Deftones: Around the Fur
The step up: heavier, finer, the band finds its soft/violent dynamic.
8/10 August 15, 2026
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Arkangel: Prayers Upon Deaf Ears
Prayers Upon Deaf Ears carves Arkangel into H8000 legend.
8/10 August 15, 2026
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Mastodon: Blood Mountain
The ascent: a labyrinthine quest-record, denser and wilder.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Coroner: Dissonance Theory
83/100: the Swiss tech-thrash veterans return after decades, and hit hard.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Deftones: Deftones
The black album: denser, more tormented, a wrongly unloved record.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Conan: Violence Dimension
79/100: the English "caveman battle doom" crew flatten everything in their path.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Mastodon: The Hunter
The turn: Mastodon drop the concepts for the song, and gain clarity.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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Dying Wish: Flesh Stays Together
83/100: the Americans confirm their place in the elite of melodic, violent metalcore.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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The Acacia Strain: You Are Safe from God Here
81/100: the heaviest deathcore veterans keep digging their nihilistic furrow.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Pupil Slicer: Fleshwork
81/100: the English trio confirm their mathcore, as technical as it is emotional.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Mastodon: Hushed and Grim
Grief writ large: a dark, sprawling double album, a testament to loss.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Born of Osiris: Through Shadows
80/100: the American progressive-metalcore act hold their high technical level.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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I See Stars, THE WHEEL
83/100: the electronicore pioneers deliver an acclaimed return.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Love Is Noise, To live in a different way
80/100: the rising Britons blend atmospheric post-hardcore and metalcore intensity.
8/10 August 13, 2026
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Wyatt E., Zamāru ultu qereb ziqquratu, Pt. 1
80/100: the Belgians' ritual doom summons ancient Mesopotamia in sonic trance.
8/10 August 12, 2026
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As Everything Unfolds, Did You Ask To Be Set Free?
83/100: the Britons' atmospheric metalcore grows even broader.
8/10 August 12, 2026
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The Scratch, Pull Like a Dog
81/100: the Irish fuse metal and traditional music with contagious energy.
8/10 August 12, 2026
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Draconian, In Somnolent Ruin
79/100: Swedish gothic/doom unfolds its majestic melancholy.
8/10 August 12, 2026
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Corrosion of Conformity, Good God / Baad Man
80/100: the American southern-sludge veterans rediscover their sticky groove.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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A.A. Williams, Solstice
80/100: the Briton weaves a dark, cinematic rock of rare beauty.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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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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Psychonaut, World Maker
81/100: the Belgian trio broaden their progressive, spiritual post-metal further.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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Abigail Williams, A Void Within Existence
80/100: Ken Sorceron's American atmospheric black metal continues its evolution.
8/10 August 11, 2026
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Retromorphosis, Psalmus Mortis
83/100: the death-metal supergroup (ex-Pestilence, Asphyx) hits hard on its debut.
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Cwfen, Sorrows
80/100: a melodic, melancholic black metal that wins over critics.
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Cancer Bats, Give Me Dirt
Eight albums, twenty years of service, and one of the warmest receptions of the summer: 79/100 for Give Me Dirt, the best…
8/10 August 10, 2026
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The Warning, Everything’s Falling
83/100: the Mexican sisters' trio confirm their powerful, melodic hard rock.
8/10 August 10, 2026
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Bizarrekult, Alt Som Finnes
83/100: Bizarrekult's melodic, modern Norwegian black metal wins over listeners.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Mother Vulture, Cartoon Violence
80/100: the Britons' high-octane rock'n'roll reeks of sweat and the stage.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Siamese, dissolution
80/100: the Danes fuse metalcore, pop and saxophone into a surprisingly addictive blend.
8/10 August 9, 2026
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Mork, Monolitt
80/100: Thomas Eriksen's old-school Norwegian black metal keeps the tradition alive with class.
8/10 August 8, 2026
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Stabbing, Eon of Obscenity
80/100: the Americans' technical, brutal death metal impresses with its density.
8/10 August 8, 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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Marianas Rest, The Bereaved
83/100: Finnish melodic death/doom cultivates its deep-freeze melancholy.
8/10 August 7, 2026
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Judas Priest, Invincible Shield
82/100 across fifteen reviews: the heavy-metal gods prove they've lost nothing.
8/10 August 6, 2026
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Pallbearer, Mind Burns Alive
83/100: the Americans elevate their melodic, melancholic doom.
8/10 August 5, 2026
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