)
The Usual Suspects:
🎤 Micaela Petersen
https://www.instagram.com/micaeladeadeyes
💻 Omar Cordy
https://www.instagram.com/ojcpics
🎵 Fahad Syed
https://www.instagram.com/fahanzi
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