This Day In Metal (Page 9)

Mercyful Fate’s Time: A Quiet Reckoning in the Black

Time is Mercyful Fate grown older but no less potent — an album that trades youthful hysteria for haunted grace. It’s dark, patient, and alive with quiet power.

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Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzmosis: The Prince of Darkness Faces the Mirror

Ozzmosis is the calm after the storm — a reflective, powerful statement from a legend still standing after the fire burned out. It’s dark, heartfelt, and deeply human beneath its heavy exterior.

Ozzy Osbourne 4 min read

IRON MAIDEN Announces 2026 North American Dates With MEGADETH & ANTHRAX

Run for your lives, North America! Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have announced their highly anticipated return to the USA and Canada with the Run

Iron Maiden 4 min read

King Diamond – Abigail: Falsetto, Fire, and the Funeral of Love

Abigail isn’t just a classic — it’s a cornerstone. A perfect storm of concept, performance, and execution. It’s gothic metal as it was meant to be: haunting, heavy, and deeply human beneath the horror.

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King Diamond's The Puppet Master: Macabre Melody in Motion

King Diamond’s The Puppet Master didn’t modernize his sound — it reaffirmed his role as metal’s most theatrical storyteller

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Deicide – Serpents of the Light: Blasting Through the Flames of Faith

Serpents of the Light is not flashy. It’s not experimental. It doesn’t push boundaries. But that’s exactly what makes it so effective. It’s a half-hour of unfiltered Deicide — punishing, unapologetic, and locked in.

Deicide 4 min read

Until the Point of No Return: The Legacy of Children of Bodom's Follow the Reaper 25 Years Later

“Death be not proud. Though some have called thee mighty and dreadful – thou art not so.” There are very few moments I can recall where

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LIMP BIZKIT CONFIRM PASSING OF FOUNDING BASSIST SAM RIVERS AT AGE 48

October 18, 2025 — Limp Bizkit have announced the passing of their founding bassist Sam Rivers at the age of 48. The band confirmed the news

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Revolution: Calling - Geoff Tate Concert Review

Operation: Mindcrime is in the heavy metal pantheon, the brainchild of Queensryche frontman Geoff Tate as well as guitarist Chris DeGarmo. The concept record details

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Carcass' Heartwork: Death Metal Redefined with a Scalpel

Heartwork isn’t just a classic — it’s a blueprint. A turning point in metal where extremity met execution, where anger found melody, and where one of the gnarliest bands of the ’80s proved they could grow without compromising who they were.

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⚔️Echoes of Ancestry and Ash: Blackbraid, Dödsrit, and Gudsforladt Live in Toronto

On a dim October night, the walls of the Mod Club trembled beneath a convergence of spiritual ferocity and ancient grief, a ritual of sound

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U.D.O. / DIRKSCHNEIDER Announce Departure of Guitarist Andrey Smirnov

After many years of successful collaboration, U.D.O. / DIRKSCHNEIDER and guitarist Andrey Smirnov have decided to part ways. This decision was made amicably and

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