Trapped Under Ice: Big Kiss Goodnight
By the time Trapped Under Ice released Big Kiss Goodnight in 2011, the Baltimore band had already proven it belonged among the…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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The Ghost Inside: Get What You Give
There is in metalcore a lineage of bands that refuse darkness in favor of light, and The Ghost Inside is one of…
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Merauder: Master Killer
Some records do not seek to charm but to impose their law. Master Killer, released in 1996 by the New Yorkers of…
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Earth Crisis: Destroy the Machines
When Earth Crisis released their first full length album in 1995, straight edge hardcore finally had its most uncompromising manifesto. Coming out…
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Ignite: Our Darkest Days
There is a delicate art in melodic hardcore: that of marrying power and light, rage and soaring. Ignite has mastered that balance…
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Uniform Choice: Screaming for Change
While straight edge asserted itself mostly on the East Coast, California brought its own stone to the edifice with bands like Uniform…
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Chain of Strength: True Till Death
Few bands have left a mark as deep in as little time as Chain of Strength. True Till Death gathers the essence…
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Leeway: Born to Expire
Some records embody a junction all by themselves, a point of contact between two worlds. Born to Expire, released in 1989, is…
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Killing Time: Brightside
When Brightside arrived in 1989, the New York hardcore scene had already delivered several of its foundational records, yet few of them…
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H2O: Thicker Than Water
By the late nineties, New York hardcore was looking for new faces, more melodic, more open, without disowning its roots. H2O embody…
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Airbourne: Runnin’ Wild
Hard to be more explicit: with Runnin’ Wild, in 2007, Airbourne storm out of Warrnambool, a small coastal Australian town, with a…
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MØL: DREAMCRUSH
Denmark's blackgaze spearhead delivers one of the year's highest-rated records (85/100), but the gap with the public marks it as divisive.
8/10 September 5, 2026
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Mastodon: Marrow Deep
Mastodon's first post-Hinds album is an acclaimed grief record (83/100 Metacritic), cathartic and often magnificent.
8/10 September 1, 2026
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Deafheaven: Lonely People With Power
83/100 across twenty-one reviews: the blackgaze pioneers reconnect with fury.
8/10 August 29, 2026
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Sunn O))): Sunn O)))
79/100 across twenty reviews: the drone kings' self-titled album, a mass of low frequencies.
8/10 August 29, 2026
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Deadguy: Near-Death Travel Services
83/100: the improbable return of the 1990s chaotic-metalcore pioneers.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Igorrr: AMEN
83/100: the French mad scientist returns, between metal, baroque and breakcore.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Cryptopsy: An Insatiable Violence
81/100: the Canadian tech-death masters hold their rank.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Fallujah: Xenotaph
81/100: the Californians' atmospheric, cosmic death metal regains its shine.
8/10 August 28, 2026
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Paradise Lost: Ascension
79/100: the English goth/doom godfathers confirm a second youth.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Helloween: Giants & Monsters
81/100: the inventors of European power metal, reunited, keep the flame.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Conjurer: Unself
80/100: the English progressive-sludge outfit confirm the hype.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Bleed from Within: Zenith
83/100: the Scots confirm their place atop modern European metalcore.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Sylosis: The New Flesh
80/100: the English melodic thrash/death crew confirm their metronome consistency.
8/10 August 27, 2026
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Archspire: Too Fast to Die
83/100: death metal's fastest Canadians push the tempo limits again.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Devin Townsend: The Moth
83/100: the Canadian polymath delivers another oversized, generous opus.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Voivod: Symphonique
83/100: the Québécois prog-thrash legends re-orchestrate their catalogue with a symphony orchestra.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Sepultura: The Cloud of Unknowing
79/100: after announcing the end, the Brazilians deliver an honourable last chapter.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Darkthrone: Pre-Historic Metal
80/100: the Norwegian veterans keep morphing into gleefully filthy heavy/black.
8/10 August 26, 2026
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Havukruunu: Tavastland
82/100: Finnish pagan black metal in all its epic splendour.
8/10 August 25, 2026
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Winterfylleth: The Unyielding Season
83/100: the English weave atmospheric black metal steeped in landscape and history.
8/10 August 25, 2026
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Saor: Amidst the Ruins
83/100: Andy Marshall's Caledonian metal, between atmospheric black and Scottish folklore.
8/10 August 25, 2026
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Spirit Adrift: Infinite Illumination
79/100: Nate Garrett's melodic heavy/doom keeps aiming high.
8/10 August 24, 2026
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BIG|BRAVE: in grief or in hope
83/100: the Canadian trio sculpt silence and saturation with devastating intensity.
8/10 August 24, 2026
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Blackwater Holylight: Not Here Not Gone
79/100 across ten reviews: the Americans' dreamlike psychedelic doom still enchants.
8/10 August 23, 2026
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Venom: Into Oblivion
79/100: the English godfathers who named black metal keep the house standing.
8/10 August 23, 2026
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