Nu Metal News 4 November 2026: SPLiT66 Unleash Runaway, Ninth Key Sell Out, Hatebreed Revisit Under The Knife

Nu Metal News 4 November 2026, welcome to Wednesday. Prong have dropped one more single before Friday, Hatebreed have gone back and re-recorded their very first EP, and Ninth Key have sold out their first headline tour. Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry turned a ballpark into a pit, two names from the original era are back covering Nine Inch Nails, and Evanescence are heading to the Czech Republic. We also have a band who sent their music straight to us: SPLiT66 from the United States, with a single that does not hold back. Plenty to get through, so let us go.

Prong Unleash New Commission Ahead Of Friday

Three days before the album lands, Prong have given us one more taste. “New Commission” arrived on 3 November, and Tommy Victor did not undersell it: “This is a barn burner, banger thrasher of a song with a huge hook and a ferocious breakdown. It’s got it all!”

The self-titled record, the band’s fourteenth, is out this Friday, 6 November, through Napalm Records, with Andy Sneap on mixing and mastering. Victor has called it possibly the best Prong album to date, and the reason for the plain title is lovely: he sees it as a redefining moment, with faster and heavier songs and bigger hooks. Few bands nearly four decades in can say that and mean it.

Prong were blending New York hardcore, groove and industrial textures long before most of the bands in this column existed, and every nu metal guitarist who ever leaned on a tight, chugging riff owes them something. A European headline run starts in Rheine on 13 November and ends in Athens on 22 November. We first flagged the Napalm deal in the 23 September column.

Hatebreed Have Re-Recorded Under The Knife

Here is a treat for the long-time fans. In a new interview with Kerrang!, Jamey Jasta confirmed that Hatebreed have fully re-recorded Under The Knife, their 1996 EP, with former guitarist Larry Dwyer Jr. taking part in the sessions.

Jasta is thinking about pairing it with a documentary on the early years. He has been going through storage rooms full of old flyers, including one for a New Jersey show billed with Fear, Murphy’s Law, 25 Ta Life and One 4 One. “There’s a lot of those stories and flyers where the memories are a blur and the players are gone. It would be nice to preserve some of it.” That is a project worth waiting for, and no release date has been set yet.

In the meantime, the ninth album, Fatal Paradox, is out this Friday, 6 November, through BLKIIBLK. We covered “The Carrion Choir” in the 30 September column, and it has been a long, enjoyable build to release week.

Ninth Key Sell Out Their First Headline Run

Ninth Key are having a brilliant autumn. Every date on their first headline tour this month, from Saint Vitus in Brooklyn on 3 November to The Echo in Los Angeles on 22 November, is listed as sold out on the band’s own site. For a duo who only formed this year, that is a remarkable thing.

Ekoh and Lø Spirit, real name Joshua Landry, sat down with Loudwire Nights on 3 November and were wonderfully open about how the band came together. Landry spent years writing and producing for other artists, Ekoh came up in independent hip hop, and they both say Ninth Key brought the fun back. “In a serendipitous way, we sort of saved each other,” Landry said. “Happy Feels Like” has now spent 20 weeks on the rock radio chart.

The next single, “One More Time”, is out on 6 November, and a spring 2027 headline run follows from 19 March in Omaha. After that they open the Rise Of The Roach tour for Papa Roach and Ice Nine Kills, which we covered in the 20 October column. Rap and rock together, early 2000s spirit, done with real heart.

Knocked Loose And Denzel Curry Turn Petco Park Into A Hive Mind

Hardcore and hip hop in the same pit, in a baseball stadium, the night before Halloween. Knocked Loose and Denzel Curry brought their co-headlining Hive Mind tour to the Sycuan Stage at Petco Park in San Diego on 30 October, with Boundaries and Superheaven opening, and Metal Injection’s report makes it sound like one of the gigs of the year.

Curry closed his set with “Killing In The Name” into “Bulls On Parade”, with the whole crowd shouting every word back. That is about as rap metal as a Friday night gets, and a perfect reminder of where this crossover started. The costumes were out early too, with a Smurf, a Teletubby and a flying banana all spotted in the pit.

Knocked Loose then brought the pyro, a gothic church backdrop and a glowing LED cross, and Curry came back out for “Hive Mind”, the February collaboration that gave the tour its name. Knocked Loose sit in our complete guide to nu metal as one of the modern bands carrying that heaviness forward, and nights like this show why.

Oblivion Choir Give Nine Inch Nails’ Sin A New Coat Of Paint

A name from the original era is back. Oblivion Choir, stylised 0BL1V10N CH01R, is the industrial metal project of former 20 Dead Flower Children vocalist Dennis “D-Hauz” Hogan and former (hed)p.e. keyboardist Ken Sachs, and on 2 November they shared their cover of “Sin” from Nine Inch Nails’ 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.

They let the music speak for itself and released it without any commentary, which suits a song this well known. It is a smart choice of cover, too: Pretty Hate Machine is one of the records that made the industrial edge of nu metal possible.

Oblivion Choir started rolling out singles this summer, produced by Amir Derakh of Orgy and Julien-K, as part of a six song EP still to come. For anyone who remembers 20 Dead Flower Children touring with Slipknot, Papa Roach and Static-X around 2000, it is a real pleasure to hear Hogan back at it. More of that history lives in our complete guide to nu metal.

Rock For People Add Evanescence And A Heavy June

The Czech Republic’s Rock For People has announced its latest wave for 2027, and Evanescence are the big new name, joining as special guests. The festival runs from 2 to 5 June at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, a former airfield about two hours from Prague, a week earlier than usual.

Blink-182 headline the Wednesday, Faith No More the Thursday and Parkway Drive the Friday. This wave also brings Beartooth, Carpenter Brut, The Devil Wears Prada, Novelists, Hot Mulligan, Hawthorne Heights, Ladrones and Sweet Pill.

For this column, the best news is further down the bill: Static-X, From Ashes To New, Motionless In White, Killswitch Engage, Architects and Wage War are all on it, with 62 acts confirmed so far. Static-X and Evanescence on one weekend is about as good as a European summer gets. Rock For People also turned up in the 7 October column as one of the summer stops on a European run.

Featured Band: SPLiT66 And Runaway

SPLiT66 came to us through our submissions form, and we are thrilled to have them as the featured band in Nu Metal News 4 November 2026. They are a nu metal band from the United States, and their single “Runaway” came out on 25 September. Lee at Red Room Distro sent it over, and we are very glad they did.

The pitch promised energetic, angry and explosive nu metal, and that is exactly the spirit this column was built on. “Runaway” runs a tight three minutes, the right length for a song meant to hit hard and get out. We love one more detail from the submission too: no AI was used in making it. Every part of it was made by people, and in 2026 that is worth saying out loud.

The artwork is brilliant. A weathered, bloodshot eye fills the frame, with tally marks scratched into the iris and a red line cut straight through them, and the band name in heavy red and white letters underneath. It is gritty, it is striking, and it looks like a band with a clear idea of who they are. Press play on Spotify and give them a follow so you catch what comes next.

Looking Ahead: A Big Friday

Thursday 5 November at 10am Eastern is the Ozzfest reveal, the countdown we flagged yesterday. Then Friday 6 November is a stacked release day: Prong’s self-titled album, Hatebreed’s Fatal Paradox and Ninth Key’s “One More Time” all land, and tickets for Meshuggah’s European and UK Forty-Year Anomaly dates with Periphery and Vildhjarta go on sale at 12pm CET. Those shows run from Copenhagen on 29 September 2027 to Wembley on 30 October.

Presale opens today, 4 November, for the spring US co-headline tour from Alexisonfire and Poison The Well, with Touché Amoré opening, from 25 March in Dallas to 17 April in Boston. On Friday 13 November, The Used’s orchestral film A Mid Summer Night’s Symphony, filmed at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Metropolitan Orchestra on 29 March, starts streaming on Veeps at 9pm Eastern.

Also in the diary: Billy Howerdel’s ANALOGr auction runs from 8 to 16 November, and Prong begin their European run in Rheine on 13 November. If you missed it, yesterday’s column had Vended in the studio with Nick Raskulinecz and Ozzfest starting the clock.

Get Your Band In This Column

Today’s featured band in Nu Metal News 4 November 2026 sent their music to us themselves. If you are in a band, signed or not, you can do the same. Send us your single, your video, your tour or your EP through our get featured page. We read everything, we cover what we can verify, and small bands get the same space here as big ones.

Nu Metal News 4 November 2026, Your Questions

When is the new Prong album out?

Prong’s self-titled fourteenth album is out on Friday 6 November 2026 through Napalm Records, mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap. The latest single, “New Commission”, came out on 3 November, and a European headline run follows from 13 to 22 November.

Have Hatebreed re-recorded Under The Knife?

Yes. Jamey Jasta told Kerrang! that Hatebreed have fully re-recorded their 1996 EP Under The Knife, with former guitarist Larry Dwyer Jr. taking part, and he may pair it with a documentary on the early years. No release date has been set. The new album, Fatal Paradox, is out on 6 November through BLKIIBLK.

Is the Ninth Key tour sold out?

Every date on Ninth Key’s first headline tour in November 2026, from Brooklyn on 3 November to Los Angeles on 22 November, is listed as sold out on the band’s site. Their next single, “One More Time”, is out on 6 November, and a spring 2027 headline run starts in Omaha on 19 March.

Who is playing Rock For People 2027?

Rock For People 2027 runs from 2 to 5 June at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Blink-182, Faith No More and Parkway Drive headline, Evanescence join as special guests, and the bill also includes Static-X, From Ashes To New, Motionless In White, Killswitch Engage and Architects.

Who is the featured band in Nu Metal News 4 November 2026?

SPLiT66, a nu metal band from the United States, with their single “Runaway”, released on 25 September 2026. It came to us through our get featured page, sent by Lee at Red Room Distro.