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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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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Gaerea : Mirage
Portuguese black metal steps up: 83/100 for a record of visceral intensity.
8/10 June 18, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Fire from the Gods: Narrative
With Narrative, Fire from the Gods delivers a vivid fusion of rap metal, groove and social conscience. The Texas band revives the…
7/10 September 23, 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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Finsterforst, Still
The "strongest album in a 22-year career", bloat included. 78/100 for the Black Forest.
8/10 August 2, 2026
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Finger Eleven: Them vs. You vs. Me
Released in 2007, Them vs. You vs. Me marks the commercial peak of Canadian band Finger Eleven. Driven by the single « Paralyzer »,…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Filter: Short Bus
Born from Richard Patrick’s departure as Nine Inch Nails’ touring guitarist, Short Bus arrived in 1995 as a furious, personal answer to…
8/10 September 23, 2026
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Fiddlehead: Springtime and Blind
Released in 2018, Springtime and Blind is the debut album by Fiddlehead, a Boston band bringing together musicians from respected acts in…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Fiddlehead: Death Is Nothing to Us
Released in 2023, Death Is Nothing to Us is Fiddlehead’s third album, continuing and refining the formula of the previous records. The…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Fiddlehead: Between the Richness
Fiddlehead holds a singular position in contemporary melodic hardcore. This American band brings together musicians drawn from respected acts of the scene,…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Fen: Monuments to Absence
There is something immutable about Fen, a way of constantly returning to that same landscape of marshes and low skies that built…
7.5/10 October 4, 2026
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Fen: Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth
English atmospheric black at its peak: "my favorite Fen album to date" (AMG 4.0), 9/10 from Dead Rhetoric.
8.5/10 August 26, 2026
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Fear Factory: Demanufacture
Fear Factory’s second album, Demanufacture, imposed in 1995 a futuristic and implacable vision of metal. The Los Angeles band here perfects its…
9/10 September 18, 2026
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