This Day In Metal

For over thirty years, Russell Allen has had one of the most powerful voices in heavy metal music.  Through his work as frontman for progressive metal titans Symphony X, performances with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, solo work, and a number of collaborations, Allen has come to be known the power, grit, and ...

Released: April 24, 2026

Six Feet Under have spent most of their career existing alongside the conversation rather than inside it. The criticism is well established—an uneven catalogue, lyrics that rarely reach beyond their function, and Chris Barnes carrying a legacy that’s followed him longer than most careers last. None of that has slowed the band down. The records k...

Released: April 24, 2026

There’s no clean way to close a forty-two-year run, and Sepultura doesn't try to find one here. A four-track EP was never going to carry that kind of weight, and The Cloud of Unknowing doesn’t pretend otherwise. It sidesteps the idea of summing anything up and instead focuses on something narrower—four songs, each moving in its own dire...

Released: April 10, 2026

Metal Church reaching this point at all feels unlikely. Over the last decade, the band has taken hit after hit—lineup instability, stalled momentum, and the loss of Mike Howe in 2021, which didn’t just leave a gap, it altered the shape of the band entirely. Congregation of Annihilation tried to reset the board in 2023, but it never sett...

On April 19, Beast in Black opened the show with mastery and style. Yannis Papadopoulos and the whole band won over the crowd with their charisma and delivered a truly honorable warm-up for what was about to come.

But this wasn’t just an opening set — it was like a spark being lit. A rising energy, building q...