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Currents Sign With Rise Records and Announce New Album Our Fates Lie In Tandem

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2 hours ago

November 1, 2026

Currents. Photo via @currents.

Connecticut metalcore band Currents have signed with Rise Records and announced Our Fates Lie In Tandem, their fourth album and their first for the label. The band shared the news on October 30, 2026, together with the lead single Retributioner and its official music video, posted on the Rise Records YouTube channel. The album arrives on February 12, 2027.

The eleven song record is the band first full length release in nearly four years, following The Death We Seek from 2023. Retributioner sits third in the running order, and Rise Records says all preorders receive an instant download of the single. The album is available to preorder on CD, with limited edition vinyl variants also offered.

Vocalist Brian Wille says the record carries social commentary and heartbreak in equal measure. In the announcement he said, “I brought the wall down, so I could be more personal than ever before.” The band describes Retributioner as a song about how the world smothers the righteous, pushing back against the idea that success requires abandoning your principles. Its video was directed by Errick Easterday and Chris Klumpp.

On the move to Rise, the band said, “The legacy of Rise is unmatched. The impact of their work has been felt by all of us for as long as we have loved music. We are so excited to work with them on this new era of our band.” Guitarist Chris Wiseman produced the album, with additional production by Ricky Armellino and mixing by Jon Dolese.

The current lineup is Brian Wille on vocals, Chris Wiseman and Ryan Castaldi on guitar, Christian Pulgarin on bass and Matt Young on drums. Formed in 2011, Currents have released five EPs and three albums. Before the new record lands, the band heads to Europe for a co headline tour with Erra beginning November 2, with Caskets and Aviana supporting on all dates.

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Enslaved Find the Centre on Seventeenth Album Mið

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10 minutes ago

November 1, 2026

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Enslaved. Photo via @enslaved_official.

Norwegian progressive black metal pioneers Enslaved have released Mið, their seventeenth studio album, out now through Nuclear Blast. The record arrived on October 30, 2026, with eight tracks running just over 40 minutes, and it follows Heimdal, the album the Bergen band released in 2023.

The title is Old Norse for centre, or middle, and the band treats it as an axis: the point where past and present, origin and reach, all meet. That idea shapes the guest list as well as the songs. Sámi artist Johan Sara Jr appears on I Am Ice, while Kevin Kicking Woman of the Blackfeet Nation joins Spirit Helper, voices from two Indigenous traditions meeting inside Enslaved’s Norse framework. The singles Solar Will, Spirit Helper and Tales of Trees previewed the record’s range, from storm force riffing to wide, atmospheric passages.

Mið was produced by Ivar Bjørnson, Iver Sandøy and Grutle Kjellson, keeping the band’s sound in family hands more than three decades into their career. Few metal bands have evolved as restlessly as Enslaved, who moved from early black metal roots into one of the genre’s most expansive progressive voices without ever cutting ties to the mythology that grounds them. The band marked release week with a hometown show in Bergen and will take the album across the United Kingdom and Europe on a tour alongside Sólstafir. Seventeen albums in, Enslaved are still travelling toward the centre of their own sound, and few bands this far into a career sound this hungry. Mið is streaming now.