October Releases
Fuel Release Their 7th Studio Album and First with New Vocalist
Fuel has released their seventh studio album, Pendulum. It is the group’s first album in five years since the 2021 release Anomaly as well as their first with vocalist Aaron Scott, who joined Fuel in 2022. Scott got the gig after he famously performed the group’s classic “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” on the popular television show “The Voice”. The record is a showcase for Fuel in the mid 2020s as they embrace both their established identity and a new evolution towards further musical horizons.
Southern California
Release date: October 2, 2026
Dead Poet Society released Monarch on October 2 via Spinefarm. Produced by Mutemath frontman Paul Meany, the album follows the singles “Cold,” “Roach” and “Sinner Systems,” and the band has issued visualizers for every remaining track. “I just wanted to swing for the fences with this one,” says vocalist and guitarist Jack Underkofler. The band joins Muse in the UK and Europe from November 12 through December 8.
Release date: October 2, 2026
Butcher Babies released Nightbloom on October 2 via Judge & Jury Records. The album was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Skillet, Halestorm). Frontwoman Heidi Shepherd says the songs grew out of a year of therapy that unearthed long-suppressed memories, and that “while reliving and experiencing some of my darkest moments, I started to finally bloom.” The latest single is “Blame It On The Wind.”
Release date: October 30, 2026
Queens of the Stone Age return on October 30 with Perfecth, their ninth album, out on Matador Records. Produced by Joshua Homme and Michael Shuman, the nine-song set was tracked in sessions from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and its songs map different forms of love: of family, friends and others both significant and insignificant. Homme broke the word “perfect” to make the title, explaining, “Nothing in this world is perfect, but everything seems to be ‘perfecth.’” The album includes “Easy Street” (featuring Nikki Lane), the band’s first new music since 2023’s In Times New Roman…, along with the single “Insignificant Other.” Perfecth is available on CD, standard black vinyl and a limited deluxe gatefold LP.
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Hanna, Alberta, Canada
Release date: October 30, 2026
Nickelback return on October 30 with Everything Under the Sun, a new full-length on Virgin. The hard rock hitmakers from Alberta are one of the biggest-selling rock bands of the last 25 years, and this new album adds the next chapter.
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Los Angeles, California
Release date: October 30, 2026
45 years after releasing their 1981 debut album Too Fast for Love, Motley Crue has released a deluxe box set celebrating the album. Included is an original vinyl copy of the album (rare with a different mix and tracklist) along with never-before-released live recordings, demo sessions, a hardback photobook and more.
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