Fire-Toolz, Lavender Networks
79/100 across six reviews: Angel Marcloid's project blends metal, vaporwave and prog into a unique kaleidoscope.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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Fires in the Distance, Circadian Promise
85/100: the Americans' melodic, piano-laced death/doom moves the critics.
8.5/10 August 10, 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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First Blood: Killafornia
Released in 2006, Killafornia is the record that brought First Blood to attention well beyond the tight circles of Californian hardcore. The…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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First Blood: Silence Is Betrayal
Released in 2010, Silence Is Betrayal illustrates the political, committed hardcore carried by First Blood, an outfit from the San Francisco Bay…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Fit for an Autopsy : Oh What the Future Holds
The Americans' committed deathcore gains in depth: 81/100 for a record as heavy as it is thoughtful.
8/10 June 13, 2026
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Five Finger Death Punch, Legacy
Blabbermouth says 9/10, the public says 25/100: the record that captivates musically and repels lyrically.
7/10 August 3, 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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Flaw: Through the Eyes
Flaw’s debut, Through the Eyes, immediately sets out a brand of introspective nu metal where anger keeps giving way to doubt. The…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Fleshgod Apocalypse, Opera
87/100: the Italians fuse technical death metal and symphonic grandeur with excess.
8.5/10 August 5, 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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Flyleaf: Flyleaf
Released in 2005, Flyleaf’s self-titled debut immediately imposes the singular voice of Lacey Sturm, able to move from a fragile whisper to…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Frontierer : Oxidized
The calculated chaos of mathcore reaches peaks of aggression: 82/100 for a suffocating record.
8/10 June 7, 2026
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Frozen Soul: Glacial Domination
Frozen Soul has never hidden its ambition: to embody old-school death metal carved from ice, massive and unadorned, conceived as an advancing…
7.5/10 October 8, 2026
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Frozen Soul: No Place of Warmth
78/100: the Texans' glacial, old-school death metal stays fearsomely effective.
7.5/10 August 24, 2026
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Fuel: Something Like Human
Fuel’s second album, released in 2000, Something Like Human confirms the Pennsylvania band’s gift for broad-appeal alternative rock. Carried by Brett Scallions’…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Full of Hell & Nothing : When No Birds Sang
The improbable meeting of fury and mist: 82/100 for a collaboration of troubled beauty.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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Fuming Mouth, The Ringing Bell
Seventh-circle gutturals versus waning creativity: the press splits, the pit will decide.
7/10 July 22, 2026
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Funebrarum, Beckoning The Void of Eternal Silence
79/100: the Americans' cavernous, old-school death metal reeks of the crypt.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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Fury: Failed Entertainment
With Failed Entertainment, released in 2019, California’s Fury sign a rich and nuanced melodic hardcore record. Far from limiting itself to aggression…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Fury: Paramount
Out of Southern California, Fury fall in the lineage of a melodic hardcore fed on sincerity and energy. Paramount, their debut album…
7/10 September 16, 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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Gaerea : Mirage
Portuguese black metal steps up: 83/100 for a record of visceral intensity.
8/10 June 18, 2026
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Gallows: Grey Britain
Released in 2009, Grey Britain remains one of the most ambitious works ever to come out of British hardcore punk. The second…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Gallows: Orchestra of Wolves
When Gallows arrived from Watford, England, with Orchestra of Wolves in 2006, the British hardcore punk scene finally had its knockout band.…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Gamma Ray: Land of the Free
Gamma Ray’s third album, Land of the Free, marks a decisive turning point for the band founded by Kai Hansen after he…
8.5/10 September 21, 2026
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Gatecreeper : Dark Superstition
Arizona death metal gains melody without losing power: 82/100 for a record built to last.
8/10 June 21, 2026
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Gel : Only Constant
Nineteen minutes of raw, frontal hardcore: 82/100 for a record that hits fast and true.
8/10 June 11, 2026
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Gel: Violent Closure
It’s hard to be more direct than this Violent Closure, released by Gel in 2021. This short format, a handful of tracks…
7.5/10 October 2, 2026
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Get the Shot: Infinite Punishment
With Infinite Punishment, released in 2019, Quebec’s Get the Shot deliver a record of formidable intensity. Out of Quebec City, the band…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Get the Shot: Merciless Destruction
Out of Quebec City, Canada, Get the Shot play an uncompromising metallic hardcore fed on thrash and beatdown. Merciless Destruction, released in…
7/10 September 16, 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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Gideon: Out of Control
With Out of Control, Gideon completes its transformation. The Alabama band, once rooted in Christian metalcore, fully embraces an aggressive, groovy nu…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Gilla Band : Most Normal
The Irish band make saturation a sonic material: 85/100 for a radically inventive record.
8.5/10 June 10, 2026
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Godflesh: Decay
Billed as Godflesh's penultimate record, Decay earns a rare alignment of press and public. Consensus: 8/10.
8/10 September 29, 2026
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Godsmack: Godsmack
With this self-titled 1998 debut, Godsmack lay down the foundations of a massive, no-nonsense alternative metal. Sully Erna delivers a gravelly, commanding…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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