No Turning Back: Take Control
Take Control fires the machine back up with vigour.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Mastodon: Once More ‘Round the Sun
The solar record: Mastodon embrace the big chorus, with craft but less risk.
7.5/10 August 14, 2026
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Parkway Drive: Atlas
With Atlas, Parkway Drive aims higher and wider.
7.5/10 August 13, 2026
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Down To Nothing, Life on the James
Life on the James reconnects with pure, hard hardcore.
7.5/10 August 12, 2026
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Cage Fight, Exuvia
78/100: the English thrash/hardcore crossover hits short, fast and hard.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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Hulder, Verbolgen
Hulder softens her black metal: "finest work to date" for one, missed venom for another. 76/100.
7.5/10 August 10, 2026
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The HU, HUN
A strange stream of sound like nobody else: 73/100 for the Mongolian cavalry.
7.5/10 July 27, 2026
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Madball, Not Your Kingdom
Thirty-eight years of service and still the same address: 76/100 across four reviews for the New Yorkers’ return. Distorted Sound draws a…
7.5/10 July 27, 2026
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Psycroptic, The Pulse of Annihilation
More than twenty years of Tasmanian tech death, and still the same reliability: 75/100 from the critics, 75/100 from the public, it…
7.5/10 July 22, 2026
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Gojira, Terra Incognita
The Duplantier brothers' debut: an angular death metal, still green but already singular.
7.5/10 July 20, 2026
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Emptiness : Nowhere Speaks
Spectral blackened death and Brussels industrial: "it does not narrate; it confronts". 7.5 average.
7.5/10 July 19, 2026
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Gojira : Live At Hellfest 2016
Gojira on home soil: communion with the crowd of France's biggest metal festival.
7.5/10 July 9, 2026
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Moonspell : Far from God
Stripped-back gothic return, Ribeiro revitalized: 73/100, the essence recovered without reaching the peaks.
7.5/10 July 6, 2026
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Deep Purple : Splat!
A torrent of energy from great-grandfathers: 76/100, Purple's best reception in ages.
7.5/10 July 5, 2026
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Kreator : Hate Über Alles
The German thrash veterans have lost none of their bite: 78/100 for a record cut for the stage.
7.5/10 June 10, 2026
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Amon Amarth : The Great Heathen Army
The Swedish Vikings go to war again with the same axe: 78/100 for a record faithful to its legend.
7.5/10 June 9, 2026
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Dark Tranquillity : Endtime Signals
The founding fathers of Gothenburg hold their rank despite the departures: 78/100 for a controlled renewal.
7.5/10 June 9, 2026
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Ghost : Impera
The Swedish cult fully embraces the stadium and pop: 78/100 for an ambitious, divisive record.
7.5/10 June 9, 2026
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Shinedown : EI8HT
Press applauds (74), public sulks (58): Shinedown's most ambitious record is also its most divisive.
7.5/10 May 31, 2026
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Dimmu Borgir : Grand Serpent Rising
Eight years away, back at 81/100: the symphonic black throne reclaimed, the scissors forgotten.
7.5/10 May 26, 2026
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Terror : Still Suffer
Zero surprises, ferocious execution: 75/100 for veterans proving hardcore is in rude health.
7.5/10 April 26, 2026
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Skindred : You Got This
First UK number one of their career and 76/100: the Welsh "punky reggae party" gets almost everyone dancing.
7.5/10 April 22, 2026
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Gaerea : Loss
Cathartic black metal goes luminous metalcore: press won over (74), faithful betrayed (60). Debate open.
7.5/10 March 24, 2026
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Rob Zombie : The Great Satan
Winning comeback at 74/100: Zombie's industrial B-movie "rocks like an absolute motherfucker". Only Pitchfork pouts.
7.5/10 March 1, 2026
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This Is Hell: Black Mass
Black Mass fully embraces This Is Hell's thrash DNA.
7.6/10 August 14, 2026
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Angel Crew: One Life One Sentence
One Life One Sentence cements Angel Crew's standing.
7.6/10 August 14, 2026
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The Warriors: Beyond the Noise
Beyond the Noise tightens The Warriors' writing.
7.6/10 August 14, 2026
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Down To Nothing, The Most
The Most drives the point home with conviction.
7.6/10 August 13, 2026
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Parkway Drive, Darker Still
Darker Still fully embraces Parkway Drive's epic ambitions.
7.6/10 August 13, 2026
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The Warriors: Genuine Sense of Outrage
Genuine Sense of Outrage brings The Warriors to their peak.
7.7/10 August 13, 2026
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Arkangel: Dead Man Walking
Arkangel imposes its shadowy metallic hardcore from the off.
7.8/10 August 15, 2026
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This Is Hell: Misfortunes
Misfortunes sees This Is Hell find its balance.
7.8/10 August 15, 2026
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Bane: Don’t Wait Up
For its final record, Bane stays true to itself.
7.8/10 August 14, 2026
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Parkway Drive: Killing with a Smile
Parkway Drive arrives with a metalcore as heavy as it is melodic.
7.8/10 August 14, 2026
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Parkway Drive: Ire
Ire reinvents Parkway Drive and divides as much as it seduces.
7.8/10 August 13, 2026
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