Defeated Sanity: The Sanguinary Impetus
There’s something almost absurd about watching a band so deeply rooted in extreme technicality continue, album after album, to push beyond what…
8/10 October 21, 2026
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Five Finger Death Punch: AfterLife
It’s hard to approach AfterLife without thinking about the absence of the historic guitarist, recently replaced by a newcomer. This personnel change…
5.5/10 October 21, 2026
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Poppy: Empty Hands
Poppy has always mastered the art of the split personality: the porcelain doll who whispers and the beast who roars, often within…
7.5/10 October 21, 2026
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Finsterforst: Jenseits
With Jenseits, Finsterforst closes a cycle begun years ago around the Black Forest and its legends, and does so with an scope…
8/10 October 20, 2026
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Oceans of Slumber: Starlight And Ash
With Starlight And Ash, Oceans of Slumber closes the most extreme chapter of their journey to reconnect with a softer, more organic…
7.5/10 October 20, 2026
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Unto Others: Mana
Before becoming Unto Others, this Portland band went by another name, and Mana was released under that original identity, as a collective…
7.5/10 October 20, 2026
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Insomnium: Netherworlds
The Finns' tenth album: a journey through the worlds below that dares to shake the formula without betraying the house melancholy.
October 20, 2026
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Persefone: Metanoia
It’s hard to approach a Persefone album without thinking of the long shadow cast by Aathma and Spiritual Migration, two landmarks that…
8/10 October 19, 2026
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Altarage: Worst Case Scenario
There is something almost unhealthy about Altarage’s consistency. The anonymous collective from Bilbao keeps stacking albums like geological strata, each one more…
7.5/10 October 19, 2026
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Hamferð: Támsins Likam
There is something almost liturgical about the way Hamferð builds their albums, and Támsins Likam is no exception to this rule. From…
8.5/10 October 19, 2026
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Imminence: Axis Mundi
Sixth album for Imminence: press and public converge around 75/100. Consensus verdict: 7.5/10.
October 19, 2026
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Fleshgod Apocalypse: Veleno
With Veleno, Fleshgod Apocalypse closes one chapter and opens another. The Perugia band reunites with its singer and rhythm guitarist on lead…
8/10 October 18, 2026
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Vitriol: Suffer & Become
Vitriol has never done things by halves, and Suffer & Become follows the same logic of permanent asphyxiation. From the first seconds,…
8.5/10 October 18, 2026
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Ihsahn: Ámr
With Ámr, Ihsahn pulls back some of the doors he had opened on previous records. Gone is the omnipresent saxophone, the sprawling…
8/10 October 18, 2026
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Opeth: In Cauda Venenum
With In Cauda Venenum, Opeth closes a loop that began with Heritage: that of a band that has definitively turned its back…
8.5/10 October 17, 2026
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Judas Priest: Firepower
There is something almost miraculous in the way Judas Priest managed, with this record, to rediscover an energy we thought was reserved…
8/10 October 17, 2026
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Thou: Blessings of the Highest Order
There’s something almost pop in certain passages of this record, and it’s precisely what both troubles and fascinates in equal measure. Thou…
8/10 October 17, 2026
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Uniform: Shame
Uniform has never sought comfort, but with Shame, the New York band pushes discomfort to an almost physical breaking point. Released on…
8/10 October 16, 2026
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Ulcerate: Stare Into Death and Be Still
There’s something almost ironic about releasing an album titled Stare Into Death and Be Still in spring 2020, amid global shock. The…
8.5/10 October 16, 2026
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Marianas Rest: Auer
There are records that don’t seek to surprise but to deepen a groove already laid out, and Auer belongs to that category.…
8/10 October 16, 2026
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A Forest of Stars: Grave Mounds and Grave Mistakes
There is something profoundly English in the way A Forest of Stars treats death: with a wry smile, a touch of Victorian…
8/10 October 15, 2026
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Stabbing: Extirpated Mortal Process
Stabbing belongs to that generation of American bands that grew up with the idea that technicality and brutality don’t exclude each other,…
7.5/10 October 15, 2026
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Mork: Syv
Thomas Eriksen never truly deviates from his path, and that’s precisely what makes Mork fascinating to follow year after year. With Syv,…
7.5/10 October 15, 2026
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Siamese: Elements
Siamese has never hidden its ambition to blur the boundaries between metalcore, pop and alternative rock, and Elements pushes this logic of…
6.5/10 October 14, 2026
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Mother Vulture: Mother Knows Best
There’s something exhilarating about the way Mother Vulture refuses to settle down. On Mother Knows Best, the Bristol band condenses the stage…
7/10 October 14, 2026
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Bizarrekult: Den Tapte Krigen
There is something profoundly unsettling about the way Bizarrekult manages to blend raw rage with an almost chamber-like melancholy. Den Tapte Krigen…
8/10 October 14, 2026
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The Warning: ERROR
There’s something almost provocative about the way The Warning opens ERROR: three sisters from Monterrey, raised on viral covers, who decide to…
7.5/10 October 13, 2026
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Fires in the Distance: Echoes from Deep November
Some records arrive without fanfare and impose themselves through sheer sincerity alone. Echoes from Deep November belongs to that rare category. The…
8.5/10 October 13, 2026
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Cancer Bats: Psychic Jailbreak
There’s something slightly vertiginous about rediscovering Cancer Bats after the departure of a guitarist who had shaped a good part of their…
7.5/10 October 13, 2026
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Conan: Evidence of Immortality
Conan has never needed nuance to exist. From Liverpool, the trio has been building a cathedral of maximum-slowed riffs for years, and…
7.5/10 October 12, 2026
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Abigail Williams: The Accuser
With The Accuser, Abigail Williams closes one chapter and opens another in the same breath. Ken Sorceron’s band spent years shedding its…
8/10 October 12, 2026
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Dying Wish: Fragments of a Bitter Memory
With Fragments of a Bitter Memory, Dying Wish immediately establishes itself as a band that shows no interest in seducing gently. The…
7.5/10 October 12, 2026
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Coroner: Grin
With Grin, Coroner closes a cycle and opens a door it will never truly walk through. The Zurich group, accustomed to labyrinthine…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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Epica: Omega
With Omega, Epica closes what the band presents as a trilogy started years earlier, and the album carries this ambition like a…
8/10 October 11, 2026
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Whitechapel: Kin
After The Valley, which opened an unprecedented emotional breach in Whitechapel’s sound, the Knoxville band returns with Kin, still produced by Mark…
7.5/10 October 11, 2026
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Stick To Your Guns: Spectre
Stick to Your Guns return with Spectre, an album that lives up to its name: that of a band seemingly haunted by…
6.5/10 October 10, 2026
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