Jurre Timmer, primarily known for his dark folk project Thurnin, is going back to his roots and releasing a new EP for his metal project I, Forlorn. Requiem is set to release 6th January, 2026. Requiem is the first recorded work since 2017’s My Kingdom Eclipsed, I, Forlorn’s debut LP.
Jurre posted the following announcement on his Instagram page:
“The first single of the upcoming I, Forlorn EP "Requiem",
Eternal Winter is a song I composed around 2014 and was finally due a proper release on my side project, I, Forlorn, A melodic death/doom project that has been on hold after the debut album in 2017, until today.
And with that I stumbled upon the idea of Requiem, 4 songs I wrote about loss combined in one new package as an appetizer for the upcoming full length for I, Forlorn.
Requiem will be releasing on January 6th, a 27 minute, 5 song EP in the style of classic Swallow the Sun, Daylight Dies and various oth ...more
German post-hardcore trio Future Palace dropped a new single titled "Deep Blue". Although there is no information about a potential album, the band's next live shows are scheduled half a year from now, suggesting they would record more material during this time. Moreover, the new video shares the blue color motif with previously released "Cyclone", suggesting it would be the theme for the whole album cycle.
Steve Morse Band, the instrumental Rock group of veteran guitarist Steve Morse has released a new album titled Triangulation.
This is the band’s first album in 16 years and features longtime members Dave LaRue on bass and Van Romaine on drums. The album has guest appearances from other guitar legends including Eric Johnson & John Petrucci, and features the blend of genres that Steve is known for including Rock, Jazz Fusion, and Blues.
Tracklist for Triangulation:
1. Break Through
2. Off the Cuff
3. TexUS (ft. Eric Johnson)
4. The Unexpected
5. March of the Nomads (ft. Scott Sim)
6. Ice Breaker
7. Tumeni Partz
8. Triangulation (ft. John Petrucci)
9. Taken by an Angel (ft. Kevin Morse)
Check out the title track featuring John Petrucci below
Guys, gals, and non-binary pals: voting season is upon us!
The tl;dr: if you would like to submit a ballot so that your voice is heard for the site’s Top 50 LPs of 2025, please submit yours here:
https://forms.gle/BPcK6Xg9JAswvyB5A
The tl;dr of that tl;dr:
1) The ballot is in three sections. The first is your username (even if you can’t create an account, remember your password, etc.). The middle third is your (mandatory) top 10. The last portion is completely optional, but you can include picks 11-25 on it. Please be sure to submit your ballot officially! You can go back and edit it as long as the form is accepting submissions.
2) For now, we’re going to stick to LPs, so please do not submit EPs, Live Albums, Compilations, singles that are somehow in the database, or any other non-LP item.
3) Please strive to ensure the artist and album reflect what’s in the Sput database, even if it’s not tech ...more
Canadian black metal outfit Forteresse, has uploaded a brand new track at its official Bandcamp location.
Titled "À Couteaux Tirés", the first piece of new material in nine years, is vanguard to the band's upcoming new album, whose title and release date are currently unbeknownst.
You can listen to the single, right below:
https://forteresseqc.bandcamp.com/track/couteaux-tir-s
Norwegian experimental music group Ulver have unveiled Neverland, their new studio LP due to be released on December 31st. In addition to the album announcement, the band has also shared the first single which is titled “Weeping Stone”. The song sees the band exploring a more ambient sound compared to the new wave and electronic influences of their recent releases.
Tracklist for Neverland
1. Fear in a Handful of Dust
2. Elephant Trunk
3. Weeping Stone
4. People of the Hills
5. They’re Coming! The Birds!
6. Hark! Hark! The Dogs Bark!
7. Horses of the Plough
8. Pandora’s Box
9. Quivers in the Marrow
10. Welcome to the Jungle
11. Fire in the End
One-man black metal artist Black Usurper has released the outfit's first music since 2018’s Shadows of The World. The single "Fecund Corrupter" is a selected work from the forthcoming full-length ‘Echoes From Beneath’. Additionally, it features an ambient introductory composition entitled ‘Upon The Twilit Moor’, which will not be included with the aforementioned record.
The artwork is an illustration by Mr. J. Augustus Knapp, taken from the 1895 publication of John Uri Lloyd’s ‘Etidorhpa; Or, The End of Earth: The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey’
Echoes From Beneath tracklist:
1. ACT I. I: Hallo Morgensonne (5:44)
2. II: Clandestine Presence (2:44)
3. III: Fecund Corrupter (Ich Werde Nicht) (3:17)
4. ACT II. I: Doldrum Through Hummock & ...more
Dave Burgess, frontman of the rock band The Champs, passed away on October 19th at the age of 90. The Champs were most famous for their number one 1958 hit single "Tequila" which ended up selling over a million copies. Burgess had registered over 700 copyrights with BMI and has written songs for Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Glen Campbell among many others.
Converge have just announced their upcoming album 'Love Is Not Enough', due out February 13, 2026. The title track and its accompanying music video is also out now, and can be streamed below.
Unlike so many albums that adhere to a time-honored sequencing format, cherry-picking favored tracks for the all-important first, second, and final spots, Love Is Not Enough is all about momentum. “It does a thing that no other Converge record does—it keeps ramping up,” Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon says. “And that’s definitely by design. Internally, we passed around dozens of ideas for sequencing because everyone interprets music differently and there’s no right way of doing it. When we do that, we always joke that we all have to be equally unhappy. But this is the one that works.”
Love Is Not Enough was recorded and mixed by Kurt Bal ...more
Pop-punk frontman and self-proclaimed "emo Tom Hardy" Max Bemis has announced a new series of Say Anything songs collectively titled "The Noise of Say Anything's Room Without..."
Stylized as "therapy sessions" using "NEO-CBT," Bemis will release a song a day for 21 days. Three songs have already been released and videos for them can be viewed below.
Leprous' angelic voice has released a new single, featuring the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
The track is called Stella Mortua and can be listened to below.
Einar comments: “Stella Mortua is one of the darkest and most grandiose pieces I’ve ever written — a fusion of progressive metal and cinematic orchestration, recorded by the incredible Norwegian Radio Orchestra. It explores how envy and insecurity can quietly thrive beneath the surface of success. In this world, demons wear tuxedos, and pride slowly turns to paralysis. With Stella Mortua, the Einar Solberg project has truly found its sound: highly dynamic, orchestral and cinematic progressive metal with an emotional core. I’m going all the way with this.”
London Melodic Hardcore/Emo band are set to release their debut album on the 16th of February.
Entitled Nothing Is The Same Anymore, the album is the band's first release as a full band following two EPs recorded and released as a bedroom project. The album will be released on vinyl via Engineer Records (UK), Sell The Heart Records (US), Dancing Rabbit Records (Germany), Remorse Records (France), Vina Records (Italy) and Pasidaryk Pats (Lithuania) as well as a limited Cassette Tape release in the UK via Cat's Claw Records.
Read the press release and view the album art on the band's Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/DeathofYouthUK/
Stream single "Fix Your Heart or Die" on Bandcamp:
With its 30th anniversary coming up in 2026, music reviews site Pitchfork is beta testing new features, related to user input.
Users will be able to comment on reviews, and rate the album being reviewed. The user rating average will be adjacent to the review rating.
The new features are currently tested by a pool of 500 readers, and are expected to be fully rolled out in the next year.
Commenting on the initiative, tech site The Verge wrote that Pitchfork "begs the internet to tell it what's cool these days". Furthermore, it debunked user comments/reviews/ratings (The Verge has a dedicated comments section for every article it publishes) in the age of social media influencers, and ad money moving therein.
35 years after the release of Act III, Bay Area thrashers Death Angel have announced a dedicated U.S. tour this winter. With Vio-Lence, Lions At The Gate and Misfire as supporting acts, the band is going to play the album in its entirety.
Additionally, Death Angel have released a song called "Cult of the Used" along with an animated music video, which is planned to be included in the tour's setlist. According to the guitarist Rob Cavestany, the song is a depiction of society under hypnosis, being strategically manipulated and taken advantage of and urges you to leave the so called reality behind. Earlier this month, they've also put out a video for the previous single "Wrath", filmed during Summer of Wrath Tour 2025 in Europe.
There's no definite information about the band's next album yet, but it's confirmed to be in the works since last year.
The UK-based hard rock four-piece Marmozets have released their first new material since 2018. The track, titled 'A Kiss From A Mother,' can be heard below:
While there hasn't been any formal announcement of a new album, they have announced an upcoming tour of the UK that's set to take place later this year and early into 2026.
Mayhem are set to release their seventh studio album, Liturgy of Death, on February 6, 2026, through Century Media. New single “Weep For Nothing” serves as a testament to the black metal outfit's enduring legacy, forty-one years since their formation, and represents the band's newest offering since October 2019.
Listen to “Weep For Nothing”:
“Liturgy of Death” Tracklist:
01. Ephemeral Eternity
02. Despair
03. Weep For Nothing
04. Aeon's End
05. Funeral Of Existence
06. Realm Of Endless Misery
07. Propitious Death
08. The Sentence Of Absolution
09. Life Is A Corpse You Drag (bonus track)
10. Sancta Mendacia (bonus track)
Welsh ragga metallers Skindred have announced their 9th album, You Got This, will be released via Earache Records on 17 April 2026. The track list is as follows:
1. You Got This
2. Can I Get A
3. Born Fe Dis
4. This Is The Sound
5. Broke
6. Glass
7. Big Em Up
8. Do It Like This
9. My People
10. Give Thanks
The title track has been released as a single. Prior to this, the band confirmed on Monday, 3 November, that founding bassist Dan Pugsley has left the band, with Feeder's Tommy Gleeson filling in on live duties for the foreseeable future. This makes You Got This their first album as a 3 piece, and first since the original 2002 recordings of debut album Babylon not to feature the core line-up of Benji Webbe, Dan Pugsley, Mikey Demus and Arya Goggin (Demus and Arya Goggin joined during the recording of Babylon, with Jeff Rose and Martyn Ford originally contributing to the album).
New Zealand stoner-sludge juggernauts Beastwars have risen from the waves of their slumber to present their first full-length album of original music in six years, titled The Ship // The Sea. The band also released a covers album in 2023, Tyranny of Distance, featuring re-imaginings of songs from fellow New Zealand musicians.
The album will release on November 7th, 2025 and features artwork from Nick Keller, whose excellent paintings have adorned all of the band's previous albums.
Obey the riff.
"Levitate"
Tracklisting:
1. We Don’t Say Fear
2. Guardian of Fire
3. Levitate
4. The Storm
5. Rust
6. Blood Will Flow
7. The Howling
8. You Know They’re Burning the Land
9. The Devil
10. Light Leads the Way
