In their nearly four decades of domination, New York alternative metal legends PRONG, have remained a respected force in the scene, gigging doggedly around the world—becoming mainstays at seminal festivals like Wacken and Brutal Assault—and unleashing a steady stream of classic albums dominating TV, radio, and streaming throughout their tenure. Today, they announce their incendiary Napalm Records debut and mission statement, Prong, which will be unleashed unto the public on November 6, 2026. Honoring the band’s legacy, this new album packs 11 galvanizing haymakers, encompassing elements of industrial, thrash, alternative rock, and, of course, New York Hardcore.
About the album, frontman Tommy Victor said:
“This could be the best PRONG album to date. It’s definitely the best sounding PRONG album ever, with the incredible Andy Sneap mixing and mastering it! This record represents a new lease on life for PRONG with a new label, a fresh attitude with faster and heavier songs, bigger hooks and top-notch sound quality. That’s why it’s self-titled; it’s a redefining episode for PRONG!”
Of the plethora of legends born from the primordial ooze bubbling at New York’s most iconic punk club, CBGBs, there is only one PRONG. Forming during the venue’s late 80s renaissance period alongside hardcore legends like Gorilla Biscuits, Madball, Sick Of It All, and Biohazard, PRONG set themselves apart with melodic sensibility on formative records like Beg To Differ (1990) and Cleansing (1994), becoming mainstays on the iconic MTV’s “Headbangers Ball”. With their boundary pushing fusion of classic New York Hardcore, infectious grooves, and industrial textures PRONG laid the foundation for numerous styles of post-hardcore like groove metal, industrial metal, and crossover thrash.
As the band’s mission statement, Prong incorporates the well of styles their legacy is built on. Blistering thrash sections, open into lush choruses on opening anthem “The Banner”, before somehow pushing the intensity even further on “New Commission”. “The Uprising” reintroduces the band’s industrial edge, weaponizing textured synths over a pulsating two-step, before “Uncertain Truth” flexes its melodic chops, offering a transcendently sweet hook. Immediately the band dropkicks listeners in the chest with the pummeling “Fear The Sun” inciting classic New York Hardcore pit violence. Iconic vocalist and guitarist Tommy Victor’s chops come out in full swing on “Proportionate Response”, a smoldering incitement of retaliatory justice, before the blistering kicks of “Simulated Drowning” propel us forward. Album closer “Our Continuance" brings things to a cataclysmic close with its menacingly methodical pulse and pummelingly discordant breakdowns, tied together with a lush chorus amplified with swelling synth textures.
With Andy Sneap at Backstage Studios for mixing and mastering, the album sounds crisp and punchy, Victor’s biting lyrics confrontational and infiltrating, driving listeners to contemplate complex matters like the validity of truth, self-inhibitors, and altruism. Dynamically bold, ideologically driven, and melodically infectious, Prong honors their legacy, reminding us why the band has had such a successful longevity.
Tracklist:
A The Banner
A New Commission
A The Uprising
A Uncertain Truth
A Fear The Sun
A Commonsense Revolution
B Doomed World
B Proportionate Response
B Transgression
B Simulated Drowning
B Our Continuance
UPC: 810221172420Label: NapalmRelease Date: 11.6.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Upper Berth
Oval Portrait
Memory
Green Tea
Judge's House
Markheim
Oh, Whistle, and I Will Come to You, My Lad
UPC: 760137221951Label: Club InfernoRelease Date: 10.16.26Format: CD
With their wrath - filled riffs, powerhouse growls and our sweat dripping, head - banging, intoxicating live shows, Rattlesnakes are a Nottingham based heavy metal band that even the most faithful companions cannot resist a night with. Charisma for days and melodies that can't be wiped away as easily as last night's eyeliner, you don't wanna miss the chance to see them in action! Their debut EP, Deeper Shades Of Torment, released on April 11th 2025, and it has been met with critical acclaim, thousands of streams, high review scores, as well as a successful headline tour with multiple sold out and high selling dates. RATTLESNAKES, having only debuted in 2024, are soaring their way to the top of the heavy metal ladder and gaining a reputation as one of the most exciting and refreshing, up and coming Hard Rock/Heavy Metal acts in the UK! Having signed to Listenable Records in January of 2026, RATTLESNAKES are continually proving themselves to be a promising, soon to be staple name in the Metal scene. With a sound that cuts with the sharp steel of the 80's NWOBHM, and a modern twist of speed metal prowess, this band continue to break through stereotypes while maintaining the heart and soul of true heavy metal, paving the way for female fronted bands of the 21st century and being an inspiration to many. Their highly anticipated debut album ""Shadows In The Night"", is set to release in late 2026, via Listenable Records. ""A tale of light, that leads to the rainbow. We are the SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT!
Tracklist:
Shadows in the Night
Forever
Breakdown
Spellbound
Destroyer
Dreamland
The Other Side of Midnight
Lost Nor Found
Where the River Meets the Sea
For Even Gods Can Die
UPC: 3760053849083Label: Listenable RecordsRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: CD
When Sanctuary returned in 2014 with The Year The Sun Died, the result was far more than a reunion album. It was a triumphant return from one of metal's most respected and influential bands, delivering a dark, powerful, and emotionally charged collection that stood proudly alongside their classic releases.Featuring the unmistakable voice of Warrel Dane, whose work with Sanctuary and Nevermore helped shape generations of metal fans, The Year The Sun Died combines crushing riffs, haunting melodies, and thoughtful songwriting into one of the strongest albums of the band's career. The performances are inspired throughout, with founding guitarist Lenny Rutledge and guitarist Brad Hull providing a dynamic musical backdrop for Dane's commanding vocals.Critics and fans alike praised the album for capturing the spirit of Sanctuary's early work while embracing a darker, more mature sound. Tracks such as ""Arise and Purify,"" ""Frozen,"" ""Exitium (Anthem of the Living),"" and ""The World Is Wired"" demonstrate a band operating at an exceptionally high level decades after their original formation.Brutal Planet Records proudly presents the first-ever U.S. Deluxe CD pressing of The Year The Sun Died as part of the Metal Icon Series. Officially licensed from Century Media Records and remastered by Rob Colwell, this collector's edition includes a deluxe O-ring collector sleeve, exclusive band collector card, full-color 16-page booklet, and the bonus track ""Waiting For The Sun,"" Sanctuary's powerful interpretation of the classic song by The Doors.For fans of Nevermore, Testament, Metal Church, Iced Earth, Queensrÿche, and progressive power metal with depth, intelligence, and atmosphere, The Year The Sun Died remains an essential chapter in the legacy of Sanctuary and the late, great Warrel Dane.
Tracklist:
Arise and Purify
Let the Serpent Follow Me
Exitium (Anthem of the Living)
Question Existence Fading
I Am Low
Frozen
One Final Day (Sworn to Believe)
The World Is Wired
The Dying Age
Ad Vitam Aeternam
The Year the Sun Died
Waiting for the Sun (The Doors)
UPC: 732131699418Label: Brutal PlanetRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: CD
Sarcator take a decisive step forward with an album that expands beyond their extreme metal roots into a darker, hook-driven rock sound. Built on youthful energy and stripped-down intensity, the record favors memorable songwriting while retaining the ferocity of their signature death and blackened vocals.Conceptually, the album draws from gothic western imagery and atmosphere, weaving cinematic textures into its core. Echoes of Fields of the Nephilim and D-A-D meet the swagger of Guns N' Roses and the raw drive of The Hellacopters, all framed by a powerful, organic production reminiscent of the Metallica Bob Rock era.The result is a bold and dynamic statement the band call death’s rock, a sound that captures both their origins and their evolution.
Tracklist:
The Ones We Follow
The Underground Streets
You Gotta Possess Me
In Search of Oblivion
Rotting Chapels
Bleeding Ages
Volatile Insight
Ain't Fit to Live
Wasteland Strider
Wanderlust
UPC: 4251981718309Label: Reigning Phoenix MusRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: CD
In Dead Deities, SATANIC PLANET’s new album for Relapse Records, we see a band coming into its own while offering an aggressive, pitch-black, deeply surly call-to-arms against autocracy in the age of Christian nationalism. Lucien Greaves (The Satanic Temple co-founder and spokesperson), Luke Henshaw (Planet B, Sonido de la Frontera, First Power Crew, Variations In the Key of the Afterlife), Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Misfits, Mr. Bungle, Dead Cross), and Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids, Deaf Club) are now a fully together-in-the-studio band with razor-sharpened focus, creating a sound and lyrical catalog of ideas that Greaves says is both more personal and even closer aligned to the goals of The Satanic Temple, which through art, action, and activism seeks to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority, advocate practiced common sense, oppose injustice, and undertake noble pursuits.” The Satanic Temple and SATANIC PLANET are here to empower all those who are needed in the ongoing battle against theocracy, apathy, and inequality.
Dead Deities begins as a brooding, doomy soundscape with backwards ritualistic vocals that churn forward like a barbaric horror flick scene before launching into the aptly named “Antichrist,” with a hypnotic, screamy post-post-post-hardcore intro that melds into a slow, nasty, heavy vision of what pop music might sound like in Hell. This 11-track stygian brute of an album is a journey through modern dark music with tolling bells, blackened synth, diabolical noise interludes, drums as heavy as a mountain, and group vocals torn straight out of your best-worst nightmares.
The record’s first single, “Sam Alito’s Mom,” references the arch-conservative Supreme Court Justice known for his work in helping to overturn Roe v. Wade. The track is an all-out assault on an absolute piece of human dogshit with Greaves and Pearson’s vocals twisting around each other like cobras at a slow, growling pace of pure sunless devastation. This is music that has come from decades of in-the-trenches touring and experimentation, from Slayer to the Locust, Planet B’s avant-garde sci-fi hip-hop to Mr. Bungle’s bizarro metal orchestrations. In Dead Deities you feel this godless wave of collected history building up to birth a gruesome new monster.
In an age of regression, reversed social betterment, and the label “terrorist” slapped on anyone brave enough to oppose the men in power, this is protest music with bite and bark in lethal, equal doses. If the goal is us taking care of each in dangerous times, SATANIC PLANET has your back (while holding the gore-dripping, ripped-out spinal column of your enemy up to the blood-red sun). SATANIC PLANET’s Dead Deities is flag-burning, cross-toppling annihilation, all in the service of shaping a better, kinder, more livable world.
Tracklist:
1 Damnatio Memoriae
2 Antichrist
3 Church Burning
4 Dead Deities
5 Sam Alito's Mom
6 Headless Man
7 Dr. Green
8 Cannibal Syndrome
9 Ouroboros
10 Ammosexual
11 Satan's Spawn
UPC: 781676766628Label: RelapseRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: CD
"The Highly Anticipated 13th album from US Black Thrashing Death Metal Pioneers SATHANAS!!! Forged in the fires of the underground since 1988, SATHANAS return with their devastating 13th full-length, "Hand of Armageddon"! For nearly four decades, the Pennsylvania cult legends have relentlessly carved their own path through the darkest realms of Black, Thrash and Death Metal, building an enduring legacy of infernal riffs, merciless aggression and pure old-school Metal spirit. Following the acclaimed "Into the Nocturne," SATHANAS unleash their next chapter of darkness with 10 new tracks of apocalyptic Blackened Thrashing Death Metal, plus the exclusive LP bonus track "Hail Lucifer. " From the scorching "Black Flame Messiah" and sinister "Embracing Hades," through the atmospheric "Prelude to Darkness" and crushing "Through Aeons of Death," SATHANAS deliver another relentless barrage of razor-sharp riffs, pounding drums, venomous vocals and unmistakable underground darkness. "Hand of Armageddon" captures everything that has made SATHANAS a true force of the American extreme Metal underground while pushing their songwriting into another savage and memorable chapter. With "Hand of Armageddon," SATHANAS once again prove that nearly four decades in the underground have only made their Metal darker, fiercer and more lethal. This is uncompromising Black Thrash Death Metal forged in the old-school tradition - no trends, no compromise, just pure Satanic Metal devastation. SATHANAS unleash the Hand of Armageddon - prepare for an apocalyptic assault of pure Black Thrashing Death Metal!!!PRESS (from "Into the Nocturne"):"A real masterpiece of old school blackened thrashing death metal!" -Canadianassault. Com"Oh yeah baby, that's the stuff! This is surprisingly catchy Thrash-infused Blackened Death Metal!" -Metalcrypt. Com"A little gem of infernal and old school metal capable of creating addiction!" 8. 5/10 -Metalhead. #it/"A cacophony of Hellish torment delivered by melodic meat hooks which swing down into your flesh. They get hooked in a never let go!" -Metal-digest. Com"A testament to SATHANAS' enduring relevance and their unwavering commitment to their craft. It's a must-listen for fans of old-school extreme metal and a perfect embodiment of the genre's enduring appeal. " -Metaldevastationradio. Com"One has to give Sathanas their due for the fact they are originators rather than followers. Equally appealing to blasphemers who worship at the altar of both black and death metal!" -Avenoctum. Com/"Nasty and nagging Black Thrashers" -Obliveon. #deKEY SALES POINTS:* The Highly anticipated 13th album from US Black Thrashing Death Metal Gods SATHANAS!* Product Highlight Sticker with sales points!* Exclusive Bonus Track on both LP versions!* Features former members of Bathym, Acheron, Lethal Prayer & Vincent Crowly!* Superb Black/Death Metal production by Innertube and Sonorous Studio UK (Barshasketh, Black Talon, Tyrannus). * Killer cover art by Belial Necroarts (Gaerea, Black Altar, Psycroptic, Demonical, Adorior, In Aeternum)!* The perfect embodiment of the pre-digital era Death Metal sound!* Mandatory for fans of Death, Autopsy, Behemoth, Vital Remains, Nunslaughter, Deicide & Acheron. MARKETING / PROMOTION:* 1st "teaser" Video "Force of Satan" and album announcement will be released on October 2nd. * 2nd Official Music Video & 1st single "Black Flame Messiah" will be released on October 30th. * A 3rd Official Music Video "Through Aeons of Death" will be released on November 20th. * Adding at Radio on November 16th, servicing 400+ loud rock, specialty & college stations via Skateboard Marketing. * Full page Consumer print ads in Decibel, Outburn, New Noise, Legacy and other hard music mags Oct. 26-March. 27. * Banner advertising at hard music and lifestyle sites like Blabbermouth, Metal Injection and others. * Promotional servicing to national and regional rock, metal and alternative press. * Exclusive track stream previews
Tracklist:
Terra Blasphemia (3:56)
Force of Satan (2:41)
Black Flame Messiah (3:18)
Embracing Hades (3:33)
Prelude to Darkness (3:06)
Blood Revelations (3:01)
Through Aeons of Death (2:53)
Unholy Vengeance (3:17)
From the Ashes of Sodom (2:49)
Taken to the Altar (3:14)
UPC: 768586034122Label: Moribund RecordsRelease Date: 11.27.26Format: CD
Silvertomb, theall-starbandfeaturingformerTypeONegative/DanzigmembersKennyHickey (vocals, guitar)andJohnnyKelly (drums), andtheirthreeequallyrenownedbandmatesJoeJames (guitar, ex-AgnosticFront), HankHell (bass, ex-SheerTerror)andAaronJoos (guitar, keyboards)returnwiththeirsecondalbum, 'TheInterpretationOfNightmares'.Thisalbumendtheirseven-yearhiatus, settingthecourseforasuccessfulfuture.'TheInterpretationOfNightmares'isanatmosphericallydenseDoomMetalmasterpiece.
Tracklist:
Brain Matter/No God
Ascension
Graves in the Sky
You Know
Prayer for the Paranoid
Distorted
No Way to Live
When Will You Learn?
UPC: 886922100222Label: SteamhammerRelease Date: 11.13.26Format: CD
As the genre-defying masters of stoner metal, the latest iteration of Sleep finds founding member and lead songwriter Al Cisneros newly partnered with the generational talent of Dale Crover (Melvins, Redd Kross) on drums and the iconoclastic Bubba Dupree (Void) on guitar. While simpler minds may seek out the redundancy of a monotonous iterative exercise, the road map of new album Hempispheres is an exploratory vision, one replacing overload with nuance and subtlety yet maintaining the interplay that made the band so special from the outset. So while the discourse on messageboards and comment sections bemoan the amicable absence of long-time guitarist Matt Pike, real heads, visionaries and open-minded truth-seekers alike will be rewarded with not the Sleep album they anticipated or expected, rather with Hempispheres being the album that is needed.
Tracklist:
A Have Spacesuit Will Travel - 7:22
A The Morrisist - 4:42
A Hempispheres - 7:57
B Arrival of the Industry Ships - 11:11
B Whole Wheat Mountain Well Baked - 6:52
UPC: 810074425773Label: Third Man RecordsRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Cursed Covenant
Frozen Halls
Malevolent Reality
Into the Nightmare
Dreaded Fate
Amorphous Blight
Cosmic Scourge
Lurking Death
Ominous Retribution
Towards a Silent Grave
UPC: 4042564253252Label: MddRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
After three years Spirit Possession unleash their third full length album Cathedral Speech-seven attacking labyrinths of far venturing black heavy metal, with all spires pointed down. Where 2023's Of the Sign... held a knifelike gaze into more erratic, adventurous hymns, Cathedral Speech sees Spirit Possession awaken their most piercing, deranged, and narratively epic form yet. Spiraling guitar storms and explosive drum batterings channel first wave black/death assaults in the same breath as expansive '70s composition. With four steps into madness followed by a side long suite-these are vicious electric chants as towering as they are blasphemous. Featuring S. Peacock (Black Curse / Ulthar / Mastery) on strings and vocals, and A. Spungin (Ormus) on drums and handmade synthesizers. UPC: 840526514700Label: Profound LoreRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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