Nu Metal News 27 September 2026: Hollow Front Name The Album, Colepitz Break Sixteen Years, Repentance Honour Shaun Glass

Nu Metal News 27 September 2026, welcome to Sunday. The back half of this week did something we do not see often enough, which is hand us a run of records made by people with nothing to prove and everything to say. Hollow Front finally named the album they rebuilt themselves around. Colepitz reappeared after sixteen years away. Repentance released a song their founder wrote before he died, and let it stand as his goodbye. Add a rare small room in Las Vegas, a sixteen city European run, a photograph two old friends probably did not think twice about, and one of the best singles Italy has sent us all year.

Hollow Front Put A Name And A Date On No Love Without Despair

Hollow Front have announced their fourth album. No Love Without Despair arrives on Friday 11 December 2026, and the Michigan band are putting it out themselves, with no label involved at any stage. That detail matters more than it usually would. This is a record made by a band that rebuilt its own lineup, paid for its own studio time and kept its own catalogue, and it is arriving on schedule anyway.

The album follows the return of vocalist Dakota Alvarez, announced earlier this month, and the first single cut with him back in the fold. “So Long To Yesterday” is the sound of a band that has decided to stop apologising for the gap. The verses sit low and patient, the chorus opens up wide enough to carry a room, and Alvarez sings the whole thing like a man settling an argument he has been having with himself for two years.

The band framed it plainly. “The last few years tested this band in ways we never could have imagined,” they wrote, calling the album “a completely DIY effort.” There is a version of that sentence that reads as a complaint. This is not it. It reads as a receipt.

We have watched this become the shape of the scene rather than the exception. Only two days ago we wrote about All Shall Perish turning a funded campaign into a finished record, and the arithmetic is the same one here. Bands who own the masters and answer to the people who actually bought the thing tend to finish what they start.

Colepitz Break Sixteen Years Of Quiet With Washed In Red

Colepitz formed in Biddeford, Maine in 1999 and have just released their first new music in sixteen years. “Washed In Red” is the second piece of The Time Between, the band’s third album, out on Friday 23 October 2026 through High River Records. The title is doing some honest work. Sixteen years is a long time to sit on songs.

The current lineup is Rob Korhonen on vocals, Ray Suhy on bass and Shane Kinney on drums. Suhy also plays with Six Feet Under, which tells you something about the standard of playing here, and the track leans on it. “Washed In Red” is built on a riff that keeps circling back a half step lower than you expect it to, and Korhonen sings over the top of it with the kind of unhurried delivery that only really comes from having lived with a song for years.

Which is more or less what happened. “Washed In Red’s origin story is Boston in the early 2000’s,” Korhonen said. “Mark Marenick and I co-wrote it and felt it never got its due.” So the record is not a reunion in the sense of a band reassembling to play the old set. It is a band going back for the songs they left behind and finishing them properly.

There is a lot of this about at the moment, and we are glad of it. Earlier in the week we covered Prong putting their name on album fourteen, and the same principle holds: the bands who have been doing this longest are frequently the ones still taking the biggest swings.

Repentance Release A Song Shaun Glass Wrote Himself

Shaun Glass spent four decades building Chicago metal. Terminal Death, Sindrome, Broken Hope, Soil, Dirge Within, The Bloodline and finally Repentance, the band he founded and drove. If you came to heavy music through Soil, you have heard his hands on a record. He died on 1 July 2026.

“Fade Into Silence” is out now, and the band chose it for a reason: Glass wrote it. Not a tribute written about him after the fact, but a song he put together himself, sitting on an album he had already finished. Vocalist Adam Gilley put it better than we could. “This song now carries a meaning we never expected it to have,” he said. “Every note is a reminder of Shaun.”

It is a genuinely good song, which is the part that matters. The riff is unfussy and heavy in the way Glass always wrote, and the band play it straight rather than draping it in strings. The lineup carrying it forward is Gilley, Glass on guitar, Eric Burns on guitar, Eric Karol on bass and Brandon White on drums.

The song sits on Retaliate, the band’s third album, via Noble Demon. One thing worth flagging if you go looking: the record was originally set for 17 July 2026 and was moved to 27 November after Glass died, and the band’s own Bandcamp page still carries the older date in places. The November date is the one the label and the band have given since.

We wrote something similar about Chad Gilbert and what he built earlier this week. The work outlasts everything else, and it is worth owning rather than mourning.

Corey Taylor Books A Small Room In Las Vegas

Corey Taylor has announced a solo show at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas on 18 October 2026. It is a club booking, billed as an intimate show, and for a man who spends most of his working life in front of stadium crowds in a mask that is a deliberate choice. The people who get in are going to have a night they talk about for years.

Taylor’s solo shows have always been the place where the catalogue gets loose. Slipknot songs turn up stripped down, Stone Sour songs turn up rebuilt, and covers appear that would never survive a festival setlist. In a room that size, none of it has anywhere to hide, which is exactly the appeal.

It also lands in an interesting week. Slipknot have been posting cryptic teasers pointing at 2027, and an announcement is expected tomorrow. We flagged that in yesterday’s column and we are still not going to guess what it is, because the band have been careful not to say. What we will note is that a frontman booking a club date in the middle of October is not the behaviour of someone with a quiet year ahead.

Brujeria Map Out Gira Revolucion Across Sixteen European Cities

Brujeria have announced Gira Revolucion, a European headline run for spring 2027. It opens on 4 March 2027 and closes on 21 March, with Chilean thrash veterans Criminal along for the whole thing. Sixteen dates in eighteen days is a proper tour rather than a festival lap, and the Mexican deathgrind crew have been on Nuclear Blast long enough to know how to route one.

The routing is the interesting part. Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki and Tallinn open it, then it drops through Vilnius, Warsaw and Bielsko-Biala into Uherske Hradiste and Prague, before Vienna, Budapest, Cluj-Napoca, Sofia, Thessaloniki and Athens close it out. That is a band deliberately routing through the Baltics, Romania and Bulgaria rather than playing the five biggest markets and going home.

Thirty odd years in, Brujeria remain one of the strangest and most durable things heavy music has produced, and the live show has never softened. If you have only ever heard the records, the room is where the whole thing makes sense. Anyone planning a spring trip around one of these dates could do worse than our guide to putting together a festival outfit that survives the whole weekend, because March in Tallinn is not March in Athens.

Head And Fieldy Turn Up In The Same Room Again

Brian “Head” Welch and Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu were photographed together this week at a Whosoevers event, alongside Clint Lowery of Sevendust. Welch and Lowery both posted pictures. That is the whole story, and it is a nice one.

It is worth pausing on what those two men built. Welch and Arvizu were in the room in Bakersfield when Korn worked out that a detuned seven string and a bass played like a percussion instrument could carry an entire genre. Half the bands in this column owe part of their sound to records those two played on, whether they know it or not. Follow The Leader and Issues are still the reference point thirty years on.

Old bandmates catching up at an event is not really news in the ordinary sense. But people who made something that good together, in the same room and apparently pleased about it, is a good photograph to come across on a Saturday, and we are happy to run it.

Featured Band: Halflives Go Their Heaviest Yet On Unshattered

Halflives come from Modena in northern Italy and have been going since 2016. The project belongs to Linda Battilani, who writes it, sings it and plays guitar on it, with Gloria Simonini on drums and Enrico Bertoni and Marco Montipo filling out the live band. “Unshattered” is out now, and it is the heaviest thing they have put their name to.

What makes them worth your time is that the heaviness is not a costume. Halflives have spent four albums building a sound that sits between alt rock, emo and dark electronic music, and “Unshattered” does not abandon any of that to get loud. The programmed elements are still front and centre, the hooks are still enormous, and then the guitars come in underneath at a weight the earlier records never reached. It is the same band, turned up.

The song is about comparison, and how corrosive it gets when you make things for a living. Battilani describes the modern creative life as “a battlefield” of constant competition, and the song is her arguing her way out of it: “let go of comparison, step away from the race, and focus on what truly matters: creating, living, and staying true to themselves.” She is blunt about why she keeps going. “I make it because I love it, because it’s what keeps me alive.”

There is a thread running through the column this week of women building things entirely on their own terms, from Maria Brink naming her solo project Coven to this. Halflives have live dates and more music lined up for 2027. Get in early.

Looking Ahead: A Monday Announcement And A Very Full Winter

Tomorrow is Monday 28 September, and Slipknot have spent the past week pointing at it. Whatever lands, it concerns 2027, and the teasers have been deliberate enough that the band clearly want the speculation. We will cover it here when it is real rather than when it is rumoured.

After that the calendar fills up fast. Corey Taylor plays Las Vegas on 18 October. Colepitz release The Time Between on Friday 23 October, sixteen years after the last one. Repentance release Retaliate on 27 November. Hollow Front close the year with No Love Without Despair on 11 December, and then Brujeria open the spring in Copenhagen on 4 March. That is a lot of good records between here and the new year, and most of them are coming from bands who paid for them themselves.

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Nu Metal News 27 September 2026, Your Questions

When is the new Hollow Front album out?

No Love Without Despair, the band’s fourth album, is out on Friday 11 December 2026. It is entirely self released, with no label involved, and it follows the return of vocalist Dakota Alvarez and the single “So Long To Yesterday”.

How long has it been since the last Colepitz album?

Sixteen years. The Time Between, out on 23 October 2026 through High River Records, is the band’s third album and their first new music since 2010. Colepitz formed in Biddeford, Maine in 1999.

Who was Shaun Glass?

A Chicago guitarist and songwriter who spent four decades in the city’s metal scene, playing in Terminal Death, Sindrome, Broken Hope, Soil, Dirge Within and The Bloodline before founding Repentance. He died on 1 July 2026. “Fade Into Silence” is a song he wrote himself, released by his band as his goodbye.

Why do some sites list a different date for Repentance’s Retaliate?

The album was originally scheduled for 17 July 2026 and was moved to 27 November after Shaun Glass died. Some listings, including parts of the band’s own Bandcamp page, still carry the older date. The November date is the current one.

Where can I hear Halflives?

“Unshattered” is out now on all the usual services, and the official video is embedded above. The band are on Bandcamp and Spotify, and they have live dates and more music planned for 2027.