New Music Friday is back with a packed October 2nd 2026 release slate, spanning Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Extreme Metal, Doom, Punk, Progressive music, and more.
Browse the full list below, support the artists through the official links, and tell us what is hitting your speakers first in the comments!
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Amon Amarth – The Allfather Awakens (Metal Blade Records) (Buy)
Bobbie Dazzle – Star Power (Rise Above Records) (Buy)
Bombstrap – Big Enemy (Tartarus Records) (Buy)
Brymir – What We Leave Behind (Napalm Records) (Buy)
Butcher Babies – Nightbloom (Judge & Jury Records) (Buy)
Clegane – Ocean Of Black Thoughts (Almost Famous Records) (Buy)
The Crawling – What We Leave Behind EP (Grindscene Records) (Buy)
Crimson Steel – Show No Fear (Heaven And Hell Records) (Buy)
The Crystal Teardrop – Love You More (Rise Above Records/Popclaw Records) (Buy)
Crystal Throne – Chantry Of Sacrifice (Self-Released) (Buy)
Datura Lodge – Datura Lodge (Arquen Records) (Buy)
Dead Poet Society – Monarch (Spinefarm Records) (Buy)
Deathcult – Cult Of The Dog (Soulseller Records) (Buy)
Deconsekrated – The Inexorable Transcendence Of Death (Nuclear Winter Records) (Buy)
Dissimulator – Artifice Dissolves (20 Buck Spin) (Buy)
Division: Dark – The Eternal Baptism (Metalville Records) (Buy)
Endspace – First Contact (Transcending Obscurity Records) (Buy)
Enterré Vivant – Kurogoku (Transcendance Records) (Buy)
Escape The Fate – The Last Goodbye (Big Noise Records) (Buy)
Eshtadur – In Darkness All Shadows Gone (Rockshots Records) (Buy)
Firtan – Helios (AOP Records) (Buy)
Frozen Crown – The Legend Of The Six Kings (Napalm Records) (Buy)
Gates Of Kiev – Gates Of Kiev (The Laser’s Edge) (Buy)
Ghostkid – Follow The White Rabbit (Century Media Records) (Buy)
The Green Goblins – The Green Goblins (Metalville Records) (Buy)
Hardiesse – Tristesse Vesperale EP (Antiq Records) (Buy)
Haywire – I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye (Roadrunner Records) (Buy)
Hekatoxen – Obsidian Majesty (Nuclear Winter Records) (Buy)
Hippotraktor – Annihilist (Pelagic Records) (Buy)
Imminence – Axis Mundi (Sumerian Records) (Buy)
Inherited – All 4 One EP (Mascot Label Group) (Buy)
Kat – Death Is Not Enough (Self-Released) (Buy)
Leisure Hour – …That One Day (Civilians Records) (Buy)
The Light Superior – Dayspring (Rottweiler Records) (Buy)
Lustmord Lombardo – The Pulse Of Atoms (Ipecac Recordings) (Buy)
The Machine – Another Sun (Blues Funeral Recordings) (Buy)
Methane – Demolate (Fireflash Records) (Buy)
Michael Bormann’s Jaded Hard – South West (RMB Records) (Buy)
Miss May I – No Place For Me (Solid State Records) (Buy)
Morbid Stench – Doom Metastasis (Nuclear Winter Records) (Buy)
Morkgrim – Sǫgur frá Norðfirð (Soulseller Records) (Buy)
Of Virtue – Death Of The Altar (Arising Empire Records) (Buy)
Our Ceasing Voice – The Origin Of Everything (Argonauta Records) (Buy)
Ovoo – Obsidian (Day Off Records) (Buy)
Pegzilla – Disobedience (Ripple Records) (Buy)
Pohl/Ogives Big Band – Split (Ripcord Records) (Buy)
Razorvoid – Into The Void (Jawbreaker Records) (Buy)
Ruled By Raptors – A Shadow That Never Moves EP (Self-Released) (Buy)
Servant – Lux Ex Inferis (AOP Records) (Buy)
Sorcery – The Immaculate Sin (Xtreem Music) (Buy)
Souls Of Diotima – Arcade (Self-Released) (Buy)
Spider Kitten – God Don’t Sleep (APF Records) (Buy)
Spirit Possession – Cathedral Speech (Profound Lore) (Buy)
Ström – Mer Ström Åt Folket (Black Lodge Recordings) (Buy)
Swans – Newly Sentient Being (Young God Recordings) (Buy)
Tear Dungeon – Squirm (Todo Records) (Buy)
Temic – Ceiba (Season Of Mist) (Buy)
Thede – Whet The Keen Axes (Self-Released) (Buy)
To The Grave – Liberation Front (BLKIIBLK) (Buy)
Travo – Wasteland (Fuzz Club Records) (Buy)
Urisk – Call (Vendetta Records) (Buy)
Valley Of The Sun – The Blacklight Sessions (Heavy Psych Sounds) (Buy)
Wizard Tattoo – When God Had Hands (Garage Fire Records) (Buy)
Wraithstorm – Revenant (Fiadh Productions) (Buy)
Xasthur – Open To Misinterpretation (Prophecy Productions) (Buy)
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Zornheym – Descending Into Madness (Noble Demon Recordings) (Buy)