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Madball's Freddy Cricien opens up about the making of 'Not Your Kingdom,' touring lineup shake-ups hit DragonForce and Forbidden, and New York's own Fallen Angel and Avalon get their due amid a wild week of metal headlines.
New York Metal Index tracks 910 bands and 97 venues statewide, but only 11 upcoming shows are currently listed — a gap that says as much about the scene as any genre breakdown.
Godflesh's industrial resurgence, Terror's hardcore torch-bearing, and a genre-blurring Falling In Reverse collab all echo through New York's metal underground — with industrial act Sin poised to fill a long-empty gap in the state's scene.
Pro-shot footage of Guilt Trip's Graspop Metal Meeting set puts New York's beatdown hardcore scene on the international stage, while Mastodon's Baizley collaboration and Iommi's Sabbath revelations reveal a wider trend of blurred band boundaries and legacy reckonings.
This week's national metal headlines — from Ov Sulfur's Slayer tribute to Metal Blade's 45th anniversary and Shane Embury's Ripper Owens collaboration — reveal patterns that run straight through New York's thrash, heavy metal, and grindcore underground.
Arch Enemy's smooth transition to new singer Lauren Hart and King Diamond's confirmed split from guitarist Andy La Rocque highlight a week of lineup shakeups — with lessons for New York's heavy metal underground and Charlie Benante's Anthrax-adjacent side project keeping local thrash lineage alive.
A reopened Van Halen-Hagar feud, Alissa White-Gluz's Blue Medusa debut, and a wave of legacy-act news all point to bigger trends worth watching in New York's death metal, heavy metal, and NWOTHM underground heading into 2026.
Buffalo's metal community mourns Every Time I Die guitarist Andy Williams while the wider scene debates AI, celebrates Slayer's Reign in Blood anniversary, and revisits Long Island's Twisted Sister legacy with Sebastian Bach on vocals.
Anthrax's surprise club gig at Brooklyn's new Saint Vitus Bar location, ahead of their 'Cursum Perficio' release, kicks off a look at New York's thrash lineage, its overlooked heavy metal/NWOTHM scene, and the gothic doom torch still being carried locally.
Syracuse's Earth Crisis land a prime slot at FYA Fest 2027, Brooklyn's Silvertomb (ex-Type O Negative, Agnostic Front) drop a new video, and New York's underrated heavy metal and raw black metal scenes get their due.
New York Metal Index's venue data currently tracks just 9 venues statewide, with Darien Lake Amphitheater topping the list at only 2 recorded shows — highlighting how early-stage and geographically spread this dataset still is.
The Pretty Reckless opened for AC/DC in Atlanta this week, Alex Van Halen received a knighthood from the Netherlands, and a wave of industry news — from Atlantic Records signing a heavy new act to metal songs landing in Fortnite — shows just how far heavy music's reach now extends beyond the club circuit.
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