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Kittie Oracle XXV, out now on Sumerian, marks 25 years of the band’s second album with re-recorded versions of “Mouthful Of Poison” and “What I Always Wanted,” plus a new video. No tour dates were announced.
Wolves At The Gate Borderland, the story follow-up to 2025’s Wasteland, is due April 9, 2027, on Solid State Records. “Firewall” is out now with a video; no tour dates have been announced.
TesseracT sign to Nuclear Blast and announce ARC_ONE: Obscura, a three-song EP due March 5, 2027, led by the single “Crucible.” Their January tour has no San Diego date.
Walls of Jericho System Error: Humanity, the band’s first album since 2016, is out now on Napalm Records with Kurt Ballou producing and Randy Blythe guesting.
Clutch Wasted Lands is due Jan. 22, 2027, on Weathermaker Music, with the official “Beware the Fever” video. The 2027 U.S. tour skips San Diego; the nearest dates are Los Angeles, Joshua Tree and Phoenix.
ATOLL Deathroll Party 9000, the Phoenix band’s sixth album, is due Jan. 15, 2027, on Unique Leader, with the “Weed Witch” video featuring Dan Tucker of Crown Magnetar. Only two Colorado dates are up so far; no SoCal show is confirmed.
The Chuck Billy memoir Holding My Breath: The Two Testaments of Chuck Billy is out today, Nov. 10, from Permuted Press, with a Seal Beach release party tonight and a Dublin, Calif., event on Nov. 14.
Death Angel The Never Was is out ahead of the band’s Act III Europe and Australia dates and the 11th Annual Another Death Angel Xmas Shows, including Los Angeles 1720 on Dec. 17.
Whitechapel Bedlam, from Hymns In Dissonance, has a new official video as the band’s 20th anniversary North American tour heads to House of Blues Anaheim on Dec. 8. There is no San Diego date.
Kerry King My War, the first single from his second solo album, is due Nov. 17 on Reigning Phoenix Music, with Josh Wilbur producing. Album title and date remain unconfirmed outside one report.
Sabaton released the official Sabaton Berserker video, featuring Eric Roberts, on Nov. 9, three days before the Nov. 12 Hollywood Palladium date. Legends (Deluxe) arrives March 5, 2027.
The New Yorkers, the late-1970s Los Angeles jazz-fusion band that included future Megadeth members Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson, will get a first release with Low-Temperature Delay, a collection of unreleased demos and live tracks.
Raymond Melendez