Deftones: Deftones
The black album: denser, more tormented, a wrongly unloved record.
8/10 August 14, 2026
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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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Deftones: Adrenaline
The first cry: a raw, sincere nu-metal already shot through with flashes of genius.
7/10 August 15, 2026
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Defeater: Travels
Released in 2008, Travels is Defeater’s first album, from the Massachusetts band that would become one of the major names in melodic…
8/10 September 11, 2026
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Defeater: Letters Home
With Letters Home, Defeater deepens its ambitious family saga by tracing back to the origins: the father, before everything. It’s a bold…
8.5/10 September 27, 2026
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Defeater: Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Released in 2011 on Bridge Nine, Empty Days & Sleepless Nights extends the storytelling arc Defeater began on Travels. The Massachusetts band…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Defeater: Abandoned
Out in 2015 on Epitaph, Abandoned marks a new step in Defeater’s narrative universe. The Massachusetts band shifts perspective and hands the…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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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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Defeated Sanity, Chronicles of Lunacy
84/100: the Germans, masters of technical brutal death, push the genre's limits.
8.5/10 August 3, 2026
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Def Con Dos: Armas pal pueblo
Released in 1994, Armas pal pueblo is the record that firmly established Def Con Dos within the Spanish rap metal landscape. Led…
7/10 September 23, 2026
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Deez Nuts: Word Is Bond
Two years after Bout It, Deez Nuts returns in 2015 with Word Is Bond, a title that sums up the band’s whole…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Deez Nuts: Stay True
Born from the energy of JJ Peters, former drummer of an Australian metalcore band, Deez Nuts immediately took the opposite tack from…
7/10 September 11, 2026
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Deez Nuts: Saudade
There is something bold about naming a festive hardcore record after the untranslatable Portuguese word for a bittersweet longing. Deez Nuts, the…
6.5/10 September 28, 2026
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Deez Nuts: Bout It
Founded by JJ Peters, Deez Nuts has always claimed a festive, urban and unashamed brand of hardcore. With Bout It, out in…
7/10 September 16, 2026
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Deep Purple : Splat!
A torrent of energy from great-grandfathers: 76/100, Purple's best reception in ages.
7.5/10 July 5, 2026
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Ded: Mis-an-thrope
The debut album by American band Ded, Mis-an-thrope openly embraces its early 2000s nu metal heritage. Downtuned riffs, vocals alternating between spat…
6/10 September 23, 2026
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Decapitated: Nihility
Released in 2002, Nihility is Decapitated’s second album, and it already definitively establishes the Polish band as a major force in world…
8.5/10 September 18, 2026
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Death: Symbolic
In 1995 Death released Symbolic, often regarded as the peak of Chuck Schuldiner’s career. A pioneer of death metal, the guitarist and…
9.5/10 September 17, 2026
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Death Before Dishonor: Friends Family Forever
Some bands embody a whole city, and Death Before Dishonor carries Boston in every one of their chords. Released in 2005, Friends…
7.5/10 September 11, 2026
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Death Before Dishonor: Count Me In
Released in 2009, Count Me In confirms the solidity of Death Before Dishonor within the Boston hardcore scene. A relentless touring band,…
7.5/10 September 16, 2026
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Death Angel: The Ultra-Violence
Death Angel’s first album, The Ultra-Violence (1987), is one of the most astonishing debuts of San Francisco Bay Area thrash, all the…
8/10 September 21, 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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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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Deadguy: I Know Your Tragedy
Released in 2000, after the band’s dissolution, I Know Your Tragedy is not a new studio album but a compilation filling the…
6.5/10 October 5, 2026
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Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Released in 1980, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is the Dead Kennedys’s first album and one of the most incisive records of…
9/10 September 17, 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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Darkest Hour: Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora
After a self-titled album that had sown doubt among part of their fanbase, Darkest Hour returns in 2017 with a record that…
7.5/10 October 3, 2026
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Darkest Hour, Perpetual Terminal
83/100: the American melodic-metalcore veterans hit a brilliant new form.
8/10 August 3, 2026
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Dark Tranquillity : Endtime Signals
The founding fathers of Gothenburg hold their rank despite the departures: 78/100 for a controlled renewal.
7.5/10 June 9, 2026
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Dark Funeral: Secrets of the Black Arts
Dark Funeral’s debut full-length, Secrets of the Black Arts, arrived in 1996 as a burst of undiluted velocity inside a Swedish scene…
8/10 September 21, 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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Cult of Luna : The Long Road North
The Swedish masters of post-metal unfold their sonic cathedrals: 83/100 for a monumental record.
8/10 June 17, 2026
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Cryptopsy: As Gomorrah Burns
Cryptopsy never needed to reinvent itself to stay dangerous. Since None So Vile, the Montreal band has built its reputation on crushing…
7.5/10 October 6, 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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Cryptic Shift : Overspace & Supertime
Four 9/10s and a trip into "the obsidian kaleidoscope": 87/100, the winter's extreme-metal peak.
8.5/10 March 1, 2026
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Crypt Sermon, The Stygian Rose
85/100: the Americans' epic doom summons the grandeur of metal's origins.
8.5/10 August 3, 2026
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